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Map Opportunities... "What Are Your Options?"

Individuals need to be exposed to a wide range of opportunities, and get help accessing these opportunities. They need to explore career paths available in high school and beyond, investigate different kinds of career sectors, and become ready for various present and future opportunities. For an individual to feel empowered in seeing options and navigating their path, they must have a way to organize and categorize work preferences/styles and sectors of work.  




Be Flexible in Your Thinking

Learn about work experiences opportunities accessible in high school, college, and beyond. 

  • Increase Your Resilience
  • Make Alternative Plans
  • Write Your Executive Summary
  • Speak with Passion

Increase your resilience

write your executive summary

Increase your resilience

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  • Define with it means to be resilient
  • Identify different ways people demonstrate resiliency
  • Make a plan on how to respond with adversity with resiliency

make alternative plans

write your executive summary

Increase your resilience

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  • Understand the importance of making alternative plans
  • Identify goals and alternative means of getting there
  • Create a goal and develop multiple ways to achieve it

write your executive summary

write your executive summary

write your executive summary

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  • Identify key elements of a business plan, and the purpose of an executive summary
  • Recognize what makes a business plan strong
  • Write an executive summary for your business idea

speak with passion

write your executive summary

write your executive summary

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  • Learn how to speak with passion about what interests you
  • Study an analyze elevator pitches from other people
  • Write and deliver your own elevator pitch

Pathways and Career Education

Explore pathways, career education, and work sectors. 

  • Define CTE and ROP
  • Plan a Career Pathway
  • Realize Options Beyond High School
  • Explore Growing Work Sectors

Define CTe and ROp

Realize options beyond high school

plan a career pathway

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  • Identify nearby CTE and ROP programs that interest you
  • Use information from the CTE 101 handbook to answer career questions
  • Design a CTE course for your high school

plan a career pathway

Realize options beyond high school

plan a career pathway

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  • Identify high school programs and experiences they offer
  • Connect your high school schedule to career options
  • Identify a career connected to the school options you chose

Realize options beyond high school

Realize options beyond high school

Realize options beyond high school

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  • Identify interests and habits that may lead to option
  • Review different options people have taken following high school
  • Create a decision tree to guide your thinking

explore growing work sectors

Realize options beyond high school

Realize options beyond high school

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  • Identify areas of work you are interested in exploring
  • Research growing industries, jobs, and expanding work sectors
  • Create a scenario for your place in one of these growing areas of work

See the Big Picture

Utilize planning tools and explore career opportunities

  • Map Career Options
  • Discover Career Possibilities
  • Analyze Career Websites
  • Research Community Businesses

map career options

discover career possibilities

discover career possibilities

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  • Explore jobs you are already familiar with
  • Discuss career fields with the people around you
  • Identify similarities and differences between various career fields

discover career possibilities

discover career possibilities

discover career possibilities

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  • Investigate different career possibilities
  • Research answers to questions about a variety of careers
  • Identify how you feel about different career options

analyze career websites

discover career possibilities

research community businesses

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  • Identify what you want from a career website
  • Explore ways career websites help you learn about careers
  • Identify which career websites are best for you

research community businesses

discover career possibilities

research community businesses

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  • Identify which businesses you find valuable
  • Discuss favorite businesses with the people around you
  • Identify businesses you might want to work for

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