Colorado’s Individual Career and Academic Plan (ICAP) Initiative • Senate Bill 09-256 • By September, 2011, all students , grades 9-12 would have access to a system within their high school to create and manage an ICAP. • The legislation specifies that at a minimum, each ICAP shall include: – The student’s effort in exploring careers, including interest surveys that the student completes; – The student’s academic process, including the courses taken, any remediation or credit recovery, and any concurrent enrollment credits earned; – The student’s experiences in contextual and service learning; – The student’s college application and resume, as they are prepared and submitted; and – The student’s postsecondary studies as the student progresses.
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Colorado’s Individual Career and Academic Plan (ICAP) Initiative
• Senate Bill 09-256
• By September, 2011, all students , grades 9-12 would have access to a system within their high school to create and manage an ICAP.
• The legislation specifies that at a minimum, each ICAP shall include: – The student’s effort in exploring careers, including interest surveys
that the student completes;
– The student’s academic process, including the courses taken, any remediation or credit recovery, and any concurrent enrollment credits earned;
– The student’s experiences in contextual and service learning;
– The student’s college application and resume, as they are prepared and submitted; and
– The student’s postsecondary studies as the student progresses.
Colorado’s Current Pipeline
Source: NCES 2006
PWR and Dropout Prevention in Colorado’s Reform Agenda
Innovation & Choice
High Expectations
Educator Effectiveness
Accountability &
Improvement
Priority Graduation Districts (HB 09-1243) • Student Graduation and Completion Plan • Practices Assessment
The Education Accountability Act (SB 09-163) • Postsecondary and Workforce Readiness Indicators in
School and District Performance Framework (Graduation Rates and Dropout Rates)
• Priority Improvement and Turnaround plans
Individual Career and Academic Plans (ICAP) SB 09-256 Assist students in developing a personalized plan that ensures readiness for post- secondary and workforce success
Concurrent Enrollment Act (HB 1319/SB 285) • ASCENT & Extended Studies
Endorsed Diplomas and High School Graduation Guidelines (HB 07-1118 / SB 08-212) • Criteria for indicating a student’s level of post-
secondary and workforce readiness upon graduation
Future Intentions:
Your students’ top
Career Cluster & known Pathway
Ultimate Goals:
Learning = Academic Earning = Career
Living = Personal/ Social
Classes:
Their secondary intentional course sequence related to the PS courses
available
Permits connections between what Advisors, Counselors,
educators, PS providers, and parents do to assist their students
goal achievement.
Also – relevancy of learning
PWR – Postsecondary Workforce Readiness:
the (w)holistic student. That means extra-curricular & life
experience too!
Accountability:
Understanding and progress towards
securing Financial Aid = Financial Literacy
ICAP Process…
ICAP Individual
Career Academic
Plan
Their Plan +Your Support =Future Growth & Success!
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Individual Career and Academic Plans
The intent of the Individual Career and Academic Plans is to:
1. Decrease the dropout rates and increase graduation rates by
assisting students in developing and maintaining a personalized
postsecondary plan;
2. Assist parents and students in exploring the postsecondary career
and educational opportunities available to the student; and
3. Align course work and curriculum to the students’ postsecondary
goals.
INDUSTRY
PLAN OF STUDY
PWR Standards!
• Creates “Relevant” Middle & High School Experience
• Builds “ Personal, Social & Academic
momentum”
• Allow for “Learn & Earn” opportunities within Career Pathways
• Increases “Intentional” Concurrent
Enrollment & Process.
• Enhances the Career Development “Journey”
The Potential of Individual Career & Academic Plans (ICAP)
For students, parents and staff: Fully customizable ICAP page and milestones
•Titles
•Sections
•Activities
•Field Groups
•Student Documents
•Advising Documents
•Direct Navigation
•Print/E-Mail/PDF
•Electronic, portable
Middle School Site Plans
• Euclid: Implemented within core teams – College In
Colorado (CIC) already used in their leadership program.
• Goddard: Implemented during Extended Learning time.
CIC currently in use by FACS teacher.
• Newton: Implemented during Knight Time – CIC already
used by counselor.
• Powell: Implemented during intervention/ advisement
time and through 8th grade Language Arts
High School Site Plans
• Arapahoe: Implemented through 9th grade Business classes, 10th-12th grade post grad center activities.
• Heritage: Implemented through 9th grade Business classes, 10th grade advisory program, 11th-12th grade post grad center activities.
• Littleton: Implemented through 9th grade advisement, 10th grade required core classes, 11th -12th grade post grad center activities.
• Options: Implemented through Career Success, Independent Living, and Adult Living classes.
Future Considerations
• Staff training needs
• Student log-in logistics
• Naviance and College in Colorado
• Feedback from staff involved in implementation
• Ongoing cost for data services
Seamless Transitions:
Elementary: Career Awareness
Middle:
Career Exploration
High: Career Concentration
Post Secondary: Career Preparation
Lifelong: Career Advancement and Management
Learning
Earning
Living
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