Right as schools returned from winter break, the Rubin team jumped into a live training with 80 CTE teachers from across Frederick County (Virginia) Public Schools.
On Monday, January 5, Rubin Founder Danny Rubin and IT Support Specialist Noah Sandler guided dozens of Frederick County CTE teachers to connect our Emerge employability skills curriculum and Aspire career exploration videos with Google Classroom.
The teachers can now use our lessons for email/phone etiquette, interview/resume prep, exploration videos across 100+ careers and much more within Google Classroom and no one (teachers or students) needs to use a password to access the content.
Thank you to CTE Director George Bishop for making the day run smoothly!
Frederick County CTE teachers review Rubin lessons from inside their Google Classroom accounts.Frederick County CTE teachers participate in a face-to-face conversation activity that teaches students how to do “small talk.”
At CareerTech VISION, the national conference hosted by the Association for Career and Technical Education (ACTE), the Rubin team was all over the massive exhibit hall to see friends, develop new relationships and even record a Dream Job webinar episode.
The action took place inside the Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center, a sprawling hotel that easily held the conference’s 5,000+ attendees.
We had our own exhibit booth but spent the majority of the time at the booths of other companies and associations. The deeper we go in the educational community, the more we value partners who help us expand our mission and visibility with school districts across the country.
Special thanks to ACTE for hosting the first-ever VidPOD setup, a recording environment in the center of the exhibit floor. Rubin Founder Danny Rubin held separate conversations with Tod Fetherling, a Nashville-area entrepreneur and Anthony Cook, team member from Xello, a dynamic career development platform and new partner with Rubin.
Check out the action from VISION!
You could get lost inside the Gaylord Resort in Nashville. Trust us, we did.Rubin Founder Danny Rubin stands with our great friends and wonderful partners at the National Technical Honor Society (NTHS).Teachers in Illinois who are fans of our Dream Job webinar series!Alleghany Highlands (Virginia) CTE Director Dwayne Ross holds a Rubin poster. Alleghany Highlands uses our Aspire career exploration video platform.Rubin Founder Danny Rubin interviews Anthony Cook from Xello as part of the VidPOD series on the exhibit floor. We are proud to support Xello’s work around career development.
We are heartened to learn how transition teachers in Roanoke City Public Schools (Virginia) incorporate the discussion questions.
Jennifer McMains from Roanoke Schools explained how she relies on the small group discussion worksheet and cuts out each question like a flash card. She then assigns one flash card to each student.
Roanoke Schools teacher Jennifer McMains (upper left) holds up the Rubin Aspire discussion worksheet as co-teacher Sheilia Rhodes looks on.The different options for discussion questions as part of each Aspire career profile.Sample discussion questions for certified nursing assistant (CNA) that teachers can cut into flash cards.
We want Aspire to be accessible for all students no matter what job they may pursue after high school.
Rubin is a leading provider of employability skills products for teachers, students andcounselors.
During the week of March 24, 2025, the Rubin team led a series of virtual workshops with elementary school counselors in Clark County School District or CCSD (Las Vegas, NV) on our Emerge and Aspire products. Ashley Leon Ramirez, CCSD elementary counselor specialist, facilitated the workshops.
Emerge is our signature employability skills curriculum, and Aspire is a growing library of career exploration videos. Both products are available in Canvas, the learning management system CCSD uses to provide instructional content to its more than 300,000 students.
CCSD is the nation’s fifth largest school system.
In the workshops, Rubin founder Danny Rubin and Director of Instruction Alexis Kruemcke directed 100+ counselors to locate Rubin Emerge and Aspire in Canvas. The Rubin team then demonstrated how to access a piece of Rubin content within Canvas without signing in traditionally.
The counselors found value in topics like social media etiquette, email writing, resume help and interview prep.
Live trainings (virtual or in-person) are a critical part of how Rubin delivers instructional materials to large districts like CCSD or smaller school divisions.
Book a demo to see Emerge and Aspire in action, and discover why many of the nation’s largest districts choose Rubin for employability skills training.
In the image above, Rubin founder Danny Rubin leads a virtual training for elementary school counselors across Clark County School District (Las Vegas, NV), the nation’s fifth-largest school system. Clark County is a Rubin customer and employs our Emerge and Aspire products for employability skills training and career exploration, respectively.
In both our Emerge employability skills curriculum and Aspire career exploration video platform, we added new accessibility features. Teacher now have:
7 different American voices for text-to-speech
“Page mask” to highlight lines while darkening the rest of the page
The ability to read aloud and highlight text on a PDF or Word doc
See screenshots below and then dive into Emerge or Aspire to try these exciting features!
Click the box highlighted in red to launch the accessibility features from any page.
The new page mask feature.
Click on the icon circled in red to launch the accessibility portal for PDFs and Word docs.
A look inside the accessibility portal for a Rubin PDF about email etiquette.
