High School & Beyond Plan
Welcome to the Tumwater School District Career & College Readiness website. In grades 7-12, students begin exploring career and college readiness options that include career inventory assessments, organizational success skills, and career and college research. Students focus on how to link learning to life. The lessons and activities students complete each year build on skills and knowledge preparing them for success.
The High School and Beyond Plan is a state graduation requirement. The career and college readiness activities and lessons students completed each year culminate with a digital electronic portfolio their senior year.
Questions? Contact Marcy Proctor, Career Connected Learning Coordinator at marcy.proctor@tumwater.k12.wa.us.
High School & Beyond Plan
- What is the High School & Beyond Plan?
- SchooLinks Platform
- Logging in to SchooLinks
- Grade Level Activities
- Student & Family Resources
- Staff Resources: Login, Roster View, Trainings, Support
What is the High School & Beyond Plan?
The High School and Beyond Plan (HSBP) is a process that every Washington student uses to explore potential career interests, take relevant courses, learn about financial aid, and plan for postsecondary education or training. It also keeps students on track for graduation. The Plan is designed to be flexible so it can grow and change along with students as they move through middle and high school. School districts choose how students experience the Plan and track their progress.
High School and Beyond Plan State Guidelines
- Identification of career goals, aided by skills and career interest survey assessments and identification of educational goals for graduation and beyond
- A four-year plan for courses taken in high school that satisfies state and local graduation requirements and aligns with students' secondary and postsecondary goals that may include education, training, and careers
- Options for satisfying state and local graduation requirements, academic acceleration, dual credit courses, Career and Technical Education programs, and graduation pathway options
- Resume or activity log, that includes the student’s education, work experience, community service, including how districts recognize community service (RCW 28A.320.193)
- Evidence that the student has received information on federal and state financial aid programs that help pay for postsecondary programs
You can learn more about the High School and Beyond Plan requirements on the State Board of Education website.
SchooLinks Platform
SchooLinks is Tumwater School District’s High School & Beyond Plan platform with over 80 features to support students, families, and staff.
SchooLinks is a modern, college and career readiness platform to prepare students for what comes after graduation. SchooLinks helps students discover their interests and strengths, explore colleges and careers, and create an individualized career and academic plan that best reflects their post-secondary goals. SchooLinks at Tumwater School District is accessible in 7th-12th grades by students and their parents.
SchooLinks features are incredibly user-friendly and were designed to streamline the career and college readiness workflow for students, counselors, and staff.
Using SchooLinks, students and families can:
- Access career interest, strength and mindset surveys
- Explore careers, and understand the education and/or training needed for those careers
- Explore traditional, emerging, and military career fields
- Explore 2-year and 4-year colleges
- Take virtual reality college campus tours
- Search for scholarships
- Learn about financial aid
- Find internship and volunteer opportunities
- Create digital portfolios/resumes
- Communicate with counselors
- Grow their High School and Beyond Plan (HSBP)
In future years, students will be able to:
- Create course plans based on career pathways
- Track college applications, request & send transcripts
- Request Letters of Recommendation
Logging in to SchooLinks
Student and Staff Login:
Students and Staff can access SchooLinks through their website or the TSD Web Apps page (click the 'High School & Beyond' tile). Log in via single sign on with your TSD Google Account.
Guardian/Parents Login:
Families can access a student's High School and Beyond Plan as well. Log in at any time to view your student's progress, review their career and college aspirations, and start conversations about their future. As a guardian, your SchooLinks login email is the same one associated with your Qmlativ Family Access. Check your email for login instructions, or review the below documents and videos for instructions on how to log in.
Access Your Guardian Account - Document in English and Spanish
Grade Level Activities
Overview
Across all grades, the activities are guided by the three core questions of the HSBP: ‘Who am I?’, ‘What can I become?’, and ‘How do I become that?’ These questions are designed to help students reflect on their interests, strengths, and goals, and then take actionable steps toward achieving them.
Who am I? – These activities help students explore their own interests, values, skills, and mindsets, and begin to identify careers that might be a good match for them. (Ex. Find Your Path Assessment in 7th)
What can I become? – Here, students explore future jobs that interest them and learn what skills, education, or training they will need to prepare for those careers. (Ex. Set a career goal in 8th)
How do I become that? – Finally, students plan and prepare for their future career by making decisions about courses, activities, and experiences that will help them build the skills and knowledge they need. (Ex. Set SMART Goal in 8th)
All mandatory tasks appear in a student's 'To Do' list in SchooLinks. View your 'To Do' list by visiting your SchooLinks Dashboard.
Grade 7
Student Onboarding & Feedback Survey
- Every student is prompted to complete Onboarding their first time logging in. Onboarding includes the Find Your Path assessment. Once the assessment is completed, students will see their personality results and choose a career path. Your choices can be changed at any time.
- OSPI wants to know about your experience! Complete the Onboarding Feedback Survey as well.
- Onboarding Video example
- Onboarding written instructions (must log in to SchooLinks to view)
Set & Update Post-Secondary Goal
- Students will visit the goals module and set a post-secondary goal.
- How to Set and Manage Goals instructions (must log in to SchooLinks to view)
Grade 8
Student Onboarding & Feedback Survey
- Every student is prompted to complete Onboarding their first time logging in. Onboarding includes the Find Your Path assessment. Once the assessment is completed, students will see their personality results and choose a career path. Your choices can be changed at any time.
- OSPI wants to know about your experience! Complete the Onboarding Feedback Survey as well.
- Onboarding Video example
- Onboarding written instructions (must log in to SchooLinks to view)
Create/Modify SMART Goals & Feedback Survey
- Create at least 1 SMART Goal.
- OSPI wants to know about your experience! Complete the Goal Setting Feedback Survey as well.
- Create SMART Goals instructions (must log into SchooLinks to view)
Explore & Favorite Careers
- Explore at least three careers.
- Favorite at least one career. Favorite careers by clicking the ‘heart’ icon on the career.
- How to Use the Career Center (must log in to SchooLinks to view)
- Overview of a Career Profile (must log in to SchooLinks to view)
Set & Update Goals: Career Goal, College Goal, Post-Secondary Goal
- Students will visit the goals module and set goals for a career, college, and post-secondary plan. If students' goals stay the same from year to year, they will need to visit the goals module and confirm that their goal is still correct to complete this task. You can go back and change your goals at any time.
- How to Set and Manage Goals instructions (must log in to SchooLinks to view)
Complete Financial Aid Lesson/s
- Complete all of the Financial Aid Lessons assigned to you in SchooLinks this year.
Would You Rather Assessment
- Would You Rather assists you in identifying which career clusters best aligned with your interests, leading to more tailored career suggestions.
- Overview of Assessments (must log in to SchooLinks to view)
Submit Your High School & Beyond Plan & Feedback Survey
- All students must submit their High School and Beyond Plan annually.
- OSPI wants to know about your experience! Complete the HSBP Submission Feedback Survey as well.
- As you complete your other SchooLinks tasks throughout the year, your HSBP automatically gets updated along the way.
- Overview of your Personalized Plan: How to complete, edit, submit, and print your HSBP (must log into SchooLinks to view)
Update Profile & Resumé
- Students will visit their profile and must update at least some part of their profile to complete this indicator.
- How to Build a Student Profile instructions (must log in to SchooLinks to view)
Grade 9
Student Onboarding & Feedback Survey
- Every student is prompted to complete Onboarding their first time logging in. Onboarding includes the Find Your Path assessment. Once the assessment is completed, students will see their personality results and choose a career path. Your choices can be changed at any time.
- OSPI wants to know about your experience! Complete the Onboarding Feedback Survey as well.
- Onboarding Video example
- Onboarding written instructions (must log in to SchooLinks to view)
Create/Modify SMART Goals & Feedback Survey
- Create at least 1 SMART Goal.
- OSPI wants to know about your experience! Complete the Goal Setting Feedback Survey as well.
- Create SMART Goals instructions (must log into SchooLinks to view)
Set & Update Goals: Career Goal, College Goal, Post-Secondary Goal
- Students will visit the goals module and set goals for a career, college, and post-secondary plan. If students' goals stay the same from year to year, they will need to visit the goals module and confirm that their goal is still correct to complete this task. You can go back and change your goals at any time.
- How to Set and Manage Goals instructions (must log in to SchooLinks to view)
Complete Financial Aid Lesson/s
- Complete all of the Financial Aid Lessons assigned to you in SchooLinks this year. Since this is the first year we are launching these lessons, students need to complete prior year Financial Aid Lessons as well.
Would You Rather Assessment
- Would You Rather assists you in identifying which career clusters best aligned with your interests, leading to more tailored career suggestions.
- Overview of Assessments (must log in to SchooLinks to view)
Explore & Favorite Careers
- Explore at least one career.
- Favorite at least three careers. Favorite careers by clicking the ‘heart’ icon on the career.
- How to Use the Career Center (must log in to SchooLinks to view)
- Overview of a Career Profile (must log in to SchooLinks to view)
Update Profile & Resumé
- Students will visit their profile and must update at least some part of their profile to complete this indicator.
- How to Build a Student Profile instructions (must log in to SchooLinks to view)
Submit Your High School & Beyond Plan & Feedback Survey
- All students must submit their High School and Beyond Plan annually.
- OSPI wants to know about your experience! Complete the HSBP Submission Feedback Survey as well.
- As you complete your other SchooLinks tasks throughout the year, your HSBP automatically gets updated along the way.
- Overview of your Personalized Plan: How to complete, edit, submit, and print your HSBP (must log into SchooLinks to view)
Grade 10
Student Onboarding & Feedback Survey
- Every student is prompted to complete Onboarding their first time logging in. Onboarding includes the Find Your Path assessment. Once the assessment is completed, students will see their personality results and choose a career path. Your choices can be changed at any time.
- OSPI wants to know about your experience! Complete the Onboarding Feedback Survey as well.
- Onboarding Video example
- Onboarding written instructions (must log in to SchooLinks to view)
Top Skills Assessment
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Discover your top skills and areas for improvement. Use this info to see which careers match your skill set!
Create/Modify SMART Goals & Feedback Survey
- Create at least 1 SMART Goal.
- OSPI wants to know about your experience! Complete the Goal Setting Feedback Survey as well.
- Create SMART Goals instructions (must log into SchooLinks to view)
Explore & Favorite Careers
- Explore at least one career.
- Favorite at least three careers. Favorite careers by clicking the ‘heart’ icon on the career.
- How to Use the Career Center (must log in to SchooLinks to view)
- Overview of a Career Profile (must log in to SchooLinks to view)
Set & Update Goals: Career Goal, College Goal, Post-Secondary Goal
- Students will visit the goals module and set goals for a career, college, and post-secondary plan. If students' goals stay the same from year to year, they will need to visit the goals module and confirm that their goal is still correct to complete this task. You can go back and change your goals at any time.
- How to Set and Manage Goals instructions (must log in to SchooLinks to view)
Complete Financial Aid Lesson/s
- Complete all of the Financial Aid Lessons assigned to you in SchooLinks this year. Since this is the first year we are launching these lessons, students need to complete prior year Financial Aid Lessons as well.
Would You Rather Assessment
- Would You Rather assists you in identifying which career clusters best aligned with your interests, leading to more tailored career suggestions.
- Overview of Assessments (must log in to SchooLinks to view)
Update Profile & Resumé
- Students will visit their profile and must update at least some part of their profile to complete this indicator.
- How to Build a Student Profile instructions (must log in to SchooLinks to view)
Submit Your High School & Beyond Plan & Feedback Survey
- All students must submit their High School and Beyond Plan annually.
- OSPI wants to know about your experience! Complete the HSBP Submission Feedback Survey as well.
- As you complete your other SchooLinks tasks throughout the year, your HSBP automatically gets updated along the way.
- Overview of your Personalized Plan: How to complete, edit, submit, and print your HSBP (must log into SchooLinks to view)
Grade 11
Student Onboarding & Feedback Survey
- Every student is prompted to complete Onboarding their first time logging in. Onboarding includes the Find Your Path assessment. Once the assessment is completed, students will see their personality results and choose a career path. Your choices can be changed at any time.
- OSPI wants to know about your experience! Complete the Onboarding Feedback Survey as well.
- Onboarding Video example
- Onboarding written instructions (must log in to SchooLinks to view)
Top Skills Assessment
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Discover your top skills and areas for improvement. Use this info to see which careers match your skill set!
Create/Modify SMART Goals & Feedback Survey
- Create at least 1 SMART Goal.
- OSPI wants to know about your experience! Complete the Goal Setting Feedback Survey as well.
- Create SMART Goals instructions (must log into SchooLinks to view)
Explore & Favorite Careers
- Explore at least five careers.
- Favorite at least two careers. Favorite careers by clicking the ‘heart’ icon on the career.
- How to Use the Career Center (must log in to SchooLinks to view)
- Overview of a Career Profile (must log in to SchooLinks to view)
Set & Update Goals: Career Goal, College Goal, Post-Secondary Goal
- Students will visit the goals module and set goals for a career, college, and post-secondary plan. If students' goals stay the same from year to year, they will need to visit the goals module and confirm that their goal is still correct to complete this task. You can go back and change your goals at any time.
- How to Set and Manage Goals instructions (must log in to SchooLinks to view)
Complete Financial Aid Lesson/s
- Complete all of the Financial Aid Lessons assigned to you in SchooLinks this year. Since this is the first year we are launching these lessons, students need to complete prior year Financial Aid Lessons as well.
Would You Rather Assessment
- Would You Rather assists you in identifying which career clusters best aligned with your interests, leading to more tailored career suggestions.
- Overview of Assessments (must log in to SchooLinks to view)
Explore Opportunities
- Explore at least one opportunity in the Opportunity Board.
- How to Explore Opportunities in SchooLinks (must log in to SchooLinks to view)
Update Profile & Resumé
- Students will visit their profile and must update at least some part of their profile to complete this indicator.
- How to Build a Student Profile instructions (must log in to SchooLinks to view)
Submit Your High School & Beyond Plan & Feedback Survey
- All students must submit their High School and Beyond Plan annually.
- OSPI wants to know about your experience! Complete the HSBP Submission Feedback Survey as well.
- As you complete your other SchooLinks tasks throughout the year, your HSBP automatically gets updated along the way.
- Overview of your Personalized Plan: How to complete, edit, submit, and print your HSBP (must log into SchooLinks to view)
Grade 12
Student Onboarding & Feedback Survey
- Every student is prompted to complete Onboarding their first time logging in. Onboarding includes the Find Your Path assessment. Once the assessment is completed, students will see their personality results and choose a career path. Your choices can be changed at any time.
- OSPI wants to know about your experience! Complete the Onboarding Feedback Survey as well.
- Onboarding Video example
- Onboarding written instructions (must log in to SchooLinks to view)
Complete Financial Aid Lesson/s & Advisement
- Complete all of the Financial Aid Lessons assigned to you in SchooLinks this year. Since this is the first year we are launching these lessons, students need to complete prior year Financial Aid Lessons as well.
- Financial Aid Advisement: with this task you tell us about if/when you'll be accessing financial aid.
Top Skills Assessment
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Discover your top skills and areas for improvement. Use this info to see which careers match your skill set!
Create/Modify SMART Goals & Feedback Survey
- Create at least 1 SMART Goal.
- OSPI wants to know about your experience! Complete the Goal Setting Feedback Survey as well.
- Create SMART Goals instructions (must log into SchooLinks to view)
Explore & Favorite Careers
- Explore at least five careers.
- Favorite at least two careers. Favorite careers by clicking the ‘heart’ icon on the career.
- How to Use the Career Center (must log in to SchooLinks to view)
- Overview of a Career Profile (must log in to SchooLinks to view)
Set & Update Goals: Career Goal, College Goal, Post-Secondary Goal
- Students will visit the goals module and set goals for a career, college, and post-secondary plan. If students' goals stay the same from year to year, they will need to visit the goals module and confirm that their goal is still correct to complete this task. You can go back and change your goals at any time.
- How to Set and Manage Goals instructions (must log in to SchooLinks to view)
Would You Rather Assessment
- Would You Rather assists you in identifying which career clusters best aligned with your interests, leading to more tailored career suggestions.
- Overview of Assessments (must log in to SchooLinks to view)
Explore Opportunities
- Explore at least one opportunity in the Opportunity Board.
- How to Explore Opportunities in SchooLinks (must log in to SchooLinks to view)
Senior Year End Activity
- Seniors, tell us your future contact information, post-secondary plan, enrollment decision, and any scholarships you received.
Set Up Personal Account for Alumni Access
- Seniors, setup at least one method to login to your account using a personal account: personal email, Google Account, or LinkedIn Account. After you graduate and have you school accounts deactivated in SchooLinks, this will allow you to continue to access their account in SchooLinks and to participate in the Alumni Community.
- Converting Student Accounts to Alumni Accounts instructions (must log in to SchooLinks to view)
Update Profile & Resumé
- Students will visit their profile and must update at least some part of their profile to complete this indicator.
- How to Build a Student Profile instructions (must log in to SchooLinks to view)
Submit Your High School & Beyond Plan & Feedback Survey
- All students must submit their High School and Beyond Plan annually.
- OSPI wants to know about your experience! Complete the HSBP Submission Feedback Survey as well.
- As you complete your other SchooLinks tasks throughout the year, your HSBP automatically gets updated along the way.
- Overview of your Personalized Plan: How to complete, edit, submit, and print your HSBP (must log into SchooLinks to view)
Student & Family Resources
Running Start & New Market Students
Students who attend Running Start and New Market Skills Center still need to complete their High School and Beyond Plan requirement, even if they don't have a homeroom class at their high school. See the below notes on how each group can meet the requirement.
New Market Skills Center Students - Must complete their HSBP tasks in SchooLinks, as well as complete the local graduation requirements. Check in with your school counselor if you have questions on how to log in and/or complete your tasks in SchooLinks. The 'Grade Level Activities' tab above also walks you through the process.
Running Start Students - Due to the statewide implementation of SchooLinks, there is new guidance from OSPI on how Running Start Students may complete their HSBP requirements.
- Class of 2026: May complete their HSBP requirement either by a) completing their SchooLinks tasks OR b) pass college course CCS 101 AND CCS102 or 103 or 104.
- Class of 2027: Must complete their HSBP requirement in SchooLinks.
All degree seeking Running Start students must complete CCS 101 within their first two quarters of declaring a degree. Many aspects of CCS 101 align with SchooLinks tasks, and work from class can be used to support SchooLinks task completion. Please connect with your high school counselor with any questions you may have.
Families: How to Review and Approve Your Student's HSBP
Families should review and approve student's HSBP annually. Below are some key points about this new opportunity:
- Families are invited to review and approve a student’s HSBP on an annual basis.
- Families will get an email from the school when your student's HSBP is ready for review and approval.
- This is an invitation to review and approve your student’s HSBP, not a requirement. If families are unable to review and approve the HSBP, or miss the deadline, a high school staff member will approve the plan in their place. This will not negatively impact your student in any way.
Use SchooLinks for your Career & College Research
SchooLinks has many 'How To' articles that are great resources using the site! Log in to your SchooLinks account to read these amazing help articles:
- How to Use the Career Center in SchooLinks
- Overview of a Career Profile
- How to Use School Search
- Overview of a School Profile
- How to Create and Edit a School List
Additional Resources on the High School and Beyond Plan (statewide)
- VIDEO: Why SchooLinks: WA High School & Beyond Plan
- TOOL: Family Conversations About the Future - The tool is available in English, Spanish, Arabic, French, and Somali
- YOUTUBE PLAYLIST - Visit OSPI's HSBP YouTube Playlist for a series of videos that include an overview of the SchooLinks platform, as well as targeted demonstrations for both school staff and students and families.
- VIDEO: 2023 High School & Beyond Plan: Students
- VIDEO: 2023 High School & Beyond Plan: Parents
- VIDEO: 2023 High School & Beyond Plan: Staff
- VIDEO: El Plan de High School and Beyond
- FAQ: High School and Beyond Plan - Frequently Asked Questions (from OSPI)
- WEBSITE: OPSI High School & Beyond Plan Website
Staff Resources: Login, Roster View, Trainings, Support
Login Instructions: You can access SchooLinks via their website or the TSD Web Apps page (click the 'High School & Beyond' tile). Log in via single sign on with your TSD Google Account.
View Your Class Roster: Teachers can view their class roster (for any class) to see which students have completed HSBP tasks, and which have not. Follow the below steps to view your class rosters in SchooLinks:
- Log into SchooLinks
- Visit Track (left menu bar), then Scope & Sequence Analytics (NOTE: 'Analytics' tab shown in below photo is now called 'Track' in SchooLinks)
- Select the donut chart for the grade level task that you would like to view.
- View your Roster. Type your last name into the search bar under Roster to see all your class rosters for that task.
- Click on the blue numbers to see which students have/have not completed the task, or download your whole roster with the blue Export button
- View below screenshot or watch this short video demonstrating how to view your roster
Pre-Recorded Trainings:
Getting Started for Staff: SchooLinks HSBP Fall 2025 Cohort (OSPI)
Middle School HSBP News You Need to Know (OSPI)
High School & Beyond Planning: College Application Manager SchooLinks Training (OSPI) - TSD not currently using
24-25 TSD High School Trainings:
All HS Staff Training - October 25th, 2024
- View the Training Recording
- View the Training Slide Deck
Data, Analytics & Reporting Training - November 7th, 2024
- View the Training Recording
College Application Manager (CAM) Training - November 8th, 2024
- View the Training Recording (PW: E5JW*P+Q)
Event & Opportunity Management Training - November 13th, 2024
- View the Training Recording
- View the Training Slide Deck
SchooLinks Support: Reference the below resources for additional questions you may have.
- Account Help: If you are unable to log into your account, please contact Marcy Proctor (marcy.proctor@tumwater.k12.wa.us)
- Student Lessons: For exact information regarding when lessons are delivered at your building, contact your building administrator. General student HSBP tasks can be viewed under the 'Scope & Sequence' tab above.
- Using SchooLinks in Your Classroom: If you are interested in incorporating SchooLinks into your general instruction, we would love to support you in brainstorming ways this can be done. Reach out to Marcy Proctor to get started. A suite of prebuilt SchooLinks lesson plans is also available to you.
- Overview of SchooLinks Lesson Plans (must be logged into your SchooLinks account to access this Help Center link)
- SchooLinks Support: SchooLinks has a fantastic Help Center with thousands of 'how to' resources. You can also chat and email Customer Support if you need additional help.