Life-Ready Trail Badges allow students to exhibit attributes and skills that will serve them as they leave school. Students can earn close to 40 different trail badges they can showcase in their digital portfolios or print them out and display them.

Employers have long indicated their desire for high school diplomas that better serve as predictors of an applicant’s likelihood of being an effective employee. Traditional metrics, such as GPA, while important, provide limited evidence that students possess the knowledge, skills and character to be successful employees.

Coxsackie-Athens Schools (C-A) is looking to address this gap in skills documentation through Digital Badges, an innovative way to offer students micro-credentials in professional competencies that have been difficult to measure but which are essential to workplace, college and life success. As part of our effort to engage, enable and empower students for successful participation in college and the workforce, C-A has developed a series of college and career readiness Digital Badges.

Below is an example of a challenge students can engage in to earn a TRAIL BADGE.