Career Exploration for Younger Learners

Up the Ladder is an easy to navigate career education platform that is full of fun for younger learners.

With engaging, colorful graphical design, and innovative text-to-speech capabilities, Up the Ladder is the perfect way to introduce career exploration to your upper elementary and middle school students.

Familiar Gameboard Style Presentation

Badges and Levels to Track Progress

Personalized Avatar and Backpack


Highly Visual with Simplified Language

Integrated Text-to-Speech to assist readers of all levels

Now You Know Where to Start

Beginning career education in elementary and middle school encourages students to translate their interests into high school choices and potential careers. Up the Ladder is fun, informative, inspiring and incredibly easy to use.


Badge Up!

Students earn badges on their way through each phase of their career and job explorations, making the journey fun for them, and easy for you to track their progress.

If They Can See It, They Can Be It

Career planning begins with career dreaming. The career wheel at the center of Up The Ladder allows students to try their luck at discovering and selecting inspiring jobs. With each potential job choice, students can easily find out what it takes to land a career, how much it might pay, what they should do to make it happen.

Nice & Simple

You can be ready to use Up The Ladder in your classrooms and after-school programs with your current internet connections and computers.

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