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The School District of Osceola County provides Xello for all district students in grades K-12 to help with college and career exploration and planning! This world-class system is designed to inform students, parents, and schools with:
- Researching careers, colleges, and majors
- Finding local and national scholarships and enrichment programs
- Exploring students’ career interests, learning styles, personality types, and multiple intelligences
- Building resumes and holistic portfolios for job and college applications
- Setting goals and developing personalized plans for success
- Managing college application materials - requesting and sending transcripts and letters of recommendation
- Seniors - link your Common App to Xello using these directions to manage transcript requests and letters of recommendation!
- Learning about success skills, financial planning, self-discovery, and building a support network
Accessing Xello
All students in grades K-12 in district schools have access to Xello. Students will log into Classlink, select the Xello app, and enter into a world of exploration.
Parents can access their child’s Xello account as a guest to view college and career information. Parents will need a Xello account before doing so. Accounts can be created by contacting the School Counselor at your child's school.K-2:
Students spend time in Career Town, adventuring through 6 different towns over 3 school years to explore and learn about different clusters of careers. These towns allow students to explore careers related to animal care, business, public service, construction, farming, art, and healthcare.
3-5:
Students explore school subjects, their interests, skills, and goals, making big decisions, and learning for future success.
6-12:
Between 6th through 8th grade, students...
- Complete Matchmaker to explore how their strengths, interests, and goals align with different careers,
- Explore and build upon their interests, skills, and preferred learning styles,
- Think about decision making and time management,
- Explore their career matches, and
- Prepare for the high school transition
Between 9th and 12th grade, students...
- Complete Matchmaker to explore how their strengths, interests, and goals align with different careers,
- Explore things to consider when choosing a career and workplace skills and attitudes for success,
- Differentiate between and reflect on different pathways for after high school, and
- Identify how to choose the best college, trade school, or technical school for them
What can Xello do?
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Parent Portal
Parents can also have an account. A parent account allows you to see your child's About Me page, saved careers and schools, where they are applying, and allows you to explore in the platform. In order to have an account created see below for your person of contact:
High School - College & Career Counselor
K-8 - Mrs. Malfara, danielle.malfara@osceolaschools.net
Click here to see what a parent account can do for you.
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Research careers, colleges, and majors
Students will be able to search for and be matched with careers, majors, technical schools, colleges, and universities based upon self-selected criteria.
You can compare colleges and use filters to make informed decisions about admissions requirements, cost of attendance, programs of study, student activities, and more.
Students can take virtual tours of most schools, access admissions applications, and compare their own Core GPA and SAT/ACT scores to those of students in their school who have been accepted/denied from the colleges of interest. -
Find scholarships and enrichment programs
Students will be able to search for local and national scholarships, store them in Xello, and work directly on the scholarship application in Xello.
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Explore your interests, learning & personality styles, and skills
Students can take a variety of research-based self-assessments to learn about their:
Personality Type
Learning Style
Skills
Career Interests
These results provide recommendations for applying this knowledge to improve study skills, relationships, college selection, and career choices. -
Build resumes and portfolios for job and college applications
Students are guided through the development of each section of a resume that can be printed and used for application to a job or school.
Videos, photos, or other digital documents can be stored in an electronic locker to remind students of accomplishments when completing applications. -
Set goals and develop personalized plans.
Students can set academic, behavioral, career, or other goals, then develop a personalized program that outlines the steps to achieve each goal. Schools can also assign students to complete tasks and monitor completion of each activity.
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Requests transcripts.
Students will be able to request copies of their transcripts online and monitor the document’s submission in Xello.