CCE Career & College ExplorationsIrving ISD · Grade 7

IT & Manufacturing · Week 0

1SW Wk0: CCE Routines and Career Self-Discovery

Students will establish one retrievable CCE notebook route, complete the required H&L self-discovery activities, use those results in the mapped My Career Journey Minor, and…

1st Six Weeks | Onboarding / Cross-Cluster | 5 class periods, 50 minutes each

Week purpose

This opening week sets up the tools and routines students will use throughout CCE. Students choose a digital or physical notebook route, complete the first Hats & Ladders / Find Your Future profile work, submit My Career Journey, and confirm Xello access.

Weekly objective

Students will establish one retrievable CCE notebook route, complete the required H&L self-discovery activities, use those results in the mapped My Career Journey Minor, and confirm the required Xello access and after-high-school goal.

Learning target: I can use my core personality, work values, Building Blocks, and first cluster recommendations to explain one career I want to investigate next.

Success criteria:

  • I can find today's directions and the tool that owns each response.
  • My H&L profile contains my available core personality, work values, and at least three Building Blocks.
  • My FYF Building Blocks pages name at least three experiences and skills.
  • I submitted one complete My Career Journey reflection through one approved route.
  • My Xello account opens and contains an after-high-school goal, or my access problem is recorded for a named recovery check.

TEKS

  • d(1)(A): analyze and discuss initial career-assessment results (Days 2-4).
  • d(1)(B): explore and describe CTE clusters using career-assessment and career-research evidence (Days 2-5).
  • d(4)(A): demonstrate goal-setting/time-management by naming a specific action, checkpoint, confidence level, and support/recovery route (Day 1; reinforced Day 5).

Course tools and response locations

  1. Hats & Ladders / Find Your Future is the core career curriculum.
  2. Canvas holds the daily Teacher/Student Guides, models, authenticated links/assets, and the mapped Minor submission.
  3. Xello holds only the assigned extension tasks for this week: login and after-high-school goal. Matchmaker does not run yet.
  4. CCE notebook holds short private thinking, focused notes, and reflection only when the app/workbook does not already provide the response home.

Student reminder: Start in Canvas. The daily guide tells students what to open, where to work, and what to turn in.

Evidence job Primary response home What the notebook adds
Core personality result H&L Climber Profile one key phrase, one real question, one career curiosity
Work values H&L Climber Profile one expected/surprised sentence
Building Blocks and skills FYF pp. 9-11; save three in H&L one value + experience + possible-cluster connection
Career Journey synthesis mapped Minor 1 reflection no duplicate notebook response
After-high-school goal Xello no duplicate copy
Perks & Quirks FYF p. 5 no transfer worksheet

Notebook options

Teachers may use OneNote Class Notebook, a physical notebook, a binder section, a paper folder, or another district-approved digital notebook. Every route uses the same content fields, time, support, and grading expectations.

OneNote route

  • Content Library: 00 Start Here; Models & Resources
  • Private student notebook: CCE Work; Focused Notes; Evidence & Reflection
  • Collaboration Space: unused or locked during onboarding

Use the current unified Microsoft 365 LTI/Microsoft Education tool only when it is available and tested. Do not use classic OneNote LTI 1.1; Microsoft retires it September 17, 2026. If the current integration is unavailable, use a tested standalone Class Notebook or the Canvas/paper route.

Keep large licensed FYF/H&L files in locked Canvas and link to them. Do not make Class Notebook sync depend on embedded PDF printouts.

Physical or paper route

Use the same three labels in a spiral, composition notebook, binder section, or teacher-designated paper folder. Students receive the same prompt, model, language support, time, feedback, and grading expectation. Do not grade notebook brand, supplies, decoration, handwriting, tabs, color coding, or aesthetic neatness.

Monday goal-setting routine

The Monday goal entry adapts Jenna Hainlen's teacher-created AVID First Week Goal-Setting Sheet for Grade 7 CCE. Students record a goal, why it matters, one specific action, a checkpoint, confidence, and a person or resource that can help. The CCE version does not collect grades from other classes, score supplies, or require a signature.

Week at a glance

Day Core focus Required evidence 50-minute shape
1 CCE tools, notebook setup, first-week goal private six-field CCE goal entry and a tested response/fallback route 5 welcome + 8 tools + 12 setup + 17 goal + 5 check + 3 close
2 FYF p. 21 + H&L Discover Your Core profile result + private result/phrase/question/career-curiosity interpretation 5 opener + 5 CTE + 10 setup + 23 assessment + 7 ticket/save
3 H&L Work Values + FYF pp. 9-11 Building Blocks H&L/FYF inputs + one value-to-experience-to-cluster connection 5 opener + 15 values + 17 Building Blocks + 8 saves/recommendations + 5 close
4 My Career Journey synthesis one mapped Minor submitted through file, exact labeled text, or paper 5 warm-up + 8 gather + 5 model + 22 draft + 6 revise + 4 submit
5 core catch-up, Xello, then FYF pp. 4-5 one verified requirement/result 5 plan + 20 focus + 15 second priority + 5 verify + 5 close

Required sources and materials

Daily

  • 1 charged Chromebook per student; 2 spares if available
  • 1 Find Your Future workbook per student
  • projector and the complete daily launch deck
  • tested H&L/Xello launch routes
  • private OneNote/physical notebook route plus full Canvas/paper fallback

Day-specific

  • Day 2: Climber Notes Learning Your Core Personality Types; FYF p. 21
  • Day 3: Climber Notes Exploring Your Work Values; FYF pp. 9-11; optional word banks by need
  • Day 4: My Career Journey standard/stems/bilingual options; student-visible 12-point rubric; FYF p. 22
  • Day 5: FYF pp. 4-5; private readiness list; Xello login/goal route

Default copies should be zero when a tested digital route is in use. Print only the route a student needs. Do not hand every student three versions of the same artifact.

Assessment

Formative

  • Day 1 private goal entry and notebook-route test
  • Day 2 H&L result interpretation and diagnostic exit/save check
  • Day 3 profile/FYF inputs plus one synthesis connection
  • Day 5 one verified requirement/result

Mapped Minor 1

My Career Journey Reflection occurs Day 4. It is a 100-point, points-graded Minor in the Minor 40% group with the student-visible 12-point advisory rubric. Students submit once by file upload, exact labeled text items 1-8, or teacher-collected paper. The teacher retains the same artifact for later mid-year/capstone use; students do not resubmit it.

Source credits

  • Monday's goal-setting routine adapts Jenna Hainlen's AVID First Week Goal-Setting Sheet for Grade 7 CCE.
  • Friday's focus block adapts Hainlen's Week 1.6 routine: three priorities, two distractions to avoid, and one timed work interval. The CCE lesson does not attach behavior points to the routine.

Recovery priorities

  1. Protect individual H&L results; never use another student's account.
  2. If H&L is unavailable, use the fixed source chart/list for a provisional response and name Friday catch-up.
  3. If OneNote is unavailable, use the identical Canvas/paper prompt and accept that original work without later recopying.
  4. If a result is missing on Day 4, mark it pending, finish the independent sections, and score after the real result is added.
  5. If H&L/Xello fails Friday, move the student to FYF p. 4-5 and record the exact access recovery.

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