MCSD's Durable Skills Domains & Employers' Priorities for 2030
Foundational Executive Function Skills Support The Durable Skill Domains
Durable Skill Domains are intentionally broad.
What does a student actually have to be able to do in order to demonstrate each durable skill?
A design process for ensuring the Durable Skills are embedded meaningfully across content areas:
Each of Your Durable Skills Domains ➡️ Component Executive Function Skills ➡️ Career Dependency Demonstrations ➡️ Teacher Tools, e.g., Durable Skills Facilitation Grid, questions in the Teacher Resource Guide across content areas
Our driving questions in design:
What does it actually look like when students...?
How do we ensure those skills are targeted and reinforced?
MCSD Durable Skills Career Dependency Framework
Sample Durable Skills Framework: Collaboration and Teamwork
Durable Skills are part of the instructional design from the beginning.
Incidental vs. Intentional By Design
MCSD's Durable Skills Domains remains consistent.
How students exercise it is authentic to the content, learning experience, and career context.
Math • ELA • Science • Social Studies