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After High School
We know it can be difficult enough to handle school this year, much less plan for next. If you're feeling overwhelmed by the pressure to move ahead, let this section help.
Learn how each year of high school helps prepare you for the future. Choose the grade you're in now and get helpful tips you can put into practice today. |
9th Grade
- Schedule a meeting with your high school guidance counselor to discuss your coursework for this and upcoming years.
- Join at least one extracurricular activity either in school or in your community.
- Develop study skill strategies, keeping in mind that different strategies might be needed for each subject.
- Decide whether you could benefit from accommodations. If the answer is yes, try them out and be confident about which ones work best for you.
- Take note of the classes in which you are successful and identify what it is about them that you like.
- Take note of the classes in which you are struggling and identify what in particular makes them so difficult.
- Learn what it means to be a self-advocate, and ask your parents, guidance counselor and others how you can start honing important advocacy skills.
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