HOW DC2 WORKS
Four years.
One connected system.
DC2 helps students understand what matters at each stage of high school, build knowledge and self-knowledge, take meaningful action, and gradually take greater ownership of what comes next.
WHY FOUR YEARS?
College applications happen senior year.
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Readiness develops over four years.
High school is a time of enormous growth. Students are learning how they work, what matters to them, how to make decisions, how to respond when things are difficult, and what they may want from the future.
DC2 gives that development structure—helping students build knowledge, take action, reflect on experience and carry what they learn forward.
THE FOUR-YEAR JOURNEY
Students grow. DC2 grows with them.
Each year has a different developmental job.
A Four-Year Journey
9
FRESHMAN
Awareness​
Understand how high school works while beginning to notice how you learn, respond, participate and grow.
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10
SOPHOMORE
Exploration
Understand how high school works while beginning to notice how you learn, respond, participate and grow.
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11
JUNIOR
Purposeful Action
Understand how high school works while beginning to notice how you learn, respond, participate and grow.
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12
SENIOR
Independence
Understand how high school works while beginning to notice how you learn, respond, participate and grow.
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Awareness → Exploration → Purposeful Action → Independence
HOW THE PIECES FIT TOGETHER
​Know. Learn. Do. Keep.
DC2 connects information, learning, action and reflection so that what students do throughout high school can build on what came before.
Know
Destination College Book
See the road ahead.
A practical four-year roadmap for understanding the high school and college-planning years.
Learn
DC2 Microlearning
Build the knowledge.
Short, focused learning that helps students understand important concepts when they become relevant.
Do
DC2 Weekly Steps
Put it into practice.
Small, manageable actions that turn knowledge into experience, reflection and growing capability.
Keep
My Binder
Save what you discover.
A growing record of reflections, tools, patterns and self-knowledge students can return to over time.
Together, the pieces turn four years of separate experiences into a
connected developmental journey.
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Start where you are. Students and families can enter DC2 wherever it makes sense—a freshman might begin with the four-year roadmap, a junior with Microlearning, or a family looking for direction with Insight. There is no wrong entry point.
MORE THAN COLLEGE PREPARATION
Skills for high school, college and life
​DC2 helps students prepare for college while developing something broader: a better understanding of themselves and greater capacity to manage their own lives.
Across four years, students practice noticing patterns, making decisions, responding to challenges, building useful systems, reflecting on experience and taking increasing responsibility for what comes next.
Know
yourself.
Build capability.
Make decisions.
Take
ownership.
NOT SURE WHERE TO START?
Meet DC2 Insight
DC2 Insight provides a personalized look at how a student approaches learning, stress, motivation, decision-making and other areas that can affect the high school experience.
Students receive a personalized report with insights and recommendations designed to help them recognize patterns, understand themselves better and identify areas where greater attention may be useful.
