TIPS for Experienced Career Choices Series Instructors:
Taking Your Course to the Next Level

Teaching Insights, Practices, and Solutions (TIPS)



Presented as part of the Two-Day Get Focused Stay Focused Spring Conference
April 29-30, 2024
UCSB University Center, Santa Barbara, CA



This institute is designed for experienced Career Choices Series instructors hoping to take their programs to a new level. You'll learn strategies that will strengthen not only your course but also your school-wide Get Focused…Stay Focused!® implementation. You’ll be exposed to teacher-tested tips to revive, enhance, and assess your Career Choices series classroom along with instructional ideas that will help you energize your course and avoid common pitfalls when integrating technology. You’ll be exposed to a variety of new resources that will make your course more engaging and productive.

For example, you’ll go deeper into My10yearPlan.com® and learn about new functions and reports. You’ll review the new Online Class Agendas, along with new technology integration class sessions. You’ll learn how the unique Skills-Based Education Plan will ensure your students have the skills to be competitive in the workforce. You’ll discover the My10yearPlan.com® mobile app and learn about academic coaching strategies using the 10-year Plan Summary Page. You'll come away with a better understanding of the myriad opportunities for helping your students become career and college ready—not just as freshmen, but throughout high school and into college.


At the conclusion of this Institute, educators will be prepared to:
  1. Utilize a myriad of new tools to enhance and upgrade their course.
  2. Adapt tips and best practices shared by some of our master teachers.
  3. Work with students who must take the course as an independent study course.
  4. Promote the importance of and strategies for distributive guidance.
  5. Use the online 10-year Plan to motivate students to higher achievement through academic coaching, advising, and counseling.
  6. Help other faculty access My10yearPlan.com®—online or through the mobile app—to assist in the advisory and academic coaching functions on campus.
  7. Strategize and deliver the necessary “buy-in” activities in order to organize campus or district personnel for support and implementation of the school-wide program.
  8. Present information at parent or community meetings on the use of the 10-year Plan to help children not only stay in school but transition to post-secondary education/training and the workforce as self-sufficient adults.
  9. Embrace the scope and sequence of the Follow-Up Modules in order to effectively integrate them into academic courses.


  • High school instructors who have taught the Career Choices series course for at least one year
  • Instructional leaders responsible for the Career Choices series course
  • District personnel responsible for the Get Focused…Stay Focused!® program


With your registration, you’ll receive curriculum materials valued at $199.55!

Texts and Materials:
  • Instructor’s and Administrator’s Guide for Career Choices and My10yearPlan.com® 9th Edition (2021)
  • Career Choices and Changes (softcover text)
  • NEW Workbook and Portfolio for Career Choices and Changes
  • Possibilities—A Supplemental Anthology to Career Choices
  • Lifestyle Math—Your Financial Planning Portfolio
  • Get Focused…Stay Focused!® Program and Instructional Manual
  • Get Focused…Stay Focused!® Follow-Up Module 1 Workbook: Developing Attitudes and Aptitudes to Promote College and Career Readiness
  • Get Focused…Stay Focused!® Follow-Up Module 2 Workbook: Determining Your Informed Major and Post-Secondary Education Path
  • Get Focused…Stay Focused!® Follow-Up Module 3 Workbook: Preparing to Act on Your 10-year Education and Career Plan
Online Course Materials and Platforms:
  • Online license to The Teachers’ Lounge or The Instructor’s Resource Center
  • A demo account for My10yearPlan.com® with a complete sample student plan