Pupil Services

ACADEMIC & CAREER PLANNING

Academic and Career Planning (ACP) is an ongoing process that helps students create and cultivate their own visions for post-secondary success, obtained through self-exploration, career exploration, and the development of career management and planning skills. ACP is intended to equip students and their families with tools necessary to make informed choices about postsecondary education and training as it leads to careers. For more information on how Turner is helping all students to be college, career, and life ready, click here.

ACP at TMS

The ACP Model, created by the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (DPI), Know-Explore-Plan-Go, aligns Wisconsin ACP required components with research-based recommendations for incorporating career development throughout K12 for self-exploration, career exploration, and career planning and management.

6TH
GRADE

KNOW
I can create a short-term goal for myself that considers evidence I collect about who I am right now and where I want to go in my future.

EXPLORE

I can identify ways to grow as a learner.

PLAN

I can effectively summarize who I am, where I am going, and what I can do to get there in a written format.

I can explain my self-reflection and future thoughts with adults who support my success.

7TH
GRADE

KNOW

I can analyze my current short-term academic and career goal for myself and refine it in light of who I am right now and where I want to go in my future.

EXPLORE

I can utilize my knowledge of self to define what success means to me.

PLAN

I can select an area in which I need to grow as a learner and plan how to improve that area.

I can appraise post-secondary training and education options to strengthen employability/professional skills

8TH
GRADE

KNOWI can critique and adjust my short-term academic and career goal for myself in light of further evidence I have collected about who I am right now and where I want to go in my future.EXPLOREI can accurately assess where I am as a learner and describe ways to continue to grow.PLANI can evaluate resources and strategies and define what I need to support my preparation and transition to high school.I can effectively synthesize and then communicate who I am, where I am going, and what I can do to get there. GOI can utilize my self-reflection to articulate my growth and future thoughts to adults who support my success.

Xello

Xello is a platform we use at Turner for students in 6th-12th grade to explore their academic and career interests.

Students will complete Interests, Skills, and Values inventories that will be used to identify career clusters and potential career pathways of interest. Students will have the opportunity to explore careers of interest and learn of potential course sequences to help them with their post-secondary goals.

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