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Free tools and practical ideas to help you connect experiences, strengthen pathways, and start useful conversations.
Our Signature Frameworks
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for Readiness™
Connect experiences.
Strengthen pathways.
Connect Exposure, Exploration, Education, Experience, and Employment. The five E’s are interconnected; learners can enter, revisit, and move among opportunities throughout life.
Paid support: Workshops, pathway reviews, and implementation support.
Get the free Playbook & Toolkit ↓The Stories That Built Us
Share the journey.
Open a better conversation.
Use real career journeys to open better conversations about possibilities, influences, and next steps. Participants choose what they share.
Paid support: Facilitated storytelling and professional learning.
Open the free participant tool →Start here. Use what helps.
Download a tool for your next reflection, team discussion, or planning conversation.
E5 Playbook
Understand the framework, examine learner and system connections, and identify a useful starting point for improvement.
Open E5 Playbook →E5 Implementation Toolkit
Use the E5 Pathway Check™, E5 Connection Map™, and E5 Action Brief™ to examine opportunities, identify gaps, and define action.
Open E5 Toolkit →What Got Me Here Participant Tool
Map your journey and prepare a better career conversation. Designed for 11 × 17 printing.
Open Participant Tool →Free for self-guided use. Facilitation, customization, and implementation support are available through paid engagements.
Employer-Connection
Coordination Model
A proposed three-district cohort sharing employer relationships, flexible career experiences, and educator learning. Designed for grades 6–12, with a defined annual scope.
Explore the Proposed Pilot Scope
District opportunity plan
Priorities, named contacts, and an agreed annual opportunity portfolio.
Shared employer relationships
Employer outreach, opportunity development, introductions, and scheduling.
Coordinated career experiences
An agreed mix of visits, panels, projects, or virtual experiences.
Opportunity coordination
Applications and matching for available job shadows, mentorships, and internships—including micro-, project-, team-, community-based, virtual/hybrid, and flexible-schedule formats.
One staff learning session
A choice of E5 or What Got Me Here. Format and shared-cohort versus district delivery agreed in the scope.
Reporting & recommendations
Participation and access reporting at agreed intervals, plus a year-end review.
Shared work. Clear responsibilities.
The agreement distinguishes common cohort delivery from support for each district, including participation expectations, the opportunity portfolio, and staff learning. Districts retain instruction, credit, approvals, student supervision, safety procedures, transportation arrangements, and educational and regulatory responsibilities.
Experiences can connect with student interests and HSBP goals. Placements depend on available opportunities, eligibility, and approvals; individual placements are not guaranteed.
How the annual fee would work
The proposed fee uses all eligible enrollment in contracted grades 6–8 and 9–12, rather than only CTE students or event attendees. Rates and deliverables remain under review. Scope, capacity, fees, and any additional work would be agreed before participation begins.
Publications
Ideas about the decisions and connections behind stronger systems.
that nobody owns?
Who Improves a System That Nobody Owns?
What happens when organizations meet their own goals, but the connections between them still fail people? A perspective on shared responsibility and follow-through.
Read the publication →Ready to put an idea into practice?
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