of students feel lost when it comes to their career path
states require career readiness measurement, with no consistent standard
higher graduation rates when schools adopt career-focused programs
Most career readiness platforms help students explore options. Orchard helps them build a plan, take action, and gives you the data to prove it worked.
Scale Guidance Without Scaling Headcount: Support every student without increasing counselor workload.
Turn Exploration Into Action: Students don't just take a career interest quiz and call it done. Orchard guides them through building a documented, step-by-step action plan aligned to their grade level, goals, and school pathways.
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 with a single counselor, a pilot grade, or roll out district-wide. Orchard adapts to how your schools already work and scales as you grow.
Think of it like a credit score for career readiness. Dynamic, grade-adjusted, and tied to a specific roadmap every student can act on.
Every student starts with a Growth Assessment that establishes their grade-adjusted baseline, benchmarked against peers at the same level. From there, Orchard generates a personalized roadmap of milestones. As students hit milestones, their score updates to reflect real growth.
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.
Students search colleges that align with their career plans that helps students move from career exploration to clear, actionable next steps towards their post-secondary education.
Orchard's College Search helps 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 career plans with post-secondary education pathways,
Encourage students to take ownership of their career planning earlier and more confidently
Orchard’s action plans help students turn career ideas into reality through conversations with counselors, teachers, and parents. With clear next steps, schools gain tools to streamline advising, align with IGPs or postsecondary goals, and track student progress.
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.
"Orchard brings the world of possibilities into every classroom by helping students explore career possibilities in real time and helping educators connect any subject to the world beyond school. It's a powerful tool for making learning future-focused!"
"Orchard is in the rare ten percent of EdTech that can actually prove it moved a student. HierLearning is singularly focused on solutions that move the needle on student outcomes, and Orchard is that solution for career readiness."
The Career Readiness Index (CRI) is Orchard's dynamic career readiness score — built across 8 dimensions of student preparedness and updated over time as students build skills and complete milestones. It's the first grade-adjusted, longitudinal career readiness outcome built for K–12 schools.
Yes. Orchard complies with FERPA, COPPA, and all applicable federal, state, and provincial student data privacy laws. Student data is encrypted at rest (AES-256) and in transit (TLS 1.2+) and is never sold or used for advertising.
Yes. Orchard integrates with ClassLink, Clever, Google, and all major SSO providers your district already uses.
Yes. The CRI is grade-adjusted — a 7th grader is benchmarked against other 7th graders, not against seniors. Starting in middle school gives students and counselors more time to identify gaps before post-secondary decisions become urgent.
