Pathways helps students:

1. acquire and develop transferable, life-long skills;

2. apply knowledge of their interests, strengths, abilities, and accomplishments to education and career/life planning;

3. develop 21st Century competencies that will enable them to pursue their pathways, i.e. apprenticeship, college, community living, university, or the workplace.

4. make informed decisions about the options they will encounter in the course of their schooling, especially those they will make as they transition from Grade 8 to Grade 9 and as they prepare to leave school; and,

5. fully live the Ontario Catholic Graduate Expectations