About
SkillRise Spark
Practice real workplace decisions, build useful skills, and explore your next step.
What it does
SkillRise Spark offers interactive workdays set in fictional workplaces. You read a situation, make choices, see the trade-offs of what you chose, and can add an optional reflection. Each finished workday produces an evidence card that records what you actually chose. There are no scores, no timers and no accounts; your work is saved in your own browser.
Who makes it
SkillRise Spark is made by SkillRise Innovation Labs, the part of SkillRise that develops and tests scenario-based workplace learning and other solutions with partners. SkillRise Inc. is a standalone 501(c)(3) nonprofit. SkillRise launched at ISTE in 2019 and became independent in 2026, carrying that established work forward.
Founding team
Jamie Harris
Founding Partner
Experience in digital-skills strategy, adult learning, program leadership and facilitation, including work with World Education and ReigniteED.
Nada Anasseri
Founding Partner
Connects birth-through-adult learning with technology, equity and program improvement, with an emphasis on family literacy and community partnerships.
Caroline McKinnon
Founding Partner
Workforce and adult-learning strategist with more than two decades of experience, who led SkillRise's adult-learning work at ISTE.
On your own or with an educator
Anyone can use Spark independently, starting from any workday or the Spark guide. Educators and facilitators can run guided sessions with printable materials. Learners choose what to share with a facilitator, by downloading a summary file.
The current pilot
Spark is an early version (MVP) currently being piloted with 65 users. The pilot is how we learn what works and what doesn't; it is not yet evidence that Spark is effective. Pilot records are optional, anonymous, kept on the device and never include personal reflections.
How feedback shapes it
Feedback from learners and facilitators decides what we fix and refine next — for example, whether people can start on their own, explain what they practiced and return to saved work. Organizations interested in taking part can enquire about the pilot or email cmckinnon@skillriseconsulting.com.
What evidence cards are, and are not
Workdays are simulated practice. An evidence card describes the choices you made in a story; it does not establish workplace competence and is not a credential, certificate or qualification.