In an ideal world, every student in your program would have a permanent, personal copy of the Career Choices text. Most schools, however, simply don’t have the funds to purchase new books every year. That is why we also make available the much more affordable Workbook and Portfolio. We strongly urge you to give all your students a workbook that is theirs to keep. Here’s why:

The low-cost, consumable Workbook/Portfolio contains all the exercies found in Career Choices.
Even without the supporting text, this allows students to review the key concepts from the book as they revise and refine their career and life plans. Our best hope is not that most students with complete the course with a final agenda for their lives, but that they will have learned a process they can repeat again and again as their interests, skills, and ambitions change. With their Workbook/Portfolios in hand, students can more easily repeat this planning process in the future.

Completing the exercises on individual pieces of paper--or even in a notebook--just doesn’t cut it. How many of your students take notes that are complete enough to be of any help three months from now, let alone three years from now? How many consistently keep track of their work? Papers and notebooks seem less important that a printed text and are not as likely to be treated with respect. The Workbook/Portfolio, however, is part book, part journal. As such, students tend to value it, take care of it, and hang onto it.

The Workbook/Portfolio comes with a FREE site license to My10yearPlan.com.
Once students have completed the activities and exercises in their Workbook and Portfolio, they are ready to spend 2-3 hours entering the information they've collected about themselves into the fields required to build their 10-year plan online. This chart shows the completed student workbook pages that feed into the online plans:



The online 10-year plan becomes a common planning tool used throughout each student’s time in high school. Students revisit and update their 10- year plans in academic classes during their 10th, 11th, and 12th-grade years. Instructors use the 10-year plans for advisory and academic coaching functions, particularly when student's educational effort does not match their lifestyle expectations.