Explore the EXPLORE!

Cherokee Guardians:

As one of the most influential people in your child’s life, now is a critical time to make sure your child is prepared to take that next step after graduation, whether that means starting college or starting a career. Monitoring college and career readiness is important to your child’s future.  All Springfield Public Middle Schools administer the EXPLORE® exam.  Cherokee will be administering the EXPLORE to 8th grade students on September 19, 2013.  

EXPLORE is curriculum-based educational and career planning program for 8th and 9th graders that measures achievement in English, math, reading, and science. The assessment is based on the major areas of high school and post-secondary instructional programs and measures the skills and knowledge needed for college success.

EXPLORE is designed to help eighth and ninth graders explore a broad range of options for their future. Additionally, EXPLORE includes a career exploration component that stimulates students' thinking about future plans and relates personal characteristics to career options. Assessing students before high school also helps them build rigorous high school coursework plans to get, or stay, on track for their educational and career goals. 

Visit www.explorestudent.org for more information.

Together we will prepare your student to be college and career ready.
Regards,

Alison Roffers
Guidance Counselor
aroffers@spsmail.org

*Majority of this letter was used from a sample on the EXPLORE website.  :)