College Career Compass™

College Career Compass™ provides academically rigorous, engaging educational opportunities for middle and high school students, with a focus on psychology, college and career readiness, and purposeful future planning.

Within College Career Compass™, Cognitive Horizon Academy serves as the advanced academic layer, offering high-rigor psychology courses for students ready for deeper study, college-level thinking, and more challenging academic experiences. Through **Cognitive Horizon Academy**, students can participate in advanced psychology coursework designed to move beyond passive learning. Live courses use a **small-cohort, flipped-classroom model** in which students develop foundational knowledge before class and use live instructional time for discussion, inquiry, critical thinking, analysis, application, and deeper learning. Current psychology offerings include: 🧠 **AP® Psychology** — Full-year, College Board–approved course with preparation for the AP® Psychology Exam 📚 **Advanced Honors Educational Psychology** — Semester course exploring learning, cognition, memory, motivation, development, and educational psychology; CLEP® aligned 🌱 **Advanced Honors Lifespan Developmental Psychology** — Semester course exploring human development across the lifespan; aligned with the CLEP® Human Growth and Development exam College Career Compass™ also offers self-paced college and career readiness courses: 🧭 **Discover Your Direction™** — Helps students explore their strengths, interests, values, aptitudes, learning preferences, and career possibilities. 🚀 **Build Your Future™** — Guides students through postsecondary pathways, college and career planning, scholarships and financial awareness, resume development, personal branding, and future-ready preparation. Courses are designed and taught by Dr. Leslie Tucker, an experienced college educator, curriculum specialist, and college and career counselor with a Ph.D. in Curriculum & Instructional Studies and advanced training in psychology. Our goal is not simply to help students complete another course. It is to help them **think deeply, understand themselves, develop academic confidence, and make more purposeful decisions about what comes next.** “Students are not passive recipients of information—inquiry is earned through knowledge, supported through scaffolding, and strengthened through reflection, application, and retrieval.” — Dr. Tucker 📩 For course information and seamless Florida enrollment assistance: dr.leslietucker@gmail.com