Academic and Career Planning

Overview:

The elementary component of My Pirate Path is designed to help students begin discovering their interests, strengths, and connections between learning and the world around them. Through career-connected learning experiences, students will build early awareness of future opportunities while developing important academic, personal, and transferable skills.

Elementary “Engage” Capstone Experience: 

• Students will engage in authentic tasks to demonstrate their skills
  • 4th grade capstone project (school-based choice project).

Overview:

At Lineville Intermediate School, My Pirate Path helps students continue building connections between academics, personal strengths, career exploration, and future opportunities. Through career-connected learning experiences, students begin to take greater ownership of their learning while developing important skills in reflection, collaboration, goal setting, and communication.

A key component of the Lineville experience is the My Pirate Path Capstone Project. Teams engage in projects that are a student-driven experience designed to empower every learner to pursue meaningful work aligned to their passions; intentionally applying and deepening Graduate Profile skills through authentic career and community connected opportunities. Through purposeful feedback, reflection, and evidence curation, students make their learning visible by demonstrating growth about who they are becoming as learners, leaders, and contributors.

Lineville “Connect and Apply” Capstone Experience: 

• Students connect and apply skills within authentic learning tasks and student-led projects.
• Pirate Path Leadership Team event.

Overview:

At Bay View Middle School, My Pirate Path expands students’ academic and career planning experiences through deeper career exploration, hands-on learning, and increased student voice and choice. Students continue building connections between their interests, skills, academic experiences, and future opportunities while developing greater independence and readiness for high school. Career-connected learning is embedded throughout the Bay View experience, helping students explore a variety of industries, pathways, and real-world challenges.

By the end of your time at Bay View Middle School, students will:

• 7th grade:
  • Successfully complete the College and Career Readiness course (CCR 7).
  • Start their My Pirate Path portfolio, including Graduate Profile reflections.

• 8th grade:
  • Successfully complete the College and Career Readiness course (CCR 8).
  • Successfully complete the Business course.
  • Attend the Find Your Inspiration event.
  • Add components to the My Pirate Path portfolio, including a four-year plan for Bay Port High School and a resume.
  • Attend informational sessions with Bay Port staff to learn more about opportunities at the high school.
  • Attend Mind Trekkers at NWTC (optional).

Overview:

At Bay Port High School, My Pirate Path helps students connect their academic experiences, personal strengths, career interests, and postsecondary goals through meaningful career-connected learning opportunities. As students prepare for life beyond high school, the program emphasizes future readiness, student ownership, career exploration, and real-world skill development.

Career-connected learning will be embedded across the high school experience through classroom instruction, Pirate Path Homeroom, career readiness activities, and authentic community partnerships. Students will engage in experiences that help them explore pathways, develop professional skills, and prepare for college, careers, and life after graduation.

By the end of your time at Bay Port High School, students will:

• 9th Grade:
  • Continue work on the My Pirate Path portfolio.
  • Identify three careers of interest.
  • Identify two goals.
  • Update their four-year academic plan.
  • Complete 9th grade Xello lessons in Pirate Time/Advisory.
     
• 10th Grade:
  • Identify three careers and three majors of interest.
  • Identify three goals. 
  • Update their four-year academic plan.
  • Complete 10th grade Xello lessons in Pirate Time/Advisory.
     
• 11th Grade:
  • Identify three of each: careers, majors, college.
  • Identify three goals.
  • Update their four-year academic plan.
  • Create a professional resume.
  • Complete 11th grade Xello lessons in Pirate Time/Advisory.

• 12th Grade:
  • Identify three of each: careers, majors, college.
  • Update colleges and scholarships.
  • Request transcripts.
  • Complete 12th grade Xello lessons in Pirate Time/Advisory.
     

Bay Port “Leverage” Capstone Experience:
Students leverage skills in authentic learning and within specific career and community experiences. Examples could include (not limited to):

• My Pirate Path Portfolio expo
• Youth Apprenticeship
• School based enterprise (school store)
• Supervised Agricultural Experience
• Career and Technical Student Organizations (CTSO) projects (DECA, Educators Rising, FFA, Robotics, Club, Skills USA)
• Community-based learning experiences (Scouts of America, club sports/activities, community theater, religious organizations)

College and Career Readiness Learning Opportunities at Bay Port:

• Job fair (spring)
• Classroom speakers and company tours
• Career-related project 
• College and Career Readiness Options family night
• Lunch and Learns (specified pathways)
• College visit field trips
• College representatives and military recruitment in Student Services
• Dual credit, AP, and IB courses
• College application and scholarship support (via Xello)
• “Adulting 101” in Pirate Time for seniors
• Career related volunteering or service learning
• Resume session for juniors
• Mock interview sessions
• Reality Day event (in partnership with a local financial institution)