Educators

JAKAPA

Preparing your students for their futures requires more than teaching academic and technical skills.

Students need additional foundational skills and JAKAPA can help.

Soft skills impact your students’ chances of success in work, school and life.

73% of employers struggle to find recent graduates with sufficient soft skills.
8 of the 10 top skills for 2025 are soft skills.
Soft skills get overlooked because most teachers report they do not know how to teach them and don’t have time for another curriculum.

The Challenge

A lack of soft skills in your staff prevents success for your students.

Soft skills are critical for shared leadership and strong, effective teams.

How many great ideas fail to be implemented effectively because staff complies rather than commits to change?

How many resources do you allocate to create time and space for collaboration and professional learning that fails to yield a strong return on investment?

How many initiatives and approaches have you tried unsuccessfully to improve your school culture so it fosters positivity and opportunity for all?

The Solution

Address the foundational issue that prevents productivity and engagement - a lack of soft skills

JAKAPA is a comprehensive, customizable web-based solution and Skills Tracker App that builds skill awareness, alignment and engagement through self and peer assessments and a personalized learning and support.

Soft skills are the professional skills that matter. They are linked to job retention, satisfaction and effectiveness. Investing in your staff’s soft skills will amplify the impact of your intiatives and increase employee engagement. JAKAPA measures up to 32 skills in five domains. These skills are the foundation for effective planning and organizing instruction, setting up an equitable classroom climate, establishing strong relationships with students and families, and effectively collaborating with teams.

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We Measure Across 5 Skill Domains

JAKAPA’s assessment and development system addresses 32 foundational skills in five domains.

Social Engagement

Leadership
Conversational
Expressive
Persuasive
Energy Regulation

Self Management

Goal Regulation
Decision Making
Task Management
Organization
Detail Management
Rule Following
Consistency
Time Management
Responsibility Management

Innovation

Creativity
Information Processing
Cultural Competence
Artistic
Self-Reflection
Abstract Thinking

Cooperation

Perspective Taking
Social Warmth
Teamwork
Capacity for Trust
Ethical Capacity

Emotional Resilience

Stress Regulation
Optimism
Anger Management
Confidence Regulation
Independence
Adaptability
Impulse Regulation

Measure

JAKAPA’s program includes unlimited administrations of self and peer assessments. The more you use it, the greater its impact.

Assess your employees and develop a Profile of a Worker based on the skills that predict success.

Use JAKAPA peer assessments to inform employee development programs.

Administer peer assessments to teams and gain feedback on leadership.

Track

JAKAPA users see self assessment data in real time. You can schedule when you release peer assessment results to correspond with performance reviews or employee training.

JAKAPA’s reports show personal data, comparative data and growth data.

Learn

JAKAPA’s Skills Challenges are personalized and flexible. Develop an incentive and rewards system that will motivate your staff to embark on a journey of self and team improvement.

JAKAPA’s skills challenges provide experiential professional development. Use the skills challenges to frame a reward program or internal credentialing program.

JAKAPA’s informational resources on each domain helps users better understand the domains, the skills and why they are important.

JAKAPA’s data debrief protocols provide guidance on reading data and reflective questions to guide individual and team goal setting.

Measure, Train, & Track

Let JAKAPA help you get students ready for enrollment, enlistment, or employment!

JAKAPA is Flexible and Customizable

Use JAKAPA resources as a complement to your curriculum.
Strategically group students and enhance group projects.
Improve self-awareness and incentivize and reward student growth and engagement with our workbook and Skill Builder App.

As Part of your PBIS or MTSS Programming

Reward experiential learning in the JAKAPA’s Skill Builder App as part of your PBIS incentive and rewards programming.
Elicit perspectives from parents, teachers or other adults who work with students and use JAKAPA data to design interventions or promote engagement with our Skill Builder App.

As Part of Your College and Career Development

JAKAPA’s skill are aligned with college and career standards, social and emotional frameworks and many state graduation seals or credential programs.
Students can use JAKAPA skill reports as a tangible asset to complement their resumes or college and scholarship applications.

As an Impact Measure for Grants or IEP Goals

JAKAPA can make you more competitive for grant funding by providing impact data on youth development or college and career readiness programming.
JAKAPA data is valuable for progress monitoring IEP goals.

Measure | Train | Track Soft Skills.

Guides & Workbooks

Jakapa User Workbooks

Complete inventories, engage in reflective activities and learn ways to build skills in our user workbook.

Jakapa's Leader Guide

Use JAKAPA’s leadership guides to contextualize client data and facilitate discussions and action planning to address skill deficits and build leadership teams.