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.
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Click to complete the form belowFrom 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 →
Turn classroom projects, school businesses, and community jobs into workplace learning. Digitability provides the curriculum and assessment tools to build skills and measure transition progress.
Choose a Project
Build a classroom business, document a job placement, or customize a simulation around your goals.
Students Get Hired
Take on employee roles, manage tasks, and practice workplace communication.
Behavior for Success
Connect behavior and communication to performance, recognition, and earnings while building money skills.
Build a Portfolio
Show employers real work, accomplishments, and skills in a work-ready portfolio.
Connect workplace behavior to financial skills as students earn, save, spend, and pay bills.
Learn More About Bankability (opens in a new tab)Explore real Work Simulation projects from Digitability’s annual school competition—from coffee shops and candle companies to gardens and YouTube channels.
Students share a project, with roles and lesson resources matched to their needs across three tiers.
Example: Workplace behavior exit ticket
Independent
Brainstorm and write original ideas.
Supported
Use checklists and sentence starters.
Modified
Use yes/no cards or Trace ’n’ Learn.
You don’t have to build it alone.
Your Implementation Coach helps connect existing projects to curriculum and progress monitoring—or launch something new—with support all year.
Learn More About Teacher Support →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.
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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Get a Free QuoteSee what this could look like in your classroom.
Explore the 10-page Ohio alignment and program overview packet to see how Digitability connects career exploration, workplace readiness, financial literacy, and individualized support.
- Ohio alignment + program overview
Connect Ohio’s Career Connections Framework to meaningful workplace practice. - Bankability + flexible implementation
Explore financial literacy, the four levels, differentiated resources, and teacher coaching. - Progress reporting + purchasing options
Explore data-driven outcomes and ways to bring Digitability and Bankability to your classrooms.
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Tell us about your students and goals. We’ll help you identify an implementation pathway and pricing for your program.
- A personalized scope for your classroom
- Differentiated roles and instructional supports
- Implementation coaching for your team