Tools for action
Tools that give you a real answer, not a brochure.
Each tool takes your context — your role, your stage, your state, your capacity — and returns a tailored read you can put in front of your team. Free to use; nothing you enter leaves your browser.
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District Readiness Assessment
Built from our Perkins-aligned needs-assessment and capacity playbook: 24 items across six domains — leadership & vision, staffing, curriculum & instruction, partnerships, facilities & safety, finance & sustainability. You get one of three honest readings — Ready to Launch,Ready for a Pilot, orCapacity-Building Required — plus a domain-by-domain readout and next moves for your weakest domains.
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Career-Connected Learning Policy Analyzer
Select your state and your goal — credit for work-based learning, universal participation, funding, employer governance — and get your state's policy levers, each classified asdo today under existing authority ·needs board policy · needs state advocacy. Launch set: MI, VA, NC, AZ, OH, IN, MO.
Want the deep-dive version now? A district-specificpolicy review & implementation planis the done-with-you edition of this tool.
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Stakeholder Mapping Tool
Inventory your stakeholders — employers, intermediaries, postsecondary, board, families, workforce boards — place each on an influence × commitment grid, and get back an engagement plan seed: who belongs at governance level, who needs a seeing-is-believing experience, and who's your anchor-institution candidate.
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Role-Based Next Steps Generator
Two inputs — your role (superintendent, principal, CTE director, counselor, teacher, board, community partner) and your stage onthe path — return a 30/90/365-day move list drawn from the course materials and stage exit criteria.
These tools are free to use on this site. They're part of the S4IS membership toolkit — partner facilitators and screening hosts may link here freely but may not redistribute the tools themselves.