How to Fulfill the New Michigan Career Development Model in Xello
With an increased focus on graduation rates, you’re probably left wondering: How can I guarantee that our district aligns with the Michigan Career Development Model? Xello can help.
At the end of 2018, Michigan launched a new Career Development Model (CDM), which is designed to provide the state’s K–12 students with critical knowledge and skills needed to make successful career decisions and foster lifelong learning.
Unsure about what the CDM contains, and how to meet its requirements with your students? Good news! Xello has been working closely with the Michigan Department of Education to ensure our program aligns with many of the requirements set out in the career development model.
In this piece, we’ll walk you through how your district can use Xello to fulfill some of the core components of the Michigan CDM. We have also developed this guide to assist you with meeting your requirements.
Three of the main components of the CDM that can be completed in Xello are:
- A student’s Educational Development Plan (EDP) that many of you are familiar with
- A student’s Talent Portfolio
- A student’s 4-year plan
How Xello helps accomplish the Educational Development Plan (EDP)
Xello helps K–12 students create personalized roadmaps for future success through self-knowledge, exploration, and planning.
Starting in seventh grade, school educators or counselors are tasked with helping students begin developing an EDP, which includes components like career goals, course selections, career options, and much more.
With many requirements to meet, it’s essential to find a tool that will help you and your students be successful. Xello is that tool!
As students complete the various assessments and sections in Xello, their EDP comes to life, and provides you with the reportable metrics you need for success. The EDP becomes a personalized, living document via Xello Portfolios which provides students with a way to create, maintain, and share their EDP. Parents can easily review their child’s EDP at any time through Xello’s Family portal.
You can feel confident knowing that your students can fulfill their EDP and the expectations set out for them in the CDM in Xello.
Empower students to build their talent portfolios
As outlined in the Michigan Career Development Model, it’s a requirement to introduce students to the purpose of a Talent Portfolio starting in seventh grade.
Xello makes it simple for your students to fulfill their Talent Portfolios by completing all of the components and assessments found on Xello’s About Me page.
1. To work on fulfilling the requirements of the Talent Portfolio, students should complete their About Me profile in Xello. Here they’ll complete assessments to learn more about themselves including their Personality and Learning Style, and Skills.
2. In addition, students should complete the Experiences, Skills, Interests, and Places sections in Xello
3. Finally, students can curate their Talent Portfolios using Xello Portfolios to collect and present information and artifacts they’ve gathered and created that demonstrate their talents and marketable skills.
Future-proof your students: Complete a four-year plan
One of the requirements of the Michigan CDM is for each student to complete their Course Selections. What this means is simply completing the Course Planner in Xello!
Your students can begin selecting courses in Xello by saving their favorite careers, schools, and majors, then building their individual Course Planner in the Goals and Plans section.
Michigan educators: Fulfill the new model and EDP with Xello
Meeting the standards of the Michigan CDM is easy with Xello. Curious to learn more about it?Read about how Xello aligns with the Michigan CDM today.
Ready to get started with Xello in your Michigan district or school?
Empower your students to take control of their future success by getting them engaged in the interactive assessments and activities in Xello.You’ll be executing and fulfilling the standards in no time!
For more information on how to get started with the EDP and CDM in Xello, including how to pull reports and customize Xello to your district’s goals, please reach out to your Success Manager or our Client Solutions team at help@xello.world.
