Navigation 101

A Curriculum for Comprehensive Career Guidance

The Workforce Board has advocated for expansion of Navigation 101 in its strategic plan for workforce development. Youth Objective 1 in the current plan, “High, Skills, High Wages 2008,” calls for a K-12 guidance and counseling system that provides students and their parents with a curriculum to individually plan their pathways and prepare for future education and/or work after high school.

History
Since 2007, 827 Navigation 101 grants have been provided to 351 schools in 149 districts statewide.

62 percent of the schools have continued Navigation 101 beyond the grant period.

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The Navigation 101 curriculum combines five major elements of personalizing, planning, demonstrating, empowering and evaluating that lead to better student outcomes and success in further education and/or work.

Teaches students the skills they need to chart their own courses through middle school, high school, postsecondary education and adulthood.
Provides students with an ongoing personal relationship with an adult that lasts throughout their middle and high school experiences.
Provides a meaningful way to keep parents involved in the decisions their teens are making.
Requires commitment from the school and faculty to make changes such as adjusting schedules and classes to meet students’ goals.