Career & Trade Planning

Four-year high school plan: We will work with your student to complete a four-year course plan. This plan might change over time according to your student's interests, but creating a baseline schedule helps students visualize what is required for high school graduation. Students will also begin to understand what is needed for entrance to a four-year college.

Strengths Explorer: As part of BVSD's ICAP (Individualized Career and Academic Plan), all 9th graders have the opportunity to learn about and assess their strengths as they relate to future careers and interests. Students identify strengths, and then these strengths are linked to different careers and career clusters. Then as 10th graders, the BHS School Counseling Team will work with students to connect these strengths and careers to both their personality type and possible post-secondary career options.

Myers-Briggs personality test: This personality profile test will give your student information about who they are intellectually, and how they may fit into their world, whether it’s in the workforce, or in college. Students will start to understand themselves in terms of how they best interact with the world (large group versus small, intimate versus distant, verbal versus quiet, and so on). Our hope is that we can utilize the personality test to better understand our students, and to start to see the kinds of colleges that might be a good fit for them.

Graduation checks: All juniors will receive graduation checks by the end of January of their junior year. This graduation check shows students what classes have been completed, and which credits remain unmet.

College and career planning: Counselors will be visiting junior classrooms to discuss course selection as it applies to high school graduation, college entrance, and career planning. Students will learn specifics about college applications, best-fit colleges, and information about other issues that may impact their senior year

Seniors: College application season begins with the all-class senior meeting in the auditorium in early September. Following this group meeting, seniors will set up individual senior meetings with their counselor. For students who missed out on the career inventory pieces (and subsequent discussion) in Naviance, these should be completed and, if desired, discussed with your counselor. The focus for seniors is post-secondary planning and graduation.