How It Works
Bring Ohio’s Career Connections to Life.
Turn career exploration into meaningful workplace practice. With Digitability, students take on real responsibilities, build workplace and financial skills, and create a portfolio that shows what they can do.
From exploring careers to practicing workplace skills.
Ohio’s Career Connections Framework moves through awareness, exploration, preparation, and participation. Digitability offers opportunities to connect that journey to classroom instruction, student-run businesses, and experiences in the community.
Awareness
Introduce workplace roles and help students recognize their interests and strengths.
Exploration
Explore different jobs and responsibilities through projects that connect learning to work.
Preparation
Practice digital literacy, communication, problem-solving, and workplace behavior.
Participation
Contribute to shared projects and document skills from school-based or community work experiences.
Instructional connections shown above. Explore Ohio’s Career Connections Framework →
Digitability gives educators the structure to create meaningful workplace experiences wherever learning happens—whether starting from scratch, operating a school-based business, completing a work-ready project, or supporting students who are already interning or working in the community.
With a complete curriculum and assessment tools behind each experience, educators can connect classroom instruction and real-world opportunities to measurable transition skill development.
Choose a Project
Start a classroom business, document a real job placement, or design a custom simulation around your program’s goals.
Students Get Hired
Students take on employee roles, manage tasks, practice communication, and apply workplace behavior skills every day.
Behavior for Success
Students learn how workplace behavior and communication impact performance, recognition and earnings, while building financial skills.
Build a Portfolio
Students build a portfolio that shows employers what they can do, how they work, and what they’ve accomplished.
Bankability
Connect workplace behavior
to financial responsibility.
Digitability’s virtual banking and classroom economy component lets students practice earning, saving, spending, and paying bills. As students take on workplace responsibilities, they learn how behavior and communication connect to performance, recognition, and earnings.
Every year, Digitability schools across the country submit their Work Simulation projects — real classrooms doing real work. Coffee shops, candle companies, garden projects, YouTube channels, and more.
No two programs are alike — Digitability’s framework meets you where you are, whether you’re starting from scratch or building on programming you already have.
Food & Hospitality
Think coffee shops, cafes, food trucks, catering — any setting where students practice serving customers and working as a team.
Digital & Tech
YouTube channels, websites, data entry, internet safety campaigns — ideas that put real tech skills to work in a meaningful context.
School-Based Business
Print shops, school stores, supply rooms, copy centers — businesses that can run right inside your building.
Community Work
Already taking students into the community? Use Digitability to document and showcase the real work experience they’re gaining.
Trades & Vocational
Greenhouse projects, candle making, janitorial skills, woodworking — hands-on work that translates directly to trade and vocational pathways.
Creative & Arts
Greeting cards, screen printing, art sales, creative pop-ups — projects where students’ creativity becomes a marketable skill.
Office & Admin
Copy rooms, scheduling, filing, office production — the behind-the-scenes work that every workplace depends on.
Have Your Own Idea?
Tell us what you’re envisioning. Your assigned Digitability Implementation Coach will help you build it — with curriculum, progress monitoring, and a plan behind it.
Students can contribute to the same Work Simulation in different roles, at different skill levels, and with the support that’s right for them. Educators can match responsibilities to each learner while building communication, technology, independence, and workplace readiness together. Three tiers of adaptations and support help teachers create a personalized scope tailored to their classroom’s content preferences, needs, and goals.
From Classroom to Career: DeShaun’s Story
DeShaun entered the Digitability program in 9th grade. Through work simulations — including building a real community garden website — he developed a work-ready portfolio that helped land him a job.
“As we lead our students into a tech-driven future, Digitability moves students closer to their career and life goals.”
— Jane Cordero, M.Ed., Secondary Special Education Coordinator, Hill-Freedman World AcademyReady to bring workplace practice to your Ohio classroom?
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Take a closer look at Digitability before planning your next step. Request a lesson sample and product overview package by email.
- A lesson sample
Explore the instructional approach and student activities. - A product overview package
See how curriculum, Work Simulations, Bankability, and teacher support work together.