Kuder

09/17/2026

🎓 September is Workforce Development Month, a time to recognize the educators, counselors, employers, and partners strengthening career pathways.

Workforce development is built on partnerships. When educators and employers work together intentionally, not just at events, but year-round, students discover real career opportunities. Employers build talent pipelines. Communities thrive.

Check out proven strategies that turn career connections into lasting partnerships. 🔗

Learn five proven strategies for building lasting work-based learning partnerships between schools and employers. Create sustainable career pathways and strengthen student outcomes.

09/14/2026

🎓 Every student deserves meaningful career exploration aligned to their interests.

Work-based learning opens doors. Districts are strengthening their WBL programs to ensure all students access meaningful experiences across grade levels and pathways.

The opportunity: Design a comprehensive WBL continuum from early awareness through career training. Establish clear frameworks. Define stakeholder roles. Set measurable goals.

We've compiled the structure districts are using to build and scale WBL programs.

✅ Four-stage WBL continuum with actionable activities for every grade level
✅ SMART goal framework and implementation checklists for your district
✅ Strategies for rural, resource-constrained, and diverse communities

🔗 Access the free Work-Based Learning Playbook: https://hubs.la/Q04x8Phn0

09/01/2026

Here's what ready looks like.

Students know what career they want. Now they need to know: How do I actually get there?

Navigator's Job Preparation tools give them exactly that:

✅ Build: Resume, cover letter, portfolio, reference sheet
✅ Prepare: Interview examples, sample applications, practice scenarios
✅ Find: Job openings, employer research, real opportunities

They're not just filling out forms. They're building actual materials, practicing real conversations, and discovering real jobs.

By the time they hit submit on an application, they're not guessing. They're ready.

Ready to learn more? 🔗 https://hubs.la/Q04w3JVH0

08/27/2026

💡 Schools host career fairs. But the real opportunity starts after students leave the booth: turning those employer connections into next-step experiences.

Career fairs become powerful when you build them around intentionality. Melissa Winter, Partner Relationship Manager at Kuder, shares five concrete strategies to make that happen: defining clear outcomes upfront, recruiting employers strategically, preparing students in advance, designing active exploration, and connecting the event to deeper work-based learning.

Each one changes how you think about the career fair as a system, not just an event. 💡

🔗 Read the full article here: https://hubs.la/Q04v0nlR0

08/24/2026

Bridge the gap between classroom and careers at scale.

Work-based learning transforms student outcomes. But managing it across multiple schools, employer partners, and district priorities? That's where most programs stall out.

The truth: Scaling WBL doesn't mean sacrificing local relevance. Districts balance system-wide consistency with school-level flexibility. They align employer partnerships, track student progress in real time, and build sustainable programs that grow.

Access now to see the framework, SMART goals, and playbook checklists that district leaders are using to scale WBL districtwide.

Download our free Work-Based Learning Playbook here: https://hubs.la/Q04tghKy0

08/20/2026

Career fairs are great. But what comes next? 👇

That's where the real magic happens. Kuder's Jessica Horsley spent years figuring out how to turn one-off events into sustained partnerships between schools and employers.

The result? Five proven strategies that helped create MPACT—a specialized high school where 4,000+ students have launched their careers. 🎯

From creating multiple touchpoints to defining success early to genuine follow-up, this is the framework that works.

Read the full article: https://hubs.la/Q04tddN50

08/18/2026

Find the students who need you, in seconds.

Navigator lets you build a student group from any report you run. Pull the Education Plan report, see who hasn't started, select those students, and save them as a group. That group then works across every other report in the system.

You can build them however you need. Students who share a career interest. A counselor's caseload by last name. An advisory period. A grade level across the whole district.
Once the group exists, it stays. Check it next week, next month, or next semester without rebuilding the list.

See it in action 👉 https://hubs.la/Q04sQq-40

08/12/2026

Employees leave when they can't see a future in your organization.

Skills alignment changes that. When people can see exactly which skills they have, which ones matter for the roles they aspire to, and what a realistic path looks like, career growth shifts from guesswork to strategy. 📈

That's when retention changes.

The best talent in your organization isn't necessarily the people you're recruiting externally. It's often the people already doing the work who simply don't see where they can go next. Skills Alignment shows them. And when they see it, they stay.

Your top people deserve to know their path forward exists. Explore more here 👉 https://hubs.la/Q04r-85j0

08/06/2026

What if every student had a complete four-year education plan and could see it all at once?

That's what Navigator's Education Plans does.

Not a single-year snapshot. Not a form students fill out and forget about. A running record of their thinking across all four years, where every course selection builds purposefully toward their direction.

Counselors can see exactly who's drafted a plan, who's refining it, who's locked it in. Students see their progress. More importantly, they see where their choices are leading them. Early direction changes everything.

This is how you turn course selection from a checkbox into a career-building conversation.

Learn more about Navigator's Education Plan feature: https://hubs.la/Q04rZbL80

08/04/2026

Your students take assessments. But the real opportunity starts after the results come back: turning those insights into guidance that shapes their direction.

Assessment data becomes powerful when you build it into your practice. Paige McDonough, Senior Director of Career Development at Kuder, gives five concrete strategies to make that happen: using assessment insights to guide student conversations, personalizing career exploration, informing pathway recommendations, supporting teacher integration, and tracking progress over time.

Each one changes how you think about assessment as a tool, not just a checkpoint.

Read the full article here: https://hubs.la/Q04rKNQh0