Arkansas career standards crosswalk
Arkansas's career standard, criterion by criterion: 5 of 44 matched, 39 not claimed.
Career Development (Arkansas Academic Standards, DCTE Course #399280) (Arkansas Department of Education, Division of Career and Technical Education (DCTE)) covers grades 7-8 (as printed — not 6-8) in 4 groups and 44 criteria. 1 are evidenced directly by something the platform produces, 4 more are supported by a named result plus teacher-led classroom work, and we make no claim on the other 39. The two claimed groups are never added into one number.
In Brief
Arkansas compels a middle-grades career plan by law. Real, via a statute + implementing rule pair. Ark. Code Ann. § 6-16-1802 directs the State Board of Education to determine "the minimum number and type of activities required"; its implementing rule, 6 CAR § 106-103 (Division of Elementary and Secondary Education, footer-dated 03/13/2026), states verbatim: "Every student shall be required to participate in a Career Awareness or Career Development course at least once during grades six through eight (6-8)" — and requires a minimum of four career-awareness/exploration activities per student per year across grades 6-8. Districts may combine this course's standards with another course's, but "must continue to teach the Arkansas Academic Standards for each separate course that is combined." The Career Development course document itself is a content-standards document, not the legal mandate — the mandate is satisfied by teaching to it, per the rule above. A separate, adjacent instrument, the Student Success Plan (Ark. Code Ann. § 6-15-2911), must be completed by the end of grade 8 and reviewed annually thereafter, but is a distinct requirement from the course mandate.
The standard itself: Career Development (Arkansas Academic Standards, DCTE Course #399280), published by Arkansas Department of Education, Division of Career and Technical Education (DCTE), grades 7-8 (as printed — not 6-8). "Domain" (1-4) → "Standard" (e.g., 1.1) → numbered "Performance Indicators" (e.g., 1.1.1). Four domains, 44 performance indicators total, reproduced here in full: Domain 1 (Build Personal and Interpersonal Effectiveness) = 14, Domain 2 (Explore Local Career Pathways) = 10, Domain 3 (Develop a Plan for Postsecondary Success) = 12, Domain 4 (Demonstrate Employability Skills) = 8.
Below is every one of its 44 criteria, what closes each, and what a student walks away with — 1 evidenced directly, 4 supported via lesson plan, 39 not claimed. The 1 directly-evidenced criterion and the 4 lesson-supported ones stay separate on purpose — merging them into one headline would flatter the platform at your expense.
Career Development (Arkansas Academic Standards, DCTE Course #399280), grades 7-8 (as printed — not 6-8)
Every criterion, what closes it, and what a student walks away with.
Arkansas Department of Education, Division of Career and Technical Education (DCTE) — dcte.ade.arkansas.gov/Page/Pathways
— work the software does
— work a teacher does
— of 44 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 Domain.Standard.Indicator numbering is Arkansas DCTE's own, printed verbatim in the source, alongside the course's own DCTE course number, 399280.
Domain 1Build Personal and Interpersonal Effectiveness
Identify interests, strengths, values, and personality styles and explain how they influence choosing a career.
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Interest, strengths, values and personality results
Explaining how these results influence choosing a career is the classroom's synthesis step.
Recognize how self-esteem and attitude can affect educational and professional achievements.
No JobCannon surface addresses this criterion. We are not naming a workaround for it.
Assess how personal attitudes, motivation, and emotional awareness impact collaboration, problem-solving, and professional behavior in workplace settings.
No JobCannon surface addresses this criterion. We are not naming a workaround for it.
Evaluate personal learning styles, work habits, and behaviors to identify areas for growth related to academic and workplace success.
No JobCannon surface addresses this criterion. We are not naming a workaround for it.
Identify ethical and professional character by evaluating integrity, accountability, and professionalism that guides behavior and decision making.
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Integrity/professionalism-related result
Defining and evaluating the category conceptually is the classroom's; the assessment supplies where the student currently stands on these traits.
Practice mindfulness by staying focused and self-aware to manage emotions and maintain well-being at work.
No JobCannon surface addresses this criterion. We are not naming a workaround for it.
Identify the characteristics of metacognition by practicing personal management and self-understanding.
No JobCannon surface addresses this criterion. We are not naming a workaround for it.
Apply leadership by directing efforts and delivering results.
No JobCannon surface addresses this criterion. We are not naming a workaround for it.
Explain a growth mindset by demonstrating initiative, embracing challenges, and learning from mistakes.
No JobCannon surface addresses this criterion. We are not naming a workaround for it.
Describe the characteristics of fortitude by showing resilience, encouraging others, and modeling positive behavior.
No JobCannon surface addresses this criterion. We are not naming a workaround for it.
Identify critical thinking by analyzing and evaluating information in order to make objective and informed decisions.
No JobCannon surface addresses this criterion. We are not naming a workaround for it.
Demonstrate creativity by developing original ideas and innovative solutions that enhance your work environment.
No JobCannon surface addresses this criterion. We are not naming a workaround for it.
Demonstrate effective communication by clearly and accurately sharing and understanding information, ideas, and instructions in different forms and situations.
No JobCannon surface addresses this criterion. We are not naming a workaround for it.
Demonstrate collaboration by working with others, valuing diverse perspectives, and contributing to shared goals and team success.
No JobCannon surface addresses this criterion. We are not naming a workaround for it.
Domain 2Explore Local Career Pathways
Explore the National Career Clusters®.
The platform's real careers database, browsable by the National Career Clusters
The full, real list of careers under each cluster
Analyze how occupations within the Career Clusters are evolving due to technology, automation, and changing workplace expectations.
No JobCannon surface addresses this criterion. We are not naming a workaround for it.
Analyze how careers within a single cluster can vary by education level, salary, and job outlook.
The platform's real careers database, showing education level and salary per career within a cluster
Education-level and salary fields across careers in the chosen cluster
Job outlook is not a field the platform tracks.
Identify local employers connected to each career cluster.
No JobCannon surface addresses this criterion. We are not naming a workaround for it.
Use local employment data and workplace expectations to make informed career pathways decisions that consider job stability, growth, and future advancement.
No JobCannon surface addresses this criterion. We are not naming a workaround for it.
Identify personal interests, strengths, and transferable skills and connect them to career pathways and employment opportunities within the local or regional workforce.
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Interest, strengths and skills results connected to matched career pathways
The matched pathways are national, not specific to the student's local or regional workforce.
Analyze how personal career goals align with local employment opportunities by considering required skills, education or training pathways, earning potential, and job outlook.
No JobCannon surface addresses this criterion. We are not naming a workaround for it.
Demonstrate understanding of the changing workplace due to the global economy and improvements in technology.
No JobCannon surface addresses this criterion. We are not naming a workaround for it.
Identify types of work schedules: self-employed (entrepreneur), part-time, full-time, temporary, seasonal, volunteer, flextime, and rotational.
No JobCannon surface addresses this criterion. We are not naming a workaround for it.
Demonstrate essential job skills required for a pathway through hands-on or virtual career exploration experiences.
No JobCannon surface addresses this criterion. We are not naming a workaround for it.
Domain 3Develop a Plan for Postsecondary Success
Identify Success Ready Pathways offered.
No JobCannon surface addresses this criterion. We are not naming a workaround for it.
Identify enlistment options for a Success Ready Pathway.
No JobCannon surface addresses this criterion. We are not naming a workaround for it.
Identify enrollment options for a Success Ready Pathway.
No JobCannon surface addresses this criterion. We are not naming a workaround for it.
Identify employment options for a Success Ready Pathway.
No JobCannon surface addresses this criterion. We are not naming a workaround for it.
Demonstrate awareness of dual credit, concurrent credit, weighted credit, work-based learning options, and industry-recognized credentials.
No JobCannon surface addresses this criterion. We are not naming a workaround for it.
Distinguish between merit and distinction diplomas.
No JobCannon surface addresses this criterion. We are not naming a workaround for it.
Demonstrate an understanding of Career planning.
No JobCannon surface addresses this criterion. We are not naming a workaround for it.
Demonstrate an understanding of Post-Secondary planning.
No JobCannon surface addresses this criterion. We are not naming a workaround for it.
Demonstrate an understanding of Academic planning.
No JobCannon surface addresses this criterion. We are not naming a workaround for it.
Demonstrate an understanding of Experiential learning.
No JobCannon surface addresses this criterion. We are not naming a workaround for it.
Demonstrate an understanding of Networking.
No JobCannon surface addresses this criterion. We are not naming a workaround for it.
Demonstrate how to access LAUNCH for Students and begin exploring the Student Success Plan pillars.
No JobCannon surface addresses this criterion. We are not naming a workaround for it.
Domain 4Demonstrate Employability Skills
Identify employment preparation activities (job application, cover letter, resume, follow-up letter).
No JobCannon surface addresses this criterion. We are not naming a workaround for it.
Identify human resource requirements for employment (e.g., background checks, fingerprinting, drug testing, and credit checks).
No JobCannon surface addresses this criterion. We are not naming a workaround for it.
Recognize appropriate digital citizenship (e.g., social media).
No JobCannon surface addresses this criterion. We are not naming a workaround for it.
Describe and/or participate in job shadowing, mentoring, or experiences with business and industry.
No JobCannon surface addresses this criterion. We are not naming a workaround for it.
Identify job search strategies and resources for finding job openings using Launch for Job Seekers.
No JobCannon surface addresses this criterion. We are not naming a workaround for it.
Recognize various components of effective pre-interview preparation.
No JobCannon surface addresses this criterion. We are not naming a workaround for it.
Identify key elements of a successful interview.
No JobCannon surface addresses this criterion. We are not naming a workaround for it.
Participate in mock interviews.
No JobCannon surface addresses this criterion. We are not naming a workaround for it.
How to read the crosswalk above
Four rules, applied to every one of Arkansas's 44 criteria.
Named instruments behind the 5 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 Arkansas'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, Alabama, Alaska, Connecticut, Delaware and Hawaii.
A career-standards document is not the same thing as a plan-completion mandate — for whether Arkansas 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.
District-tier pricing
Scale is $199/mo and covers 200 assessments per billing period — the same unit as any school or district deployment. Where the crosswalk above is the evidentiary piece a procurement review needs, the Education Licence below prices your whole grade band per student for the year, assessments uncapped.
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Education Licence — priced per student, per year
One rate per enrolled student for the academic year, sized for Arkansas 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
- ▸Every assessment in the catalogue, retakes included, no per-assessment charge
- ▸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
College or university
A university, college or college group
per year
- ▸Every assessment in the catalogue, retakes included, no per-assessment charge
- ▸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
State system
A statewide or national programme
per year
- ▸Every assessment in the catalogue, retakes included, no per-assessment charge
- ▸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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Tell us your school or district size and which grade band you're evaluating against. We reply with this crosswalk in your procurement format and a pilot plan within two business days.
Arkansas compels a middle-grades career plan by law. Real, via a statute + implementing rule pair. Ark. Code Ann. § 6-16-1802 directs the State Board of Education to determine "the minimum number and type of activities required"; its implementing rule, 6 CAR § 106-103 (Division of Elementary and Secondary Education, footer-dated 03/13/2026), states verbatim: "Every student shall be required to participate in a Career Awareness or Career Development course at least once during grades six through eight (6-8)" — and requires a minimum of four career-awareness/exploration activities per student per year across grades 6-8. Districts may combine this course's standards with another course's, but "must continue to teach the Arkansas Academic Standards for each separate course that is combined." The Career Development course document itself is a content-standards document, not the legal mandate — the mandate is satisfied by teaching to it, per the rule above. A separate, adjacent instrument, the Student Success Plan (Ark. Code Ann. § 6-15-2911), must be completed by the end of grade 8 and reviewed annually thereafter, but is a distinct requirement from the course mandate.
Career Development (Arkansas Academic Standards, DCTE Course #399280), published by Arkansas Department of Education, Division of Career and Technical Education (DCTE), grades 7-8 (as printed — not 6-8). Arkansas runs three separate, overlapping-grade-band DCTE courses relevant to grades 6-8: Career Awareness (5-6), Career Exploration (6-7), and Career Development (7-8) — and only Career Awareness and Career Development are named by title in the state's own mandate text. This page crosswalks Career Development because it is literally named in the mandate sentence alongside Career Awareness and has the broadest scope of the three (self-awareness, career-cluster exploration, postsecondary/Success-Ready-Pathway planning, and employability skills). The course PDFs are published only via a Google Drive folder linked from DCTE's "Pathways" page, not hosted directly on a state domain. "Domain" (1-4) → "Standard" (e.g., 1.1) → numbered "Performance Indicators" (e.g., 1.1.1). Four domains, 44 performance indicators total, reproduced here in full: Domain 1 (Build Personal and Interpersonal Effectiveness) = 14, Domain 2 (Explore Local Career Pathways) = 10, Domain 3 (Develop a Plan for Postsecondary Success) = 12, Domain 4 (Demonstrate Employability Skills) = 8.
It means the platform itself produces the artefact the criterion asks for, with nothing a teacher has to add. 1 criterion of the 44 are closed this way: 2.1.1. 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. 4 criteria are closed this way: 1.1.1, 1.2.1, 2.1.3 and 2.3.1. A plan a system wrote for the student would not satisfy the standard, and claiming it would not be worth much either.
Because the 1 and the 4 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 5 we do claim: same row format, same visual weight, a stated "not claimed" rather than an absence.
The Domain.Standard.Indicator numbering is Arkansas DCTE's own, printed verbatim in the source, alongside the course's own DCTE course number, 399280.
Header reads "2026-2027." 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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