2023-24 Career Readiness Community of Practice
Module #8:
Formal ACP Process
Academic & Career Planning and Education for Employment
Wisconsin Legislative Statute PI26
Let’s Take a Few Minutes to Share Out . . .
Learning Objectives
Learning objectives of this training session include:
Refer to the Module #8 Session Guide for Districts
Learning Objectives
Learning objectives of this training session include:
Refer to the Module #8 Session Guide for Districts
Learning Objectives
Learning objectives of this training session include:
Refer to the Module #8 Session Guide for Districts
Learning Objectives
Learning objectives of this training session include:
Refer to the Module #8 Session Guide for Districts
Academic & Career Planning – PI26
Recap of the WHY behind Wisconsin Academic & Career Planning (Legislative Statute PI26):
“The purpose of ACP services is to assist pupils with planning and preparing for opportunities after graduating from high school.
These opportunities may include postsecondary education and training that leads to careers.”
Academic & Career Planning – PI26
Recap of the ADDITIONAL requirements of ACP embedded into the Education for Employment (E4E) statute that spans elementary, middle and high school grade levels. School districts must:
Academic & Career Planning – PI26
Engage with
Area Employers
Engage with
Families
Encourage Input from
Students
Recap of who needs to be at involved in the Academic & Career Planning process to best serve students in your school district. Best practice is to bring the following groups to the table, along with members of your school district career readiness team . . . and Why?
Formal ACP Process
WI Youth Voice in Career Readiness Project
What findings from the Youth Voice in Career Readiness project relate to the Formal ACP Process?
(Finding #2)
WI Youth Voice in Career Readiness Project
What findings from the Youth Voice in Career Readiness project relate to the Formal ACP Process?
Software tools and curriculum can help guide the ACP process.
They cannot replace the learning that takes place when students talk about their academic and career plans with adults and peers.
Encouraging Students to Provide Input is Key
Quote from Participants of the Student Voice Project
WI Youth Voice in Career Readiness Project
What findings from the Youth Voice in Career Readiness project relate to the Formal ACP Process?
Current high school students say their school is doing well when it comes to Dedicated Time for Academic and Career Planning (ACP) - A regular period of time that is dedicated ACP, whether that be in workshops, advisories, homerooms, etc.
Tips & Strategies: Student-Centered Focus
ACP Should be Student Centered with Strong Adult Relationships:
Schools are encouraged to develop an ACP process that is founded on relationships with educators, dialogue with peers, and mentoring from employers, postsecondary, and community partners.
Design your ACP activities to meet students where they are at and truly engage them in exploring what interests and is important to them. Integrate universal design for learning concepts into your ACP scope and sequence of activities to personalize the process for each student.
Tips & Strategies: Keep Equity in Mind
Keep Equity at the Forefront:
Keep in mind that ACP and E4E are for all students. Therefore, we encourage districts to identify your essential ACP activities and implement them in a way so that all students will be able to participate. For example, if it is a goal to have every student graduate with a resume, you would want to embed resume writing activities into courses that all students are required to take or into an advisory period in which all students participate in.
Tips & Strategies: Keep Equity in Mind
Keep Equity at the Forefront:
In addition, students from some populations may need additional support and assistance in overcoming barriers to academic and career success. Think about how you can connect these students to the supportive services they need and how you can remove any barriers to success. Partnering with local youth serving organizations, higher education institutions, and workforce development boards is a great place to find out about supportive services that can support your students!
Tips & Strategies: Keep Equity in Mind
Keep Equity at the Forefront:
Your school district report card provides data for career readiness indicators. You can also work with your district’s data specialist or your CESA ACP Coordinator to help analyze your career readiness data and disaggregate it by special populations.
Tips for NOT Creating MORE Silos!
Don’t Create More Silos:
Here are a few suggestions that will ensure your ACP/E4E Plan becomes part of the fabric of your district in order to create a culture of career readiness.
Tips for NOT Creating MORE Silos!
Don’t Create More Silos:
Tips for NOT Creating MORE Silos!
Don’t Create More Silos:
Tips for NOT Creating MORE Silos!
Don’t Create More Silos:
Top Career Readiness Resources in WI
ACP Implementation: District Self-Assessment Tool - This easy-to-use tool will help your district career readiness team reflect on your ACP infrastructure, develop an ACP Graduate Profile, and map out your ACP components while identifying which components all students should access before graduating. Then you will be ready to set goals related to your ACP implementation that you can share with your CESA ACP Coordinator to receive a customized ACP professional development plan for your district! Note: the document downloads into Microsoft Word and may require slight reformatting.
Top Career Readiness Resources in WI
Equity in Academic and Career Planning - This resource provides short activities that can help ACP or career readiness teams and leaders encourage their stakeholders to learn more about what equity means, how to explore who they are, what beliefs and assumptions they hold, identify their values, and consider how all of this can impact the learners and families they serve. The goal of each activity is to help educators learn a little more about their students and themselves and to leave with one simple action step to improve equity within their district.
ACP Best Practice & Reflection
Questions:
Resource: Meaningful Career Conversations
Resource: 8 Components of CCR Counseling
Resource: Kansas Career Advising Model
Resource: ACP Final Capstone Projects (WEC)
Questions:
Does your district include an Academic & Career Planning (ACP) Project capstone project?
DPI Webinar & Resources: ACP Final Project
Question:
Have you explored the DPI Community of Practice webinar resources for ACP Final Projects?
Consider taking time to do so, as there are TONS of great examples!
DPI Webinar & Resources: ACP Final Project
DPI Webinar & Resources: ACP Final Project
DPI Webinar & Resources: ACP Final Project
Question:
Does your district utilize project-based learning components to connect personal financial literacy to Academic & Career Planning?
DPI Website – District ACP Plan Exemplars
Share Ideas & Celebrate Successes
District Work Time
Consider working in teams to on the following:
Follow-Up Questions from Session
Group Sharing and Q & A
Please share out with the group:
Consider Staying Connected Via Listserv
Helpful Resources