Academic and Career Planning, or ACP, is a student-driven, adult-supported process in which students create and cultivate their own unique and information-based visions for post-secondary success, obtained through self-exploration, career exploration, and the development of career management and planning skills.

What ACP means for Wrightstown Community School District:

Academic and Career Planning in Wrightstown is centered around student's journey to get to know themselves, explore their possibilities and plan for their future.  The goal is for students to go out into the world with self-awareness, good planning for their future, and the skills to become productive citizens. 

Why ACP?

It is good for students! ACP is based on student's interests, abilities, goals, and values. ACP is a cultural shift where the purpose of education is to use a process where students and parents make informed choices about education, training, and careers. This process requires a great deal of self-awareness, exploration, and planning for the future in an effort to help graduates go into their future with the best opportunities to achieve education and career goals while maximizing financial investment. ACP is focused on all post-secondary routes, including military, apprenticeship, certification, technical college, and university. 

In addition to the benefit to students and their future, the PI26 legislation requires public school districts to provide academic and career planning services to students in grades 6 through 12 beginning in the 2017/2018 school year.  These new academic and career planning requirements connect school districts education for employment plans and programs to the new academic and career planning requirements.  

Academic and career planning provides a platform for all students to develop an awareness of self as it relates to their interests, skills, and strengths. This awareness of self sets the foundation for ongoing exploration of in-demand career pathways and relevant educational opportunities.

Through ongoing and collaborative conversations with parents, educators, and community members, students will be empowered to develop an academic and career plan that documents and guides their journey through grades 6-12 and beyond.

As each student navigates through this process, they will be exposed to many different possibilities along with information and skills necessary to explore these possibilities.

District educators are trained to support students for all pathways they explore. The ACP process supports our state and district mission of equipping all students with the knowledge, skills, and habits to be college, career and community ready as well as inspired to succeed in our diverse world.

The term ACP refers to both a process that helps students engage in academic and career development activities as well as a product that is created and maintained for students' academic, career, and personal achievement.

ACP is a student-driven, ongoing process for students in grades 6th through 12th where students are actively engaged to do the following:

• Understand their own interests, strengths, values, and learning styles

• Create a vision for their future

• Develop individual goals

• Prepare a personal plan for achieving their vision and goals

ACP can be described in the following video from WI DPI:  https://youtu.be/C4zalFqeRGI

Services provided to students:

All students in grades 6-12 are part of Academic and Career Planning. The process and services that are provided multiple times throughout 6th - 12th grade are:

• 6th-12th Career planning through online tool called Career Cruising

• Career Conferencing at Grades 4, 8, 9, and 10th

• Personal Reflections, Goal setting

• Career Pathway and Cluster Exploration

• Career Research, Interest, and Reflection

• Career Interest Inventories

• Learning Style Inventories

• Career Fairs

• Ongoing Communication with Families

• and so much more....

Parent Engagement:

The Career Exploration Platform used at Wrightstown, called Career Cruising, has a parent portal. This allows parents to see their child's portfolio, assessment results, saved occupations, resume and more. We encourage all parents/guardians to set up their account and take time to engage in conversations and explore right alongside their child.  

Follow this link to set up your Parent account through career cruising: 

https://www.careercruising.com/parent/

Parents will need an activation code to set up their account, there are two ways to obtain this: 

1. From your child: Your son or daughter can send you an email invitation with an access code from their career cruising account

2. From your child's school: You can request one from your child's school counselor

As part of the PI-26 legislation that requires Academic and Career Planning to take place in all public schools in the state of Wisconsin, each school district must provide evidence of their implementation of PI-26. Below you will find the Wrightstown Community School District PI-26 evidence of implementation. 

Wrightstown School District ACP Long Range Plan