Which Pennsylvania document is this crosswalk against?

Academic Standards for Career Education and Work — 22 Pa. Code Chapter 4, Appendix E-1 (Reg. #006-354), final form as approved by the State Board of Education on 12 September 2024. The four standard areas as printed in the "Grades 6 to 8" column., published by Pennsylvania State Board of Education / Pennsylvania Department of Education, grades 6-8. Pennsylvania publishes these as a four-column grid — K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12 — with a substrand label running down the left. We read only the "Grades 6 to 8" column, which is what a middle school is held to. Twenty criteria: six, six, four and four across the four standard areas. Where the state prints a bulleted list beneath a criterion ("such as, but not limited to:"), the bullets are quoted inside that criterion rather than promoted to criteria of their own, because the state does not number them. Four standard areas, each printed with its own number — 13.1 Career Awareness and Preparation, 13.2 Career Acquisition (Getting a Job), 13.3 Career Retention and Advancement, 13.4 Entrepreneurship — and within each, criteria lettered A onward with the grade band baked into the code itself: "13.1.6-8.A". The grade band being part of the code is unusual and useful, because a Pennsylvania criterion cannot be quoted without saying which grades it belongs to. The four areas are uneven on purpose: 13.1 and 13.2 carry six criteria each, 13.3 and 13.4 carry four each. Some criteria carry a "such as, but not limited to:" list beneath them; those bullets are part of the criterion, not separate criteria, and the state prints no code for any of them.

What does "evidenced directly" mean on the table?

It means the platform itself produces the artefact the criterion asks for, with nothing a teacher has to add. 2 criteria of the 20 are closed this way: 13.2.6-8.A and 13.4.6-8.B. 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.

What does "supported via lesson plan" mean, and is that weaker?

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. 9 criteria are closed this way: 13.1.6-8.C, 13.2.6-8.B, 13.2.6-8.C, 13.2.6-8.D, 13.2.6-8.E, 13.3.6-8.A, 13.3.6-8.B, 13.3.6-8.D and 13.4.6-8.D. A plan a system wrote for the student would not satisfy the standard, and claiming it would not be worth much either.

Why not say "11 of 20" and leave it there?

Because the 2 and the 9 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.

What about the other 9 criteria?

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 11 we do claim: same row format, same visual weight, a stated "not claimed" rather than an absence.

Which Pennsylvania document is this crosswalk against?

Academic Standards for Career Education and Work — 22 Pa. Code Chapter 4, Appendix E-1 (Reg. #006-354), final form as approved by the State Board of Education on 12 September 2024. The four standard areas as printed in the "Grades 6 to 8" column., published by Pennsylvania State Board of Education / Pennsylvania Department of Education, grades 6-8. Pennsylvania publishes these as a four-column grid — K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12 — with a substrand label running down the left. We read only the "Grades 6 to 8" column, which is what a middle school is held to. Twenty criteria: six, six, four and four across the four standard areas. Where the state prints a bulleted list beneath a criterion ("such as, but not limited to:"), the bullets are quoted inside that criterion rather than promoted to criteria of their own, because the state does not number them. Four standard areas, each printed with its own number — 13.1 Career Awareness and Preparation, 13.2 Career Acquisition (Getting a Job), 13.3 Career Retention and Advancement, 13.4 Entrepreneurship — and within each, criteria lettered A onward with the grade band baked into the code itself: "13.1.6-8.A". The grade band being part of the code is unusual and useful, because a Pennsylvania criterion cannot be quoted without saying which grades it belongs to. The four areas are uneven on purpose: 13.1 and 13.2 carry six criteria each, 13.3 and 13.4 carry four each. Some criteria carry a "such as, but not limited to:" list beneath them; those bullets are part of the criterion, not separate criteria, and the state prints no code for any of them.

What does "evidenced directly" mean on the table?

It means the platform itself produces the artefact the criterion asks for, with nothing a teacher has to add. 2 criteria of the 20 are closed this way: 13.2.6-8.A and 13.4.6-8.B. 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.

What does "supported via lesson plan" mean, and is that weaker?

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. 9 criteria are closed this way: 13.1.6-8.C, 13.2.6-8.B, 13.2.6-8.C, 13.2.6-8.D, 13.2.6-8.E, 13.3.6-8.A, 13.3.6-8.B, 13.3.6-8.D and 13.4.6-8.D. A plan a system wrote for the student would not satisfy the standard, and claiming it would not be worth much either.

Why not say "11 of 20" and leave it there?

Because the 2 and the 9 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.

What about the other 9 criteria?

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 11 we do claim: same row format, same visual weight, a stated "not claimed" rather than an absence.

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Pennsylvania's career standard, criterion by criterion: 11 of 20 matched, 9 not claimed.

Academic Standards for Career Education and Work (Pennsylvania State Board of Education) covers grades 6-8 in 4 groups and 20 criteria. 2 are evidenced directly by something the platform produces, 9 more are supported by a named result plus teacher-led classroom work, and we make no claim on the other 9. The two claimed groups are never added into one number.

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In Brief

Pennsylvania compels a middle-grades career plan by law. Pennsylvania compels an individualized career plan by the end of grade 8, and it is reported to the state. PDE's Career Readiness Indicator guidance sets it out: "By the end grade 8, the student has a career portfolio containing the K-5 grade band evidence and an additional six pieces of evidence… One of the pieces of evidence for the 6-8 grade band must be the student's individualized career plan." Districts report against it in PIMS through the Student Fact Template for Career Standards Benchmark, at grades 5, 8 and 11 — so grade 8 is a reported checkpoint, not an aspiration. The standards themselves sit in regulation rather than guidance: 22 Pa. Code §4.12 is the State Board's academic-standards section, and it names Career Education and Work among the standards every district must plan and deliver against.

The standard itself: Academic Standards for Career Education and Work, published by Pennsylvania State Board of Education / Pennsylvania Department of Education, grades 6-8. Four standard areas, each printed with its own number — 13.1 Career Awareness and Preparation, 13.2 Career Acquisition (Getting a Job), 13.3 Career Retention and Advancement, 13.4 Entrepreneurship — and within each, criteria lettered A onward with the grade band baked into the code itself: "13.1.6-8.A". The grade band being part of the code is unusual and useful, because a Pennsylvania criterion cannot be quoted without saying which grades it belongs to. The four areas are uneven on purpose: 13.1 and 13.2 carry six criteria each, 13.3 and 13.4 carry four each. Some criteria carry a "such as, but not limited to:" list beneath them; those bullets are part of the criterion, not separate criteria, and the state prints no code for any of them.

Below is every one of its 20 criteria, what closes each, and what a student walks away with — 2 evidenced directly, 9 supported via lesson plan, 9 not claimed. The 2 directly-evidenced criteria and the 9 lesson-supported ones stay separate on purpose — merging them into one headline would flatter the platform at your expense.

Academic Standards for Career Education and Work — 22 Pa. Code Chapter 4, Appendix E-1 (Reg. #006-354), final form as approved by the State Board of Education on 12 September 2024. The four standard areas as printed in the "Grades 6 to 8" column., grades 6-8

Every criterion, what closes it, and what a student walks away with.

Pennsylvania State Board of Education / Pennsylvania Department of Education — www.pa.gov/content/dam/copapwp-pagov/en/stateboard/documents/about-the-board/board-actions/2024/career%20education%20and%20work%20standards.pdf

criteria evidenced directly
— work the software does

criteria supported via lesson plans
— work a teacher does

criteria not claimed
— of 20 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.

Reading the code column

The codes in the left-hand column are Pennsylvania's own and can be cited back to the state exactly as printed — "13.2.6-8.E" is the state's string, not ours. Two rendering notes about the criterion text. First: the final-form document is a redline, and it prints newly adopted language in ALL CAPS to mark what the 2024 revision added. We render those passages in ordinary sentence case without changing a single word, because ALL CAPS on this page would read as our emphasis rather than the state's markup — 13.1.6-8.B, 13.1.6-8.E and 13.2.6-8.C are the three grade 6-8 criteria that carry it. Second: 13.1.6-8.B as printed ends its first sentence with "employment types.;" — a stray semicolon after the full stop where the redline stitched old and new text together. We keep the sentence and drop the orphaned semicolon, and record that here rather than ship what reads as our own typo.

13.1Career Awareness and Preparation

13.1.6-8.ANot claimed

Analyze the relationship of school subjects, extracurricular activities, and community experiences to career preparation.

No JobCannon surface addresses this criterion. We are not naming a workaround for it.

Nothing in the product maps a school subject, a club or a community activity to a career. Our careers corpus is organised by occupation, cluster, wage and education tier; it has no notion of what a student is taking this term or what they do after school, and no surface asks. A reviewer should read this as a flat no rather than a partial — the relationship this criterion is about is between the student's own timetable and their career, and the timetable is not something we hold.

13.1.6-8.BNot claimed

Compare and contrast entrepreneurship and other self-employment opportunities to other employment types. Evaluate how entrepreneurial character traits influence career opportunities in any type of job; identify how the 4 P's (product, price, place, and promotion) play a role in entrepreneurial branding.

No JobCannon surface addresses this criterion. We are not naming a workaround for it.

We have no entrepreneurship content, and the marketing half of this criterion — the 4 P's and branding — appears nowhere in the product at all. The near miss worth naming, because a reviewer will find it and wonder: the Freelance Readiness assessment measures whether someone is suited to working for themselves. That is not this criterion. This criterion asks a student to compare self-employment against employment as categories and to reason about branding, and a readiness score about one student does neither.

13.1.6-8.CSupported via lesson plan

Compare and contrast multiple careers using a variety of career research resources.

Closed by

/careers/search with the cluster, wage and education filters, and /careers/compare for a built side-by-side

Artifact

A filtered list of careers showing median wage, education tier and cluster against each other, or a two-career side-by-side page

Two limits, both worth stating before a district finds them. /careers/compare is a curated set of 54 pre-built pairs drawn from 73 distinct careers — any other pairing of the 2,749 in the corpus returns a 404, so it is not a general comparison tool. /careers/search does scale to the whole corpus and puts careers beside each other with wage, education tier and cluster, which is a genuine comparison surface. The second limit is the criterion's own wording: it asks for "a variety of career research resources", plural, and we are one resource. The teacher supplies the second and the third, and the compare-and-contrast task itself.

13.1.6-8.DNot claimed

Use multiple resources or tools to research the job availability in a local, national, and global job market.

No JobCannon surface addresses this criterion. We are not naming a workaround for it.

We hold no job-availability data. The careers corpus carries an O*NET code on all 2,749 entries and a BLS median wage resolving on 2,715 of them with 34 carrying none, but no field for openings, job growth, labour supply or demand — we checked the index rather than assuming. It is also national-only: nothing in it is scoped to a Pennsylvania county or district, and nothing covers a market outside the United States. This criterion asks for local, national and global, and we have one of the three and not the part it asks about.

13.1.6-8.ENot claimed

Identify, and participate in, and evaluate school- and community-based opportunities for career awareness/preparation experiences.

No JobCannon surface addresses this criterion. We are not naming a workaround for it.

Participating in a school or community experience is something a student physically does, and evaluating it afterwards is something a teacher structures. No software closes either. We say so plainly rather than claiming the "identify" third and leaving the reader to notice the other two.

13.1.6-8.FNot claimed

Understand what labor laws are and how they impact worker wages and safety.

No JobCannon surface addresses this criterion. We are not naming a workaround for it.

We have no labour-law content at any grade. Wage figures appear throughout the careers corpus, but a median salary is not an explanation of the law that sets a floor under it, and nothing in the product discusses minimum wage, working hours, child labour rules or workplace safety regulation.

13.2Career Acquisition (Getting a Job)

13.2.6-8.AEvidenced directly

Apply critical thinking to solve real-life problems.

Closed by

/assessments/situational-judgement, with /assessments/logical-reasoning for the reasoning half

Artifact

A scored judgement profile showing how the student responded to each scenario, and a reasoning score alongside it

The Situational Judgement Test does exactly what the verb asks — it puts a problem in front of the student, they choose how to handle it, and the response is scored. The honest qualification is whose real life: the scenarios are written as workplace situations, not as a thirteen-year-old's own circumstances, so a teacher wanting the criterion evidenced against the student's life rather than a workplace analogue will want to say so in the assignment.

13.2.6-8.BSupported via lesson plan

Develop formal communication that demonstrates professional etiquette and observes social protocols when communicating.

Closed by

/assessments/communication-adaptability

Artifact

A profile of how the student shifts communication style across situations

The gap is the verb. Communication Adaptability measures how a student already adapts; "develop" means building a formal register the student did not have, and that is taught and practised in a classroom, not measured. The result is useful as the starting point a teacher works from — which is precisely why this is a lesson row and not a direct one.

13.2.6-8.CSupported via lesson plan

Practice effective group interactions, acknowledging people's different backgrounds, experiences, and beliefs, and ideas.

Closed by

/assessments/conflict-styles, with /assessments/eq for the awareness half

Artifact

A named conflict style with its effect on a group, and an emotional-intelligence profile

Practice is the whole criterion, and practice happens between people. What we contribute is what a student brings into the room: how they behave when a group disagrees, and how well they read other people. The interaction itself, and the acknowledging, are the teacher's half.

13.2.6-8.DSupported via lesson plan

Demonstrate proficient use of technologies by using various types of technology.

Closed by

/assessments/computer-literacy, with /assessments/tech-savvy alongside it

Artifact

A scored computer-literacy result and a technology-confidence profile

Read the criterion's own construction: proficiency is demonstrated "by using". Our instruments test what a student knows about technology and how comfortable they are with it, and they are taken on a computer — but a scored test is not the same as using a tool to do a task, and "various types of technology" in Pennsylvania's CTE context reaches equipment we do not touch at all. The result is assignable evidence toward the criterion; the hands-on demonstration is the school's.

13.2.6-8.ESupported via lesson plan

Demonstrate effective time and project management strategies.

Closed by

/assessments/time-management

Artifact

A scored profile of the student's time-management strategies

Half the criterion is instrumented and half is not, and it is worth being exact about which. Time management has a test that names the strategies a student actually uses. Project management does not: nothing in the product measures scoping work, sequencing it or carrying it to a deadline, and a project is the only thing that could demonstrate it.

13.2.6-8.FNot claimed

Explain how Entrepreneurial Mindset characteristics and skills can help one be successful in their career.

No JobCannon surface addresses this criterion. We are not naming a workaround for it.

Pennsylvania treats the Entrepreneurial Mindset as a named body of content with its own progression from kindergarten upward. We have none of it. Character Strengths and Freelance Readiness are adjacent in feel and neither is this: one measures virtues, the other measures suitability for self-employment, and the criterion asks the student to explain a specific framework we do not teach.

13.3Career Retention and Advancement

13.3.6-8.ASupported via lesson plan

Identify factors that may inform decisions for career changes, such as loss of employment, lifestyle changes, workplace conflicts, work value changes, and job market changes.

Closed by

/assessments/values for the work-values factor, /assessments/conflict-styles for the workplace-conflict factor

Artifact

A ranked work-values profile and a named conflict style

The criterion lists five factors and we instrument two of them. Work values are measured directly, and the point of measuring them at thirteen is that they move — which is the "work value changes" factor stated in the state's own words. Workplace conflict has an instrument too. Loss of employment, lifestyle changes and job-market changes have nothing behind them here: the first two are life events and the third is labour-market data we do not carry. Two of five, named as two of five.

13.3.6-8.BSupported via lesson plan

Explain how decisions regarding education, skill building, and work impact other major life decisions.

Closed by

The education tier on every career page, /careers/no-degree-required, the education filter on /careers/search, and /assessments/personal-finance-literacy

Artifact

A career list narrowed by the level of education it expects, with the tier shown on each career, and a scored money-literacy result covering how training and promotion affect earnings

What we supply is the education-to-career link made concrete: 1,020 of 2,749 careers carry an education tier, and a student can filter by it and see what a decision to stop at high school or go to a bachelor's actually opens or closes. The Personal Finance Literacy test adds the skill-building half directly — employer-paid courses, tuition assistance, and why someone whose employer trains and promotes from within earns more five years on. Two things are not ours. The education coverage is well under half the corpus, and we left the rest blank rather than guessing. And "other major life decisions" — where to live, whether to take on debt, family — is outside the product entirely; a teacher takes the education-and-work half we supply and connects it to the rest.

13.3.6-8.CNot claimed

Practice feedback and personal reflection to evaluate success towards setting and completing goals.

No JobCannon surface addresses this criterion. We are not naming a workaround for it.

There is no goal-setting surface in the product, and no feedback loop between a student and anyone about progress toward one. Assessment results are a snapshot, not a goal being tracked, and nothing re-tests a student against a target they set earlier.

13.3.6-8.DSupported via lesson plan

Demonstrate a positive work ethic.

Closed by

/assessments/work-ethics

Artifact

A scored work-ethic and reliability profile

The instrument is squarely on topic and the qualification is about evidence type rather than fit. A work-ethic assessment is self-report at a single sitting; the criterion says "demonstrate", which for a school means conduct observed over a term. The score is the strongest single artefact we have for this row and it is not a substitute for the observation.

13.4Entrepreneurship

13.4.6-8.ANot claimed

Identify ways to market yourself as a job candidate.

No JobCannon surface addresses this criterion. We are not naming a workaround for it.

We have no résumé builder, no portfolio, no interview preparation and no candidate-profile surface a student could market themselves with. This is a plain no. A result page is something a student can show, but showing a test score is not the same as being taught how to present yourself, which is what the criterion is about.

13.4.6-8.BEvidenced directly

Relate careers to personal interests, abilities, and aptitudes.

Closed by

/assessments/riasec or /assessments/onet-interest-profiler, /assessments/career-match for a shorter sitting, with /assessments/skills-audit for abilities

Artifact

A ranked list of careers generated from the student's own interest profile, with their strongest codes named

This is the criterion the product was built for, and the relating is done by the platform rather than asked of the student: the result page is a career list derived from their answers. The one qualification a reviewer should have is that interests carry the most weight of the three. Abilities come from a separate self-report audit and aptitudes from the reasoning tests, and neither feeds the interest-driven career ranking — a teacher wanting all three woven together does that step.

13.4.6-8.CNot claimed

Evaluate a variety of methods to research careers that align with personal interests, values, strengths, and career goals.

No JobCannon surface addresses this criterion. We are not naming a workaround for it.

The object of this criterion is the methods, not the careers — the student is asked to judge which ways of researching a career are any good. We are one of the methods being judged. A vendor claiming this row would be claiming to have taught a student to evaluate the vendor, which is not a thing we can honestly assert.

13.4.6-8.DSupported via lesson plan

Build a career plan to describe planned action steps that may include, but not be limited to: electives; extracurricular activities; coursework; career interests; strengths and abilities; educational and training opportunities.

Closed by

/assessments/riasec and /assessments/career-match for interests, /assessments/skills-audit for strengths and abilities, and the education tier on career pages for training opportunities

Artifact

The interest, strengths and education-pathway inputs a plan is built from, exportable per student

Pennsylvania names six kinds of action step and we supply three of them: career interests, strengths and abilities, and educational and training opportunities. Electives, extracurricular activities and coursework are the other three, and they are the district's own — they come out of a course catalogue and a timetable we do not hold. The plan document itself is also not ours; we supply what goes into it, and the school builds and keeps the plan that PIMS reports against.

How to read the crosswalk above

Four rules, applied to every one of Pennsylvania's 20 criteria.

Evidenced directly

The platform itself produces the artefact — a filtered career list, a wage figure, a scored result — with nothing a teacher has to add. 2 criteria of 20: 13.2.6-8.A and 13.4.6-8.B.

Supported via lesson plan

The platform supplies the data or the assessment result; a teacher runs the classroom half. 9 criteria of 20: 13.1.6-8.C, 13.2.6-8.B, 13.2.6-8.C, 13.2.6-8.D, 13.2.6-8.E, 13.3.6-8.A, 13.3.6-8.B, 13.3.6-8.D and 13.4.6-8.D. Each row names the instrument and states what the teacher still has to do.

Not claimed

9 criteria have no JobCannon surface that addresses them — Nine of the twenty are not claimed, and they cluster rather than scatter. Six of the nine sit in the two places a career-assessment platform structurally cannot reach. The first is Pennsylvania's labour-market strand: 13.1.6-8.D asks a student to research job availability in a local, national and global job market, and our careers corpus carries no job-availability data of any kind — no openings, no growth rate, nothing local, nothing outside the United States. The second is entrepreneurship, which Pennsylvania threads through both 13.1.6-8.B and 13.2.6-8.F and which we have no content for at any grade. The rest are participation and observation: taking part in school- and community-based career experiences, practising feedback with someone, marketing yourself as a candidate, evaluating research methods. None of those become true because software was purchased.. They are listed on the table at the same visual weight as the 11 we do claim, not hidden and not summarised away.

Whose numbering this is

Named instruments behind the 11 matched criteria

Grouped by the criteria each one actually closes — read from the rows, not chosen for the page.

Career Match

13.4.6-8.B — evidenced directly; 13.4.6-8.D — supported via lesson plan

Career Match

RIASEC Career Interest

13.4.6-8.B — evidenced directly; 13.4.6-8.D — supported via lesson plan

RIASEC Career Interest

Skills Audit

13.4.6-8.B — evidenced directly; 13.4.6-8.D — supported via lesson plan

Skills Audit

Logical Reasoning

13.2.6-8.A — evidenced directly

Logical Reasoning

O*NET Interest Profiler

13.4.6-8.B — evidenced directly

O*NET Interest Profiler

Situational Judgement Test

13.2.6-8.A — evidenced directly

Situational Judgement Test

Conflict Styles

13.2.6-8.C and 13.3.6-8.A — supported via lesson plan

Conflict Styles

Communication Adaptability Test

13.2.6-8.B — supported via lesson plan

Communication Adaptability Test

Computer Literacy Test

13.2.6-8.D — supported via lesson plan

Computer Literacy Test

13.2.6-8.C — supported via lesson plan

Personal Finance Literacy Test

13.3.6-8.B — supported via lesson plan

Personal Finance Literacy Test

Tech Savvy

13.2.6-8.D — supported via lesson plan

Tech Savvy

Time Management

13.2.6-8.E — supported via lesson plan

Time Management

Values (PVQ-21)

13.3.6-8.A — supported via lesson plan

Values (PVQ-21)

Work Ethics & Reliability Assessment

13.3.6-8.D — supported via lesson plan

Work Ethics & Reliability Assessment

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

$75,000

Xello

Tulsa Public Schools (OK) · one district, one school year

Tulsa Public Schools board agenda

$3.00

per student, per academic year

JobCannon

Education Licence, District band · 1,301-15,000 students · assessments uncapped

$77,212.50

Naviance

Woodland Public Schools (WA) · one district, five-year agreement

Woodland Public Schools board item

What this crosswalk includes — and what it does not

All 20 criteria of Academic Standards for Career Education and Work (grades 6-8), listed one by one

2 criteria evidenced directly by a named JobCannon surface

9 criteria supported by a named assessment result with teacher-led framing

The other 9: no JobCannon surface addresses them, stated as plainly as the 11 that are

15 named instruments behind the 11 claimed criteria — every one of them assignable to a student from a school account

Which numbering is the state's and which is ours, said on the page rather than left for you to discover

The version of the source we read: Read 2026-09-06 from the final-form Appendix E-1 PDF as approved 12 September 2024. The edition question matters here more than in most states and the regulation answers it outright: 22 Pa. Code §4.12(5) provides that "Appendix E … shall expire July 1, 2026. The academic standards under this paragraph shall be based on the provisions of Appendix E-1 … on and after July 1, 2026." Today is after that date, so Appendix E-1 is the operative standard and the older Appendix E has expired. A district still working from a printed Appendix E crosswalk is working from an expired one.

Related on JobCannon

This is Pennsylvania'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, New Jersey, New York, Michigan and Washington.

A career-standards document is not the same thing as a plan-completion mandate — for whether Pennsylvania 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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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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Pennsylvania compels a middle-grades career plan by law. Pennsylvania compels an individualized career plan by the end of grade 8, and it is reported to the state. PDE's Career Readiness Indicator guidance sets it out: "By the end grade 8, the student has a career portfolio containing the K-5 grade band evidence and an additional six pieces of evidence… One of the pieces of evidence for the 6-8 grade band must be the student's individualized career plan." Districts report against it in PIMS through the Student Fact Template for Career Standards Benchmark, at grades 5, 8 and 11 — so grade 8 is a reported checkpoint, not an aspiration. The standards themselves sit in regulation rather than guidance: 22 Pa. Code §4.12 is the State Board's academic-standards section, and it names Career Education and Work among the standards every district must plan and deliver against.
Academic Standards for Career Education and Work — 22 Pa. Code Chapter 4, Appendix E-1 (Reg. #006-354), final form as approved by the State Board of Education on 12 September 2024. The four standard areas as printed in the "Grades 6 to 8" column., published by Pennsylvania State Board of Education / Pennsylvania Department of Education, grades 6-8. Pennsylvania publishes these as a four-column grid — K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12 — with a substrand label running down the left. We read only the "Grades 6 to 8" column, which is what a middle school is held to. Twenty criteria: six, six, four and four across the four standard areas. Where the state prints a bulleted list beneath a criterion ("such as, but not limited to:"), the bullets are quoted inside that criterion rather than promoted to criteria of their own, because the state does not number them. Four standard areas, each printed with its own number — 13.1 Career Awareness and Preparation, 13.2 Career Acquisition (Getting a Job), 13.3 Career Retention and Advancement, 13.4 Entrepreneurship — and within each, criteria lettered A onward with the grade band baked into the code itself: "13.1.6-8.A". The grade band being part of the code is unusual and useful, because a Pennsylvania criterion cannot be quoted without saying which grades it belongs to. The four areas are uneven on purpose: 13.1 and 13.2 carry six criteria each, 13.3 and 13.4 carry four each. Some criteria carry a "such as, but not limited to:" list beneath them; those bullets are part of the criterion, not separate criteria, and the state prints no code for any of them.
It means the platform itself produces the artefact the criterion asks for, with nothing a teacher has to add. 2 criteria of the 20 are closed this way: 13.2.6-8.A and 13.4.6-8.B. 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. 9 criteria are closed this way: 13.1.6-8.C, 13.2.6-8.B, 13.2.6-8.C, 13.2.6-8.D, 13.2.6-8.E, 13.3.6-8.A, 13.3.6-8.B, 13.3.6-8.D and 13.4.6-8.D. A plan a system wrote for the student would not satisfy the standard, and claiming it would not be worth much either.
Because the 2 and the 9 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 11 we do claim: same row format, same visual weight, a stated "not claimed" rather than an absence.
The codes in the left-hand column are Pennsylvania's own and can be cited back to the state exactly as printed — "13.2.6-8.E" is the state's string, not ours. Two rendering notes about the criterion text. First: the final-form document is a redline, and it prints newly adopted language in ALL CAPS to mark what the 2024 revision added. We render those passages in ordinary sentence case without changing a single word, because ALL CAPS on this page would read as our emphasis rather than the state's markup — 13.1.6-8.B, 13.1.6-8.E and 13.2.6-8.C are the three grade 6-8 criteria that carry it. Second: 13.1.6-8.B as printed ends its first sentence with "employment types.;" — a stray semicolon after the full stop where the redline stitched old and new text together. We keep the sentence and drop the orphaned semicolon, and record that here rather than ship what reads as our own typo.
Read 2026-09-06 from the final-form Appendix E-1 PDF as approved 12 September 2024. The edition question matters here more than in most states and the regulation answers it outright: 22 Pa. Code §4.12(5) provides that "Appendix E … shall expire July 1, 2026. The academic standards under this paragraph shall be based on the provisions of Appendix E-1 … on and after July 1, 2026." Today is after that date, so Appendix E-1 is the operative standard and the older Appendix E has expired. A district still working from a printed Appendix E crosswalk is working from an expired one. 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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Pennsylvania career standards crosswalk

Pennsylvania's career standard, criterion by criterion: 11 of 20 matched, 9 not claimed.

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In Brief

Academic Standards for Career Education and Work — 22 Pa. Code Chapter 4, Appendix E-1 (Reg. #006-354), final form as approved by the State Board of Education on 12 September 2024. The four standard areas as printed in the "Grades 6 to 8" column., grades 6-8

Every criterion, what closes it, and what a student walks away with.

criteria evidenced directly
— work the software does

criteria supported via lesson plans
— work a teacher does

criteria not claimed
— of 20 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.

Reading the code column

13.1Career Awareness and Preparation

13.1.6-8.ANot claimed

Analyze the relationship of school subjects, extracurricular activities, and community experiences to career preparation.

No JobCannon surface addresses this criterion. We are not naming a workaround for it.

13.1.6-8.BNot claimed

No JobCannon surface addresses this criterion. We are not naming a workaround for it.

13.1.6-8.CSupported via lesson plan

Compare and contrast multiple careers using a variety of career research resources.

Closed by

/careers/search with the cluster, wage and education filters, and /careers/compare for a built side-by-side

Artifact

A filtered list of careers showing median wage, education tier and cluster against each other, or a two-career side-by-side page

13.1.6-8.DNot claimed

Use multiple resources or tools to research the job availability in a local, national, and global job market.

No JobCannon surface addresses this criterion. We are not naming a workaround for it.

13.1.6-8.ENot claimed

Identify, and participate in, and evaluate school- and community-based opportunities for career awareness/preparation experiences.

No JobCannon surface addresses this criterion. We are not naming a workaround for it.

13.1.6-8.FNot claimed

Understand what labor laws are and how they impact worker wages and safety.

No JobCannon surface addresses this criterion. We are not naming a workaround for it.

13.2Career Acquisition (Getting a Job)

13.2.6-8.AEvidenced directly

Apply critical thinking to solve real-life problems.

Closed by

/assessments/situational-judgement, with /assessments/logical-reasoning for the reasoning half

Artifact

A scored judgement profile showing how the student responded to each scenario, and a reasoning score alongside it

13.2.6-8.BSupported via lesson plan

Develop formal communication that demonstrates professional etiquette and observes social protocols when communicating.

Closed by

/assessments/communication-adaptability

Artifact

A profile of how the student shifts communication style across situations

13.2.6-8.CSupported via lesson plan

Practice effective group interactions, acknowledging people's different backgrounds, experiences, and beliefs, and ideas.

Closed by

/assessments/conflict-styles, with /assessments/eq for the awareness half

Artifact

A named conflict style with its effect on a group, and an emotional-intelligence profile

13.2.6-8.DSupported via lesson plan

Demonstrate proficient use of technologies by using various types of technology.

Closed by

/assessments/computer-literacy, with /assessments/tech-savvy alongside it

Artifact

A scored computer-literacy result and a technology-confidence profile

13.2.6-8.ESupported via lesson plan

Demonstrate effective time and project management strategies.

Closed by

/assessments/time-management

Artifact

A scored profile of the student's time-management strategies

13.2.6-8.FNot claimed

Explain how Entrepreneurial Mindset characteristics and skills can help one be successful in their career.

No JobCannon surface addresses this criterion. We are not naming a workaround for it.

13.3Career Retention and Advancement

13.3.6-8.ASupported via lesson plan

Identify factors that may inform decisions for career changes, such as loss of employment, lifestyle changes, workplace conflicts, work value changes, and job market changes.

Closed by

/assessments/values for the work-values factor, /assessments/conflict-styles for the workplace-conflict factor

Artifact

A ranked work-values profile and a named conflict style

13.3.6-8.BSupported via lesson plan

Explain how decisions regarding education, skill building, and work impact other major life decisions.

Closed by

The education tier on every career page, /careers/no-degree-required, the education filter on /careers/search, and /assessments/personal-finance-literacy

Artifact

A career list narrowed by the level of education it expects, with the tier shown on each career, and a scored money-literacy result covering how training and promotion affect earnings

13.3.6-8.CNot claimed

Practice feedback and personal reflection to evaluate success towards setting and completing goals.

No JobCannon surface addresses this criterion. We are not naming a workaround for it.

13.3.6-8.DSupported via lesson plan

Demonstrate a positive work ethic.

Closed by

/assessments/work-ethics

Artifact

A scored work-ethic and reliability profile

13.4Entrepreneurship

13.4.6-8.ANot claimed

Identify ways to market yourself as a job candidate.

No JobCannon surface addresses this criterion. We are not naming a workaround for it.

13.4.6-8.BEvidenced directly

Relate careers to personal interests, abilities, and aptitudes.

Closed by

/assessments/riasec or /assessments/onet-interest-profiler, /assessments/career-match for a shorter sitting, with /assessments/skills-audit for abilities

Artifact

A ranked list of careers generated from the student's own interest profile, with their strongest codes named

13.4.6-8.CNot claimed

Evaluate a variety of methods to research careers that align with personal interests, values, strengths, and career goals.

No JobCannon surface addresses this criterion. We are not naming a workaround for it.

13.4.6-8.DSupported via lesson plan

Closed by

/assessments/riasec and /assessments/career-match for interests, /assessments/skills-audit for strengths and abilities, and the education tier on career pages for training opportunities

Artifact

The interest, strengths and education-pathway inputs a plan is built from, exportable per student

How to read the crosswalk above

Four rules, applied to every one of Pennsylvania's 20 criteria.

Evidenced directly

The platform itself produces the artefact — a filtered career list, a wage figure, a scored result — with nothing a teacher has to add. 2 criteria of 20: 13.2.6-8.A and 13.4.6-8.B.

Supported via lesson plan

Not claimed

Whose numbering this is

Named instruments behind the 11 matched criteria

Grouped by the criteria each one actually closes — read from the rows, not chosen for the page.

Career Match

13.4.6-8.B — evidenced directly; 13.4.6-8.D — supported via lesson plan

Career Match

RIASEC Career Interest

13.4.6-8.B — evidenced directly; 13.4.6-8.D — supported via lesson plan

RIASEC Career Interest

Skills Audit

13.4.6-8.B — evidenced directly; 13.4.6-8.D — supported via lesson plan

Skills Audit

Logical Reasoning

13.2.6-8.A — evidenced directly

Logical Reasoning

O*NET Interest Profiler

13.4.6-8.B — evidenced directly

O*NET Interest Profiler

Situational Judgement Test

13.2.6-8.A — evidenced directly

Situational Judgement Test

Conflict Styles

13.2.6-8.C and 13.3.6-8.A — supported via lesson plan

Conflict Styles

Communication Adaptability Test

13.2.6-8.B — supported via lesson plan

Communication Adaptability Test

Computer Literacy Test

13.2.6-8.D — supported via lesson plan

Computer Literacy Test

13.2.6-8.C — supported via lesson plan

Personal Finance Literacy Test

13.3.6-8.B — supported via lesson plan

Personal Finance Literacy Test

Tech Savvy

13.2.6-8.D — supported via lesson plan

Tech Savvy

Time Management

13.2.6-8.E — supported via lesson plan

Time Management

Values (PVQ-21)

13.3.6-8.A — supported via lesson plan

Values (PVQ-21)

Work Ethics & Reliability Assessment

13.3.6-8.D — supported via lesson plan

Work Ethics & Reliability Assessment

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

$75,000

Xello

Tulsa Public Schools (OK) · one district, one school year

Tulsa Public Schools board agenda

$3.00

per student, per academic year

JobCannon

Education Licence, District band · 1,301-15,000 students · assessments uncapped

$77,212.50

Naviance

Woodland Public Schools (WA) · one district, five-year agreement

Woodland Public Schools board item

What this crosswalk includes — and what it does not

All 20 criteria of Academic Standards for Career Education and Work (grades 6-8), listed one by one

2 criteria evidenced directly by a named JobCannon surface

9 criteria supported by a named assessment result with teacher-led framing

The other 9: no JobCannon surface addresses them, stated as plainly as the 11 that are

15 named instruments behind the 11 claimed criteria — every one of them assignable to a student from a school account

Which numbering is the state's and which is ours, said on the page rather than left for you to discover

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$3.00 down to $2.00 per student, per year — assessments uncapped

Most common

District

A large school, multi-school district or trust

$3.00per student
per year

1,301-15,000 students

▸Every assessment in the catalogue, retakes included, no per-assessment charge
▸Cohort dashboard with cross-school and year-over-year comparison
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▸Read the corpus live over the API, or take a versioned snapshot
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State system

A statewide or national programme

$2.00per student
per year

40,001+ students

▸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
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UK schools

£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.

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Pennsylvania compels a middle-grades career plan by law. Pennsylvania compels an individualized career plan by the end of grade 8, and it is reported to the state. PDE's Career Readiness Indicator guidance sets it out: "By the end grade 8, the student has a career portfolio containing the K-5 grade band evidence and an additional six pieces of evidence… One of the pieces of evidence for the 6-8 grade band must be the student's individualized career plan." Districts report against it in PIMS through the Student Fact Template for Career Standards Benchmark, at grades 5, 8 and 11 — so grade 8 is a reported checkpoint, not an aspiration. The standards themselves sit in regulation rather than guidance: 22 Pa. Code §4.12 is the State Board's academic-standards section, and it names Career Education and Work among the standards every district must plan and deliver against.
Academic Standards for Career Education and Work — 22 Pa. Code Chapter 4, Appendix E-1 (Reg. #006-354), final form as approved by the State Board of Education on 12 September 2024. The four standard areas as printed in the "Grades 6 to 8" column., published by Pennsylvania State Board of Education / Pennsylvania Department of Education, grades 6-8. Pennsylvania publishes these as a four-column grid — K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12 — with a substrand label running down the left. We read only the "Grades 6 to 8" column, which is what a middle school is held to. Twenty criteria: six, six, four and four across the four standard areas. Where the state prints a bulleted list beneath a criterion ("such as, but not limited to:"), the bullets are quoted inside that criterion rather than promoted to criteria of their own, because the state does not number them. Four standard areas, each printed with its own number — 13.1 Career Awareness and Preparation, 13.2 Career Acquisition (Getting a Job), 13.3 Career Retention and Advancement, 13.4 Entrepreneurship — and within each, criteria lettered A onward with the grade band baked into the code itself: "13.1.6-8.A". The grade band being part of the code is unusual and useful, because a Pennsylvania criterion cannot be quoted without saying which grades it belongs to. The four areas are uneven on purpose: 13.1 and 13.2 carry six criteria each, 13.3 and 13.4 carry four each. Some criteria carry a "such as, but not limited to:" list beneath them; those bullets are part of the criterion, not separate criteria, and the state prints no code for any of them.
It means the platform itself produces the artefact the criterion asks for, with nothing a teacher has to add. 2 criteria of the 20 are closed this way: 13.2.6-8.A and 13.4.6-8.B. 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. 9 criteria are closed this way: 13.1.6-8.C, 13.2.6-8.B, 13.2.6-8.C, 13.2.6-8.D, 13.2.6-8.E, 13.3.6-8.A, 13.3.6-8.B, 13.3.6-8.D and 13.4.6-8.D. A plan a system wrote for the student would not satisfy the standard, and claiming it would not be worth much either.
Because the 2 and the 9 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 11 we do claim: same row format, same visual weight, a stated "not claimed" rather than an absence.
The codes in the left-hand column are Pennsylvania's own and can be cited back to the state exactly as printed — "13.2.6-8.E" is the state's string, not ours. Two rendering notes about the criterion text. First: the final-form document is a redline, and it prints newly adopted language in ALL CAPS to mark what the 2024 revision added. We render those passages in ordinary sentence case without changing a single word, because ALL CAPS on this page would read as our emphasis rather than the state's markup — 13.1.6-8.B, 13.1.6-8.E and 13.2.6-8.C are the three grade 6-8 criteria that carry it. Second: 13.1.6-8.B as printed ends its first sentence with "employment types.;" — a stray semicolon after the full stop where the redline stitched old and new text together. We keep the sentence and drop the orphaned semicolon, and record that here rather than ship what reads as our own typo.
Read 2026-09-06 from the final-form Appendix E-1 PDF as approved 12 September 2024. The edition question matters here more than in most states and the regulation answers it outright: 22 Pa. Code §4.12(5) provides that "Appendix E … shall expire July 1, 2026. The academic standards under this paragraph shall be based on the provisions of Appendix E-1 … on and after July 1, 2026." Today is after that date, so Appendix E-1 is the operative standard and the older Appendix E has expired. A district still working from a printed Appendix E crosswalk is working from an expired one. 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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