Level All’s Pennsylvania Individualized Career Plan Tool: Simple, Comprehensive, and Free

November 10, 2026

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2 min

Pennsylvania has required career education for every student since 2006, when the State Board of Education made the Career Education and Work (CEW) standards part of 22 Pa. Code Chapter 4. Today, that requirement shows up on every school’s Future Ready PA Index through the Career Standards Benchmark. The expectations are clear. Meeting them for every student, every year, is the hard part.

What Pennsylvania Actually Requires

Four CEW strands. Career awareness and preparation, career acquisition, career retention and advancement, and entrepreneurship. Every strand must be addressed at least once in each grade band’s evidence.
Grade 5 benchmark. Six pieces of evidence of career exploration across grades K through 5.
Grade 8 benchmark. Six more pieces of evidence across grades 6 through 8, and one of them must be the student’s individualized career plan.
Grade 11 benchmark. Eight more pieces of evidence across grades 9 through 11, collected in a career portfolio, with at least two showing the student is putting their career plan into action.
Student-level reporting. Schools report benchmark data for grades 5, 8, and 11 to the state through PIMS.

The individualized career plan is not optional. PDE guidance says that if a student did not complete one in grades 6 through 8, it should be completed and counted in grades 9 through 11.

How Level All Makes It Manageable

A guided career plan. Students build their individualized career plan step by step, exploring interests, careers, and pathways instead of filling in a blank form.
A portfolio that builds itself. Every activity a student completes is saved as evidence, organized across all four CEW strands and every grade band.
A plan that follows the student. Work from grade 6 is still there in grade 11, so students can show how they put their plan into action.
A real-time counselor dashboard. Counselors see who has met each benchmark, who is close, and who needs a conversation, well before PIMS reporting.
Ready-made lesson plans. Teachers get classroom-ready lessons aligned to the CEW standards, so evidence collection fits into the school day.

Chasing artifacts in shared drives and paper folders every spring is not a system. When every piece of evidence lives in one place, the benchmark stops being a scramble.

Free and Ready When You Are

Level All is free for Pennsylvania schools, students, and families. Reach out at pennsylvania@levelall.com to see it in action.