Picture a high school where students are immersed in their learning, fascinated by their courses, collaborating on real-life projects, and valued for who they are as members of the school […]

XQ Institute is the nation's leading organization dedicated to rethinking the high school experience so that every student graduates ready to succeed in life.

XQ partners with schools, districts, and states to transform the learning experience for all high school students. We work alongside communities with organizations and institutions around a shared set of research-based Design Principles.

XQ builds open-source tools and resources that empower communities to come together for high school transformation.

The XQ Design Principles can guide any school community that’s ready to rethink high school. These research-backed principles are foundational to the XQ school design process, which has been used by teams across the country to redesign their existing schools or design new ones so all students achieve the XQ Learner Outcomes.

Explore the XQ Competency Navigator, designed to make the 37 XQ Competencies accessible and easy to use. The XQ Competencies complement and enrich existing academic standards by integrating cognitive and social-emotional skills and capacities, paving a bold path toward true college and career readiness.

2022 Student Journalism Challenge The 2022 Student Journalism Challenge: My Education, My Future, was a journalism challenge run by PBS Student Reporting Labs and WETA and sponsored by XQ.

On September 8, 2017, XQ Institute and the Entertainment Industry Foundation (EIF) came together for a special one-hour event, EIF PRESENTS: XQ SUPER SCHOOL LIVE, to help the public imagine the future of American high schools together.The telecast aired on all four major U.S. networks—ABC, CBS, FOX, and NBC—and combined live musical, comedy, and documentary segments to bring to life the ...

2023年4月14日 · The Carnegie Foundation established the Carnegie Unit (or credit hour) in 1906. For more than a century, the Carnegie Unit has been the bedrock currency of the educational economy, undergirding almost every aspect of secondary and tertiary education.

Navigate through XQ's Learner Outcomes and their associated Competencies