Why Discovery Education for career-connected learning?
Career readiness that fits your lesson plans and supports your district’s Portrait of a Graduate framework.
Career exploration works best when it is part of daily instruction, not an add-on. Discovery Education’s Experience puts it there.
Designed for easy integration
Career exposure and exploration available where teachers already go for high-quality instruction. No extra platform, no extra prep.
Relevance for every grade and subject
Age-appropriate careers content organized around career awareness, exploration, and readiness, so every student has a starting point on their path to a career-ready graduate.
Inspiration from real professionals, real pathways
Students see and hear from vetted experts in fields like STEM, biotech, media, and manufacturing about what their work looks like day to day.
Career-connected learning in Experience
Everything students need to explore careers in elementary, middle and high school, all in one place.
Experience brings career awareness, live access to real professionals, and self-guided exploration together so every student can go from curious to informed to ready.
Fit career learning into daily instruction
With Experience’s Careers Hub, multimedia resources are organized by grade band and career clusters, so teachers can connect a lesson to a real career with ready-to-use digital and offline activities.
Ignite curiosity with real professionals
With Career Connect, pre-screened professionals join classrooms via live virtual visits for conversations that tie what students are learning to real-world careers and the skills they require.
See a path from interests to a career
With age-appropriate pathway tools such as Career Finder, students match what they enjoy to careers and see what it takes to get there, so exploration turns into direction.
Get inspired with Career Connect
Where students meet the people behind their future careers
As part of Experience, Career Connect is a platform that brings pre-screened professionals into classrooms through live virtual visits tied to instruction, so students see what a job looks like and which skills it takes.
Professional volunteers from trusted industry partners including Lockheed Martin, Genentech, and Illumina, dedicate their time and expertise to show students real career pathways across diverse fields and roles.
“In a world where future careers are changing almost by the minute it seems, with the evolution of AI and other technologies, I think it’s important to expose students to the real world and how their skills can transfer into the real world.”
“My experience with Career Connect has been such an amazing & positive one! It has given me the platform to inspire kiddos and inform them about opportunities that they have to look forward to in adulthood! It brings so much joy to my day when I get to interact with all the kiddos.”
Proven With Districts and States
How school systems are putting career-connected learning to work with Discovery Education.
Butte, Montana Public Schools
Learn how Career Connect fits inside the curriculum and connects students to professionals from science to entertainment industries, so students see how what they learn leads to real careers, starting in elementary school.
Barbers Hill ISD, Texas
Hear how teachers match professionals to units they’re teaching, from conservation to financial literacy, to supporting the district’s goal of 100% college, career, and military readiness.
Muscogee County SD, Georgia
Learn how a teacher, with hundreds of professionals to choose from, introduces career paths students might never have seen into her classroom.
Teachers can start for free today
Ready to bring more career-connected learning to your classrooms? Discovery’s partnership with STEM Careers Coalition offers free career resources for K-12 organized by grade bands.
Career-connected learning at scale
“There is something really powerful about seeing that spark of curiosity when students connect what they are learning in school to the work people are doing in the real world.”
Powered with World-Class Partners
Long-standing relationships that bring real industry into the classroom.
In partnership with the world’s leading companies who share our commitment to helping educators bridge classroom learning to workforce-readiness.
STEM Careers Coalition: free workforce-readiness resources for every classroom. Learn more ›
Illumina, DNA Decoded: hands-on genomics learning. Learn more ›
Genentech, FutureLab+: biotech careers made real for students. Learn more ›
Lockheed Martin, Generation Beyond: STEM pathways in aerospace and beyond. Learn more ›
