Individual Career and Academic Plan (ICAP)

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Individual Career and Academic Plan (ICAP)

• Why is it?
• What does it look like for Colorado?
• How do we best utilize it?

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The What The WhyICAP
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Colorados Current Pipeline
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Recent Relevant Education Reform Initiatives

• Colorado Achievement Plan for Kids(CAP4K)
• Concurrent Enrollment
• School Counselor Corps Grant Program
• Accountability Alignment
• Dropout Prevention and Student Reengagement
• Individual Career and Academic Plans

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• Real Partnerships
• Common purpose united and expanded our
  partnerships!

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1.00 Statement of Basis and Purpose

• Pursuant to SB 09-256, the State Board of
  Education is required to promulgate rules to
  establish standards for Individual Career and
  Academic Plans (ICAP) for students enrolled in
  public schools in the state. The intent of this
  provision in the legislation is to ultimately
  decrease dropout rates and increase graduation
  rates by assisting students in developing and
  maintaining a personalized postsecondary plan
  that ensures readiness for postsecondary and
  workforce success.
• An ICAP shall be designed to assist a student and
  his or her parent or legal guardian in exploring
  the postsecondary career and educational
  opportunities available to the student, aligning
  course work and curriculum, applying to
  postsecondary education institutions, securing
  financial aid and ultimately entering the
  workforce.

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Individual Career and Academic Plans Rules
Review

• Individual Career and Academic Plans Legislative
  review
• Documentation of the students efforts in
  exploring careers, including
• A written postsecondary and workforce goal for
  the student yearly benchmarks for reaching that
  goal interest surveys that the student
  completes and anticipated postsecondary studies
• The students academic progress including the
  courses taken, any remediation or credit recovery
  and any concurrent enrollment credits earned
• An intentional sequence of courses reflecting
  progress toward accomplishment of the students
  postsecondary and workforce objectives
• Relevant assessment scores

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Individual Career and Academic Plans Rules
Review

• The students plans for and experiences in
  Contextual and Service Learning, if applicable
• A record of the students college applications or
  alternative applications as they are prepared
  and submitted
• The students postsecondary studies as the
  student progresses through high school
• The students progress toward securing
  scholarships, work-study, student loans and
  grants
• Other data reflecting student progress toward
  postsecondary and workforce readiness, including
  the students understanding of the financial
  impact of postsecondary education.
• Each ICAP is accessible to educators, students,
  parents legal guardians, and Approved
  Postsecondary Service Providers and
• Each ICAP portfolio shall be transferable in
  print or electronic form for internal and
  external district use so that when a student
  transfers from one school or district to another,
  his/ her career and academic plans follow
  him/her
• Each public school, in assisting students and
  parents in creating and maintaining ICAPs shall
  comply with the requirements of the Federal
  Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of
  1974, 20 U.S.C. 1232g.

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The ICAP journey
Logo vernacular borrowed from CDE Academic
Standards
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School Culture is shifting So much Vocabulary!

• Post Secondary Plan
• MyCAP (My Career and Academic Plan)
• ICAP (Individual Career and Academic Plan)
• Personal Education Plan
• Transition Plan
• Five year (six year, seven year) Plan
• Cluster, Pathway, Plan of Study, PWR, IEP, CiC
• And more

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Our world of Work

• 20th Century 21st Century

1 2 Jobs
10 15 Jobs
of Jobs
Flexibility And Adaptability
Mastery of One Field
Job Skill
Integration of 21st Century Skills into Subject
Matter Mastery
Subject Matter Mastery
Learning Model
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Seamless Transitions
Learning Earning Living
Career Development Journey
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The Potential of Individual Career Academic
Plans (ICAP)

• Creates Relevant Middle High School
  Experience
• Builds Personal, Social Academic momentum
• Allow for Learn Earn opportunities within
  Career Pathways
• Increases Intentional Concurrent Enrollment
  Process.
• Enhances the Career Development Journey

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Who else is doing this?
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How about us?
Denver Public Schools Jefferson County Adams
County Boulder Harrison Eagle County Western
Slope San Luis Valley Gunnison Estes Park Douglas
County Trinidad Montezuma-Cortez Arkansas
Valley Falcon Colorado Springs D11 Northeastern
BOCES Eastern BOCES
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RESOURCES and TOOLS www.collegeincolorado.org w
ww.coloradostateplan.com/counselors.htm www.cicp
artnernetwork.org
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Blue Whales take 3-5 minutes to turn 180 degrees!
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• If 15-20 of Sardines commit to a
  direction, all others will turn and go with
  them almost instantaneously.

- Doug Manning
Find your Sardines because its best for
students!
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How to reach us

• Scott Stump, Dean of CTE
• Scott.Stump_at_cccs.edu
• Charles Dukes, Senior Consultant CDE
• dukes_c_at_cde.state.co.us
• Julia Pirnack, Web Curriculum Developer, CiC
• Julia.Pirnack_at_cic.state.co.us
• Lauren Jones, CTE-Career Guidance Trainer
• lauren.jones_at_cccs.edu

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