What is ICAP?
Individual Career Academic Plan is a multi-year process that guides students as they explore career, academic, and postsecondary opportunities. ICAP is a planning tool that is designed to help students prepare for postsecondary and career opportunities while completing yearly activities to meet graduation requirements. ICAP includes individual career and academic strategies that educators can use to promote student success. Utilizing these strategies gives high school students the opportunity to explore their future options, and opportunities after high school.
Who must complete ICAP?
Beginning with students entering the ninth grade in the 2019-2020 school year (class of
2023), each student is required to complete the process of an Individual Career
Academic Plan (ICAP) in order to graduate from a public high school with a standard
diploma. 70 O.S. § 1210.508-4
What activities are included in ICAP?
A student’s ICAP will include the activities below:
• Career Assessments - Students will complete an online career assessment every year to explore their career interests, learn career skills and begin connecting their interests to careers.
• Goals - Students will update their career and postsecondary goals every year as they learn about new opportunities.
• College and Career Assessments - Students will update their required state and federal assessments (English language arts, mathematics, and science) and college and career readiness assessment (ACT or SAT) results as they become available.
• Academic Progress - Students will annually update their academic courses and progress in those courses. Students will also list any career technology programs, AP or IB courses, concurrent enrollment courses or career endorsements that reflect progress toward their individual career pathways.
• Work – Based Learning - Students will complete at least one service learning or
work environment activity, before high school graduation.
How is ICAP monitored?
Students will use ok college start to document their plan.
OK College Start is an online resource where students will complete each activity related to their Career and Academic Plan
When will students complete ICAP?
1st 9 weeks- Assessments will be completed in English classes
2nd 9 weeks- Goal Planning will be completed in English classes
3rd 9 weeks- Work based learning will be completed in English classes
4th 9 weeks- Education planning will be completed in English classes