Texas career standards crosswalk
Texas's career standard, criterion by criterion: 6 of 36 matched, 30 not claimed.
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for Career Development and Career and Technical Education (Texas Education Agency) covers grades 7-8 in 8 groups and 36 criteria. 2 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 30. The two claimed groups are never added into one number.
In Brief
Texas does not compel a universal middle-grades career plan. Texas has no universal middle-grades career-plan mandate. TEC §28.0212 requires a personal graduation plan for a junior-high or middle-school student, but only when that student is not performing satisfactorily on a state assessment or is at risk of not graduating within five years of entering grade 9 — conditional, not universal. The 'individual career and academic plan' that appears as criterion (8) below is a requirement inside this elective course, not a statewide duty touching every 7th and 8th grader.
The standard itself: Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for Career Development and Career and Technical Education, published by Texas Education Agency / State Board of Education (19 TAC Chapter 127), grades 7-8. One course section, numbered and lettered: §127.2(standard 1-8)(letter A-I). The official citation form is 19 TAC §127.2(n)(letter). All 8 knowledge-and-skills standards and every lettered sub-point are listed below — 36 of 36.
Below is every one of its 36 criteria, what closes each, and what a student walks away with — 2 evidenced directly, 4 supported via lesson plan, 30 not claimed. The 2 directly-evidenced criteria and the 4 lesson-supported ones stay separate on purpose — merging them into one headline would flatter the platform at your expense.
Chapter 127. Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for Career Development and Career and Technical Education — Subchapter A. Middle School, §127.2. Career and College Exploration, grades 7-8
Every criterion, what closes it, and what a student walks away with.
Texas Education Agency / State Board of Education (19 TAC Chapter 127) — tea.texas.gov/laws-and-rules/sboe-rules-tac/sboe-tac-currently-effect/ch127a.pdf
— work the software does
— work a teacher does
— of 36 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.
Texas's own codes, in Texas's own citation form. A row shown as §127.2(3)(B) is citable back to the State Board of Education rule exactly as printed here.
127.2(1)Career interest surveys, aptitude tests, and career assessments
analyze and discuss the initial results of the assessments
/assessments/riasec, /assessments/career-match, /assessments/onet-interest-profiler and /assessments/values
Scored result page with named dimensions from an interest, values or personality test
The platform produces the scored result; analysing and discussing it is the classroom half. All four instruments named here can be assigned to a student from a school account.
explore and describe the CTE career clusters
/careers/search — the cluster facet, plus the /glossary/career-cluster entry
browsable Advance CTE National Career Cluster facet with per-career descriptions
'Explore' is met, 'describe' is not. The cluster facet lists the fourteen Advance CTE cluster names with a career count each — there is no description of any individual cluster anywhere in the product. The glossary defines what a career cluster is, not what each one contains. The describing is the teacher's half.
identify various career opportunities within one or more career clusters
/careers/search — the cluster filter
cluster-filtered career list
Coverage a reviewer will check: 2,652 of 2,749 careers carry a cluster. The 97 that carry none were left blank rather than guessed, and are invisible under any cluster filter.
research and evaluate emerging occupations related to career interest areas
No JobCannon surface addresses this criterion. We are not naming a workaround for it.
127.2(2)Educational and training requirements for career and education pathways
research and describe applicable academic, technical, certification, and training requirements for one or more of the careers in an identified career cluster
No JobCannon surface addresses this criterion. We are not naming a workaround for it.
use available resources to research and evaluate educational and training options for one or more of the careers in an identified career cluster
No JobCannon surface addresses this criterion. We are not naming a workaround for it.
127.2(3)Analyzes educational and career opportunities
describe academic requirements for transitioning from middle school to high school and from high school to career or postsecondary education
No JobCannon surface addresses this criterion. We are not naming a workaround for it.
explore and list opportunities for earning college credit in high school such as Advanced Placement examinations, International Baccalaureate examinations, dual credit courses, and local and statewide articulated credit courses
No JobCannon surface addresses this criterion. We are not naming a workaround for it.
investigate and describe various methods available to pay for college and other postsecondary training, including financial aid, scholarships, college savings, employee benefits, and other sources of income
No JobCannon surface addresses this criterion. We are not naming a workaround for it.
discuss the impact of effective college and career planning
No JobCannon surface addresses this criterion. We are not naming a workaround for it.
identify how performance on assessments such as the PSAT/NMSQT®, SAT®, ACT®, ASVAB®, and Texas Success Initiative (TSI®) impact personal academic and career goals
No JobCannon surface addresses this criterion. We are not naming a workaround for it.
investigate and describe the importance of co-curricular, extracurricular, career preparation, and extended learning experiences in developing college applications or resumes
No JobCannon surface addresses this criterion. We are not naming a workaround for it.
investigate and report on the steps required to participate or enroll in a variety of career and educational opportunities, including entry-level employment, military service, apprenticeships, community and technical colleges, and universities, as applicable to the career
No JobCannon surface addresses this criterion. We are not naming a workaround for it.
identify professional associations affiliated with a particular career pathway
No JobCannon surface addresses this criterion. We are not naming a workaround for it.
define entrepreneurship and identify entrepreneurial opportunities within a field of personal interest
No JobCannon surface addresses this criterion. We are not naming a workaround for it.
127.2(4)Develops skills for personal success
demonstrate effective time-management and goal-setting strategies
No JobCannon surface addresses this criterion. We are not naming a workaround for it.
identify skills that can be transferable among a variety of careers
/assessments/skills-audit, optionally read against the required-skills field on a career page
Skills Audit result across Technical Skills / Tools & Platforms / Soft Skills
The Skills Audit rates a student on four self-declared categories — Technical Skills, Tools & Platforms, Soft Skills, Domain Expertise. It makes no transferability statement of its own; reading one career's required skills against another's is the teacher's half. Required skills are published on 2,319 of the 2,527 careers that carry a curated file.
give oral professional presentations on a topic related to career and college exploration using appropriate technology
No JobCannon surface addresses this criterion. We are not naming a workaround for it.
apply core academic skills to meet personal, academic, and career goals
No JobCannon surface addresses this criterion. We are not naming a workaround for it.
explain the value of community service and volunteerism
No JobCannon surface addresses this criterion. We are not naming a workaround for it.
define and identify examples in the workplace of characteristics required for personal and professional success such as work ethic, integrity, dedication, and perseverance
/assessments/work-ethics
Work Ethics & Reliability profile scored across four separately reported facets
The result reports where a student places themselves on four work-ethic facets. It produces no definitions and no workplace examples, which is the whole of what this criterion asks for — that half is classroom work.
127.2(5)Labor market information and impact of college/career choices on lifestyle
analyze labor market trends related to a career of interest
No JobCannon surface addresses this criterion. We are not naming a workaround for it.
classify evidence of high-skill, high-wage, or high-demand occupations based on analysis of labor market information
No JobCannon surface addresses this criterion. We are not naming a workaround for it.
analyze the effects of changing employment trends, societal needs, and economic conditions on career choices
No JobCannon surface addresses this criterion. We are not naming a workaround for it.
prepare a personal budget reflecting the student's desired lifestyle
No JobCannon surface addresses this criterion. We are not naming a workaround for it.
use resources to compare salaries of at least three careers in the student's interest area
/careers/search — the median-wage chip on every result card
BLS OEWS median-wage chip per career
Three careers can be compared side by side in one list with no teacher input. Four limits a reviewer will find: wage figures cover 2,715 of 2,749 careers, and the other 34 show an estimated range labelled as such rather than a federal figure; 113 careers borrow their broader occupational group's median and say so on the card; every figure is a national annual median, so there is no state or metro comparison; and the figures are BLS OEWS, republished, not ours.
127.2(6)Job-seeking skills
identify the steps of an effective job search
No JobCannon surface addresses this criterion. We are not naming a workaround for it.
describe appropriate appearance for an interview
No JobCannon surface addresses this criterion. We are not naming a workaround for it.
participate in a mock interview
No JobCannon surface addresses this criterion. We are not naming a workaround for it.
127.2(7)Creates professional documents required for employment
write a resume
No JobCannon surface addresses this criterion. We are not naming a workaround for it.
write appropriate business correspondence such as a cover letter and a thank you letter
No JobCannon surface addresses this criterion. We are not naming a workaround for it.
complete sample job applications
No JobCannon surface addresses this criterion. We are not naming a workaround for it.
explain protocol for selecting and using references
No JobCannon surface addresses this criterion. We are not naming a workaround for it.
127.2(8)Creates an individual career and academic plan
select a career pathway in a desired field, such as military service, entrepreneurship, or industry
No JobCannon surface addresses this criterion. We are not naming a workaround for it.
document high school courses and postsecondary educational requirements for that career pathway
No JobCannon surface addresses this criterion. We are not naming a workaround for it.
write a plan for starting one's career after the completion of high school and any postsecondary education
No JobCannon surface addresses this criterion. We are not naming a workaround for it.
How to read the crosswalk above
Three states, kept honest and kept separate.
Named instruments behind the 6 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 Texas'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: California, Utah, Illinois and Colorado.
A career-standards document is not the same thing as a plan-completion mandate — for whether Texas 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 people 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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Growth
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Education Licence — priced per student, per year
One rate per enrolled student for the academic year, sized for Texas 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
Per head this is more than our monthly hiring plans, and deliberately so — it is a different licence, not a bigger size of the same one. Those plans meter individual candidates for hiring and coaching. This covers your enrolled roll for the academic year with assessments uncapped, retakes included, the career and skills corpus licensed with it and the cohort dashboard in the price. Which one is yours is decided by use, not by whichever number is smaller.
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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Texas does not compel a universal middle-grades career plan. Texas has no universal middle-grades career-plan mandate. TEC §28.0212 requires a personal graduation plan for a junior-high or middle-school student, but only when that student is not performing satisfactorily on a state assessment or is at risk of not graduating within five years of entering grade 9 — conditional, not universal. The 'individual career and academic plan' that appears as criterion (8) below is a requirement inside this elective course, not a statewide duty touching every 7th and 8th grader.
Chapter 127. Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for Career Development and Career and Technical Education — Subchapter A. Middle School, §127.2. Career and College Exploration, published by Texas Education Agency / State Board of Education (19 TAC Chapter 127), grades 7-8. 7-8 — the course is 'recommended for students in Grades 7 and 8'; grade 6 is not covered by this document. Publisher's landing page: https://tea.texas.gov/laws-and-rules/texas-administrative-code/19-tac-chapter-127 One course section, numbered and lettered: §127.2(standard 1-8)(letter A-I). The official citation form is 19 TAC §127.2(n)(letter). All 8 knowledge-and-skills standards and every lettered sub-point are listed below — 36 of 36.
It means the platform itself produces the artefact the criterion asks for, with nothing a teacher has to add. 2 criteria of the 36 are closed this way: §127.2(1)(C) and §127.2(5)(E). 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: §127.2(1)(A), §127.2(1)(B), §127.2(4)(B) and §127.2(4)(F). 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 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 6 we do claim: same row format, same visual weight, a stated "not claimed" rather than an absence.
Texas's own codes, in Texas's own citation form. A row shown as §127.2(3)(B) is citable back to the State Board of Education rule exactly as printed here.
Footer: 'August 2023 Update'. The section states that its provisions shall be implemented by districts beginning with the 2023-2024 school year, adopted effective 1 August 2023 (48 TexReg 2941). One version, and the two independent retrievals of it agreed on structure. 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.
Request the full crosswalk and a pilot
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.