Strive Releases Free Roadmap Tool for Communities

Tool will help visually communicate education continuum

CINCINNATI – October 17, 2025 – Strive today launched the Build Your Own Roadmap tool that allows communities to visually represent the education continuum as it exists within their own unique civic infrastructure.

Communities have been using the Strive Roadmap as a guiding template since it was first conceptualized 5 years ago. This tool will automate that process by mapping a community’s key transition areas and development milestones along the education continuum.

“Having a visual of the cradle to career education journey is critical for communities to think differently about how they get organized to support the success of every child,” said Jeff Edmondson, Managing Director of Strive. “This tool is the first to provide communities with a simple automated resource that can be used to build a student roadmap that is customized to their unique issues and interests. The Roadmap also helps to identify where children tend to “fall through the cracks” so we can be sure to provide support in those critical times so our students are achieving all the educational milestones.”

Users will complete a survey about the educational vision, key transition areas, and developmental milestones of a community. Once the survey is completed the tool dynamically maps this information along the education continuum, creating an important communications document to rally support around.

“The technology is pretty straight-forward,” said Jim Scott, KnowledgeWorks Chief Information Officer. “It was just a matter of defining what these communities needed and developing a customizable tool to help them visualize the Cradle to Career concept. This will allow communities to save valuable time and money as they explore building their own roadmap. “We know that there is a tremendous need for tools in our partner communities and we plan to bring other tools to these communities in the future.”

The Build Your Own Roadmap tool can be found on the Strive Network website at www.strivenetwork.org/roadmap-tool

Strive is catalyzing a national movement focused on the success of every child from cradle to career. Building on the principles of collective impact, Strive is helping communities create the civic infrastructure to unite stakeholders around shared goals, measures and results in education, and organizing a national network of cradle to career communities. Strive is a subsidiary of KnowledgeWorks.

KnowledgeWorks is bringing the future of learning to America’s high schools and creating widespread, lasting change in the communities and states we serve. Our portfolio of high school approaches includes New Tech Network high schools, EdWorks high school redesign, Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) and Early College High Schools.

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