Academic and Career Planning

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Academic and Career Planning
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The Four Year Planas it usually occurs now

• https//www.youtube.com/watch?vZIRdST_Dc0M

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Where HAVE We Been?

• WCSCM has been in place since 2007.
• Model includes standards in 3 domains
• Academic
• Personal/Social
• Career
• Standards contain many of the components of ACP

• WI Admin Code PI26
• Education for Employment
• Requires school districts to have career
  exploration activities for students in grades K
  12
• Districts are required to submit their plan to
  DPI for approval

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Wisconsin Statute 115.28(59)Signed June 28, 2013

• 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. 

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What is ACP?

• Empowering ALL students to travel the road
• TO adulthood THROUGH education training
• TO Careers!
• It is
• Reimagining K12 education to equip students with
  meaningful supportive adult relationships, and
  the ability to adapt to opportunities
  challenges, on their personalized journeys to
  successful lives

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What are the features of ACP?

• An ongoing process that uses a tool to actively
  engage students to
• Understand self
• Envision the future
• Develop goals
• Plan for achieving the vision and goals
• Student-Driven and Ongoing
• A product that documents and reflects students
• Courses Assessments
• Post-secondary plans aligned to career goals
  financial reality
• Record of college and career readiness skills. 
• Personalized and Dynamic

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Each Students ACP process

• Who am I? (KNOW)
• What do I want to do? (EXPLORE)
• How do get I there? (PLAN)
• Lets GO! (GO)

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ACP Process Components

• KNOW
• Self awareness exploration activities
• Individual goal-setting
• EXPLORE
• Career awareness assessment
• Career research postsecondary training options
• Connect a students middle and high school
  instructional activities with the education and
  preparation needed to successfully enter a
  particular field of interest
• PLAN
• Work-based learning opportunities
• Extra-curricular and community-based learning
• Financial plan to cover cost of postsecondary
  training
• GO
• Adapt/Modify regularly
• Intentional Sequence of Courses
• Personal Goals
• Career Goals
• ACP Conferencing

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Then VS Now
4-Year Plan (Traditional) ACP (Now)
Product-based Process-based
Some or select students All students
Acts as a 4-year plan of courses Acts as a navigational tool for students from grade 6-12 and beyond
Student on own for its development Student-driven with collaboration (mentor and parents)
HS Graduation End point HS Graduation Check point
Career development is only the school counselors job Career development is a systematic, whole-school responsibility
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DPI will-

• Integrate ACP with other education and workforce
  initiatives
• Create administrative rule develop
  implementation guidance
• Develop deliver professional development
  training
• Develop communication materials
• Develop an ACP evaluation system
• Select a statewide software system for career
  development

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Current ACP Resources
Work-based Learning Youth Options Dual Enrollment ACP List-serv Dedicated ACP Email Transcripted Credit Programs of Study Course Options Credit Flexibility ACP Webpage
ACP Resources In Development
ACP Software Tool ACP Training Modules ACP
Communications Materials ACP Social Media (Blog,
G, Twitter)
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What can you do now?

• Review the ACP materials on the webpage
• Include ACP as part of your school vision
• Form a leadership team to direct ACP
  Implementation
• Build Awareness Support for ACP
• Review current CTE, Education for Employment,
  Partnerships and Career Development activities
  for potential areas of improvement

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A Final Thought

• FROM Sir Ken Robinson.
• https//www.youtube.com/watch?vr9LelXa3U_I

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Questions?

Robin Kroyer-Kubicek Robin.Kroyer-Kubicek_at_dpi.wi.gov 608-266-2022