Schools & colleges
Use a practical project alongside an existing advisory, transition, or career-readiness program. Your team selects appropriate activities, permissions, accommodations, and review time.
A clear plan for your first group.
Review the program, agree who will deliver it, and decide what useful evidence would justify the next step. These materials help your team plan a small supported pilot.
Planning materials · 2026-10-02 · Blank templates and clearly labeled examples
Practical work, with a route to follow.
- Guided program
- 8 weeks · 36 lessons · 8 projects
- Wider library
- 304 courses · 1815 lessons
- Learner cost
- Always free
- Weekly learner time
- About 2.5–4.5 hours per week, depending on the week
The main course library, accounts and eight-week route are for ages 14+, with no upper age limit. Academy K–12 rooms offer guest practice with appropriate adult guidance. Learners practice with worked examples, check their understanding, build useful projects, and choose a next action. A 45-minute host session can support this work; it does not replace the full weekly learning time.
Workforce & community teams
Add money, career, and digital practice to your existing services. Your team retains eligibility decisions, case records, human support, and verified external outcomes.
Employers & sponsors
Help a host shape a fictional workplace task, offer feedback through its established procedures, or support delivery costs. Participation does not promise a job or access to learner records.
Inspect the curriculum · Preview the learner workspace · Review workforce alignment and boundaries
Choose the right part of the platform.
13 Academy grade rooms · 444 units · 1776 practice lessons · 10 Life Kits. Choose one useful activity before committing to a longer sequence.
Course Library
Ages 14+; check each course's starting requirements.
Produce: A checked work sample and, optionally, a My Proof project record.
Keep work: Guest lesson progress stays in this browser. Accounts save progress and project records; original files stay in the learner's own app.
Host role: Choose an appropriate course, allow realistic time, and arrange feedback.
LifeStarter Academy
K–12 practice with adult guidance where appropriate; placement is a host decision.
Produce: Worked responses, explanations, unit reviews and a personal study plan.
Keep work: Academy work is guest practice; it does not create a school gradebook or account transcript. Keep original work in your notebook or own app.
Host role: Review suitability, provide access alternatives, and explain that grade-room labels are not placement tests.
Life Kits
People planning a practical transition, with age-appropriate host support.
Produce: A realistic next-step checklist and cost plan.
Keep work: Changes on a kit page last while that page stays open. Download your current checklist or budget to keep them in your own app.
Host role: Check local costs, rules and referral details; avoid collecting sensitive personal documents.
Tools & Downloads
Learners checking a calculation or working with a worksheet.
Produce: A checked calculation or completed worksheet with assumptions.
Keep work: Calculator inputs are not automatically a saved project. Downloaded files stay in your own app; interactive website tools require access to the site.
Host role: Use the supplied methodology and distinguish a scenario from professional advice.
ProofPath starting plan
Ages 14+ choosing a useful first activity.
Produce: A selected route and a learner-chosen next action.
Keep work: The plan is shown before signup; choose Save, follow the sign-in/signup route, then review and explicitly choose Save after authentication to keep it with the account. It is a rules-based recommendation, not a diagnosis or eligibility decision.
Host role: Let the learner choose; observe the complete plan-to-activity journey on intended devices.
Eight-week program
Ages 14+ wanting a guided money, career and digital sequence.
Produce: 36 guided lesson checks, eight project records and a next-step plan.
Keep work: An account saves program records. Original work remains in the learner's own app. Staff roles apply to one configured open-program cohort.
Host role: Plan independent work as well as host sessions, feedback capacity, permissions and support.
Workforce Foundations
Workforce and community teams using selected preparation activities.
Produce: A useful work sample and a specific action to investigate.
Keep work: Host eligibility, case and service records stay in the host's approved system. A click or self-report does not verify an external outcome.
Host role: Confirm referrals, local eligibility and service availability; retain responsibility for case support.
Bring a plan your team can review.
Program profile Current scope, inventory, delivery and evidence boundaries.Pilot planning worksheet Fill in the group, roles, milestones and start decision.Evaluation protocol Questions, sources, comparison rules and reporting limits.Changed-case practice Two original fictional cases; attempt these before opening the reasoning key.Reasoning key and observation guide Acceptable alternatives, proposed criteria and missing-response rules.Reviewer calibration Fictional samples and worked criterion-level judgements.Worked host session A fictional 45-minute delivery example with feedback and access alternatives.Access readiness checklist Record actual device, accessibility, saving and support checks.Pilot budget worksheet Enter quantities, rates, who pays and the agreed price basis.
The ZIP also includes the existing host checklist, measurement worksheet, career activity brief, conversation notes and project feedback sheet. Complete the files in your own approved system; downloading them does not enroll a group or create an agreement.
From planning to a useful decision.
This is an illustrative schedule for the eight-week route. Agree dates, owners and capacity with your host before recruitment.
Before recruitment
Choose the group and project with learners or representatives. Name the host, support contact and reviewer; agree dates, costs, permissions, access needs and success criteria.
Keep a record of: A completed pilot plan and approved delivery responsibilities.
Before the first session
Test the intended devices and account journey, role permissions, support route and agreed accommodations. Resolve failures before inviting the group.
Keep a record of: Recorded readiness checks and a decision to start or delay.
Week 1
Explain participation and data use, record the starting check before instruction, and let learners choose a practical goal. Keep their first work sample when permission allows.
Keep a record of: Cohort definition, baseline coverage, agreed goal and initial sample.
Weeks 2–4
Follow the chosen lessons and projects. Record support time and feedback, then ask what helped and what got in the way. Adjust delivery without silently changing the measures.
Keep a record of: Attendance, submitted and reviewed work, access issues and a dated change log.
Weeks 5–8
Review revisions using the same criteria. Complete the final check and a learner-chosen next action. Record assistance and missing responses.
Keep a record of: Matched checks, reviewed revisions, learner feedback and a next-step plan.
After the pilot
Compare the agreed measures, delivery effort and costs. Decide whether to continue, revise or stop. Arrange optional follow-up and carry out the agreed retention plan.
Keep a record of: A dated aggregate summary with limitations and named next actions.
Evaluate what learners can do.
Agree a few questions and measures before starting. The current curriculum and software can be inspected; no independently established learning, employment or earnings improvement is claimed. Technical testing is separate from an educational effectiveness study.
Can learners understand and use the recommended next step?
Ask the learner to explain the recommendation and choose an activity. Record whether they proceed independently, with help, or cannot continue, plus the reason.
Evidence: A consented observation and learner feedback; a page visit alone is insufficient.
Does feedback help learners improve a useful project?
Review the first sample and revision using the same project criteria. Record criterion-level judgments, reviewer, rubric version and assistance. Have a second reviewer check a pre-agreed sample where capacity allows.
Evidence: Permitted work samples and review notes; distinguish self-review from staff review.
What changes between the starting and final checks?
Match starting and final forms A/B using host-managed participant codes and the shared instrument version. Report paired scores, lesson-check attempts, group size and missing checks separately.
Evidence: Authorized check records; a small uncontrolled pilot describes change, not a proven treatment effect.
The final program check unlocks after the guided lessons and eight submitted projects. Report enrolled, starting-check, final-check and paired counts, plus missing results. Paired results describe available completers; do not treat missing final checks as zero.
See a fictional reporting example
Of 10 enrolled learners, 8 submit the agreed project and 6 receive a staff review. Report 8/10 (80%) submitted and 6/10 (60%) reviewed. Among submitted projects, 6/8 (75%) were reviewed. Submission, review and quality are different measures.
These invented numbers demonstrate reporting only. They are not LifeStarter results. The downloadable protocol also illustrates paired-score change and missing-data reporting.
The protocol is a proposed feasibility method. Learner feedback, project revisions and delivery effort can guide improvements; an uncontrolled small pilot does not establish that LifeStarter caused an improvement.
How the program improvesKeep access free. Cost delivery clearly.
The learning platform is free to learners. Your host still needs to plan staff time, feedback, access support, devices and evaluation. Optional LifeStarter implementation services require an agreed scope, availability and a written quote.
The budget CSV has blank quantities and rates, with learner platform access set to $0. Calculate each line as quantity × rate; total cash and in-kind support separately. Label planned versus actual costs and name the participant denominator for any unit cost. No service price or funding award is implied.
Agree access and responsibilities before launch.
- Who is responsible for learner support, safeguarding, privacy requests and incident escalation? Agree actual contacts and response arrangements; no response-time guarantee is included.
- Which records are needed, who may access them, where are they stored, and when are they deleted? Keep eligibility documents, health or justice records, credentials and confidential employer data outside general learning submissions.
- What permissions, school data terms and accessibility accommodations does your organization require? Review the published privacy and accessibility information and complete your own approval process.
- Will staff tools be used? Confirm roles and the scope of the single configured cohort before access. Administrators and data reviewers can download a private aggregate operational summary for OPEN-PROGRAM. It contains record-coverage counts, not research consent or learning gains. Separate organization workspaces, automated funder reporting and integrations are not included.
- Which procurement, security or accessibility evidence is required before approval? Request and review actual documentation; this kit is not an independent security audit, accessibility certification or compliance attestation.
Privacy and data handling · Accessibility information · Host responsibilities and session guide
The public kit contains methods and blank templates. It does not publish learner data or promise a dataset. Any external research use needs a separately authorized arrangement.