Middle School Career Development

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What is a Career Development Plan (CDP)?

The CDP is an evolving plan that starts in the 6th grade and is expanded and refined as students’ career goals come into focus throughout high school. The CDP helps middle and high school students of all backgrounds, abilities, and aspirations explore careers and colleges in a meaningful, personalized way. In collaboration with School Counselors, Career Development Coordinators (CDCs), Student Support Specialists, and Teachers, students begin exploring career and college readiness options through career assessments, employability skills training, career and college research, and creating goals and plans.

Students revise their CDP annually to accommodate changing interests, personalized pathway choices, and post-graduation goals. Through this process students maximize their time in middle and high school by making intentional choices about the courses, programs, and opportunities they choose along the way. This process makes the transition from middle-to-high school and high school-to-postsecondary more seamless and less stressful. After high school graduation, our goal is that students are either:

Enrolled in a college, university, community college, technical school, or apprenticeship program,

Employed in the workforce, or

Enlisted in the military.

The BCS CDP Overview and the BCS CTE Career Development Continuum outline the career development journey our students experience.

What is the 4 Year Academic Career Plan?

The purpose of the Four Year Academic Career Plan (ACP) is to prepare College and Career Ready graduates. The steps that will be taken prior to completing the ACP, will help students choose a path that guides them towards reaching their individual career goal(s). The ACP is a working document and can be changed to accommodate the ever growing and changing student during high school. Remember, this is a tool to help students, parents/guardians, guidance counselors and teachers!

As students begin preparing for high school registration in the spring semester of their eighth grade year, we will be discussing high school graduation requirements and differences between middle and high school as we help your child prepare to make course selections. As a part of this process, students will take part in a variety of activities to learn more about themselves as individuals. All the activities that students complete will help to guide them in making informed decisions on their high schoolcourse selections, while preparing to become a College and Career Ready Graduate!

Major Clarity

Major Clarity is the online platform we will be using to work on Academic Career Plans. This will be accessible to 7-12 grade students in Brunswick County. Students login using their BCS Google accounts. More information regarding this will be given to students when they are in seventh grade.

Major Clarity allows students to: