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.

Why Academic & Career Planning? 

We want to ensure that our students graduate and enter our community ready to tackle all of the challenges and opportunities they will be faced with in their adulthood. When they leave our schools, we want them to be successful in entering a career or a post-secondary institution, and have the skills to modify their plans and goals as they journey through life.

Mission

Empower ALL students to travel the road to adulthood through education and training to careers

Vision

Reimagining K-12 education to equip students with meaningful and supportive adult relationships, and the ability to adapt to opportunities and challenges on their personalized journeys to successful lives.

Our Academic & Career Plan

At the School District of Holmen, our Academic and Career Plan focuses around four major themes:

Know: Knowing yourself - your interests, your skills and abilities, and how you learn and work best
Explore: Exploring all of the opportunities available to you, and revisiting those options often
Plan: Creating a plan to reach your goals and take advantage of opportunities available to you, and revising this plan as often as necessary
Go: Make your plans a dreams into a reality, and recalculate as needed

Some hallmarks of our Academic & Career Plan include Individualized Planning, Family Involvement, Community Participation, Education for Employment and Access for ALL students.

School District of Holmen Education for Employment Plan

School District of Holmen Academic and Career Plan

WI State Statute 121.02/PI-26

Xello

Xello is a web-based career exploration and planning tool used through middle school and high school* by your son or daughter to explore career and college options and develop and career plan. Xello can be accessed from school, home, or wherever there is access to the Internet.

Features of the program include:

• Interest and Skills Assessments - to help identify suitable career options based on their interests and skills
• Career Profiles - thorough and up to date information about different occupations, including direct links between careers and related college programs
• Multimedia Interviews - interviews with real people in occupations 
• College & University Information -  comprehensive college and university information, with useful search tools 
• Communication Platform - teachers and counselors can post important links and documents, make announcements, and create assignments
• Resume Builder - integrated with the portfolio to help students create a resume 

*Some of these items may be used only in middle school, only in high school, or during both middle and high school.

Xello is the electronic portfolio service that Wisconsin selected to house each student's Academic and Career Plan. Throughout their time in high school, students will continue the work they began in middle school. They will participate in various activities to learn more about their own skills and abilities, explore potential career options for their future, and plan for how to reach their post-secondary education and career options. This will all be gathered in their electronic portfolio so that students and families can reflect upon this information when planning for course registrations, paths of study, and post-secondary education or career.