“Career Choices received a Promising Intervention Award from the U.S. Department of Education in recognition of its effectiveness in reducing dropout rates and supporting higher achievement in reading and math.”
A Proven Program That Contributed to Eastern Promise Success
Available in hybrid and online-only formats, Career Choices and Changes equips your students with the tools to succeed in school, career, and life while ensuring the Senate Bill 3 requirements are met. This award-winning program has helped students across the country develop critical life skills, improve academic outcomes, and prepare for college and career success while creating an online skills-based plan for the future.
For many years, Eastern Promise partner high schools fostered a future-focused mindset by providing freshmen with a dual credit course using the Career Choices series curriculum and, as a result, were able to demonstrate a number of benefits, including:
Close opportunity gaps
Increase dual credit participation
Improve high school completion rates
“Students are seeing the need for early college classes, and part of that’s driven by the fact that as freshmen they were introduced to ideas about what they want to do in the future...”
The results from the first decade of Eastern Promise underscore the importance of a systematic career exploration process that prepares students for postsecondary success – regardless of their chosen path.
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“Whether you’re 18, 38, or 58, the career decision-making process is the same. You’ve provided a tool that can be referred to over a lifetime.”
“Giving [students] this direction is going to help with everything you can imagine in your school... whether it’s discipline... or if it’s your dropout rate or your test scores. It will help across the board.”
Career Choices and Changes is a dynamic curriculum that supports students from self-discovery through career exploration, research, and goal-setting and on to postsecondary planning.
Personalized 10-Year Plans: Students craft individualized education and career roadmaps that connect their goals with actionable steps.
Career Exploration and Workforce Readiness: Lessons include in-depth research, resume building, and interview practice, as well as strategies for navigating job markets and basic budgeting.
Decision-Making and Advocacy Skills: Students learn to make informed choices and advocate for themselves in school, work, and life.
Postsecondary Preparation: Whether it’s college, vocational or technical training, or military service, students explore a range of options before charting their own path to success.
Schools that adopt Career Choices and Changes - and implement with fidelity to the curriculum's design - can
expect to see:
Increased student engagement and motivation.
Higher graduation and postsecondary enrollment rates.
Closing opportunity gaps for underrepresented students.