Choice at Lebanon R3

Lebanon R3 offers a wide range of academic and career pathways, empowering students to design a learning experience that aligns with their individual goals, interests, and learning styles through a choice-driven approach to education. 

Guided by the district’s mission to empower all learners with the knowledge, skills, and dispositions for future success—and its vision to be an adaptive learning community—Lebanon R-3 provides every student with the opportunity to chart a personalized path toward lifelong learning and meaningful careers. Through intentional career exploration, adult guidance and support, and strategic career planning, students are encouraged to explore, discover, and pursue their unique goals. Click here to learn more.

The Individual Career and Academic Plan (ICAP) is a “roadmap” to help students develop the awareness, knowledge, skills, and dispositions to create their own meaningful pathways to be success ready graduates. The Individual Career and Academic Plan is a multi-year process, beginning no later than the eighth grade, that intentionally guides students and families in exploring career, academic, and multiple post-secondary opportunities. This ultimately results in direct access to the workforce, military, tech school/area career center, vocational training/apprenticeship, 2-year college, and/or 4-year college. Click here to learn more about ICAP.

The Market Value Assets initiative began in the 2023-2024 school year. The aim is to ensure that all students graduate with a diploma and at least one "market-value asset" (MVA), marketable skills that employers demand and can list on a resume or portfolio. Learn more about how student experiences inform continuous improvement in Lebanon R3 here.

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Business partnerships are essential to the success of our students in gaining real-world experiences. 

A DESE-approved Industry Recognized Credential (IRC) is defined as a portable, recognized credential that validates an individual has successfully demonstrated skill competencies in a core set of content and performance standards in a specific set of work-related tasks, a single occupational area, or a cluster of related occupational areas.  The IRC assessment must be comprehensive in nature to be considered. Click here to learn more about industry recognized credentials.

We track the percent of graduating students who take at least one of five state-recognized assessments supporting college and career readiness each year.  Department-approved measures (qualifying assessments) are represented by the following: ACT®, SAT®, WorkKeys®, ACCUPLACER®, and ASVAB. Scores on any of these assessments count toward the College and Career Readiness Assessment calculation. 

Once a student has identified goals in their Individual Career and Academic Plan, the student then identifies the appropriate college and career readiness assessment(s) that aligns with their ICAP goal(s). In this way, assessments are more meaningful because they connect directly to personal goals.

ACT: 38.4%

ASVAB: 94.7%

SAT: .0%

Workkeys: 16.05%