I want to thank Amanda Wagner and Mollie Heilberger for leading the secondary schools through a facilitators training around Academic and Career Planning (ACP) on August 10th. They modeled for Principals, Teachers, and Counselors how Academic and Career Planning can be launched this year in schools utilizing different instructional strategies, and share what outcomes are needed to ensure students have similar experiences across our different school communities. As Amanda and Mollie shared, "the impact of ACP is to produce responsible graduates who will begin their adult life with the knowledge, skills, motivation and a self-directed plan for career and lifelong success."
I also want to thank Melanie Foreman who joined Amanda and Mollie to lead this group through Career Cruising, our tool to hold students' digital portfolios as they work on their plans. School teams entered into Career Cruising as students and played around which lead to lively and engaging conversations for all.
On August 22, every secondary school will have the opportunity to experience what these school teams did on August 10th. Again thank you to Amanda, Mollie, and Melanie for your hard work in planning and leading yesterday. Thank you to the school teams for your engagement and questions. Schools have the opportunity, and should, make Academic and Career Planning their own while hold to the essential outcomes so students can learn about their strengths and build a plan for life-long success.
Dan Keyser
Director of Secondary Teaching and Learning
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