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Academic and Career Planning (ACP) and Education for Employment (E4E)

Academic and Career Planning (ACP) and Education for Employment (E4E) is intended to equip students enrolled in the School District of Marshfield and their families, with tools to make more informed choices about post-secondary education, apprenticeships, and careers after high school. Well- executed academic and career planning combines academic preparation with career awareness, exploration, and planning activities, which are intentionally integrated into students’ school experiences.

The primary goal of ACP and E4E:

✔ Empower students to make well-informed decisions about their future education and career paths
✔ Blend academic readiness with career awareness and exploration, ensuring students are well-prepared for life after high school
✔ Align students’ academic and course choice efforts with their interests and career aspirations, fostering a smoother transition to post-secondary opportunities

Browse our website to explore Academic & Career Planning resources, career pathways, post-secondary options, labor market insights, and opportunities for real-world learning through internships, apprenticeships, and community engagement. Your future starts here!

Why is ACP Important?

 

Vision of a Graduate

All students will graduate "College and Career Ready" which means they will:
  • Understand how their unique strengths and interests align to a wide variety of future opportunities 
  • Prepare and maintain a personal plan for goal attainment that provides flexibility based on individual experiences 
  • Develop a general understanding of how the problem-solving process has been applied to innovate, invent, design, and build products and systems in a variety of environments/industries 
  • Effectively be able to navigate both the world of higher education and employment to support a transition to adulthood 
  • Possess confidence in their level of mastery in their knowledge, dispositions, and skills in relation to their personal and career goals
We support the vision of our graduate by:
  • Providing developmentally appropriate opportunities to learn and demonstrate required/desired knowledge, skills, and dispositions 
  • Guiding all students through the academic and career planning process 
  • Supporting students as they strive to master required, desired coursework 
  • Encouraging active engagement in extra-curricular activities and career-based learning programs 
  • Collaborating with partners to provide exposure to multiple industries and careers
  • Aligning curriculum to a variety of post-secondary opportunities

Frequently Asked Questions

ACP & E4E Questions & Answers
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ACP Components

Each student’s Academic and Career Plan (ACP) documents his/her unique personal, academic, social and career goals and the action plans to achieve those goals. Students are not required to declare their career choice nor required to abide by their original goals or plans throughout the process. Parents/guardians and students should understand Academic and Career Planning is an ongoing process whereas school staff, families, community members, and students use career exploration and activities to learn more about themselves and how their personal strengths and interests connect to future goals. Frequent review and revision of a student’s choices and plan is encouraged as part of the ACP process to ensure more thoughtful decision-making.

Below are components of an Academic and Career Plan:

Assessment Results

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✔ State accountability and other data

Learning Styles/Personality Traits

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✔ Learning Styles Inventory

Career-Based Learning Experiences

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✔ Co-ops, Internships, Work-Based Learning, Youth Apprenticeship, Pathway Partners

✔ Career-prep Activities (Field Trips)

Industry-Recognized Certificates

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✔ Assistant Child Care Teacher

✔ Automotive Service Excellence

✔ Child Services

✔ CISCO Intro to Networking

✔ CISCO IT Essentials

✔ CISCO Routing & Switching

✔ Microsoft Office Specialist

✔ Nursing Assistant

✔ Shaken Baby Syndrome

✔ Abusive Head Trauma (SIDS)

✔ ServSafe

✔ OSHA 10

✔ Youth Leadership

Programs of Study

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✔ Career Clusters/Pathways

✔ Course Handbook

Service Learning

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✔ Volunteering

✔ Youth Service Learning

Co-Curriculars

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✔ Clubs

✔ Athletics

✔ Arts

Financial Plan

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✔ Consumer & Personal Finance course

✔ Financial Aid Night

✔ Scholarships

Post-HS Options

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✔ Employment, Apprenticeship, Military

✔ Technical College, University

 

 

PI 26 and Education for Employment

PI 26, Education for Employment (E4E), is a Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (DPI) initiative designed to prepare students for both college and career pathways. The School District of Marshfield provides E4E services in tandem with ACP services. PI 26/E4E centers around the integration of career and technical education (CTE) within the K-12 curriculum, fostering career awareness starting at the elementary level and expanding to career exploration and planning in the middle and high school. PI 26/E4E also emphasizes collaboration with local businesses, post secondary institutions, and community organizations to provide real-world learning experiences, such as career based-learning and apprenticeships.

PI 26, Education for Employment provides learning opportunities to students in the School District of Marshfield in the following areas:

 

Elementary

Career Awareness

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  • Understanding why people work;
  • Knowing kinds of conditions under which people work;
  • Exposure to the levels of training and education needed for work;
  • Common expectations for employees in the workplace;
  • Understanding how expectations at school are related to expectations in the world of work;
  • Understanding the relationship between school academics/subject content and careers.

Middle School

Career Exploration

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  • Gaining knowledge about the range of different careers, including the various work settings, tasks, and roles involved in each one;
  • How a pupil’s personal interests and skills relate to careers.

High School

Career Planning and Preparation

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  • Conducting career research;
  • Work-based learning experiences;
  • Instruction in career decision making;
  • Instruction in practical application of academics, technology, economics, including personal finance;
  • Access to career and technical education programs, including technical colleges;
  • Access to accurate local, regional, and state labor market information;
  • Instruction and experience in developing and refining the skills and behaviors needed to obtain employment.