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Academic and Career Planning for College and Career-Ready Graduates

Academic and Career Planning for College and Career-Ready Graduates. Wisconsin Statute 115.28(59). Authorizes DPI to create administrative rule with requirements for ACP services for all students in grades 6-12 by 2017-18.

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Academic and Career Planning for College and Career-Ready Graduates

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  1. Academic and Career Planning for College and Career-Ready Graduates

  2. Wisconsin Statute 115.28(59) • Authorizes DPI to create administrative rule with requirements for ACP services for all students in grades 6-12 by 2017-18. • Includes $1.1 million in 2014-2015 funding for software technology and professional development supporting statewide implementation of ACP. 

  3. A Shift

  4. ACPs • Process • Rigorous • Engaging • Ongoing • Student driven • Product • Dynamic • Comprehensive Process and Product

  5. Each Student’s ACP process • Who am I? (KNOW) • What do I want to do? (EXPLORE) • How do get I there? (PLAN) • Let’s GO! (GO)

  6. ACP Process Components • KNOW • Self awareness & exploration activities • Individual goal-setting

  7. ACP Process Components • EXPLORE • Career awareness assessment • Career research & postsecondary training options • Connect a student’s middle and high school instructional activities with the education and preparation needed to successfully enter a particular field of interest

  8. ACP Process Components • PLAN • Work-based learning opportunities • Extra-curricular and community-based learning experiences • Financial plan to cover cost of postsecondary

  9. ACP Process Components • GO • Adapt/Modify regularly • Intentional Sequence of Courses • Personal Goals • Career Goals • ACP Conferencing

  10. Grid of Process/Product Components of Academic & Career Planning

  11. Career Exploration • Career Interest Inventories • Career Cluster Exploration • Career Pathway Exploration • Career Research

  12. WARNING: • Dangers of Pigeon Holing • Creates unrealistic expectations • Destroys partnerships • Limits opportunities • Assumes the adult will be a copy of the child • Focus becomes an outcome not a process • Fails to develop transitional skills, knowledge and work settings

  13. Key Word • Transition

  14. LMI • Definitions: • Differences of Industries, Occupations and Jobs • Requirements versus Recommendations • Transitional Skills, Knowledge and Work Settings • Career Cluster is a cloud • High Growth • High Demand • High Wage

  15. Components of Skill Explorer

  16. Possible Skill Paths

  17. DWD’s Skill Explorer • Wisconsin Data • http://skillexplorer.wisconsin.gov/Search.aspx • Age Appropriate Use of LMI

  18. Current ACP Resources ACP Resources In Development

  19. Conclusion Academic and Career Planning in Wisconsin is meant to fully engage students in the processes of planning their future so that they are able to adapt to changing situations, address unforeseen challenges, leverage emerging opportunities, and apply new lessons and insights as they occur. TO Launch Adults NOT TO College BUT THRU College (post-secondary) TO Career!

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