This presentation will demonstrate how use of the CEFR Companion Volume (2018) is a comprehensive and invaluable resource to align teaching and learning through the action-oriented approach. The CEFR document is detailed enough to allow both general and more specific mapping of communicative proficiency levels. The Diplomacy and International Communication major taught in more than 90 high schools in Israel uses an action-oriented approach to allow students opportunities to apply both content and communicative competences in an authentic and meaningful way. These learning objectives and activities directly correlate with the descriptions of communication abilities at CEFR levels (B1-C1). Serving as an English Language Specialist through the US State Department and Department of Education, I have been working on aligning the activities in the Diplomacy curriculum to the CEFR. This presentation will highlight examples from the curriculum which elicit skills and competences outlined in the CEFR and the corresponding assessment tools which draw upon the CEFR’s descriptive scales to inform teaching. Through these assessment tools, teachers provide students with the clear and detailed feedback necessary to achieve academic targets.