Curriculum
CTE curriculum for grades 6–14
Core-LX offers career and technical education courses with comprehensive coverage of 15 career clusters, from middle school career exploration through community college. Each course is aligned to your state standards, adapted to the equipment in your labs, shaped by your teachers and tutored by Socrat Tutor Bot, our Socratic AI.
Which career clusters do you cover?
Pick a cluster to see its courses, the credentials they lead to and a sample pathway.
Agriculture, Food & Natural Resources
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Architecture & Construction
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Arts, A/V Technology & Communications
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Business Management & Administration
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Career Readiness and Career Exploration
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Education & Training
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Finance
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Health Science
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Hospitality & Tourism
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Information Technology
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Law, Public Safety, Corrections & Security
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Manufacturing
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Marketing
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Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics (STEM)
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Transportation, Distribution & Logistics
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What does each grade band get?
Middle school (grades 6–8)
Career exploration courses that let students try a field before choosing a pathway, with career aptitude assessments through our Indigo Education partnership.
High school (grades 9–12)
Pathway courses that take students from introduction to concentrator to capstone, with industry certification prep built in.
Community college and adult (grades 13–14)
Dual enrollment, certificate and workforce courses, with support in 30+ languages and early alerts for students who are struggling.
How is the curriculum fitted to my program?
We start from your requirements, not our catalog.
- Aligned to your state standards. Every standard is mapped to the lesson that teaches it, and you see the coverage report before anything is built. See an example for Texas Principles of Manufacturing.
- Adapted to your school's facilities. Labs are written for the tools you have, with simulations where you don't have the equipment.
- Shaped by your teachers' preferences. Teachers set sequence, pacing and emphasis, and have the final word on every grade.
- Personalized to each student. Socrat Tutor Bot meets students at their reading level and in their language.
- Localized for international programs. 30+ languages with cultural localization, including right-to-left languages.
Online lessons plus hands-on labs
Every Core-LX course is hybrid. Students learn the concepts online and practice the skills in your shop, kitchen, clinic or lab.
- Self-paced online lessons. Students work through lessons in our LMS or yours with Socrat Tutor Bot, our Socratic AI tutor, and move on when they show mastery.
- Instructor-led sessions. Teachers run demonstrations, discussions and reviews, using the dashboard to see who needs help.
- Labs written for your equipment. Labs are adapted to the tools and facilities you have, with simulations where you don't have the equipment.
- Multi-day projects. Capstone projects pull a unit together into one piece of work that students present.
Core-LX at a glance
- Grades 6 through 14, from middle school career exploration to community college and dual enrollment
- Comprehensive coverage of 15 career clusters
- 90+ certifications and exams, including ACT WorkKeys, the GED, TSIA2 and the ASVAB
- Socrat Tutor Bot, a mastery-based Socratic AI tutor, in more than 30 languages
- Aligned to state CTE standards, with published coverage reports for 233 Texas TEKS courses
Questions about CTE curriculum
What grades does Core-LX CTE curriculum cover?
Grades 6 through 14: middle school career exploration, high school pathways, and community college, dual enrollment and adult workforce courses.
Is the curriculum aligned to state CTE standards?
Yes. Every course is aligned to the standards you teach to, objective by objective, and you get a coverage report before anything is built. We publish coverage reports for 233 Texas TEKS courses.
Can we change the courses?
Yes. Core-LX lessons can be rewritten to fit your standards, your students' reading levels and the equipment in your labs, and teachers set the sequence and pacing. Courses from partner publishers are delivered as published, with the Socrat Tutor Bot added on top.
Are the courses online, in person or both?
Both. Every course is hybrid: self-paced online lessons with the AI tutor, instructor-led sessions, labs written for your equipment and multi-day projects.
Who writes the content?
Content comes from Core-LX and our partner publishers. All of it is reviewed by AI for technical accuracy, then checked by a human subject-matter expert.
See the coverage for your state.
Send us your state and pathways. We'll come back with a coverage report showing which standards are covered, by what, and what we'd build new.