Volly Skills Record for Students

High schools are being held accountable for career readiness.
Most have no data to show for it.

Volly is a Skills Record for Students and a school-facing dashboard that shows which skills their students are building across CTE programs, cohorts, and grades. Schools get the real-time data they need to demonstrate career readiness outcomes, without adding counselor workload or changing how programs run.

What the data shows
84%
of hiring managers say high school graduates are not ready to enter the workforce U.S. Chamber of Commerce & College Board, 2025
87%
of Gen Z workers feel unprepared, citing unclear paths from school to career Instructure State of Learning & Readiness Report, 2025
39%
of core workplace skills expected to change by 2030 as AI reshapes how we work WEF Future of Jobs Report, 2025

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The problem

Schools are being measured on outcomes
they have no infrastructure to track.

Grades and test scores don't capture career readiness. Transcripts weren't built for it. Schools are being scored on outcomes they have no infrastructure to measure.

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No shared skills language

High schools use Career Clusters for pathways. Colleges use NACE competencies. Employers use their own hiring frameworks. Students fall through every gap because no single system connects what they're actually doing to all three.

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Accountability without evidence

42 states and DC now include college and career readiness indicators in their school accountability systems. But most schools have no real-time data on which skills their students are building across programs, cohorts, and grades. (Urban Institute / ESSA)

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CTE pathways with no feedback loop

CTE programs need to prove outcomes, but the student-level skills data doesn't exist. Work-based learning experiences, internships, and hands-on training go unrecorded in any form that connects to employer frameworks or CTE standards.

42
states and DC include CCR indicators in their school accountability systems under ESSA All4Ed / Urban Institute, 2025
60%
of businesses fired recent graduates hired in 2024; 1 in 6 may stop hiring new grads Intelligent.com Survey, 2024
#1
Employers rank job-specific skills as their top priority. Educators rank those same skills last. Cengage Group Graduate Employability Report, 2025
70%
of high school graduates take at least one CTE course. Only 23% complete a pathway in California. NCES CTE Statistics (participation) · CA Dept of Education, 2024–25 (completion)
How Volly works

Skills data that builds itself, school year after school year.

Students generate the data by doing what they already do. Schools get the aggregate intelligence, mapped to the frameworks that matter for accountability, CTE alignment, and workforce outcomes.

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Students log. Volly translates.

Students describe their activities in plain language. Volly automatically tags real skills from every entry. No counselor time required, no manual data entry, no surveys.

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Skills connected to what matters.

Every entry is translated into skills connected to the career readiness frameworks schools are evaluated on, without asking schools to choose one over the others.

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Volly for Schools shows what's working.

The Volly for Schools dashboard surfaces skills development by program, cohort, and grade. Real evidence for accountability reporting, program decisions, and conversations with funders and employers, updated continuously.

Students log because it works for them. Schools get the data because students show up. Volly gives students an immediate return, a real skills record in 60 seconds, that builds the habit of seeing, naming, and owning their own experience. That habit is exactly the shift in thinking students need to succeed in the world they're entering.

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What schools get

The infrastructure to show what your
students are actually building.

A live skills data layer built from real student activity, not a counselor tool or self-reported survey.

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CTE pathway alignment

See which skills your CTE programs are producing by cohort, program, and grade. Align curriculum to what your state accountability system requires.

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Work-based learning proof

CTE programs document WBL participation. What participation counts don't show is what students built through those placements. Volly captures that from the student's own account of their experience, translated into the durable skills language career readiness frameworks require.

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Accountability evidence

Volly gives you the skills data to demonstrate what your students are building across every program, mapped to the accountability frameworks your state requires.

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Employer partnership evidence

Students' skills records surface the workforce competencies employers and districts care about, giving you a concrete foundation for employer conversations.

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your school or district.

We're working with a select group of early partner schools on Volly for Schools. If your school is working toward CTE accountability or career readiness outcomes, let's talk.

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