South Dakota PLP mandate
South Dakota's Personal Learning Plan: A Student-Centered Pathway from 9th Grade Through Graduation
Mandated under ARSD 24:43:11:01 for high-school students (grades 9–12); supports individual skill assessment and career-aligned coursework planning.
In Brief
South Dakota's Personal Learning Plan (PLP) empowers high-school students to chart their own educational and career path. Approved by the South Dakota Board of Education Standards in 2009 and codified in ARSD 24:43:11:01, the PLP requires each student to develop a written plan that reflects their individual skills, interests, and goals. Unlike many state mandates, South Dakota's PLP is built on local control—districts set their own template and process—while the law ensures that every student has a documented plan connecting their abilities to their coursework and graduation requirements.
The PLP requires students to identify specific coursework needed to achieve their academic and career goals, document a minimum of 22 credit units toward graduation, and ensure their course selections align with their personal learning plan. This shift from one-size-fits-all scheduling to personalized planning is central to South Dakota's K–12 accountability system. The state-provided tool, SDMyLife, is available to districts but not mandated; schools manage implementation locally.
What PLP actually requires
Checked against ARSD 24:43:01:01 (definition); ARSD 24:43:11:01 (requirement), not against a category description.
Recommended assessment battery for South Dakota districts
Sequenced across the 7th-12th grade arc.
Who South Dakota districts already use for PLP
Real tools and workarounds we found in use for PLP compliance — not a hypothetical shortlist.
South Dakota's PLP Requirements: What Schools Must Deliver
Related on JobCannon
This page is one of 38 verified career-plan mandate pages JobCannon tracks, each citing a primary statute or regulation — for the South Dakota PLP mandate that source is South Dakota Administrative Rule 24:43:11:01. For the broader rollout picture, see career assessments for school districts, or the JobCannon for Business hub.
District-tier pricing
Scale is $199/mo and covers 200 people per billing period — one person, however many assessments they take, and a class-code arrival counts the same as an emailed invite. Growth is $999/mo for 1,000. Above that, or where enrolment should not be metered at all, it is an Enterprise conversation rather than a larger self-serve plan. A district-sized enrolment runs out of the monthly tiers quickly — the Education Licence below prices your whole enrolment per student for the year, assessments uncapped, and adds the full career and skills corpus.
Free
For micro-teams trying the platform
- ▸10 candidate invites/month (resets the 1st of each month)
- ▸All 164+ assessments
- ▸Premium result for every candidate you invite
- ▸Every candidate profile fully open — nothing blurred
- ▸Share link via email or Slack
- ▸Free trial of the coordinator dashboard
Starter
For solo coaches and small HR
- ▸30 candidates/mo included; extra candidates are $2 each
- ▸All 164+ assessments
- ▸Premium report (archetype + blind spots + work-style brief)
- ▸Coach notes per candidate
- ▸PDF export (client-ready)
- ▸Session prep recommendations
- ▸Candidate progress tracking
Team
For startups, teams and HR
- ▸80 candidates/mo included; extra candidates are $2 each
- ▸Everything in Starter
- ▸Team DNA dashboard
- ▸Compatibility matrix
- ▸Conflict-pattern detection
- ▸Compare 2-3 team members
- ▸Manager prep briefings
- ▸Shared admin access (2 seats)
Scale
For agencies, L&D and scale-ups
- ▸200 candidates/mo included; extra candidates are $2 each
- ▸Everything in Team
- ▸Integrity + social-desirability scales (fake-good detection)
- ▸White-label PDFs (your logo)
- ▸Full assessment API (start, score, retrieve results)
- ▸Custom assessment builder (beta)
- ▸Admin seats not billed per seat
- ▸Priority email support
Growth
For high-volume screening without a contract
- ▸1,000 candidates/mo included; extra candidates are $2 each
- ▸Everything in Scale
- ▸Invoice / PO billing, not just card
- ▸Named support contact with a response-time target
- ▸Annual billing option
Enterprise
For 200+ person companies
- ▸Candidate volume set in your contract, all assessments
- ▸Everything in Scale
- ▸SLA (99.9% uptime)
- ▸Dedicated Customer Success
- ▸Custom integrations built against your tenant (Greenhouse and Ashby ship today)
- ▸Annual billing, invoice payments
Self-serve checkout via Stripe — major cards, Apple Pay, Google Pay, Link. Cancel anytime; 14-day money-back on every paid plan. Enterprise via the contact form below.
Education Licence — priced per student, per year
One rate per enrolled student for the academic year, sized for South Dakota district or school-level PLP rollouts. Assessments uncapped, career and skills corpus included — multiply your own enrolment by the band and you have the most this can cost before you talk to us.
$1.25 down to $0.80 per student, per year — assessments uncapped
That multiplication is a ceiling, not a bill. If our self-serve plans would cover the same number of students for less, you are quoted the lower figure — we do not sell an institution its own students back at a higher price than anyone can buy them for on the pricing page.
District
A large school, multi-school district or trust
per year
- ▸Every assessment in the catalogue, retakes included, no per-assessment charge
- ▸Cohort dashboard with cross-school and year-over-year comparison
- ▸Full career and skills corpus — 2,521 careers, 1,863 skills
- ▸Read the corpus live over the API, or take a versioned snapshot
- ▸Named contact, quote letter formatted for procurement
College or university
A university, college or college group
per year
- ▸Every assessment in the catalogue, retakes included, no per-assessment charge
- ▸Cohort dashboard with cross-school and year-over-year comparison
- ▸Full career and skills corpus — 2,521 careers, 1,863 skills
- ▸Read the corpus live over the API, or take a versioned snapshot
- ▸Named contact, quote letter formatted for procurement
State system
A statewide or national programme
per year
- ▸Every assessment in the catalogue, retakes included, no per-assessment charge
- ▸Cohort dashboard with cross-school and year-over-year comparison
- ▸Full career and skills corpus — 2,521 careers, 1,863 skills
- ▸Read the corpus live over the API, or take a versioned snapshot
- ▸Named contact, quote letter formatted for procurement
£350 per school, per year — a flat whole-school licence rather than a per-student rate, because that is the unit UK schools budget in. Same uncapped assessments and same corpus. Excludes VAT.
The ladder starts at 1,301 students. Below that a self-serve plan already covers your whole roll for less than a licence would, so that is what we will point you at — and UK schools have the flat whole-school licence above at any size. Bands are by enrolment, and the rate applies to your whole roll rather than to a seat count you have to predict. Invoiced annually against a purchase order; no per-assessment charge and nothing to top up mid-year. Assessing an institution's enrolled students is covered by the Education Licence, not by a hiring plan. What is in the corpus.
Request a South Dakota district pilot
Tell us how many students you expect to assess in a term and what your review process asks for. If something on your requirements list is not in the product, we will say so in the reply rather than in the pilot.
No. South Dakota's statute requires a Personal Learning Plan based on student skills and interests; SDMyLife is the state-provided option, but no specific tool is mandated. Districts choose their own platform or approach.
JobCannon provides a Career Match assessment (a 2-minute forced-choice interest inventory) and a Printable Career Guide that can help students explore their interests as input to their PLP. JobCannon does not create or manage the PLP itself—it supports the career-exploration phase of the planning process.
South Dakota's minimum graduation requirement is 22 credit units across all subject areas (not a specific breakdown by subject). The PLP documents which courses each student will take to meet that threshold.
No. South Dakota's PLP mandate applies only to grades 9–12. Career exploration and interest assessment may occur earlier, but the formal PLP is a high-school document.
The PLP is typically developed when a student enters 9th grade and should be reviewed and updated throughout high school as goals and interests evolve.
South Dakota's PLP statute does not require a statewide assessment tool (though SDMyLife is provided as an option) and does not mandate a specific format or digital platform. The law's focus is on personalization and local control, allowing districts flexibility in how they structure and manage the planning process.