Individual Career and Academic Plan Lessons
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6th Grade ICAP
Completed: Aug to Oct
Academic- Students will learn about terms and semesters, standards-based report cards and the characteristics ad skills of a successful student.
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Academic- Students will learn their learning style preferences, how to leverage these strengths and how this connects to the world of career.
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Career- Students will explore careers after having completed the Holland’s Career Inventory and learning the varied careers that may interest them.
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Goals- Students will learn about SMART goal setting and how to make incremental progress towards their academic, career and college goals.
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7th Grade ICAP
Completed: Aug to Oct
Goals- Students will learn about after school extracurricular activities and the importance of being active in the community while creating a resume.
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Career- Students will learn the connection between their career interests and natural strengths after taking the StrengthsFinder.
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College- Students will learn about the benefits to attending any varied postsecondary option and how to pay for it.
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Academic- Students will explore their work values as well as their academic beliefs and mindsets and how to grow them through a hands on activity.
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8th Grade ICAP
Completed: Aug to Oct
Career- Students will learn their career interest cluster and prepare for the 8th Grade Career Fair.
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School Choice- Students will learn about their career interests and high school programming including courses and work-based programs aligned to their interests.
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College- Students will learn their options to earn college credit through DPS including ASCENT, Concurrent Enrollment, etc.
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Goals- Students will understand the various career paths in their identified areas and postsecondary paths and financial aid to support them.
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9th Grade ICAP
Completed: Aug to Oct
Graduation- Students will learn about their graduation requirements, options to graduate and how to plan for ongoing success through high school.
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Goals- Students will learn about the academic and involvement demands of college and scholarships and plan to expand their resume.
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Academic- Students will learn about high school structures, grade point averages (GPA) and their graduation requirements
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Career- Students will explore their career interests again and explore the career and postsecondary options available.
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10th Grade ICAP
Completed: Aug to Oct
Graduation- Students will track their progress towards graduation requirements, learn about their options and how to plan for success throughout their high school years.
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Career- Students will take a Career Interest Inventory and explore the careers and postsecondary paths as well as the high school opportunities available in your school.
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Goals- Students will expand their knowledge on and start to compare the career, college and financial aid options available around them.
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College- Students will learn more about their education options available after high school and how to pay for them, including the DSF scholarship.
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11th Grade ICAP
Completed: Aug to Oct
Graduation- Students will track their progress towards graduation requirements, learn about their options and how to plan for success throughout their high school years.
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Career- Students will learn about the varied careers they may be interested in and will write and plan towards building their resumes with extracurricular and work opportunities.
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Goals- Students will expand their knowledge of GPA, test scores and the importance of a strong college essay with all students writing a draft to be worked on further with their teachers.
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College- Students will learn and further explore their financial aid options including grants, loans and scholarships while starting scholarship applications.
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12th Grade ICAP
Completed: Aug to Oct
Graduation- Students will track their progress towards graduation requirements, learn about their options and how to plan for success throughout their high school years.
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College- Students will track completion towards college applications, FAFSA or other financial aid applications and scholarships and learn about financial aid letters.
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Goals- Students will research career expansion opportunities and financial literacy including earning outcomes while updating their resumes.
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Transitions- Students will track progress towards transitioning to college or the workforce with next steps and survey asking for support.
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ICAP Implementation Resources and Examples
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ICAP Resources for Implementation
For an overview of the ICAP, including presentations from trainings, the overall scope and sequence and the one-pager of the benefits of ICAP, please click here.
In order to assist schools in implementation for our many DPS students resources have been created and examples have been shared. Many schools struggle with the scheduling of these important lessons, so here are some examples of ICAP calendars.
Our students come from a vast aray of backgrounds, speaking various languages and contributing to our multicultural classrooms. In order to support students from other countries we have translated the MyICAP Survey into multiple other languages.
A large function of the ICAP is to support students in navigating their graduation requirements. As such, we have created Graduation Requirement Planning Tools which you can find here.
To assist in implementation each year it is important that schools and school counselors assess the effectiveness of the lessons with their students. In order to do this we have created ready to use Pre and Post Test graphs!
CONTACT
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Counseling and College Access
1860 Lincoln St., Room 917
Denver, CO 80203Samantha Haviland, Ph.D., NCC.
Executive Director of Career Development and Student Success
Samantha_Haviland@dpsk12.org
720-423-1232Site Manager
Miriam Linden
Miriam_Linden@dpsk12.org