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GLC2O · Grade 10 · Open

GLC2O — Career Studies

Students build the skills and habits behind their own education and career/life planning: global work trends, transferable skills, and connecting what they are good at and care about to apprenticeship, college, community living, university or the workplace. They set goals, make a plan for their first year after secondary school, and learn personal financial management — including saving and borrowing — and build a budget for that year.Taking this course? Business 101 is free and self-paced and covers a lot of the same ground — you don't need your teacher to sign up first. Teaching it? What Launch League can support, and what it cannot, is set out below.

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Grade 10 · Open

GLC2OCareer Studies

Supports part of it

Strand C is where Launch League is genuinely useful: the money practice and the one-month money plan give students something concrete to budget, and a real venture's numbers make saving, borrowing and cost look like decisions rather than definitions. For strand B, the entrepreneur profile and the outside-forces class put work trends and transferable skills in front of a real person instead of a list.

Relevant Launch League work

  • Transferable skills, named and evidenced
  • Work trends and what they mean for a 15-year-old
  • Goal setting and decision making
  • Postsecondary destinations and pathways
  • A plan for the first year after secondary school
  • Budgeting, saving and borrowing

Already teaching it your way? Career Studies teachers are not short of curriculum; they are short of something real for students to practise money and work trends on. Use the money practice and the one-month money plan as activities inside the course you already run — students who also run a venture have their own numbers to use instead of a worked example.

What Launch League doesn't do: Launch League does not teach Career Studies. The postsecondary planning, the pathways and destinations work, and the financial literacy assessment that carries the graduation requirement all stay with the teacher — we have no part in marking any of it, and nothing here should be treated as coverage of a strand.

Course title and description from the Ontario curriculum (2024 course document). Launch League can support learning in this course; it doesn't deliver course expectations or grant credit, and the teacher decides what counts and how it's assessed. Expectation-level detail is in the curriculum sheet (free teacher account).

Suggested approach

How to use it with GLC2O

Suggested starting point: use with my course. You can use it any way that works for your class.

  1. Create a class

    Request teacher access and create a class at Your classes. Students join with a six-letter code.

  2. Pick only what fits your unit

    Use the Launch League work listed below that connects to what you're teaching. Skip the rest.

  3. Let students bring what they have

    A plan, a deck or a business from your class is where they start: students link it and tick what it covers. Nobody redoes work to match our format.

  4. Ask for real-world support

    Mentors, judges, a pitch workshop or a local entrepreneur — send a request.

  5. Enter, if students want to

    The provincial competition is optional and free, and every complete entry gets written feedback.

After the unit

Students can keep going

The assignment can end without the business ending. Students can validate it, sell it, launch it and compete on their own, without a teacher managing any of it.

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