IMPROVING COLLEGE AND CAREER READINESS & TRANSITION IMPROVES POST-SECONDARY SUCCESS.

The California College Guidance Initiative (CCGI) works to ensure that all 6th-12th grade students in California have access to a systematic baseline of guidance and support as they plan, prepare, and pay for post-secondary education and training.

CCGI has two overarching objectives:

  1. All high school seniors graduate with a thoughtful, well-informed, post-secondary plan.

  2. Students' academic transcript, unique identifier, and college and career planning data follow them in a manner that reduces information gaps that hinder student success.

Each 6, 7, and 8th grader this year will participate in a classroom guidance lesson with the counselor to set up an account and complete the listed milestones below to help the students explore their options of college and career.

Use this link to log in to your CCGI account.

https://www.californiacolleges.edu

Your log in is:

User Name: sausd###### (ID Number)

Password: birthday (your birthday)

The platform features:

  • Career assessments
  • College, Career, and Major Search tools
  • An Academic Planner for developing high school course plans
  • Tools that support goal setting, task management, and self-reflection.
  • An online digital portfolio to track college, career, and financial aid planning activities called

The Plan

  • Students benefit from a guided experience, completing grade level-specific activities and associated worksheets that help them create a postsecondary plan aligned with their interests and goals
  • Family members with accounts can view their students’ My Plan and access curated content focused on supporting their students through career exploration, as well as the college and financial aid planning and application processes

Discover your path

  • Assessments:
    • Interest Profiler (all students)
    • Learning Styles Inventory (middle school)
    • Do What You Are (high school)
    • Multiple Intelligences (high school)
  • Search Tools:
    • Career Search Tool
    • College Search Tool
    • Major Search Tool

Plan your future

  • Academic Planner: supports intentional course selection in middle and high school
  • Search Tools: allow students to research and save favorites: colleges, careers, majors, scholarships (available Winter 2018).
  • My Experiences: provides a space to log work, service, leadership, and extracurricular activities
  • My Journal: includes prompts and opportunities for self-reflection.
  • My Goals: provides a structured approach to articulating goals and how to reach them
  • My Tasks: provides a standard task list (with associated worksheets) for steps in the planning process that is customizable by both educators and students
  • My Documents: this allows students to save resumes and other planning documents.
  • My Plan: enables students to review favorites, track activities, and monitor academic progress in a digital portfolio

Launch your plan

  • Applications: Seniors can launch Cal State Apply (CSU application), CCC Apply (community college application), and FAFSA/Dream Act (financial aid) through the platform
  • My College Plan: Track deadlines and submissions
  • My Documents: Save essays and other application documents