Academic and Career Planning, or ACP, is a student-driven, adult-supported process in which students create and cultivate their own unique and information-based visions for post secondary success, obtained through self-exploration, career exploration, and the development of career management and planning skills.

Xello is the electronic portfolio service that Wisconsin selected to house each student's Academic and Career Plan. Throughout their time in high school, students will continue the work they began in middle school. They will participate in various activities to learn more about their own skills and abilities, explore potential career options for their future, and plan for how to reach their post-secondary education and career options. This will all be gathered in their electronic portfolio so that students and families can reflect upon this information when planning for course registrations, paths of study, and post-secondary education or career.

What is Xello?

Xello is a web-based career exploration and planning tool used through middle school and high school* by your son or daughter to explore career and college options and develop and career plan. Xello can be accessed from school, home, or wherever there is access to the Internet.

• Interest and Skills Assessments - to help identify suitable career options based on their interests and skills
• Career Profiles - thorough and up to date information about different occupations, including direct links between careers and related college programs
• Multimedia Interviews - interviews with real people in occupations 
• College & University Information -  comprehensive college and university information, with useful search tools 
• Communication Platform - teachers and counselors can post important links and documents, make announcements, and create assignments
• Resume Builder - integrated with the portfolio to help students create a resume 

*Some of these items may be used only in middle school, only in high school, or during both middle and high school.