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Choices Planner


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This year we have expanded our product line with a new online planning product, Choices Planner. Along with this addition, we have renamed our CX Online exploration product to Choices Explorer, and we renamed our Choices software-based planning product to Choices CD Edition.

While Choices Explorer excites young people about their future, building awareness of all their options for education and careers, Choices Planner is great for achieving the next step -- creating and confirming personalized plans to realize their potential.

Choices Planner provides personalized and dynamic planning resources to help students structure their learning. You get a full suite of assessments, plus the reporting tools to help them with the decisions that last a lifetime.

Better still, because it is all online, you no longer have to worry about waiting for the technician to install your product or worry about where to store student planning efforts.

Education and Career Planning
Just Got Easier


Students make a seamless transition from exploration to planning with common navigational tabs and a shared portfolio that align our Choices Explorer and Choices Planner products.

With Choices Planner, your students will experience comprehensive planning with powerful connections. Extensive databases and effortless navigation help students research new connections between schools, programs and careers. Choices Planner provides the most up-to-date, relevant and trusted education and occupational data you will find anywhere. The data is easy to find and easy to use. The Career Plan Builder and the Guideways will get them started planning and help keep them on track.

Six-Year Planner and Personalized Portfolio
Choices Planner stores students plans for the future and reports them to you. This six-year planning portfolio provides students with a personalized platform to start recording their efforts and interests in middle school and track their success through college and beyond. Integrated administrative reporting of planning outcomes for schools, districts and regions helps save you valuable time when reporting student success. Work is recorded from both Choices Explorer and Choices Planner.

Career Plan Builder
Busy counselors will love the Career Plan Builder in the Your Portfolio section. This tool prompts students through a step-by-step process that helps them build solid career and education plans quickly and easily. Users can create as many plans as they desire, and confirm their plans to be sure they're making the right choices.

Compare to Me... and Everything Else
Personalized and relevant, Choices Planner provides users with tools to develop self-awareness about aptitudes and preferences as they apply that knowledge to future goals. The ability to compare programs and occupations to one another and to personal assessment results helps users develop valuable insight and apply it to their plans.

Customizable Course Planning Tools
Adaptable to meet your requirements, Choices Planner includes a High School Planning module that fosters connections between your academic offerings and your students' plans. This focused planning is enhanced with customizable Guideways to help users achieve the outcomes you choose.

Achieve Greater Accountability Using Professional Resources
Find valuable resources, customization options and implementation ideas in the Choices Planner Professional section. Professionals have access to customization tools and portfolio administration tools by entering a special password found in the Choices Planner welcome letter.

Lesson Plans and Activities
Save time with valuable implementation ideas that help you integrate Choices Planner in your school. Our ready-made lesson plans and activities are useful ways to get your students started with Choices Planner.

Send Messages
E-mail students or their parents to keep them informed about student progress using Choices Planner.
 

That's Not All...
See what else Choices Planner has in store for you!

Coming Soon:

Work
Labor Market Info
  Choices Planner will default to the site's state-specific labor market information.
Learn
My School First
  Whenever post-secondary schools are listed, the schools in your state will be shown first, followed by schools in other states.
Portfolio
Localize the Career Plan Builder
  Allowing for more customized plans, local information can be entered into the Career Plan Builder.
Professional Tools
Statistics and Reporting
Obtain detailed insight on student progress and usage with Choices Planner statistics and reporting. Easily identify which students are building solid plans and which students are in need of counselor assistance.
Customization
Choices Planner gives you the flexibility to customize your program to provide a more effective, personalized planning experience. Add local information about careers, programs and school profiles, localize the description of various post-secondary paths, or edit high school course plans by customizing course names to those offered in your school.
New in September
Ability Profiler (Add-On Assessment)
The Ability Profiler is a computer-administered assessment designed to take full advantage of the psychometric, technical and operational enhancements in the latest (paper-pencil) O*NET Ability Profiler. It includes a comprehensive view of the test-taker's strengths in verbal ability, numerical aptitude, spatial perception, clerical perception and form perception.

Users can explore occupations that match their strengths and discover areas in which they may want to expand their training. The Ability Profiler must be purchased separately if you wish to install it with Choices Planner.

Choices Planner for Adults in Career Transitions
Career center clients will soon experience a new version of Choices Planner designed specifically for them. Choices Planner for Adults in Career Transitions will introduce useful new tools and more mature graphics and language customized for adult users. New features include a Work History tool, Job Search Activities and modified professional reports.

Career center clients can log in to Choices Planner for Adults in Career Transitions at www.access.bridges.com/ct.

More to Look Forward to
This Fall...
 

Guideways
Practical and easy to follow, a Guideway is a self-directed tool that suggests next steps for users based on what they've started or completed.

The Guideways modules provide relevant guidance and document progress in a mini-portfolio as users make their way through the program.

Users choose which Guideway best suits their objectives -- three Guideways are available for high school students, and two for adults.

Work
 
Cover Letter Builder
  Students will be able to write effective cover letters using the Cover Letter Builder tool.
   
Other States' Labor Market Information
  Sites may request that labor market information for other states be available.
   
Spanish Interest Profiler
  Spanish-speaking users can quickly and easily complete the many Interest Profiler questions.
   
Career Websites
  Users can link to relevant websites for the careers of interest to them.
   
Job Bank Links
  Users can find available careers by linking to job banks.
 
 
Learn
   
Write Letters
  Students can find assistance writing letters to schools and for financial aid applications.
   
Scholarship Information
  Find everything a student needs to know about scholarships, including profiles and data, plus links between programs and scholarships.
 
 
Portfolio
   
  SCANS Skills
  Users can document skills with the SCANS Skills (Necessary Skills) module.
   
Import Information
  Import a Career Futures or Choices CD session file into Choices Planner. Students can review careers and programs saved in Choices Explorer, which are now stored in their common portfolio.
   
Add Links
  Students can personalize their portfolio by adding links to personal documents or relevant websites.
 
 
Professional Tools
   
Education Planning Assistant
  This saves time by tracking students' work and automatically creating statements ideal for Individual Education Plans and general education and transition planning.
   
Track Guideway Usage
  This new accountability option provides you with the ability to track users' progress through Guideways.
   
Implementation Models
  Find valuable ways to get the most effective use out of your Choices Planner subscription.
   
Add Local Information
  Customize Choices Planner for your site by adding local information to relevant sections.

 
 

   

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