PREPtricsTM builds career-connected lessons for CTE, the technical trades and career exploration, planned around the students and adults actually in your room.
Works with the AI account you already have, personal or school-provided. You describe your class in general terms and never enter student names or records.
Students learn faster when they can see the job, the people who do it and the skills it asks for.
Choose a pathway, the students in front of you and the adults with you. The outline shows how the plan changes. In the planner, this becomes a complete, ready-to-teach lesson.
Automotive, construction, welding, electrical, health sciences, culinary, cosmetology, IT and more. Plans keep technical rigor and shop safety inside the lesson, not bolted on at the end.
Middle school and early high school courses where students first ask what they are good at and which futures are open to them. Plans turn self-discovery into real tasks, research and evidence.
Academic teachers who want math, science, ELA or social studies taught through the work people actually do. Plans connect the content to an industry problem and the skills it uses.
Your pacing guide doesn't know that third period has six multilingual learners, a student with a 504 working near a band saw, and a paraprofessional three days a week. PREPtricsTM starts there.
Tick boxes, add counts if you like. No names, IDs or student records, ever.
| Phase | Lead teacher | Paraprofessional |
|---|---|---|
| Safety check | Runs the PPE and ventilation check aloud. | Confirms each booth's checklist before any arc is struck. |
| Demo | Models the joint and narrates decisions. | Stands with students who need the visual sequence card. |
| Practice | Coaches booths 1–4 on bead quality. | Monitors booths 5–8 for safety and pacing without taking over the work. |
| Inspect | Leads peer weld inspection against the spec. | Records which students meet the standard. |
No other adult today? The plan gives you a realistic circulation and monitoring route instead.
Visuals, chunked steps and partly completed work orders that open a way into the task.
The essential technical thinking and performance every student is expected to show.
More complexity, tighter tolerances, independent diagnosis or justification to a client.
Designed from a CTE and work-based learning background, so the career connection is the reason for the lesson rather than a sentence at the end of it.
Authentic tasks drawn from how technicians, nurses, chefs, electricians and builders actually work.
PPE, procedures and equipment checks placed where they belong in the lesson sequence.
CDOS, employability profiles, state career readiness standards and industry certification outcomes.
Communication, judgment, teamwork and persistence practiced inside the technical work.
Students see their communities and their own futures in the careers the lesson opens up.
Evidence made visible for Danielson, Marzano, Stronge, T-TESS or your district rubric.
One trades lesson, and three academic lessons taught through the careers that use them.
Students diagnose before they replace, the way a working technician does. Shop safety, professional communication with a customer and diagnostic reasoning are part of the task itself.
Aligned to CDOS, with defined roles for every adult in the shop.
Scientific inquiry framed as the work of people who monitor and restore coastal ecosystems.
Perimeter and area as an estimating job, with more than one route to the same rigorous answer.
Students practice the communication and judgment every workplace asks for, through an authentic problem with real stakes.
Choose a career cluster in the planner, then name your program or course.
Cross-cutting clusters, whose skills apply across every industry. Career exploration and work-based learning courses can draw on any cluster.
Grade, pathway, block length, equipment, who is in the class and which adults are with you.
Topic, standards, certification outcomes and the skill or task students need to master.
Industry connection, safety, workforce competencies, differentiation and your evaluation framework.
Paste the request into your AI, get a full draft, then apply your judgment and make it yours.
PREPtricsTM does the organizing. You stay the instructional decision-maker.
Founder and CEO, Advisory2WorkTM. Creator of PREPtricsTM.
An award-winning educational leader with more than 35 years in education. She is the principal of a comprehensive grades 6–12 secondary school, where she leads CTE and Future Ready pathways in data science, software development, robotics, drone technology, marketing and social media, human and social services, and college and career readiness.
PREPtricsTM has been reviewed by experienced teachers across grade bands and content areas, including CTE, for whether the plans are usable, rigorous and realistic for day-to-day teaching.
Results at her non-selective school, where 92% of students are students of color and most enter at Level 1 in reading and math:
Source: Advisory2Work.
PREPtrics helped me organize a very complex CTE lesson with differently abled students into a student friendly and standards aligned lesson.
PREPtrics helped me prepare for my formal observation. As a person who came from a trade school I struggled with planning. It saved me hours of work.
A short guide and a one-page template for adding a real industry connection to any lesson, in any subject, at any point in the year.
Introductory pricing, per teacher.
After the first year, Smart Planning System access continues at $49/year, and downloaded launch resources remain yours. Both buttons open the same secure Payhip page, where you choose your package before checkout.
Yes. PREPtricsTM now focuses on CTE, the technical trades, career exploration and career-connected instruction. Plans account for shop and lab realities: safety procedures, stations, equipment, certification outcomes and the professional skills employers ask for.
Yes. Choose career exploration as your course and the plan centers on self-awareness, career research, local labor-market connections and evidence students can carry into a portfolio or career plan.
Yes, when you want to teach through careers. Plans connect your academic content to an industry problem, the people who solve it and the transferable skills it uses.
You tick boxes for the groups in your room, such as multilingual learners, students with IEPs or 504s, striving readers and advanced learners, and the adults with you. You can add counts. You never enter names, ID numbers or other student records.
Yes. PREPtricsTM works with the AI account you already use, personal or school-provided, including Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini or Copilot. Provider features and usage limits vary, but no separate PREPtricsTM AI subscription is required.
Only your purchase email, your license key and anonymous counts such as how many plans have been generated. The lesson details you type stay in your browser and are never sent to us. When you paste your plan request into your AI, that provider handles it under its own policy, so use an account your district approves. To delete your record, write to support@preptrics.com.
Yes. The planner can include school-required headings or a district structure so the draft is easier to adapt.
Advisory2WorkTM is an education consulting firm that helps secondary schools build student-success systems, career-connected learning and workforce-readiness pathways.
We work with principals, district leaders, CTE directors, work-based learning coordinators and advisory teams, from first assessment through system design, coaching and launch.
Staff facilitation training and coaching that help teachers connect every lesson to careers, build work-based learning into their courses and plan for the students in front of them.
A simulated workplace where students take on a department and a role, meet deadlines and complete authentic projects from government, nonprofit and industry partners. Students earn documented hours, partner feedback and skills evidence. Programs run 40 to 120 hours, during or after school, in person, virtual or hybrid.
Save hours. Plan for every student and every adult in the room. Connect today's task to tomorrow's job.