SchoolJoy & America Succeeds: Bringing Durable Skills to Life

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While technical skills can open doors to new opportunities, it is the suite of durable skills that drives success across a lifetime. Competencies like communication, collaboration, and critical thinking are the foundations of adaptability and resilience in a rapidly changing world. Yet, teaching and measuring these skills has long been a challenge.

That’s why SchoolJoy and America Succeeds have partnered to help students and workers build these critical competencies. By combining the nation’s leading durable skills framework with a powerful platform for experiential practice, we are making these skills more accessible, measurable, and actionable for all.

Defining What Matters: The Durable Skills Advantage Framework

To build skills effectively, you first need a common language to define them. America Succeeds has created exactly that with its Durable Skills Advantage Framework, the first employer-generated common language for the skills that matter most.

Developed through a rigorous analysis of over 80 million job descriptions and with input from more than 800 educators, workforce professionals, and industry leaders, the framework defines precisely what employers need. It provides a clear, consistent language and outlines four distinct performance levels for each skill, creating an unprecedented roadmap for skill development.

From Framework to Practice: How SchoolJoy Activates Durable Skills

A framework is only as powerful as its application. SchoolJoy’s platform takes the Durable Skills Advantage Framework and transforms it into a dynamic, hands-on learning experience for students.

Through SchoolJoy, learners can:

• Practice in Authentic Contexts: Participate in immersive, scenario-based simulations to practice durable skills in authentic, career-driven contexts. Each simulation is designed to be completed in just 5 to 10 minutes, allowing learners to practice critical interactions in a safe environment, anytime and anywhere.
• Receive Actionable Feedback: At the end of every attempt, students receive detailed analysis and feedback, helping them reflect, improve, and prepare for actual interactions.
• Build and Showcase Their Skills: Students can automatically tag real-world experiences with specific durable skills while building their portfolios and participate in interviews that help them internalize their learning.

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