YouScience meets and exceeds Texas TEKS and TIA requirements
Empowering Texas for college and career readiness
Strengthen Texas schools with YouScience® Brightpath, the only aptitude-based college and career guidance platform on the market designed to help all students find personalized pathways for success based on their unique aptitudes.
A brighter future for Texas students
Brightpath empowers students to discover their aptitudes and interests and helps guide students to their best-fit pathways for high school and beyond.
With Brightpath, Texas students get access to tools that answer these fundamental questions:
Who am I? What can I become? How do I get there?
Join the other Texas schools using YouScience
Meet and exceed state requirements with YouScience® Brightpath
With Brightpath, Texas students and educators have the tools to meet and exceed TEKS standards, College, Career, and Military Readiness (CCMR) requirements, and qualify for Teacher Incentive Allottment (TIA) funding.
meeting teks standards
Identify aptitudes, interests, and careers
Brightpath empowers Texas students and align with TEKS learning standards, including Career and College Exploration and Career Prepartion courses.
streamlining CCMR
Explore best-fit careers for each student
Help students complete CCMR requirements through more than 600 in-demand careers personalized to their aptitudes and interests.
Supporting hb3 & tia
Work towards education and career goals
Industry-recognized certifications prove student growth and achievements in CTE courses, helping educators qualify for TIA requirements.
“Brightpath has been an incredible tool to measure student growth in the classroom. The teacher has valuable data that shows student growth and instructional impact. With the launch of the career research tools, our students will be poised for success after graduation.”
Get Teacher Incentive Allotment funding
Recruit, support, and retain top Texas educators using Brightpath
- Utilize Student Growth Reports and pre and posttests to track progress
- Access district-level data to create CTE programs and pathways for industry alignment
- Strengthen CTE programs by including CTE teachers in TIA submissions
- Ensure students enter best-fit programs aligned with their aptitudes and interests
- Boost student engagement and CTE completers
Check out the TIA User Reference Guide for step-by-step instructions on how to use YouScience Industry Certifications to meet state requirements.
Texas + YouScience
Since 2015 YouScience has partnered with CTE Programs, Counseling Departments and Districts across Texas to deliver personalized career exploration and support for CCMR.
How YouScience helps Texas
For students:
Make informed decisions about the career pathways and post-secondary opportunities that are right for you based on your individual talents and interests.
For educators:
Gain deeper insight into your students work styles and individual strengths to improve classroom management and group work.
For counselors:
Gain insights into your students talents, access counselor tools for high school planning and college advising.
For CTE:
Grow CTE at your district with access to reports that match students with their best-fit CTE pathways and increase CTE Completer numbers.
Impact for Texas schools
89K
Texas students have discovered their aptitudes
90+
School districts across Texas partner with YouScience
298
Organizations across the state use YouScience
Texas partnering employers
“The YouScience assessment as I found with most students they discover things, careers they never knew existed! [One student] discovered occupational therapy and he was totally thrilled and excited about this.”
Explore possibilities with Brightpath
With Brightpath, students discover their best-fit careers based on aptitude and interest assessments, postsecondary pathway identification, 4-year course planning, resume builder and work-based activity logs, and financial preparation for college.
- Aptitude & Career Discovery
- Pathway identification
- 4-year course planning
- Resume builder and activity log
- Financial prep for college
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Best-fit careers determined by student aptitudesEmpower students with the knowledge of their own individual aptitudes and interests to identify best-fit education goals and career fields. |
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Personalized postsecondary pathwaysHelp students identify postsecondary pathways and set personalized educational goals. |
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Data-driven 4-year course planningInformed 4-year course planning that aligns with student goals, graduation requirements, and graduation pathways. |
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Resume building and work-based learning activity logGive students tools to create their first resume—and ways to populate it with meaningful, industry-recognized certifications—connect students with internship opportunities, and easily track work-based learning in activity logs. |
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College finder and majors recommendationsPrepare students for college financially Ensure students receive information on state and federal financial aid programs that help pay for the cost of college. |
- Aptitude & Career Discovery
- Pathway identification
- 4-year course planning
- Resume builder and activity log
- Financial prep for college
Best-fit careers determined by student aptitudes
Empower students with the knowledge of their own individual aptitudes and interests to identify best-fit education goals and career fields.
Personalized postsecondary pathways
Help students identify postsecondary pathways and set personalized educational goals.
Data-driven 4-year course planning
Informed 4-year course planning that aligns with student goals, graduation requirements, and graduation pathways.
Resume building and work-based learning activity log
Give students tools to create their first resume—and ways to populate it with meaningful, industry-recognized certifications—connect students with internship opportunities, and easily track work-based learning in activity logs.
Prepare students for college financially
Ensure students receive information on state and federal financial aid programs that help pay for the cost of college.
Award-winning, educator-tested and approved
“Working as a college counselor with high school students for nearly 20 years, and having tried multiple “career assessment”…I’ve found this tool to be an incredibly effective method of revealing a person’s natural strengths and guiding them towards industries and jobs…”
YouScience is your dedicated education partner
YouScience is a dedicated and strategic partner with a deep understanding of Texas needs for nearly 10 years.
Adam Pace
Sr. Territory Manager
Grace Walton
Territory Manager
Britney Miles
Customer Success Manager
Jasmine Jones
Customer Success Manager
Dedicated partner
YouScience has been a dedicated and strategic partner with a deep understanding of Texas’ needs for nearly 10 years.
Unlimited access
Educators have unlimited access to easy-to-use online resources, as well as a dedicated team that will guide them as much as they need.
Knowledgeable support team
YouScience offers one of the best and most responsive support teams in EdTech. When you reach out to connect with us, you’re connected with a real, US-based support team. We proudly average a customer satisfaction rating (CSAT) of 93 out of 100.
U.S.-based company
Our Texas-based representatives, many of whom are former educators, counselors, and administrators, provide expert support to meet Texas education requirements.