SchooLinks
A Modern Platform for College, Career, and Life Readiness
SchooLinks is a student-centered platform that helps students explore careers, plan for life after high school, and track progress toward their goals. Through innovative tools and an intuitive user experience, SchooLinks empowers students to explore opportunities, set goals, and make informed decisions about their futures.
Parents and guardians are important partners in this process. By creating a SchooLinks account and linking it to their student's account, they can stay informed about their child's progress, explore postsecondary opportunities together, and collaborate with school counselors to support successful transitions beyond graduation.
SchooLinks advances DoWEA's commitment to student excellence, future readiness, and family engagement by providing students and parents/guardians with the tools and information needed to plan for successful postsecondary pathways and lifelong success.
Parent Instructions: Create Your SchooLinks Account and Link to Your Student's Account.
- Personalized College and Career Readiness Planning: Students develop individualized graduation and postsecondary transition plans aligned with their strengths, interests, goals, and DoDEA Standards.
- Exploration of Postsecondary Pathways: Students and families can research colleges, careers, military opportunities, apprenticeships, and scholarships using personalized search tools that support informed decision-making and future readiness.
- Goal Setting, Progress Monitoring, and Organization: An easy-to-navigate dashboard helps students track milestones, scholarship and college applications, career exploration activities, and action steps, fostering ownership of learning and supporting continuous growth.
- Family Engagement and Partnership: The parent/guardian portal promotes meaningful family engagement by providing access to students' college and career plans, progress toward goals, and communication tools that strengthen collaboration between families and school counselors.
- Support for Continuous School Improvement: SchooLinks supports DoDEA's Blueprint for Continuous School Improvement by empowering students to become future-ready, strengthening school-family partnerships, and providing tools that promote student achievement, engagement, and successful postsecondary transitions.
- Track Graduation Progress: Monitor progress toward graduation requirements through the student's personalized 4-year or 6-year graduation plan.
- Explore Strengths, Interests, and Career Matches: Review interests, strengths, mindset assessment results, and career recommendations to support informed planning for the future.
- Stay Organized and On Track: Access a personalized dashboard with important reminders, upcoming events, tasks, and deadlines.
- Build Financial Literacy: Compare college costs, explore financial aid opportunities, scholarships, estimated family contributions, and potential out-of-pocket expenses to make informed financial decisions.
- Discover Postsecondary Opportunities: Explore colleges, military pathways, traditional career fields, and emerging careers aligned with students' goals and interests.
- Experience Virtual Exploration: Take virtual college campus tours and view career and mentor videos to learn more about future opportunities.
- Support College, Career, and Life Readiness: Guide students in exploring careers aligned with their interests, strengths, and aspirations while connecting them to relevant colleges, universities, military pathways, and postsecondary programs that support their future goals.
- Access Comprehensive Student Information: Utilize a centralized dashboard that brings together key student data, including graduation plans, course selections, assessment results, resumes, transcripts, and college and career readiness activities, enabling data-informed advising and student support.
- Streamline Postsecondary Planning: Manage and submit electronic transcripts, letters of recommendation, and supporting documents for college and scholarship applications while monitoring student application status and progress throughout the process.
- Strengthen School-Family Partnerships: Facilitate timely and effective communication among students, parents/guardians, counselors, teachers, and other school personnel through a secure, collaborative platform.
- Promote Continuous Growth and Student Success: Monitor student progress, support goal setting, and provide targeted guidance that helps students develop the knowledge, skills, and competencies needed for successful postsecondary transitions.
