1. Kentucky Department of Education
Kentucky Increases College Awareness Through Student Individual Learning Plans (ILPs)
Kentucky Department of Education

2. What is the ILP- Individual Learning Plan?
Online education and career planning tool that can be accessed from any internet connection
Students can see how course selection impacts individual college and career goals.
Free to all public schools in Kentucky that house grades
6-12

3. History of ILP
Legislation required all 8th-12th graders to have a paper Individual Graduation Plan (IGP) in Minimum HS graduation requirements
IGPs were under utilized and not interactive
Research began in 2002 to improve the functionality of the IGP
KY contracted with Career Cruising to create the KY ILP
The web-enabled ILP was introduced to schools in Fall 2006/07.

4. ILP Legislation
A completed ILP is required within the Kentucky Regulation 704 KAR 3:305 – Minimum High School Graduation Requirements Regulation

5. ILP Increases College Awareness
Students:
complete Career Matchmaker
explore careers of choice and save careers of interest
explore colleges and technical schools that support their career choices
learn about financing for college

6. Career Matchmaker
The ILP is fully integrated with the Career Cruising career guidance system.
Students rate their interest in various work tasks.

7. Career Matchmaker Results
Students can save their results from the Career Matchmaker interest inventory and return at a later date to explore more.
Students receive a list of 40 career suggestions, by KY Career Clusters, that are ranked in order of personal suitability

8. My Skills
My Skills is an inventory assessment that asks students to rate their level of skill in 45 areas. Once students have completed the assessment, icons indicating the level of skill suitability will appear beside the career names in the Matchmaker Career
Suggestions.

9. Career Exploration
Students can search careers by title (alphabetically), school subject, career clusters, military careers or use the career selector to input a variety of criteria ie. Make selections for each of the above options.

10. Career Exploration
The Career Exploration component provides educational requirements, possible career paths and video interviews of two people in the career.
Students can save and/or print information about specific careers.
Links are provided to post-secondary institutions that offer programs that support the career.

11. Career Exploration
Students can see the questions and responses that created the Career Matchmaker list.
Photo files and video interviews are available for all careers.

12. Search by Index
There are multiple pathways for students to research careers.
Students can also search for a career using the alphabetical index.

13. Career Exploration-Related Jobs
Additional related jobs are listed for all careers.
Students cruise from these hotlinks to explore more careers.

14. Career Exploration-Education
Students can view the educational requirements for each career in which they are interested. This is powerful information as it provides a “heads up” to students regarding their ability to guide themselves on a career path.

15. College Exploration
Students can see which colleges offer programs that will support their career goals. With this tool they can begin their college search from their computer by identifying programs that meet their size, location and cost criteria.

16. Employment Guide
To further enhance the career exploration of students Career Cruising has added an Employment Guide provides students with valuable advice for all stages of the work search. From developing a job search plan, to writing a resume and cover letter, to preparing for that important interview, through to the first day on the job, our Employment Guide will lead students step-by-step along the way.
The Employment Guide was developed in partnership with University of Waterloo (uWaterloo) Center for Career Action, and contains elements of uWaterloo’s Career Development eManual. The eManual is a comprehensive, 6 step exercise and activity guide that will prompt you to evaluate your professional skills, interests, values and personal characteristics, as well as your employment and lifestyle goals in order to map out a career path that is right for you. Find out more about what uWaterloo’s Career Development eManual can do for you, and how to subscribe.

17. Exploring Schools
School search includes undergraduate programs, Career and Technical Schools and Graduate schools. The ILP is not just for secondary schools, this tool can be used throughout a person’s education and career.
Students can also complete a side-by-side comparison of schools they are interested in.

18. Exploring Schools Admissions requirements Estimated expenses
Student life: clubs
School type: 4 year private
Setting: rural, city, small town, etc..
Student body: total students and total undergraduate students
Faculty: full time, part time and student-faculty ratio
Credentials awarded: degrees and certificates
Data Source: Peterson's Undergraduate, Vocational & Technical Programs, and Graduate Institution-Level licensed data sets. Blank entries indicate that data was not reported. To confirm data or receive more details, please contact the institution directly.

19. The ILP is a valuable tool for career planning as well as college planning.
Assessment records
Education Plan
Career Planning Activities
Goals and Plans
Hobbies and Interest reflection
Activities, Awards and Recognition record
Resume Builder
Work Experience record
Community Service record
Career Cluster Interest reflection
Learning Services record
The ILP is a “one stop shop” for students to plan life after high school, whether that includes college or not. In addition, students can maintain access to their ILP for the rest of their lives- as long as there is activity at least ONCE every 5 years the ILP remains active.
As students move, change careers or obtain additional training/education they can maintain up-to-date records that are accessible with a few key strokes.

20. Learning Styles

21. Education Plan
The Education Plan allows students to record the high school courses they have taken, are taking now, or plan to take in the future.
Schools can use this section to help students to create a course schedule that meets their career and educational goals
School courses are linked to Kentucky’s universal course codes to allow reporting at the school, district, and state level.
Data from the Education Plan can be used to forecast course demand.

22. Career Cluster Interests
Kentucky’s 14 Career Clusters have been integrated in a variety of ways.
Clicking on the name of a cluster takes students to a page with a brief description of that cluster as well as links to related career profiles.
Students can indicate which clusters are of particular interest and record personal perspectives.

23. Career Planning Activities
Students can document the career planning and development activities in which they have participated, including job shadowing, attending career or college fairs, internships and co-op placements.
The list of available activities has been customized for Kentucky. It is also tailored for middle school and high school students

24. Extracurricular Activities
In the Organizations & Activities section, students can detail the structured extracurricular activities in which they participate.
The Hobbies & Interests section allows students to record the informal or independent activities that they enjoy.

25. Community Service Learning
Students can document their community service learning experiences, including the number of hours they have completed and the name of their reference or supervisor.
Related files, such as a letters of reference or timesheets, can be uploaded and linked to particular records.
Students can also enter their work experience in the same fashion

26. ILP Completion Standards
ILP Completion Standards clearly define the objectives and expectations for students.
With the ILP Completion Status Bar, students can view requirements and track their progress towards meeting those specific objectives.
Completion Standards help ensure that students keep their ILPs up to date. Each year students must review and revise the required sections of their ILP and reflect on the changes they have made to achieve completion.
ILP Completion Standards are set on a grade by grade basis. The ILP is a progressive experience for students as they build their plan over time.

27. Resume Builder
The ILP also includes a Resume Builder, which takes information students have already entered and helps them create a customized resume.
Students can select a variety of styles and can select the order in which the sections appear, allowing them to create chronological, functional or combined format resumes.
The resume can be printed from a web browser or exported as a Word, text, or html file.

28. ILP Engages Parents View their students ILP
Leave comments for students in various sections of ILP
Access from any web browser
Connect with students on a new level
Parents have access to a variety of components of the ILP. Parent access is “read only” with the exception of leaving comments for their child’s advisor.

29. Parent View
Parents see what their student has in ILP and can leave comments on all pages, including the homepage.

30. Parent View-Comments
Parent comments can be sent to the child’s advisor for a response

31. Parent View-Career Matchmaker

32. Parent View-Schools of Interest

33. Printable View

34. School ILP Administration Tool
Retrieve student ILP usernames and passwords.
View individual students’ ILPs
Create and manage advisor accounts to ensure that staff have access to the features and information that they need
In the helpful documents section of the Administrator Tool can be found a user’s guide, classroom activities, hand-outs that can be used for a variety of audiences (teachers, counselors, parents and community stakeholders) well as archived recordings of webinars so that administrators can refresh their understanding of specific components and how to use them.

35. School ILP Administration Tool
Monitor ILP Completion Status both individually and at the aggregate level
Generate a wide variety of customizable reports for every data element included in the ILP, including Student Survey Results
Send messages to students and add links to the ILP Homepage
Completion status can be viewed by school year, advisor, grade, gender or ethnicity.

36. School ILP Administration Tool
Integration with Infinite Campus facilitates student information management for the schools.
Students are added, transferred, and promoted automatically

37. The Student List
The Student List provides access to a number of options:
Retrieve student usernames and passwords
View ILPs or resumes
View or add to Advisement Logs
Record Annual ILP Review
View detailed completion status reports
Create and view parent accounts, comments, and review status
Send messages to individual students or groups of student
Export the Student List to distribute usernames and passwords, to create checklists, or other purposes for which you might need the list of student ILPs.

38. ILP Completion Reports
Quickly and easily monitor students’ progress at a glance and view detailed breakdowns.
Identify students who are not meeting expectations to determine what help is needed.
Track overall student achievement through a variety of ILP Completion Standards Reports

39. Number of students using the ILP
Student Usage 09/10 data as of December. We are well on track to exceed last year’s totals.
School Year
Number of students using the ILP
Total Log-ins
2006/07
167,491
1,034,956
2007/08
337,444
1,747,447
2008/09
336,280
1,516,650
2009/10
343,293
527,082
Update as needed to reflect current totals at time of the presentation.
Sharon Johnston at KDE ( ) can do this for you, or
Meredith Beyer-Alldridge at Career Cruising :

40. QUESTIONS?
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41. For more information, please contact:
Jim Daigneau
Career Cruising
Phone: ext. 137
Sharon Johnston
KY Department of Education
Phone:
questions to :
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