Individualized Career & Academic Plan (ICAP)

The Individual Career and Academic Plan (ICAP) is a multi-year process that intentionally guides students and families in the exploration of career, academic and postsecondary opportunities. With the support of adults, students develop the awareness, knowledge, attitudes and skills to create their own meaningful and powerful pathways to be career and college-ready.

 When students complete a meaningful ICAP process, they: 

• Connect the relevance of education to future aspirations.
• Are more motivated to attend school and stay engaged.
• Become confident learners who can actively set goals.
• Make secondary and postsecondary course plans to pursue career and life goals.
• Are able to articulate their transferable skills and apply knowledge about how their actions today connect with their goals.

View the Jeffco ICAP Scope and Sequence with related resources to learn more.

SchooLinks

SchooLinks is a comprehensive college and career readiness platform used by middle and high school students to plan for their futures. It streamlines post-secondary planning, allowing students to explore careers, access work-based learning opportunities, research over 5,000 colleges, manage application documents like transcripts and recommendations, and track their Individual Career and Academic Plan.

Individualized Career and Academic Planning is run by a school counselor in schools.

“ICAP has been transformative for our school district. We have moved from believing that we need to create opportunities for students to engage in post-secondary education to an expectation that ALL students in our district will graduate with a post-secondary career plan. We have engaged all staff in our building in this process, creating a culture where students know they have resources and support to reach personal career goals. ICAP is the right thing to do for our students, and we have embraced it as a way to demonstrate the relevance for our students of what we teach every day to future academic and career goals."