What Are Workforce Competencies?

This resource equips educators to identify workforce competencies in their current curriculum and design pathways for students to demonstrate them. It defines these competencies as the core knowledge, skills, abilities, and behaviors learners apply across academic and professional settings. Grounded in the America Succeeds Durable Skills Advantage Framework, the guide connects these durable skills to modern skills-based hiring practices across four core categories. Through the Educator Planning Framework, teachers learn to select key competencies, map them to classroom activities, assess student mastery, align outcomes with industry credentials, and embed Universal Design for Learning strategies.