Employability Skills Playbook

What are Indiana's Employability Skills?

Extensive feedback from Indiana educators, families, communities, and employers has consistently shown that there are a number of key characteristics essential to a student’s lifelong success. Together, these characteristics represent the knowledge and skills that all students need in order to be best prepared for life after high school. Whether it’s the ability to respectfully communicate and collaborate with others or the ability to demonstrate perseverance, and professionalism, competency in these skills helps to prepare students for their next step.

The Indiana Department of Education (IDOE) designed this playbook to support district and school leaders as they help students develop in-demand employability skills that prepare them to meet the ever-changing needs of today’s workforce.

You want to develop students' Employability Skills. What is your next (or first) step?

To find your entry point to this website, which is oriented around the process in the image below, leverage this self-assessment tool. Your results will identify the most relevant pages to explore.

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Set Strategy

Articulate the WHY and listen to your community to inform where you’re going.

Plan to Measure Learning

Determine how you will measure the development of Employability Skills.

Create Conditions for Success

Forge community partnerships, build capacity, curate resources, and align policy.

Develop Employability Skills

Create relevant, high-quality experiences for students to practice and demonstrate Employability Skills.

Indiana Employability Skills Video

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Learn more about the work in Indiana in this case study.