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Pathsmith™ is the leading durable skills brand powering top-tier products, tools, and services for learners, earners, and employers.

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Pathsmith™

Pathsmith™ is America Succeeds’ durable skills solution for education and the workforce, designed to unlock human potential, opportunity, and economic mobility in the next generation of learners and earners.

Built on our original research, data, and comprehensive employer-informed framework, Pathsmith™ is an ingredient brand that powers products and services such as curriculum, assessment, technical implementation, and professional development.

As leading brands in industry and education power their products and services with Pathsmith™, it has become synonymous with quality, impact, and innovation.

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Pathsmith™ tools are designed to bring clarity, consistency, and real-world data to the development of durable skills. By analyzing 21st-century skills, human essential skills, and social-emotional learning frameworks, America Succeeds identified 10 key durable skills domains. These domains highlight terms most commonly found in over 80 million job postings, proving that durable skills are universally valued across industries, roles, education levels, and regions. Based on these findings, we created three tools to support high-quality, employer-informed content for durable skills development.

Explore the Pathsmith™ Durable Skills Wheel, and the Pathsmith Durable Skills Framework™ (available in two versions); a first-of-its-kind, employer-driven framework that defines durable skills across four performance levels for entry-level talent in each of the 10 skills domains.

Pathsmith™ Durable Skills Wheel

A visual representation of our analysis, showcasing the 10 highly demanded durable skills in the inner ring and 100 common job-posting keywords in the outer ring.

Pathsmith™ Durable Skills Framework Starter Edition

A comprehensive overview of the Pathsmith™ Durable Skills Framework, featuring definitions for each of the skills covered and a summary of each rubric skill domain at the ‘applying’ level.

This version grants you access to detailed definitions of associated sub-skills.

Pathsmith™ Durable Skills Framework

The full version of the framework includes rubric definitions for all skills at each level of performance – emerging, developing, applying, and exceeding.