CAREER PATHWAYS Learning about careers is important to your child's educational planning. The counselors will be working in classrooms introducing your child to the Career Pathways. Exploring Michigan's Career Pathways is a statewide effort to enhance students' career awareness. Students will be engaged in activities that hopefully will encourage them to think about their interests, skills and abilities. Students will be using an Internet-based career exploration and planning tool called Career Cruising. This career guide can be accessed from school, home, or wherever you child has access to the Internet. Helping children develop career goals is everyone's responsibility: school counselors, teachers, business leaders, and parents. Research shows that parents play the most influential role in their child's career choices. ONLINE RESOURCES FOR EXPLORING CAREERS Career Cruising careercruising.com/ Username:gardencity Password:middleschool America's Career Infonet acinet.org Bureau of Labor Statistics stats.bls.gov/ Michigan Department of Education mde.state.mi.us Occupational Outlook Handbook stats.bls.gov/ocohome.htm US New & World Report usnews.com *Garden City Middle School is providing these online links as a source of student and parent information. There is no suggested or implied endorsement.