Find Your FutureSmartFutures.org is an online career planning and career portfolio platform that the Lakeland School District uses to 1) meet the new requirements for Career Readiness Indicators that are part of the Future Ready PA Index, 2) integrate career education and social emotional learning curriculum to our students from grades K through grades 12, and 3) provide each student a personalize career plan and portfolio upon graduation.
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How Parents Can Help: Ask your student(s) to login to SmartFutures.org and show you their completed work and progress towards their plan and portfolio. Check out completed activities within each of the 4 grade bands: K-3, 4-5, 6-8 and 9-12. You will see interesting insights about “Who Am I” as well as “I CAN” statements that summarize the ways your student is being empowered by Future Ready PA. Review the career plan which documents the students’ interests in careers, career clusters, programs and majors and post-secondary schools and colleges. And help to expose them to career pathway experiences that they can document in their career portfolio.
How Students Can Access: Smart Futures is first utilized in the Junior Senior High School in grades 7 and 8 in the Career Readiness Class. There is no need for a password as the login utilizes the Clever system. As long as students are logged into their school Google account, they can easily access SmartFutures.org.
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