OSGAccelerate
OneSchool Global is pleased to announce the introduction of our new ‘life-ready’ course for senior students, OSGAccelerate. Partnering closely with the renowned FranklinCovey organisation, the program is designed to empower students in their final two years of school to be better ‘life-ready’ when they join the workforce.
Replacing the former Career Advantage Program (CAP), OSGAccelerate has been mindfully designed to better align with the needs of today’s students and businesses. Its key partner, FranklinCovey, is the world leader in helping build exceptional leaders, teams, and cultures that get results.
A world-leading focus on soft skills to be “life-ready”
The new OSGAccelerate course curriculum addresses feedback from global business owners which suggested an increased emphasis on student soft skills such as communications, cross-cultural awareness, phone etiquette, humility, and prioritisation. Work-readiness is not only about being able ‘to close that sale’ – it’s about celebrating the sale with humility alongside the team.
While the fundamental understanding of business fundamentals continues to play an important role in preparing senior students for post-school success, business owners and future employers want to know that their new starters are above all honest and trustworthy and will be able to enter the workplace with:
- A desire to grow and to learn and to work respectfully with others
- A positive attitude coupled with the ability to manage their time and tasks
- The ability to set challenging goals and see them through.
In order to help develop these skills, the OSGAccelerate curriculum focuses on FranklinCovey’s 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens and other development tools that have been proven to help learners achieve results that require lasting changes in human behaviour. It also includes Microsoft-certified courses and education from other external subject-matter experts, to offer increased value and opportunity for students.
They will be supported to develop the skills they need to become highly effective students and adults who are leaders in their school and in their community.
More information about the curriculum
To reflect the importance of students’ life-readiness, OSGAccelerate is considered part of OSG’s official curriculum, and a formal department such as English, Mathematics, etc.
The course is a self-directed program that is undertaken during senior students’ study periods, supported by teachers who have been trained in Franklin Covey’s the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. Teachers will review students’ submissions and provide marks and grades allocated in accordance with the rest of the senior curriculum. Teachers are also available to provide Tutorials.
The first year of OSGAccelerate will see students complete half of the approximately 120 total hours of the course:
40 hours of Franklin Covey content (each module below is 10 hours):
- 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens (available in quarter 1)
- Find Your Voice (available in quarter 2)
- Take Charge (available in quarter 2)
- Inspire Others (available in quarter 2)
20 hours of the certified Microsoft course for Excel.
Year 2 will include 40 hours of modules related to soft skills and business skills, plus 20 hours of the certified Microsoft course for MS Word.
The course is aligned with the Learning to Learn Framework with engaging Assignments and submissions, which include: practicing & recording soft skills, submissions of video recordings, quizzes, written tasks and opportunities for self-reflection and evaluation.
Key dates and resources: Southern Hemisphere
- The OSGAccelerate course has launched on Monday, 17 February. Click here to view FAQs from staff training and orientation sessions.
- Parents can also click here to view the student handbook (The handbook is available for students on Canva)
Key dates: Northern Hemisphere
OSGAccelerate will begin in the Northern Hemisphere later in 2025 at the beginning of their school year. More detailed communications regarding key dates will be shared first with OSG staff, and then with parents and students, beginning from late winter/early spring 2025.
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OSGAccelerate will be delivered by OneSchool Global, rather than administered by UBT’s Career Training Institute as per the former CAP course.
OSGAccelerate has been designed to offer increased value and opportunity for students via its relevant content from world-leading organisations. In addition, parents who have been familiar with CAP will notice differences in administration, including:
- Funding. Overall funding for the OSGAccelerate program will not be required by Community business sponsorships.
- CAP Fee Subsidy. Parents of OSGAccelerate participants will not receive the CAP Fee Subsidy as it will not be an extra-curricular scholarship program. However, any parents who are experiencing hardship or have difficulty meeting school fees in general can still use the Fee Relief program. Points of contact for information regarding OSG fee relief is available in the FAQs for Parents.
- Debenture transition. As OSGAccelerate is not an extra-curricular scholarship program, there will not be a debenture offered. Students in their final year in 2025 will receive half the denture to cover the one year of the CAP course they completed in the previous year.
- Work placement (AU only). Australia was the only region with compulsory work placement offered as part of CAP; it will not be offered as part of OSGAccelerate due to risk and safety concerns.
Parents may also be interested in Frequently Asked Questions for Parents, including points of contact for more information.
OSGAccelerate has been integrated into the 2025 timetable for selected educators in Australia and New Zealand. Accelerate teachers can click here to access recordings of their info session on the OSGHub staff intranet.
OSGAccelerate for the Northern Hemisphere will be integrated into the 2025-26 timetable for selected educators.
Staff information sessions will be scheduled in prior to the launch of the program.
Educators who teach the OSGAccelerate program will be provided professional development support by FranklinCovey, as part of a two-part orientation and professional development package that includes:
- OSGAccelerate course orientation.
- The renowned FranklinCovey ‘7 Habits of Highly Effective People’ training course. The course is offered to the general public via FranklinCovey’s corporate leadership courses portal for a fee of $240 USD; however OSG funds the cost for educators.
Southern Hemisphere: Teachers in Australia and New Zealand were allocated time to complete it during their official PD time between November 2024 and end January/early Feb 2025, and were instructed to invest approximately 1.5 hours per session to total approximately 4 hours and 40 minutes. The course was made available for the selected educators from 20 November 2024.
Northern Hemisphere: Teachers in North America, United Kingdom and Europe will be allocated time to complete their training during their official PD time between May 2025 and June 2025. They will be instructed to invest approximately 1.5 hours per session to total approximately 4 hours and 40 minutes for course completion. The course will be available once the educators have been confirmed.
We hope that our educators will find the FranklinCovey development opportunities beneficial not only in their careers, but in their personal lives as well. Advocates of the 7 Habits development course have noted:
- High return-on-investment of time. Learning and applying these habits often has a long-term positive impact on productivity, relationships, and personal growth, making the time investment worthwhile.
- Immediate benefit. The course is categorised as personal as well as professional development, as the Habits can be applied in many contexts. They can be applied directly into one’s daily routine with minimal extra time required, making the habits easy to apply immediately and integrate gradually.
Considering the impact to educator workload
Following feedback shared via the Staff survey, we have designed the course to have minimal impact on the secondary teacher workload, working holistically with third-party partners such as FranklinCovey.
- Educators will not be required to write the course or supporting materials.
- Approximately 80% of assignments will be automatically marked. Only the key 20% of assessments will be marked by the teacher, to allow us to manage the marking workload to focus on the most important assessments.
- Orientation for the students will be led per region.
Information for CAP Coordinators
The OSG leadership team would like to thank our CAP coordinators for your passion and support of the former CAP program.
The introduction of OSGAccelerate as a core curriculum means that the CAP program will no longer exist. Therefore, the CAP Coordinator role, along with the CRL Community volunteer role, is no longer required. We understand that this is a significant change for you, and have asked your Regional Director of Education to contact you individually. If you are interested in becoming an OSGAccelerate educator, please reach out to your Campus Principal.