An add-on for Overgrad customers

A curriculum for the part of readiness that is not academic

nXu curriculum, taught inside Overgrad

500+ lessons on purpose, durable skills, and wellbeing, K through 12, built around the same student data your counselors already use.

Lessons that fit the time you already have

Roughly 25 minutes each, taught in advisory, a core class, or counseling.

How it runs
Elementary: self-awareness, goal-setting, early interests
Middle: reflection, and strengths connected to pathways
High: purpose, durable skills, and postsecondary planning
Why it sits in Overgrad

The lessons use each student's own plan.

nXu is delivered through Overgrad, so a lesson on pathways can draw on the college list, the career a student is following, and the plan their counselor is already working from. Educators adapt the content to their students.

What students work on

Purpose & Direction

Values, motivations, and how a student wants to contribute.

Durable Skills

Communication, collaboration, critical thinking, self-management.

Wellbeing & Agency

The habits and mindsets behind confidence and resilience.

Pathway Connections

Classroom learning tied to strengths, interests, and what comes next.

And a way to see whether it worked

Assessment, grades 5–12

One end-of-experience survey, not a testing calendar

Students reflect on how they have grown, in a single retrospective survey built into Overgrad. Results sit beside your advising and postsecondary data, so program impact and student outcomes are read together.

  • Purpose and future direction, durable skills, wellbeing, and college and career readiness
  • Built with Transcend Education, the Search Institute, and researcher Heather Malin
  • Results read alongside the rest of your Overgrad reporting

What nXu's evaluations report

3× growth in sense of purpose
2× growth in durable skills
3 controlled studies, in TX, MA, and NYC

Figures are nXu's own program evaluations, including a 2021–22 IRB study at a New York City public high school. See nXu's outcomes for the underlying reports.

Getting it

nXu is an add-on. It can be added to Access or to Access + Success, and it is bundled at the lowest combined rate in Complete. New York districts can also see how it maps to the NYS Portrait of a Graduate, lesson by lesson.

See a lesson, with your own students' data in it.

A 30-minute walkthrough of the curriculum and the assessment behind it.