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Roshni Patel
By Roshni Patel

For Our Youngest Career Cruisers: ccSpark! App Now Available on iTunes

 Ccspark

Here at Career Cruising, we’re excited about our new ccSpark! application for iPad. ccSpark! is a learning game designed especially for elementary school.  It introduces our youngest Career Cruisers to age-appropriate life skills and career guidance information at national curriculum standards. With this new iTunes download, students can easily access ccSpark! from any iPad in the classroom or from home.

“An iPad application is key for our youngest ccSpark! users who are still working up to a computer desktop environment, ” says Matt McQuillen, Career Cruising CEO. “Our new iTunes application means students can login to their own secure ccSpark! portfolios from any iPad at school or with parents at home.”

ccSpark! is an engaging computer game where students learn by playing in a cartoon community. Students have their own digital portfolios for saving game progress and personal reflections. These portfolios are the first steps in building student career plans that continue after graduation.

ccSpark! is the elementary school component of our complete suite of integrated career guidance services from Kindergarten to College. All Career Cruising products meet school and district goals put forward by the National Career Development Guidelines and the American School Counselor Association. The career guidance information in ccSpark! also matches current college and career readiness initiatives.

The ccSpark! App is for the Kindergarten to Grade 2 module of ccSpark! only. It can be downloaded from iTunes to any iPad using the Apple ID associated with the device. Students then login with the same ccSpark! username and password provided by their school to continue with all their saved work. Students without the App can still access their saved work at www.careercruising.com   

In the classroom or at home? In the library or at the career center? At the your desktop or on a tablet? Let us know your favorite place to Career Cruise!

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Phil Jarvis
By Phil Jarvis

Creating Pathways to Prosperity

Harvard Pathways To Prosperity

Harvard recently hosted a Creating Pathways to Prosperity conference for education, government, business, and third sector leaders from across the U.S.  The goal was to address the growing concern for young people’s career prospects.

Among the invited participants were over 400 leaders, including governors, secretaries of education and workforce development, CEOs of major corporations, youth leaders, and champions of the most promising initiatives to help youth transition from school to success.

Career Cruising played a prominent role in this historic conference.  I was invited to speak on a Guidance Panel, along with several distinguished U.S. guidance leaders. Career Cruising also introduced conference organizers to Thoughtstream, an online community engagement tool.

Career Cruising and Thoughtstream presented six questions to conference invitees a month ahead of the actual meeting dates.  Well over a thousand ideas were painstakingly distilled into a clear pattern of collective priorities for the conference.

What follows is a very abbreviated, yet informative summary of the results. The implications for guidance and career development practitioners are profound. For a comprehensive summary and detailed reports, click here.

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