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Launch
Students will launch the career readiness project by exploring their strengths and interests, examining realistic workplace scenarios tied to speaking up and making decisions, and setting up the first artifacts for their Personal Career Portfolio and investigation work.
Days 1 - 3
🚀 My Future Starts Here
Launch 45m
🧭 Workplace Clues and Questions
Knowledge/Skill Building 45m
📁 Career Portfolio Setup
Deliverable 45m
Launch Mystery
Students will investigate a realistic workplace mystery, generate and refine investigable questions, examine evidence from scenarios and communication artifacts, and draft an evidence-based hypothesis about how self-advocacy, problem solving, and decision making should work in that situation.
Days 4 - 9
🕵️ Workplace Text Message Mystery
Launch 45m
🧰 Self-Advocacy Talk Moves
Knowledge/Skill Building 40m
🔍 Scenario Evidence Sort
Knowledge/Skill Building 45m
❓ Investigable Question Builder
Project Work 50m
💼 Partner Check on Real Responses
Community Experience 45m
📝 Mystery Question Conference
Assessment 45m
Plan Evidence
Students will design and test a credible plan for gathering evidence from workplace scenarios by deciding what to observe, how to document responses and outcomes, and how to strengthen reliability through peer critique, revision, and checkpoint feedback before beginning full simulation data collection.
Days 10 - 15
🧭 Scenario Evidence Map
Knowledge/Skill Building 45m
📝 Observation Log Mini-Lab
Knowledge/Skill Building 45m
🛠️ Toolkit Method Plan Draft
Project Work 45m
💬 Method Critique Carousel
Deliverable 45m
🤝 Workforce Method Check
Community Experience 45m
✅ Evidence Plan Readiness Gate
Assessment 45m
Collect Scenario Data
Students will run workplace simulations, collect traceable evidence from their responses, document feedback and revisions in their toolkit, and build a reliable data set for later pattern analysis about self-advocacy, problem solving, decision making, and workplace behavior.
Days 16 - 21
🧭 Scenario Evidence Log Reset
Knowledge/Skill Building 35m
🎭 Self-Advocacy Scenario Trial
Project Work 45m
🧩 Problem-Solving Response Trials
Project Work 45m
👥 Two-Peer Toolkit Critique
Deliverable 45m
🏢 Workforce Partner Feedback Round
Community Experience 55m
✅ Simulation Evidence Checkpoint
Assessment 45m
Analyze Patterns
Students will analyze evidence from workplace simulations by organizing data, creating visual displays, testing interpretations with peers, and identifying patterns, strengths, and anomalies that inform revisions to their self-advocacy/problem-solving toolkit and Personal Career Portfolio.
Days 22 - 27
📊 Scenario Data to Charts
Knowledge/Skill Building 45m
🗂️ Coding Self-Advocacy Evidence
Knowledge/Skill Building 45m
🧠 Claims from Pattern Evidence
Project Work 45m
🔍 Peer Review of Analysis Boards
Deliverable 45m
🎯 Revision Goal Conference
Community Experience 45m
📝 Findings and Next-Step Memo
Assessment 45m
Defend Toolkit Findings
Students will turn their investigation results into evidence-based conclusions, name limitations in their scenario data, refine their self-advocacy/problem-solving toolkit and Personal Career Portfolio through critique, and prepare for partner-facing portfolio defense conversations before the final showcase phase.
Days 28 - 32
🧠 Claims and Limits Conference
Knowledge/Skill Building 45m
🛠️ Toolkit Evidence Revision
Deliverable 45m
📁 Portfolio Proof Check
Project Work 45m
🤝 Workforce Partner Practice
Community Experience 45m
🎤 Portfolio Defense Dry Run
Assessment 45m
Showcase
Students will present their completed Personal Career Portfolio and self-advocacy/problem-solving toolkit to an authentic audience, use feedback to strengthen how they explain evidence of readiness, and reflect on how their strengths, decisions, and workplace behaviors connect to future employment goals.
Days 33 - 35
🗣️ Portfolio Defense Warm Rehearsal
Deliverable 45m
🎤 Career Readiness Showcase
Community Experience 45m
📁 Final Portfolio Defense Reflection
Assessment 45m