🎓 High School & Beyond

• Starts in 7th or 8th Grade.

• Identification of career goals, aided by a skills and career interest inventory assessment.

• Identification of educational goals.

• Four-year plan for course-taking plan that fulfills state and local graduation requirements and aligns with the student's career and educational goals with and individualized Personalized Pathway for student in Class of 2019 and beyond.

• Resume or activity log by end of 12th grade that provides a written compilation any activities/athletics, leadership opportunities, work experience, or community service that can be used for writing personal statements, application essays, or scholarship applications.

• For students who have not met standard on state assessment, interventions and academic support, courses, or both, that enable students to meet the high school graduation requirements, must be a part of this plan.

The High School & Beyond Plan is used to guide student middle school and high school experience and prepare him or her for postsecondary education or training and career.

• After the plan is initiated for each student during the seventh or eighth grade, it is updated each year to reflect high school assessments, review of transcripts, and assess progress toward identified goals.

• In many cases the plan is revised as necessary for changing interests, goals, and needs, and to identify the available interventions and academic support, and/or courses.

A school district must update the High School and Beyond Plan for each student who has not earned a score of level 3 or level 4 on the middle school mathematics assessment by ninth grade, to ensure that the student takes a mathematics course in both ninth and tenth grades. This course may include career and technical equivalencies in mathematics.

School districts are encouraged to involve parents and guardians in the process of developing and updating the High School and Beyond Plan.

• In the four-year course plan’s Personalized Pathway Requirement, starting with Class of 2019, the content of the third credit of mathematics and the content of the third credit of science must be chosen by the student based on the student’s interest and High School and Beyond Plan with agreement of the student’s parents or guardian or agreement of the school counselor or principal.

There are a total of 8 courses outside of the required core 17 of the 24 credits that students can use in planning their Personalized Pathway.

Definition includes:

• Locally determined coursework identified in High School & Beyond Plan that is needed for post-secondary career or educational goals chosen by you based on interest and career goals

• Individual for each student the connects with a 4-year course plan and career pathway or college major

• A Sequence of courses are chosen by student that prepares him or her to meet graduation requirements and specific post-secondary or educational goals

• Created in collaboration between student, parent/guardian, and school counselor, advisor or teacher

• Students specify 3 credits from the additional art and 2 world language or choose to include 3 other courses, along with 4 electives and 17 core courses to complete their 24 credits needed for the Career- and College-Ready Diploma for Class of 2019 and beyond

_____ Career Interest Inventory

_____ Educational Goals

_____ Four-Year Course Plan

_____ Personalized Pathway Requirement

_____ Resume or Activity Log by end of 12th Grade

_____ State Assessments and Other Assessments

_____ Interventions, Academic Supports, and Courses if State Assessment not passed by end of 10th grade

_____ Transcript and Progress Review

OSPI’s Career Guidance WA has grades 6-12 guidance curriculum for plan development, materials, worksheet, and plan template.

http://www.k12.wa.us/OSSI/K12Supports/CareerCollegeReadiness/

State Board of Education http://www.sbe.wa.gov/graduation.php

College Admissions http://www.wsac.wa.gov/college-admissions

Community and Technical Colleges https://www.sbctc.edu/our-colleges/search-college-programs/default.aspx

CTE Programs of Study http://www.k12.wa.us/CareerTechEd/Clusters/default.aspx