Skills and Pathways
The Skills and Pathways series offers comprehensive coverage of essential Computer Science skills and career pathways.
This series, written for Grades 8 to 12, balances theoretical knowledge with practical applications, covering key topics such as Text Documents, Spreadsheets, Presentations, and Databases. The content ensures that students are well-prepared for real-world applications and future careers.
By aligning with current industry demands and anticipating future trends, the series provides students with relevant and actionable skills.
This series covers a broad spectrum of topics and is designed to develop a thorough understanding of modern digital tools, crucial for success in today’s digital work environment.
Adapting to the Needs of Today’s Learners and Workforce
Global Standards Developed in adherence to international standards, ensuring educational excellence.
Current and Evolving Content Regularly updated to include the most recent technological advancements and the latest versions of software applications.
Versatile Teaching Approaches Supports diverse teaching methods, including traditional, flipped classroom, and remote or hybrid learning environments.
Why our resources stand out
Written exclusively for K12
- Custom-designed for different age groups and diverse learning abilities
- Balanced representation supporting engagement for all genders
- Comprehensive coverage across all school grades, ensuring structured progression
- Language accessible to English Language Learners (ELL).
Adheres to international standards
- Aligned with ISTE and CSTA standards
- Recognized by UNESCO for our global relevance
- Fully compliant with major national and international frameworks.
Full suite of digital resources
- Full suite of digital resources
- Accessible videos in all grades
- Downloadable documents for home or classroom use
- Interactive elementary activities
- Digital and printable tests to enhance assessment flexibility.
What's Inside Skills and Pathways?
Our K-12 curriculum is fully aligned with internationally recognized standards, including ISTE, UNESCO, and CSTA (for computer science topics). Reviewed by an independent international organization every two years, it has proudly held the ISTE Seal of Alignment for over a decade. Recognized by UNESCO in 2022 for its global relevance, it also aligns with major technology certification exams such as ICDL, MOS, and IC3, ensuring students develop the essential skills needed for academic success, industry-recognized qualifications, and future career opportunities.
- Our curriculum has earned the ISTE Seal of Alignment every two years for over a decade, ensuring our materials remain on the cutting edge of current standards
- Recognized by UNESCO for its global relevance
- Compliant with national and international educational frameworks.
We have a comprehensive set of assets for teachers to save time on prep and to free yourself to focus on teaching.
Designed for both novice and experienced educators, our Teacher's Guide provides ready-to-use, step-by-step lesson plans, and assessment strategies. Build confidence with the latest technology topics, while inspiring your students through real-world, cross-curricular integrations. Whether you’re introducing foundational concepts or deepening advanced skills, this guide supports and empowers you to engage every student in computational thinking, creativity, and innovation.
Pre-Built Assessment Support
Assessment can take time, so to help we’ve build assessment material for each lesson, each module (unit) as well as end of course final exams.
At task or lesson level, you’ll find hands-on activities, worksheets, and student self-evaluation questionnaire to encourage student-driven accountability.
For every module, we’ve built out group Work and Projects (project-based learning, collaboration, group performance / presenting results) and Module Tests.
And for the end of course exam, which like the other resources is totally optional, we’ve designed an online test with automated grading.
All the material included in this series has been designed specifically for middle and high school students incorporating the latest developments in pedagogy. The student resources come packed with interesting real-life scenarios and activities designed to grab attention and aid engagement and motivation.
Problem-based learning is also woven into the materials to promote essential key skills such as collaboration, communication, teamwork, critical thinking, problem-solving and decision-making.
The student resources come packed with interesting real-life scenarios and activities designed to grab attention and aid engagement and motivation.
Problem-based learning is also woven into the materials to promote essential key skills such as collaboration, communication, teamwork, critical thinking, problem-solving and decision-making.
Engaging content written at an age-appropriate level is continually updated in line with changes in technology and the evolution of applications.
Alongside the printed books, we have a digital offering that works on any device with a web browser allowing for ease of access and equity in education.
Our digital resources work on tablets and smartphones. They include video tutorials and online tests.
Adaptive Learning with SmartBook®
Our Skills and Pathways series includes SmartBook. SmartBook delivers personalized, adaptive learning tailored to each student’s individual needs by pinpointing knowledge gaps and focusing instruction on the concepts that require additional study. Teachers can assign a specific chapter, topic, or concept and access advanced reporting features that track individual and class progress with actionable insights to inform in-class instruction.
More Control. More Prepared. More Actionable.
Teachers can organize assignments to suit their students’ needs and align to their course outcomes while easily tracking student progress at the individual and/or class level.
Flexible Assignments: Assign homework down to the sub-topic level and time-on-task.
Manageable Content: Assign content across multiple chapters to establish the context for the learning ahead and make connections between chapters, topics, and concepts.
Results-based Support: Provide personalized review assignments that target each student’s areas of weakness, better preparing them for upcoming assessments.
Actionable Reports: Advanced reporting features track individual and class progress with data-driven insights.
