Starting February 28, 2017, students can access the Naviance College and Career Program from their Launchpad site. From the Home Page, students can navigate through four tabs - Colleges, Careers, About Me and My Planner to access information such as:

• 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
• Requesting and sending electronic transcripts
• Learning about success skills, financial planning, self-discovery, and building support network

School counselors will be working with students for the remainder of the school year on tasks related to their specific grade level. These tasks can be found by clicking on the "My Planner" tab and then clicking on "Tasks assigned to me."  Counselors will be helping students complete these tasks in various ways in the coming months. Students can also explore the site on their own.
 
The information the students create in Naviance will follow them throughout their high school career and they will be able to build upon research and activities they complete each year.
 
* Parents will receive login information in August for Naviance in order to view their child's progress through the college and career selection process.  

BIRDS OF A FEATHER

For years, Monterey, California, was a pelican's paradise. The town was the site of many fish canneries. In fact, it was the home of Cannery Row, a street popularized by Nobel Prize-winning author John Steinbeck in his novel of that name.

Pelicans loved the town because fishermen cleaned their catch, discarding the offal, and the pelicans would feast on those scraps. In Monterey, any pelican could be well fed without having to work for a meal.

But as time went by, the fish along the California coast were depleted, and one by one, the canneries all shut down. That's when the pelicans got into trouble. You see, pelicans are naturally great fishers. They fly in groups over the waves of the sea, and when they find fish, they dive into the water and swoop up their catch. But these pelicans hadn't fished in years. They had grown fat and lazy. And now that their easy meals were gone, they were actually starving.

Environmentalists from the area wracked their brains to figure out a way to help the pelicans, and finally they came up with a solution. They imported pelicans from another area, ones that were used to foraging every day, and they mixed them in with the local birds. The newcomers immediately started fishing for their own food, and it wasn't long before the starving native birds joined them and started fishing for themselves again.

The point? If you ever find yourself starving for success, one of the best ways to get things going in your life is to be around people who are achieving success. Spend time with them. Watch how they work and spend their time. Learn how they think. You will inevitably become like the people you are around .