College and Career Planning

BizWorld is a nonprofit provider of hands-on entrepreneurship, business, financial-literacy, STEAM, and durable-skills programs. Its classroom curricula ask students to form teams, develop products or app-based solutions, make financial and marketing decisions, pitch ideas, and operate simulated or real microbusinesses.

The programs build career awareness, initiative, teamwork, communication, and practical business skills, but they do not provide districtwide college planning, application management, academic pathway tracking, or counseling workflows. BizWorld therefore belongs more naturally with entrepreneurship, financial literacy, project-based curriculum, or career-connected learning.

The California College Guidance Initiative manages CaliforniaColleges.edu, the State of California's official college and career planning platform. It gives public-school students in grades 6–12 no-cost tools to explore careers and colleges, build academic and postsecondary plans, and launch college and financial-aid applications with information from their school records.

For participating districts, the platform also functions as statewide postsecondary data infrastructure. Course and transcript information can be used to show students their progress toward graduation and A–G requirements and to support data exchange with the California Community Colleges, California State University, University of California, and California Student Aid Commission.

MajorClarity is a college and career readiness platform that links career discovery with academic plans and postsecondary action. Students complete career assessments and hands-on 'test-drive' activities, compare careers and education options, create multiyear course plans, track applications and transcripts, and document work-based learning and employability skills.

For districts, the product brings counseling, CTE, graduation planning, and readiness reporting into one environment. MajorClarity was acquired by Paper in 2023 and then moved to Edmentum in October 2025, where it is being combined with Edmentum's career curricula, certification preparation, and related secondary-school products.

Naviance is PowerSchool's college, career, and life-readiness platform for middle and high schools. It gives students a structured place to identify interests and strengths, explore careers and postsecondary options, build plans, and manage the work required to move from high school into college, training, military service, or employment.

Counselors and administrators use Naviance to assign readiness activities, monitor student plans, coordinate college applications and supporting documents, and report on progress across schools. Its connection with PowerSchool SIS and Schoology can reduce duplicate data entry and place planning information alongside the district's broader student and learning records.

Parchment is a digital credential and records-management platform used by K–12 schools to receive, store, send, and track transcripts, diplomas, transfer records, recommendations, verifications, and other academic documents. Students and alumni can request credentials online, while district staff manage fulfillment and confirm delivery through Parchment's exchange network.

The product solves a narrower problem than a full college-and-career planning platform: it replaces paper, fax, email, and disconnected request workflows with secure digital records and tracked delivery to colleges, employers, agencies, and other schools. Parchment became part of Instructure in 2024 and now sits within a broader learning and lifelong-credential ecosystem.

Pathways from Education Advanced is a graduation, college, career, and military readiness tracking platform for secondary schools. It combines current SIS data with district and state requirements so counselors can audit credits, monitor graduation plans, track CTE and work-based learning, record readiness indicators, and identify students who need intervention.

The product is operationally focused: it replaces manual transcript audits and disconnected spreadsheets with a shared student worksheet, configurable reports, and a family portal. Regular SIS feeds keep grades, credits, GPA, courses, demographics, and test information current, while integrations with other Education Advanced products can connect readiness tracking with assessment and accountability work.

Scoir is a college discovery, application, and admissions network connecting students, families, high-school counselors, community organizations, and colleges. For K–12 schools, it gives students tools to identify colleges, build a list, compare affordability and fit, plan application work, and submit documents while counselors manage caseloads, recommendations, transcripts, deadlines, and outcomes.

Scoir is strongest on the college side of college-and-career planning rather than career pathway development. Its shared network and integrations reduce duplicate work between school counseling offices, application services, and participating colleges, while district and school dashboards help staff see which students are progressing or need support.

Virtual Job Shadow is the former name of Pathful Explore, the career-exploration component of Pathful's career-readiness platform. It helps students connect interests, values, skills, personality, and lifestyle preferences with career possibilities, then learn about those occupations through profiles, labor-market data, interviews, and job-shadow videos featuring working professionals.

Pathful has expanded beyond its original video library into a broader set of planning, employability, work-based learning, and program-management tools. Districts can use the platform to organize career-readiness activities, course and postsecondary plans, local opportunities, student artifacts, and compliance reporting while integrating SIS, rostering, and SSO services.

Xello is a K–12 college and career readiness platform that guides students from early self-discovery through career and postsecondary exploration, academic planning, work-based learning, and college applications. Students build a persistent profile of interests, skills, goals, experiences, portfolios, and plans while completing age-appropriate lessons and district-assigned readiness tasks.

Counselors and administrators use Xello to monitor completion, manage four-year plans, coordinate application documents, communicate with students, and report on district readiness requirements. The platform connects with SIS products, SSO and rostering services, Common App, Parchment, National Student Clearinghouse, and other partners so planning work can use current student data and feed real application processes.