Self-Discovery.
Opportunities.
Advocacy.
Readiness.
SOAR is Lincoln Square Coaching's comprehensive transition curriculum for youth ages 14–22 with complex support needs. Developed by experienced vocational rehabilitation professionals and educators, SOAR meets the needs of students who benefit from visual supports, concrete instruction, and repeated practice.
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Designed for Real Impact
SOAR goes beyond compliance, delivering meaningful, person-centered transition services that meet students where they are and help them discover where they can go.
Designed for Complex Needs
Created specifically for students with significant support needs who benefit from structured, scaffolded, and experiential learning.
Aligned with Pre-ETS
Addresses all five Pre-Employment Transition Services domains as defined by WIOA Section 113.
Modular & Flexible
Can be delivered as standalone experiences or a complete sequence. Fits individual sessions or small groups.
Visual & Hands-On
Includes visual tools, role plays, sorting activities, and other experiential elements for maximum engagement.
UDL Commitment
Built on Universal Design for Learning with multiple means of engagement, representation, and expression.
Career Portfolio
Students produce a career portfolio demonstrating self-awareness, workplace readiness, and transition preparedness.
Building Blocks for Success
SOAR prepares students through four interconnected areas of development.
Self-Discovery
Know your strengths, interests, and support needs.
Opportunities
Explore career clusters, pathways, and postsecondary options.
Advocacy
Learn your rights and how to speak up for yourself.
Readiness
Prepare for success with transferable workplace skills.
Engaging Materials.
Real-World Skills.
Every SOAR lesson includes visual supports, scaffolded activities, and hands-on learning experiences. From Career Spotlights that introduce job options to interactive Training Snapshots that preview each lesson, our materials make complex concepts accessible and engaging.
Career Spotlights
Visual career snapshots with job outlook, pay level, and required skills.
Training Snapshots
One-page lesson previews with goals and activities.
Hands-On Activities
Sorting games, role-play, and interactive exercises.
Scenario Cards
Role-play prompts for workplace communication.
SOAR was designed for students who:
- Have limited exposure to structured transition planning
- Require visual, hands-on, and scaffolded instruction
- Need support building self-awareness, workplace readiness, and advocacy
- May struggle to fully participate in traditional group-based Pre-ETS offerings
Who Can Benefit from SOAR?
SOAR is appropriate for students with a wide range of support needs, including those with autism spectrum disorder, intellectual or developmental disabilities, learning disabilities, emotional or behavioral challenges, and physical or sensory differences.
Each module includes embedded differentiation strategies and allows facilitators to tailor instruction for varying ability levels.
Explore Our ServicesBuilt on Proven Standards
Every SOAR unit is crosswalked to five frameworks at the unit level — never claimed globally. The result is regulatory fidelity for vocational rehabilitation and instructional coherence for your classroom, documented in a crosswalk we maintain and verify annually.
WIOA & Pre-ETS
Aligned with the five required Pre-Employment Transition Services activities defined under the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) Section 113.
NYS CDOS Learning Standards
Mapped at the commencement performance-indicator level — Standard 1 (Career Development), Standard 2 (Integrated Learning), and the eight Universal Foundation Skills of Standard 3a.
NYS Next Generation Learning Standards
ELA at the anchor-standard level and Mathematics at the practice and cluster level, plus Social Studies practices, Computer Science and Digital Fluency, Health, and FACS. Grade-band codes are finalized against your district’s grade configuration at service planning.
NACE Career Readiness Competencies
The 2025 competency set — career and self-development, communication, critical thinking, equity and inclusion, leadership, professionalism, teamwork, and technology — cited down to the sample-behavior level.
NYSED SEL Benchmarks
The 2022 revision, mapped by goal and developmental band (grades 9–10 and 11–12) across self-awareness, supportive relationships, and responsible decision making.
What We Don’t Claim
SOAR does not deliver a career major, so CDOS Standard 3b is not claimed. We do not claim unit-level Technology Education alignment. We do not decorate units with alignments that cannot survive scrutiny.
Where SOAR Reinforces Core Instruction
Time in SOAR is not time away from the curriculum. Each content area below is reinforced by specific units, not by the program in general.
- English Language Arts
- Every unit, with the heaviest work in research, argument, narrative, and presentation.
- Mathematics
- Mathematical practices, data interpretation, and financial reasoning in wage, budget, and cost-comparison work.
- Social Studies
- Economic reasoning across labor-market units, civic participation in rights work, and evidence practices in occupational research.
- Computer Science & Digital Fluency
- Digital citizenship and impacts of computing, plus digital literacy in research and document production.
- Health & FACS
- Self-management routines, independent living, financial literacy, and resource management.
- Social & Emotional Learning
- All units, by developmental band — self-awareness concentrated early, relationship skills in workplace readiness, decision making throughout.
Bring SOAR to Your School
We partner with schools to deliver Pre-ETS services funded by ACCES-VR (NY) and Division of Vocational Rehabilitation Services (NJ). Let's build meaningful pathways for your students.