Build career pathways for students through postsecondary advising supports, counselor training, and mentoring partnerships with workforce organizations.
We design career-connected learning programs that integrate postsecondary advising, counselor capacity-building, and workforce partnerships into cohesive pathways. Our approach balances student-facing supports with counselor capacity-building, ensuring sustainable programs that scale across regions and networks.
We bring a student-centered perspective to career pathway design, integrating advising supports, counselor capacity, and workforce partnerships into cohesive programs.
Pathway design starts with students. We build advising tools and resources that help students navigate college applications, financial aid, and career exploration aligned to their goals.
Sustainable pathways require counselors equipped to guide students. We deliver blended professional learning and train-the-trainer models that build lasting capacity within schools and networks.
We connect students to industry mentors, sector skills development, and work-based learning opportunities that make career pathways real and relevant.
Map existing advising capacity, counselor needs, and student populations. Identify gaps between current supports and desired outcomes.
Build a blended model integrating student-facing resources, counselor training, and partnership structures. Align to existing school or network systems.
Create advising tools, professional learning modules, and implementation guides. Design train-the-trainer pathways for regional delivery.
Launch with a cohort of schools or regions. Gather feedback from counselors and students. Adjust resources and training based on real-world use.
Expand to additional schools or regions using train-the-trainer models. Build ownership and capacity within the organization for long-term sustainability.
Track student outcomes, counselor engagement, and program reach. Refine resources and training based on data and feedback.
In 2021, we partnered with Towards Employment, a Cleveland-based organization supporting clients with multiple barriers to employment, to strengthen pathways into the manufacturing sector. The curriculum was developed in collaboration with the Precision Metalworking Association to ensure alignment with employer expectations and industry standards.
Our team designed and developed nine interactive eLearning courses focused on essential workplace skills, including communication, conflict resolution, interviewing, and time management. Each course incorporates realistic factory floor scenarios and relatable characters, giving learners structured opportunities to practice navigating common workplace situations.
The result is a practical, employer-informed training series that prepares participants for successful entry into manufacturing careers while supporting workforce development organizations in delivering scalable, industry-aligned programming.
In 2019, we partnered with The Teaching Kitchen at Lenox Hill Neighborhood House to help them extend their reach beyond NYC to spread their farm-to-institution model to nonprofit institutions serving publicly funded meals. Together, we worked to capture in eLearning the transformative experiences of cooking and eating scratch-cooked, plant-forward, seasonal and locally sourced dishes.
With the expertise of the Teaching Chefs, we built a mobile-friendly eLearning program to deliver their Farm-to-Institution training asynchronously. With video, interactions and plenty of practice cooking, learners cook essential recipes, practice techniques and hear the theories that support better client health and sustainable, local agriculture.
In 2020, we worked with the team to create a Spanish version of The Teaching Kitchen Online. In 2021, we added additional lessons to help nonprofits implement sustainable change. The Teaching Kitchen Online is free to most nonprofit organizations.
KIPP Forward needed to shift their counselor training model from centralized in-person delivery to a scalable, regionally-led approach. The goal was to build internal capacity for professional learning while maintaining quality and alignment across a growing network.
We designed a blended train-the-trainer model that empowered regional teams to deliver counselor professional learning:
A live example of how chat-based interviews can generate structured, shareable outputs for advising, counseling, and career exploration programs.
Career Ikigai is an example of how we design chat-based learning experiences that move beyond conversation and into clear, actionable outputs.
Learners engage in a guided interview that surfaces:
The system then synthesizes those inputs into personalized recommendations and a structured output that can be used immediately in advising, counseling, or program settings.
Unlike typical chat tools, the goal is not just a response. It is a shareable artifact.
Each session produces:
This creates continuity between reflection, conversation, and real decision-making.
Career Ikigai is designed to fit inside real systems, not sit outside them.
In practice, organizations can:
This allows teams to move from individual conversations to program-level visibility.
The underlying system can connect to:
This allows recommendations to reflect real options available to the learner, not generic suggestions.
This example illustrates a broader approach to eLearning and blended learning design at Integral Ed. We combine:
The result is learning that is individualized, actionable, and connected to real systems and decisions.
Career Ikigai sits at the intersection of:
It reflects how we help organizations translate complex guidance processes into usable digital experiences.
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