College and Career Planning

Teach real-world finance and practical life skills with Banzai’s free interactive financial education platform.

Students learn best by doing. Banzai’s games and resources allow kids to make mistakes, learn, and succeed from the safety of their classroom. Some of the life literacy skills they develop include:

BizWorld.org is a nonprofit organization that provides educational programs aimed at teaching students about business, economics, and entrepreneurship. Their programs are designed to be engaging and interactive, offering students practical experience in these fields through simulations and hands-on activities.

With bulb, teachers can easily have students capture and reflect on their learning experiences and then use their best work to showcase their growth & accomplishments and incentivise them to take charge of their learning journey.

The California College Guidance Initiative manages CaliforniaColleges.edu, the state of California’s official college and career planning platform, which is free to all California educators, students, and families.

The Initiative is a nonprofit, funded in part by the state of California, that partners with school districts across the state to advance local college and career readiness goals. Learn more about the Initiative’s mission, goals, and approach.

CCGI partners with K-12 school districts to support students, counselors, parents, and community-based organizations with technological tools that help guide the college and career planning and preparation process.

The same technological platform houses, audits and transmits student data to help ensure more accurate and efficient decisions regarding admissions, financial aid and course placement.

MajorClarity helps ensure that every student’s education leads to a successful career outcome—whether through a 4-year degree or going into the workforce. Students only retain 10% of what they read, which is why interactive "test-drives" are critical to driving student outcomes and how we achieved a 189% increase in students building career aligned course plans of study.   MajorClarity by Paper unifies teaching, counseling, and career readiness to make it easier for everyone to focus on what matters: equipping students for meaningful and successful careers.

We believe that engagement is everything. Students learn best when they are enthusiastic about learning things that feel important to them—and to their personal goals (but don’t just take our word for it—that’s what the research says).

We know there are as many different versions of success as there are students. But no matter what it looks like for each learner—a job, 4- or 2-year college, an apprenticeship—MajorClarity is built to empower each individual with the ability to flourish after graduation

Naviance is a comprehensive K-12 college and career readiness solution that helps districts and schools align student strengths and interests to postsecondary goals, improving student outcomes and connecting learning to life. Through their solutions, Naviance enables thousands of educational institutions to improve college and career planning, admissions and enrollment management, and student success and advising for millions of students around the globe.

Turning credentials into opportunities, Parchment’s Digital Credentials Service seamlessly connects learners to institutions to send certified PDF (or data!) transcripts directly to any destination world wide. Over 8,000 education institutions trust Parchment to help you turn your transcripts, diplomas or certificates into opportunities. Parchment is a simple way to manage all of your student’s transcript orders electronically or by mail. Since 2003, their platform has helped millions of people and thousands of schools and universities exchange more than 20 million transcripts and other credentials globally. 

Pathways is a graduation tracking tool that allows administrators and counselors to create, track, and analyze graduation pathways to ensure secondary students are on track to graduate. Pathways consolidates all data elements in one centralized location, reducing the time required to monitor student graduation progress. With Pathways, administrators and counselors can easily track campus and district data for graduation and accountability and manage post-secondary planning and CTE program completion.

Scoir is a college admissions network that connects students, families, high schools, and colleges for a better admissions experience. 

Spotlight's College and Career Readiness Guide ("CCRG") is a personalized source of information that converts student data into a series of infographics laying out a student's post-graduation trajectory, as well as the specific steps they can take to reach for a higher level of postsecondary aspiration.

The CCRG draws data from any student information system, as well as assessment results (PSAT/SAT, ACT, or even CAASPP) and any career interest survey. Spotlight's proprietary software then converts this data into personalized reports -- one for every year, as well as a home-language copy for parents. Spotlight has thus far produced parent versions in English, Spanish, Hmong, Khmer, Vietnamese, Mandarin Chinese, and Arabic. CCRG reports may be delivered as printed PDFs, but also can be securely emailed, texted (PDF links) or placed in a student or parent portal.

Spotlight also produces CCRG copies for counselors, as well as a comprehensive, summary report that allows counselors to prioritize among the hundreds of students with whom they work. 

VirtualJobShadow.com empowers individuals to discover, plan and pursue their dreams with our unique video-based career planning platform. Our interactive tools help students and job seekers develop career paths based on choice, not chance.

The only K-12 online program that fully engages every student in building the skills, knowledge, and plans for future success — regardless of background, ability, or pathway.