Course Compass resources
Figure out what you like before you pick classes
You don't have to know your whole future. These short guides help you notice what you enjoy, name what you're good at, and turn that into a high school schedule that fits you.
Resource guides
- Likes and dislikesStart here. Notice what you enjoy and what drains you, then turn that into class choices.
- What I want to beExplore job titles and the classes that build toward them — without locking anything in.
- What I want to doSome people pick a day, not a title. Choose the kind of work you want to do all day.
- Career strengths assessment20 quick questions. See your top strengths and the career pathways that fit them.
- Personality career testA Myers & Briggs style test. Pick which sentence sounds like you and get your four-letter work style plus classes that fit.
- My profile worksheetA fillable one-page profile you can save or print as a PDF and bring to your counselor.
- My plan trajectoryName your goal, what helps you climb toward it, and what you don't want. Save it or print the PDF.
- My supports starFive kinds of help: your strengths, your people, technology, community options and school services.
- Life after high schoolEight parts of adult life — work, living, safety, friends, health, advocacy, supports, family — and the questions to ask now.
A good order to use these
- 1. Do the likes and dislikes lists — they take ten minutes.
- 2. Take the career strengths assessment to see which pathways match.
- 3. Read what I want to be and what I want to do.
- 4. Build your schedule on Next steps.