What is GlidePath WBL?

Each work-based learning placement means documentation, signatures, hours, and an evaluation. That can take up to several hours per activity: Customizing forms, emailing employers, chasing signatures, collecting hours, and rebuilding it at reporting time.

GlidePath WBL is built to take that burden off your hands and get you back to working with students and partners. Templates, AI drafting, document packages, and batch tools create the packet in minutes. Assign sections to students to complete. Employers review and approve without logging in, posting comments for your review.

Digital signatures, reminders, and status tracking keep the process moving. Hours and evaluations land in one place. Reports and signed packages export when you need them. Data can be pulled school-by-school or districtwide.

You still do the work only a WBL professional can do. The paperwork stops eating the week.

GlidePath WBL is a targeted, right-sized solution that helps WBL coordinators and school and district leaders alike.

• If you coordinate WBL: Get every internship packet done in minutes. Send employers a link to review and sign—no account required. Stop chasing timesheets so you can spend the week on placements, not forms.
• If you lead CTE for the school or district: Increase WBL volume and compliance visibility without another FTE. See status across students, employers, and schools. Right-sized cost, because you are not paying for a career suite you will not use.

GlidePath WBL is focused entirely on addressing the challenges faced by work-based learning coordinators and helping them do more. As a result, this right-sized solution is much less expensive than more expansive systems. This tool helps you:

• • Reclaim hours every week. Templates, AI drafting, and document packages get packets done in minutes so one coordinator can support more students.
  • Make employers easy to work with. Magic-link review and no-login signatures reduce drop-off and keep partners coming back.
  • Keep every placement moving. Reminders, status tracking, and digital signatures mean fewer stalled internships and fewer surprises at reporting time.
  • Stay compliant without extra staff. Use your state or district templates, collect hours and evaluations, and export signed packages when you need them.
  • Scale WBL, not headcount. Multi-student tools and reporting let you grow placements without growing the admin load or buying a suite you won’t use.

See the full workflow here.

About the developer

Brett Pawlowski has worked in CTE and work-based learning for more than 20 years. He co-founded the National Center for College and Career Transitions (NC3T) and built one of the field’s first WBL management systems. He is also the co-author of Building Advisory Boards That Matter (ACTE) and has produced many other resources. GlidePath WBL is the result of this experience: A right-sized tool that helps develop packets in minutes and removes the burden of getting signatures, time sheets and evaluations.

Interested in learning more?

Click the button below to schedule a 30-minute walkthrough; if you want to see how Glidepath handles your WBL forms, send them in advance and we’ll have them pre-loaded. Or contact us with questions.