Tracks achievement over four years
Tracks student achievement across academic performance, extracurricular activities and non-formal education.
Technology supporting the programme
The WISE Portal
A long-term guidance system, not a scholarship dashboard.
The WISE Portal supports participant development, verified achievement and programme oversight throughout WISE’s four-year high-school framework. It brings activity records, assessments, reflections and guidance together to support a fuller understanding of each participant over time.
The role of the WISE Portal
Structure, visibility and accountability.
SFF’s scholarship program is implemented in part using the WISE Portal. The WISE Portal is an online program that:
Supports the Earn to Learn system
Employs a structured, merit-based system in which students exceeding a threshold score become eligible for post-secondary scholarships.
Provides career insights
Supports long-term personal development through career exploration and guidance.
Strengthens programme oversight
Offers reporting, oversight tools and standardized programme administration.
The portal helps strengthen consistency, visibility, and accountability across the WISE Scholarship Program™ while supporting long-term participant development.
AI-enhanced, human-led
Technology alongside dedicated human support.
Professor WISE is the programme’s AI guidance engine. It works alongside dedicated Senior Scholarship Administrators to help identify patterns in participant development, recommend next steps and support personalized guidance.
Assessments, recorded activities, reflections and engagement history contribute to an evolving participant profile. SSAs bring human judgment, mentorship and accountability to that information, helping participants understand their strengths and work through challenges.
Participant development
Connecting learning with future direction.
The WISE platform connects day-to-day participation with longer-term planning. Its capabilities bring together personal insight, recorded experiences, career exploration and preparation for the next stage of education or work.
Understand strengths and interests
Assessments and reflections help build an evolving picture of learning preferences, motivation, interests and development.
Document real-world experiences
Record partner-coordinated experiences, including job shadowing, internships, apprenticeships and mentorship placements, alongside reflections and achievements.
Prepare for future pathways
Explore career options and post-secondary pathways, access micro-learning and certificates, and prepare resumes, applications and interview skills.
Track goals and participation
Follow academic progress, extracurricular and community activities, personal goals and Earn to Learn progress within one programme environment.
Real-world opportunities are coordinated through programme relationships; the Portal supports their documentation and the participant’s preparation.
Programme oversight
A clearer view of long-term development.
The Portal supports verified documentation, oversight, reporting and long-term development through WISE’s Earn to Learn framework. It helps strengthen consistency, accountability and programme visibility across partnership environments.
By bringing participant records and support activity together, the platform helps SSAs monitor engagement, recognize patterns and follow up when additional guidance is needed. It also supports standardized programme administration across the people and organizations involved in delivery.
Documentation
A recorded history of activities, achievements, reflections and participant development.
Visibility
Information that helps administrators understand engagement and identify where follow-up is needed.
Consistency
Shared processes supporting reporting, verification and long-term programme coordination.
Continuing development
Built to grow with the participant.
As the platform continues to evolve, it is being shaped to support participants through high school, post-secondary transition and future adulthood, with stronger personalization, planning tools and opportunity matching.
The long-term goal is to help participants leave high school with a clearer understanding of their strengths and direction, supported by a plan built from years of documented development rather than a single application.
The WISE website provides the fuller picture of platform capabilities, technology development and future direction.
