1. Oregon CIS
Career and Education Resources for Students & Adults
The Oregon Career Information System (or CIS) has a lot of tools for helping students engage in their own education and career planning and increase their success in achieving their education and career goals.
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2. Agenda Introduction to CIS (10 min)
History
Career & Education Development
How Access & Accounts Work
Resources in the student side of CIS (80 min)
Questions / Discussion (30 min)
Overview of CIS & who we are as an organization
A bit about our history
And our basis in career development
I’ll talk some about how access to the system and accounts work, but I want to focus on the conceptual side of how you might use the Career Plan

3. History
Oregon CIS was the first Career Information Delivery System and served as the model for a national network.
Oregon CIS is a non-profit consortium operated as an outreach unit out of the University of Oregon’s College of Education. We provide a career development website that students can use to explore the world of work, set career and education goals, and plan to meet those goals.
Oregon CIS served as the model for the US Department of Labor to create a Career Information Delivery System in every state. Today, many states work together to provide comprehensive career planning information.
Oregon CIS receives national information and programming, but specializes in providing detailed information about Oregon’s schools, programs of study, industries, and occupations. We have analysts that review and update all the information in CIS at least yearly. For example, this includes updating descriptions of all the programs of study for all licensed and accredited schools in Oregon and reviewing and updating information about occupations, such as wages and employment outlook down to the regional level in Oregon.
Information in CIS includes:
- Current employment data, wages, outlook, hiring practices, licensing.
- Descriptions of every accredited or licensed postsecondary program of study or training offered in Oregon. Also school information for Oregon schools and national ones.
- Complete list of over 1100 scholarships in Oregon.
- Information about self-employment, job searching, industries, and the military as an employer.

4. We partner with a variety of organizations in Oregon:
Of most interest to you:
In general: keeping up with Oregon-specific legislation and state initiatives. CIS does not license in any other states, so we’re completely focused on Oregon.
Oregon State Library: Learning Express: practice tests and skill-building tools
OSAC: links CIS portfolio content to the OSAC Activities Chart, which enables faster application to OSAC scholarships

5. Accounts: Accessing CIS
Site Administrator
Student Portfolio
Staff Account
Administrative & Student-side access
Student-side access only
Site-level access
Non-portfolio student-side access
Once a school licenses CIS, we set that school up with access to the system and give the Site Administrator top-level administrative access for their school.
Site Administrator: The primary contact for CIS at the school.
Ability to reset student passwords
Create, merge, and transfer portfolios
Run reports on student progress
View content of student portfolios, including the career plan student reflections and goals
CIS receives requests for student pw resets—send to SA
Because of federal privacy laws like FERPA & COPPA, we don’t deal directly with student data. We provide the Site Admin and Staff with reports, tools for customizing CIS, and support for using CIS.
Can create staff accounts.
Staff Accounts: Created by the Site Administrator to give other staff members access to the administrative side of CIS:
Can do everything the SA can do, EXCEPT:
Create other Staff Accounts
Manage the Course Planner
Student Portfolios
Created by the Site Admin or Staff, or by the student themselves
Students can save information to their portfolio, such as
Results from interest and skills assessments
Favorite occupations, programs, schools, and scholarships
Reflections and goals as they complete the Career Plan
Documentation of the Career-Related Learning Experiences
Results from occupation sorting tools
Results from financial aid searches (over 1100 Oregon-specific scholarships)
Resume information in the Resume Creator
20 MB of personal storage for documents
Site-level access
Non-portfolio access to CIS. Individuals can log in and create a portfolio.

6. Career-Related Learning & Work
Career Development Curriculum
Self-Knowledge
Research & Goals
Education Plans
Career-Related Learning & Work
Action & Reflection
One of the ways that students access the information in CIS is by using the Career Plan. The Career Plan curriculum is built on the cycle of career development. Students learn early on how to explore the world of work on their own and develop skills for engaging with their own career development.
The cycle of career development:
Student’s learn about themselves
Research interests and develop goals
Make education and career plans
Gain career-related learning & work
Take action
Throughout these steps, students complete reflections that help them learn and engage.
- The Career Plan, when continued in high school, also fulfills Oregon’s Personalized Learning Requirements.
- Each school chooses to use parts or all of the Career Plan and then use Checklists to track student progress.

7. Personalized Learning Requirements > CIS
Education Plan
A formalized plan that involves students in their own learning and career development in grades 7-12.
Education Profile
Documentation of student progress toward the grad requirements, goals, and the education plan.
Career-Related Learning Experiences
Structured educational experiences that connect learning to the world beyond the classroom.
Extended Application
The application of knowledge and skills in context of the student’s personal and career interests and post-high school goals.
Career Plan
Résumé Creator & Course Planner
How CIS meets ODE requirements.
CRLE Planner
Senior Project / EA Planner

8. Project ACCESS (VR Curriculum)
Publish in Fall 2016
Sort-able
Self-Advocacy
Disability

9. Discovery & Passage
We’ve also created Discovery & Passage, which is a huge repository of lesson plans for teachers to download and modify for use in the classroom. Teachers can sort based on several criteria to find lesson plans they might want to use. Many of these lesson plans help students think about themselves, set goals, and plan to achieve those goals.
We provide Power Points, Word documents, and PDF documents for teachers to download and modify, as well as instructions for using the lesson plans.

10. Discovery & Passage
For example, here’s an activity designed to help students research post-secondary schools that interest them.
Students can use School Sort in CIS as part of researching post-secondary schools.

11. Questions & Contact Info
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