High School to Career Pathway Plan
Your decision, with a calendar attached. From the classes you're in now, through dual enrollment at Norco, to your first college step. Your work saves as you go. Only what you paste into Canvas is graded.
How this works (tap to open or close)
- Your direction. The one career from your Career Decision Statement, the education it usually needs, and why you're pointing there.
- Your four years. The classes you've taken and the ones you plan to take, grade by grade, with at least two that connect to your direction.
- Dual enrollment at Norco. Up to four college classes you'd take while you're still in high school, and why each one fits.
- The first college step. What happens the summer after graduation, and three questions only a counselor can answer.
- Build. Press Build, read it once, press Copy, paste into the box under this tool in Canvas, press Submit.
This is a first draft on purpose. A counselor checks the real requirements with you. Work saved in another tab updates this tool and clears built text, so check your answers and Build again before copying.
Your direction
One career. Not the final answer for your whole life, just the direction you named in your Career Decision Statement. Plans get rebuilt. That's what they're for.
1. The career you're pointing at
2. The education this career usually needs
Pick the one that gets most people hired or licensed. Your research sheet may have filled this for you. Change it if you know better.
3. Why this direction
Your four years
High school classes are the first part of the pathway, not a waiting room before it. Fill in what you've taken and what you plan to take. Short names are fine: "Algebra 1", "Biology", "Spanish 2".
1. Where you are right now
2. The grid
The seven rows are California's a to g subject areas, the ones CSU and UC look at. Leave a box blank if you didn't take or won't take that subject that year.
3. Classes that connect to my direction
Do this: pick at least two classes from your grid and say in one line how each one connects to your direction. "Biology connects to nursing because it's the first science a nursing program expects, and I want to find out if I like it before I commit."
4. The a to g check (information only)
Dual enrollment at Norco
Dual enrollment means taking real college classes while you're still in high school, with tuition free through Norco College's dual enrollment program. The credit counts in both places, on your high school transcript and on your college record.
Already in college? List the Norco classes you'd take next that move you toward this direction. Same table, same thinking.
The chips below are classes Norco has commonly offered to high school students. The current list lives with your high school counselor and Norco's dual enrollment office, so treat these as a starting point and confirm what's open to you.
Tap an example to fill the first empty course box, then edit it however you like.
The first college step
The summer after graduation is where most plans quietly fall apart, because nobody wrote down what happens next. Write it down.
1. After high school, the first step is
2. The details
3. Three questions for my counselor
Do this: three questions you can't answer from a website. Each one ends with a question mark and names something specific: a class, a program, a deadline, a requirement. Tap an example to start from it, then make it yours.
Build it, copy it, turn it in
Do this, in order: 1. Build my plan. 2. Copy. 3. Paste into the box under this tool in Canvas. 4. Press Submit, then check Grades for a dash.
What the plan still needs
Need a clean slate?
Moving my work another way (a code instead of a file)
To save a code, press Export my work and copy the whole code. To bring it back, paste it here and press Restore. Restore only replaces the sections you choose.
Before you close this page, download a progress file or copy your export code.