Most career readiness tools only help students explore options. Orchard helps them build a plan and take action.

• Scale Career Guidance: Support every student without increasing counselor workload.

• Turn Exploration Into Action: Students create real career plans, not just survey results.

• Increase Student Engagement: Interactive tools help students explore careers aligned with their interests.

• Support Counselors and Teachers: Teachers can easily incorporate career exploration into classroom lessons.

Start small or roll out district-wide. Orchard adapts to how your schools already work.

Orchard’s plug-and-play curriculum and onboarding make introducing career readiness simple for any school or district. A teacher-led lesson introduces students to Orchie, their AI career companion, sparking exploration with guided prompts and engages students from day one, minimizing educator prep time.

• Ready-to-Use Lesson Plans: Comprehensive, standards-aligned curriculum to guide teachers through career exploration lessons.

• Effortless Student Onboarding: Simple login process gets students started with Orchard in minutes.

• Guided Career Prompts: Structured questions spark meaningful exploration of students’ career interests.

Students explore careers independently with AI-guided tools, building awareness at their own pace.

• Scalable Exploration Tool: A dynamic platform that adapts to students’ growth, supporting career discovery from middle school to graduation.

• Actionable Engagement Data: Real-time insights into student usage and interest areas, empowering counselors to tailor guidance.

• Flexible Classroom Integration: Teachers can assign follow-up activities or reflection tasks to deepen career conversations.

Action Plans are a personalized career planning feature within Orchard that helps students move from career exploration to clear, actionable next steps. It gives students structure and guidance while remaining flexible as interests and goals evolve.

Orchard's Action Plans help schools:

• Deliver individualized planning at scale, so students don’t all get the same generic checklist

• Support ongoing conversations between students and counselors with real, documented steps

• Align student plans with school pathways and course offerings to make classroom decisions more purposeful

• Encourage students to take ownership of their career planning earlier and more confidently

• Structured Student Summaries: Clear overviews of each student’s top career picks, goals, and reflections.

• Shareable Plans: Downloadable formats to enhance advising sessions and parent meetings.

• Unified Planning Framework: Consistent tools to guide IGPs, course selection, and postsecondary planning.