Academics
Educational Model: Competency-based
The goal of competency-based education is to transform our education system from a time-based system to a learning-based system. Instead of awarding credits based on how much time students spend learning, this model awards credits based on whether students have mastered competencies—the skills, abilities, and knowledge required in an area of study.
Our New Liberty Competency Curriculum Framework is a competency-based framework structured to replace time-based, age-based, and course-based structures with one that focuses on learning, growth, and readiness. Our framework defines the competencies, skills, and experiences students will need to master and/or complete in order to demonstrate readiness, earn credit, and graduate from high school. Competencies are created with a developmental continuum that shows how learning progresses and becomes more complex. New Liberty staff used the Common Core, Massachusetts State Frameworks, Next Generation Science Standards along with other resources to develop our competencies.
