Alabama career standards crosswalk
Alabama's career standard, criterion by criterion: 9 of 15 matched, 6 not claimed.
2026 Comprehensive School Counseling Program Model for Alabama Public Schools (Alabama State Department of Education, adopted by the Alabama State Board of Education (March 2026)) covers grades 6-8 in 3 groups and 15 criteria. 3 are evidenced directly by something the platform produces, 6 more are supported by a named result plus teacher-led classroom work, and we make no claim on the other 6. The two claimed groups are never added into one number.
In Brief
Alabama compels a middle-grades career plan by law. The document states outright: "Content standards in this document are minimum and required (Code of Alabama, 1975, §16-35-4)." Ala. Code § 16-35-4 gives the State Board of Education general authority to "prescribe the minimum contents of courses of study for all public, elementary and high schools in the state," and independent reporting (Alabama Daily News, Oct 2025) quotes the adoption process directly: "Schools may add local content but cannot remove any state standards" — a state floor, local ceiling.
The standard itself: 2026 Comprehensive School Counseling Program Model for Alabama Public Schools, published by Alabama State Department of Education, adopted by the Alabama State Board of Education (March 2026), grades 6-8. Three domains — Academic Development, Career Development, Foundational Wellness — each split into subdomains, each presented as a table with four grade-band columns (K-2 / 3-5 / 6-8 / 9-12) of sequentially numbered standards completing the fixed stem "Students will…". The Grades 6-8 Career Development column contains a genuine numbering slip in the state's own table: the number 20 is used twice — once closing the Career Awareness subdomain and again opening the Career Goals subdomain — verified by two independent extraction passes that reproduced it identically both times.
Below is every one of its 15 criteria, what closes each, and what a student walks away with — 3 evidenced directly, 6 supported via lesson plan, 6 not claimed. The 3 directly-evidenced criteria and the 6 lesson-supported ones stay separate on purpose — merging them into one headline would flatter the platform at your expense.
2026 Comprehensive School Counseling Program Model for Alabama Public Schools, grades 6-8
Every criterion, what closes it, and what a student walks away with.
Alabama State Department of Education, adopted by the Alabama State Board of Education (March 2026) — www.alabamaachieves.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/CG_20260317_FY26-2024_2026CompSchoolCounseling_v1.pdf
— work the software does
— work a teacher does
— of 15 total
The two claimed counts stay separate on purpose — merging platform-evidenced and teacher-supported criteria into one number would flatter the platform at your expense.
The numbers are Alabama's own, printed directly in the source. Because "20" is used twice within the Grades 6-8 Career Development column, this page disambiguates the two as "20 (Career Awareness)" and "20 (Career Goals)" for readability; the state's own document prints both simply as "20."
Career AwarenessCareer Awareness
Locate, evaluate, and interpret career information related to potential careers.
The platform's real careers database, searchable with a detail page per career
Career information pages the student locates and reads directly
Research and identify competencies and skills needed for career options.
Each career page's real listed skills and requirements
The competencies/skills field shown on each matched or browsed career
Identify hobbies and interests that promote work-life balance.
/assessments/riasec, /assessments/career-match
Interest results
The assessments surface career interests, not hobbies specifically, and don't frame them around work-life balance — that connection is the classroom's to make.
Explain the importance of the connection between career and civic engagement, including service learning and/or volunteer opportunities.
No JobCannon surface addresses this criterion. We are not naming a workaround for it.
Identify options for fulfilling college and career readiness graduation requirements.
No JobCannon surface addresses this criterion. We are not naming a workaround for it.
Describe personal, ethical, and work skills needed for success in school and future careers.
/assessments/work-ethics
Work-ethics profile result
Describing how those skills translate into success in school and future careers is the classroom's synthesis step.
Career GoalsCareer Goals
Interpret the relationship between educational achievement and career success.
No JobCannon surface addresses this criterion. We are not naming a workaround for it.
Identify personal preferences and interests influencing career choices.
/assessments/riasec, /assessments/career-match, /assessments/values
Interest and values results
Develop and maintain a personal education plan of study.
No JobCannon surface addresses this criterion. We are not naming a workaround for it.
This item ties to Alabama's own named Alabama Career Planning System, a state platform outside JobCannon.
Correlate career choices with earning potential.
Each career page's real listed salary/earning-potential field
Salary data per matched or browsed career
Correlating multiple career choices against each other's earning potential is a comparison the student performs; the platform supplies the real per-career figure, not the comparison.
Career Exploration and PlanningCareer Exploration and Planning
Utilize problem-solving and organizational skills.
No JobCannon surface addresses this criterion. We are not naming a workaround for it.
Describe how jobs are changing and what skills people will need to succeed in the future.
No JobCannon surface addresses this criterion. We are not naming a workaround for it.
Enhance work ethic and employability skills, including responsibility, time management, dependability, and punctuality.
/assessments/work-ethics, /assessments/time-management
Work-ethic and time-management results
"Enhance" is a growth verb — the platform measures where a student currently stands on these skills; building them further is the classroom's job.
Complete a personal education plan of study and career interest inventories as part of the career planning process.
/assessments/riasec, /assessments/career-match
A completed career-interest inventory result
This item bundles two deliverables. The platform supplies the career-interest-inventory half; the personal education plan of study, tied to Alabama's own Career Planning System, is not something the platform builds.
Identify career clusters and academic courses that align with their career interests and goals.
The platform's real careers database, browsable and filterable by career cluster
Matched career clusters aligned to the student's interest results
Identifying which academic courses align is a school-catalog-specific step the platform does not cover; only the career-cluster half is instrumented.
How to read the crosswalk above
Four rules, applied to every one of Alabama's 15 criteria.
Named instruments behind the 9 matched criteria
Grouped by the criteria each one actually closes — read from the rows, not chosen for the page.
Compared to other district career-readiness contracts
Two district contracts as published in board papers — one covering a single school year, one a five-year agreement — beside our per-student rate for one academic year
What this crosswalk includes — and what it does not
Related on JobCannon
This is Alabama's page in a set of state career-standards crosswalks built the same way — every criterion of a state's own document, matched one at a time, with what we do not claim listed as plainly as what we do. The most detailed of them is Arizona's grades 6-8 eCTE crosswalk, which carries a per-row evidence trail and four documented revision passes. The others: Texas, California, Utah, Illinois, Colorado, Georgia, Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Michigan, Washington, North Carolina, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Virginia, Alaska, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii and Arkansas.
A career-standards document is not the same thing as a plan-completion mandate — for whether Alabama compels an individual student plan, and under which statute, see our career and education plan mandate directory. For the wider grades 6-8 deployment this crosswalk sits inside, see JobCannon for Middle Schools, or career assessments for school districts for a multi-school rollout. Both are part of the JobCannon for Business hub.
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Education Licence — priced per student, per year
One rate per enrolled student for the academic year, sized for Alabama district or school-level rollouts. Assessments uncapped, career and skills corpus included — multiply your own enrolment by the band and that is the price, before you talk to us.
$3.00 down to $2.00 per student, per year — assessments uncapped
District
A large school, multi-school district or trust
per year
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- ▸Full career and skills corpus — 2,521 careers, 1,863 skills
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College or university
A university, college or college group
per year
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- ▸Full career and skills corpus — 2,521 careers, 1,863 skills
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State system
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per year
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- ▸Cohort dashboard with cross-school and year-over-year comparison
- ▸Full career and skills corpus — 2,521 careers, 1,863 skills
- ▸Read the corpus live over the API, or take a versioned snapshot
- ▸Named contact, quote letter formatted for procurement
£350 per school, per year — a flat whole-school licence rather than a per-student rate, because that is the unit UK schools budget in. Same uncapped assessments and same corpus. Excludes VAT.
The ladder starts at 1,301 students. Below that there is no licence to quote: a roll that small is better served by a self-serve plan, and that is the one case where a plan covers a school’s own students — UK schools have the flat whole-school licence at any size. Bands are by enrolment, and the rate applies to your whole roll rather than to a seat count you have to predict. Invoiced annually against a purchase order; no per-assessment charge and nothing to top up mid-year. Assessing an institution's enrolled students is covered by the Education Licence, not by a hiring plan. What is in the corpus.
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Alabama compels a middle-grades career plan by law. The document states outright: "Content standards in this document are minimum and required (Code of Alabama, 1975, §16-35-4)." Ala. Code § 16-35-4 gives the State Board of Education general authority to "prescribe the minimum contents of courses of study for all public, elementary and high schools in the state," and independent reporting (Alabama Daily News, Oct 2025) quotes the adoption process directly: "Schools may add local content but cannot remove any state standards" — a state floor, local ceiling.
2026 Comprehensive School Counseling Program Model for Alabama Public Schools, published by Alabama State Department of Education, adopted by the Alabama State Board of Education (March 2026), grades 6-8. Read via the r.jina.ai read-through proxy after the live alabamaachieves.org domain would not resolve from this session's network (DNS timeouts across WebFetch, curl and nslookup against multiple resolvers — a perimeter block, not evidence the document doesn't exist); corroborated as the real, current, March-2026-adopted document by independent coverage from A+ Education Partnership, Alabama Daily News, Decatur Daily and Alabama Political Reporter. This is the first update to Alabama's school counseling model in 22 years, superseding the 2003 Comprehensive Counseling and Guidance Model (Bulletin 2003, No. 89). Three domains — Academic Development, Career Development, Foundational Wellness — each split into subdomains, each presented as a table with four grade-band columns (K-2 / 3-5 / 6-8 / 9-12) of sequentially numbered standards completing the fixed stem "Students will…". The Grades 6-8 Career Development column contains a genuine numbering slip in the state's own table: the number 20 is used twice — once closing the Career Awareness subdomain and again opening the Career Goals subdomain — verified by two independent extraction passes that reproduced it identically both times.
It means the platform itself produces the artefact the criterion asks for, with nothing a teacher has to add. 3 criteria of the 15 are closed this way: 15, 16 and 21. Each of those rows names the surface and the artefact, and several carry a coverage caveat — how many careers actually hold the field being claimed — because a reviewer will check.
It means the platform supplies the data or the assessment result and a teacher runs the classroom half — it is weaker, and it is labelled separately for that reason. 6 criteria are closed this way: 17, 20 (Career Awareness), 23, 26, 27 and 28. A plan a system wrote for the student would not satisfy the standard, and claiming it would not be worth much either.
Because the 3 and the 6 are different kinds of evidence — one is work the software does on its own, the other is work a teacher does with something the software supplies — and merging them into one headline number would flatter the platform at your expense. Every row states which of the two it is, and the counts are shown as separate pills rather than added together.
We make no claim on them. No JobCannon surface — assessment, career-page field or glossary entry — addresses them, and they are listed exactly as plainly as the 9 we do claim: same row format, same visual weight, a stated "not claimed" rather than an absence.
The numbers are Alabama's own, printed directly in the source. Because "20" is used twice within the Grades 6-8 Career Development column, this page disambiguates the two as "20 (Career Awareness)" and "20 (Career Goals)" for readability; the state's own document prints both simply as "20."
Footer/filename code CG_20260317_FY26-2024_2026CompSchoolCounseling_v1; adopted at the Alabama State Board of Education's March 2026 meeting after a task force process running April-October 2025 and a public-comment draft through November 10, 2025. The document itself is linked at the top of the table, so you can check any row against the source rather than take our word for it.
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