Serving the demands of 21st-century markets
Learn to Start Market-Ready™ Certifications are accredited and trusted by industry and have been engineered over a decade of learning, iterating, and executing, ensuring students are prepared with the employability and entrepreneurial skills necessary to enter and add value to current and emerging industries, despite the unpredictable and ever-changing job market.
TWO STACKABLE MARKET-READY CREDENTIALS
Standard of proof for 20 highly demanded employability skills.
The Learn to Start Market-Ready™ Certification system develops students capable of applying industry’s mostly sought after skills in critical thinking, creativity, collaboration, leadership, and entrepreneurship.
Market-Ready Certification 1: Competitive Entry Level Employability
Critical Thinking Skills
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COMPREHENSIONThe learner is able to clearly understand and process the information they are consuming.
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LEARNING AGILITYThe learner develops sustainable habits and takes advantage of opportunities to obtain knowledge and grow their skill base.
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RESEARCH LITERACYThe learner can discern between reliable and unreliable sources and consults and corroborates with a variety of sources when determining answers and taking actions.
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DATA ANALYSISThe learner competently gathers relevant data and applies it to solution creation.
Creativity Skills
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ADAPTABILITYThe learner embraces both failure and change as they approach their work and collaborates effectively with others.
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INNOVATIONThe learner recognizes and deploys the power of creative thinking as they seek alternative solutions.
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SELF-DISCIPLINEThe learner is in control of their work habits and holds themself personally accountable for their actions and results as they lead themselves first.
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RISK-TAKINGThe learner takes advantage of opportunities despite the possibility of failure.
Collaboration Skills
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PROJECT MANAGEMENTThe learner exercises leadership skills to construct and execute according to a timeline of actions to create a solution.
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COMMUNICATION ACROSS MEDIUMSThe learner expresses themself and their ideas in the context of specific mediums.
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INFLUENCE & COLLABORATIONThe learner commands their own expertise and collaboratively works with others to achieve goals.
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DIGITAL ETIQUETTEThe learner understands appropriate behavior when engaging with digital mediums.
Market-Ready Certification 2: Competitive Project Management Employability/Self-Employment
Leadership Skills
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STRUCTURED PROBLEM SOLVINGThe learner utilizes the process of iterative solution creation.
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PUBLIC SPEAKINGThe learner demonstrates their believability, credibility, and charisma to an audience.
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PROACTIVITYThe learner is prone to action and leadership rather than reaction as they move to achieve their goals.
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PROJECT MANAGEMENTThe learner exercises leadership skills to construct and execute according to a timeline of actions to create a solution.
Enterprise Skills
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DIGITAL LITERACYThe learner efficiently uses technology to search and evaluate data, and communicate value and execute on solutions.
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CONFLICT MANAGEMENTThe learner recognizes the importance of feedback and directly communicates with peers, team members, and mentors to resolve issues.
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FINANCIAL LITERACYThe learner makes evidence-based decisions concerning their personal and professional finances.
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MODELINGThe learner creates processes for thinking and understanding solutions.
Learn to Start Micro-Credentials
Learn to Start students gain access to micro-credential courses in Financial Literacy, Planet Responsibility, and Project Management and Leadership as part of their process to Market-Ready™ Certification. Each course is task-based, creating real outcomes and content that students use to communicate their value in their portfolios.
Financial Literacy
Students research every financial decision they will make from the time they become an adult to the time they retire.
Planet Responsiblity
Students identify a UN Sustainability Goal and identify the problem at a local or community level and create and execute their solution.
Project Management & Leadership
Students create project timelines, create collaborative teams, create sprint infrastructure, and performance evaluation measurement systems. Students also develop habits for leading themselves first and developing themselves as an expert in their respective fields.
Three Unique
Learn to Start
Micro-Credentials
Financial Literacy, Planet Responsibility, and Project Management and Leadership
Learn to Start students gain access to micro-credential courses in Financial Literacy, Planet Responsibility, and Project Management and Leadership as part of their process to Market-Ready™ Certification. Each course is task-based, creating real outcomes and content that students use to communicate their value in their portfolios.
Financial Literacy
Students research every financial decision they will make from the time they become an adult to the time they retire.
Planet Responsiblity
Students identify a UN Sustainability Goal and identify the problem at a local or community level and create and execute their solution.
Project Management & Leadership
Students create project timelines, create collaborative teams, create sprint infrastructure, and performance evaluation measurement systems. Students also develop habits for leading themselves first and developing themselves as an expert in their respective fields.
Solving for a Global Problem
Impact of the Worldwide Skills Gap
Source: Instride.com
The job market’s top 10 most demanded skills in 2023 according to WEF 2023 Future of Jobs report
Learn to Start has been developed inside a decade of research and practice to provide education a solution that develops market-ready students, despite the changing and unpredictable markets.
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Analytical thinking
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Creative thinking
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Resilience, flexibility, and agility
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Motivation and self-awareness
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Curiosity and lifelong learning
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Technological literacy
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Dependability and attention to detail
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Empathy and active listening
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Leadership and social influence
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Quality control
Developing Future-Proofed Students
According to Adobe's In Demand Skills 2022 Report: How to grow skills and get hired
Diversify your knowledge
Learn to Start builds a diversity of essential skills in students to ensure they are highly marketable, adaptable and prepared to function in unpredictable markets with a high level of agency.
Expand your human skills
Learn to Start allows students to identify their strengths and weaknesses and become intrinsically motivated to build portfolios that prove they have mastered both the soft and hard skills that are aligned with their passions, interests and capabilities.
Prepare while getting an education
Learn to Start has been invented to integrate directly into the current system of traditional K-20 education to ensure every student we serve is becoming aligned with 21st-century markets from day one. We call this K-Market™.
Ready your portfolio
Learn to Start students build powerful proof-of-self inside their sharable digital portfolio.
ATTAINING MARKET-READY CERTIFICATION
Learn to Start students are empowered to bring their issued certificates to the markets where they can claim real market-readiness with confidence. To attain certification a student must…
Be enrolled in a secondary or post-secondary institution offering Learn to Start programming.
Be subscribed on the Learn to Start Learner Platform.
For secondary, participate in a minimum of two years of Learn to Start Programming per certificate. For post-secondary, a minimum of one year of Learn to Start Programming per certificate.
Complete proof of work for all skills (with instructor sign-off) prior to submitting a completed, comprehensive Learn to Start Market-Ready Portfolio.
