Grades K-12

Academic Development

Career Development

Students will understand the relationship between personal qualities, education, training and the world of work.

Personal/Social Development

Students will acquire the attitudes, knowledge and skills that contribute to effective learning in school and across the life span.

Students will complete school with the academic preparation essential to choose from a wide range of substantial post-secondary options, including college.

Students will understand the relationship of academics to the world of work and to life at home and in the community.

Students will acquire the skills to investigate the world of work in relation to knowledge of self and to make informed career decisions.

Students will employ strategies to achieve future career goals with success and satisfaction.

Acquire Knowledge to Achieve Career Goals

Apply Skills to Achieve Career Goals

Students will acquire the knowledge, attitudes and interpersonal skills to help them understand and respect self and others.

Students will make decisions, set goals and take necessary action to achieve goals.

Students will understand safety and survival skills.

Improve Academic Self-concept

Acquire Skills for Improving Learning 

Achieve School Success

Improve learning

Plan to Achieve Goals

Relate School to Life Experiences

Develop Career Awareness

Develop Employment Readiness

Acquire Career Information

Identify Career Goals

Understand the relationship between educational achievement and career success

Explain how work can help to achieve personal success and satisfaction

Identify personal preferences and interests influencing career choice and success

Understand that the changing workplace requires lifelong learning and acquiring new skills

Describe the effect of work on lifestyle

Understand the importance of equity and access in career choice

Understand that work is an important and satisfying means of personal expression

Demonstrate how interests, abilities and achievement relate to achieving personal, social, educational and career goals

Learn how to use conflict management skills with peers and adults

Learn to work cooperatively with others as a team member

Apply academic and employment readiness skills in workbased learning situations such as internships, shadowing and/or mentoring experiences

Acquire Self-knowledge

Acquire Interpersonal Skills

Self-knowledge Application

Acquire Personal Safety Skills

Articulate feelings of competence and confidence as learners 

Display a positive interest in learning

Take pride in work and achievement

Accept mistakes as essential to the learning process

Identify attitudes and behaviors that lead to successful learning

Apply time-management and task-management skills

Demonstrate how effort and persistence positively affect learning

Use communications skills to know when and how to ask for help when needed

Apply knowledge and learning styles to positively influence school performance

 Take responsibility for their actions

Demonstrate the ability to work independently, as well as the ability to work cooperatively with other students

Develop a broad range of interests and abilities 

Demonstrate dependability, productivity and initiative

Share knowledge

Demonstrate the motivation to achieve individual potential

Learn and apply critical-thinking skills 

Apply the study skills necessary for academic success at each level

Seek information and support from faculty, staff, family and peers

Organize and apply academic information from a variety of sources

Use knowledge of learning styles to positively influence school performance

Become a self-directed and independent learner

Establish challenging academic goals in elementary, middle/ jr. high and high school

Use assessment results in educational planning

Develop and implement annual plan of study to maximize academic ability and achievement

Apply knowledge of aptitudes and interests to goal setting

Use problem-solving and decision-making skills to assess progress toward educational goals

Understand the relationship between classroom performance and success in school

Identify post-secondary options consistent with interests, achievement, aptitude and abilities

Demonstrate the ability to balance school, studies, extracurricular activities, leisure time and family life 

Seek co-curricular and community experiences to enhance the school experience 

Understand the relationship between learning and work

Demonstrate an understanding of the value of lifelong learning as essential to seeking, obtaining and maintaining life goals

Understand that school success is the preparation to make the transition from student to community member

Understand how school success and academic achievement enhance future career and vocational opportunities

Develop skills to locate, evaluate and interpret career information

 Learn about the variety of traditional and nontraditional occupations

Develop an awareness of personal abilities, skills, interests and motivations

Learn how to interact and work cooperatively in teams

Learn to make decisions

Learn how to set goals

Understand the importance of planning

Pursue and develop competency in areas of interest

Develop hobbies and vocational interests

Acquire employability skills such as working on a team, problem-solving and organizational skills

Apply job readiness skills to seek employment opportunities

Demonstrate knowledge about the changing workplace

Learn about the rights and responsibilities of employers and employees

Learn to respect individual uniqueness in the workplace

Learn how to write a résumé

Develop a positive attitude toward work and learning

Understand the importance of responsibility, dependability, punctuality, integrity and effort in the workplace

Utilize time- and task-management skills

Apply decision-making skills to career planning, course selection and career transition

Identify personal skills, interests and abilities and relate them to current career choice

Demonstrate knowledge of the career-planning process

Know the various ways in which occupations can be classified

Use research and information resources to obtain career information

Learn to use the Internet to access career-planning information

Describe traditional and nontraditional career choices and how they relate to career choice

Understand how changing economic and societal needs influence employment trends and future training

Demonstrate awareness of the education and training needed to achieve career goals

Assess and modify their educational plan to support career

Use employability and job readiness skills in internship, mentoring, shadowing and/or other work experience

Select course work that is related to career interests

Maintain a career-planning portfolio

Develop positive attitudes toward self as a unique and worthy person

Identify values, attitudes and beliefs

Learn the goal-setting process

 Understand change is a part of growth

 Identify and express feelings

Distinguish between appropriate and inappropriate behavior

Recognize personal boundaries, rights and privacy needs

 Understand the need for self-control and how to practice it

Demonstrate cooperative behavior in groups

Identify personal strengths and assets

Identify and discuss changing personal and social roles

Identify and recognize changing family roles

Recognize that everyone has rights and responsibilities

Respect alternative points of view

Recognize, accept, respect and appreciate individual differences

Recognize, accept and appreciate ethnic and cultural diversity

Recognize and respect differences in various family configurations

Use effective communications skills

Know that communication involves speaking, listening and nonverbal behavior

Learn how to make and keep friends

Use a decision-making and problem-solving model

Understand consequences of decisions and choices

Identify alternative solutions to a problem

Develop effective coping skills for dealing with problems

 Demonstrate when, where and how to seek help for solving problems and making decisions

Know how to apply conflict resolution skills

Demonstrate a respect and appreciation for individual and cultural differences

Know when peer pressure is influencing a decision

Identify long- and short-term goals

Identify alternative ways of achieving goals

Use persistence and perseverance in acquiring knowledge and skills

Develop an action plan to set and achieve realistic goals

Demonstrate knowledge of personal information (i.e., telephone number, home address, emergency contact)

Learn about the relationship between rules, laws, safety and the protection of rights of the individual

Learn about the differences between appropriate and inappropriate physical contact

Demonstrate the ability to set boundaries, rights and personal privacy

Differentiate between situations requiring peer support and situations requiring adult professional help

Identify resource people in the school and community, and know how to seek their help

 Apply effective problem-solving and decision-making skills to make safe and healthy choices

Learn about the emotional and physical dangers of substance use and abuse

Learn how to cope with peer pressure

Learn techniques for managing stress and conflict

Learn coping skills for managing life events