Section Title

ACP

Academic and Career Planning (ACP) is a collaboratively developed, student-driven process where students cultivate their own informed decisions for post-secondary success. Also known by some groups as Individualized Learning Plans (ILP), research on the benefits indicates that the ACP process increases student motivation, engagement, school connection, and awareness of individual strengths and weaknesses. Quality ACP features include alignment with current PI26-Education for Employment (E4E) administrative rule and the Wisconsin Comprehensive School Counseling Model (WCSCM) with opportunities that incorporate self-exploration, career exploration, and career planning & management activities.

Services include: 

• Providing professional development and facilitated planning opportunities to build capacity on Academic and Career Planning in a by-all, for-all model. 

• Observing, coaching, and planning with school staff to assist them with ACP Implementation.

• Creating and sustaining ACP strategies and tools that drive excellence in education for all students by building on the following principles:

• • • • KNOW - Who am I?  

        • Self-awareness, interest and learning activities & inventories  

        • Individual reflection and goal-setting 

      • EXPLORE - What do I want to do?  

        • Career awareness assessments  

        • Career research  

        • Career-based learning experiences 

      • PLAN - How do I get there?  

        • Connecting middle and high school instructional activities with opportunities to explore or learn more about a particular field of interest  

        • Work-based learning opportunities  

        • Dual college credit courses  

        • Industry-recognized credentials  

        • Extra-curricular and community-based learning experiences  

        • Postsecondary training options  

        • Financial plan to cover cost of postsecondary training 

      • GO - Do IT!  

        • Update regularly  

        • Adapt/Modify Intentional Sequence of Courses  

        • Adapt/Modify Personal Goals  

        • Adapt/Modify Postsecondary/Career Goals  

        • ACP Conferencing with families

Funding Sources 

Funding sources for this work can come from 

• Learning Services Customized Days

• Local Funds

• Title IV, Part A

• ACP Grant Support

• Support Through NEWYA Consortium