Taking action

By sharing our story and some key resources, we hope to engage others in a conversation about the different pathways to college and career readiness. We offer some suggestions below for how to use this website and resources.

If you are a student...

1. Brainstorm a list of things that interest you or people you admire to get a sense of what type of future you want for yourself.
2. Check out careeronestop.org, which is full of resources to help you figure out what careers might interest you and what skills and education you need to get there.
3. Check in with your college counselor for ideas about any of the careers, programs, or colleges that interest you, so that you can develop a Plan A, Plan B, and Plan C for how to make your goals happen!

If you are a family member...

We encourage you to look through our materials to get a sense of our college and career materials, and we hope to see you at our family events this year!

To help your student meet a goal or support them with their academic work, we encourage you to check out our Toolkit, which includes a bunch of resources about goal setting, time management, study skills, etc.

If there is an event you would like to see or a resource that you wish were posted, please fill out our feedback form!

If you are a teacher or staff member...

In this section, you'll find a toolkit with resources to help coach your students with some of the organizational, time management, and goal setting skills they will likely use after high school.

We also invite you to do some reflection about your own college and career experience to identify how your own pathway relates to that of our students. Some reflection questions to consider and discuss with colleagues include:

1. Describe your family and how they shaped how you show up in this work.
2. Growing up, what strengths did you observe in your family?
3. What were some obstacles your family faced?
4. Given our school’s mission to help students develop the skills, mindsets, and behaviors needed for post-high school, what did you notice about how your family addressed obstacles?
5. Share some obstacles you know your students are facing.
6. How do your own experiences relate to what you just described?
7. How could you use these similarities and differences to inform how you teach? How you lead? How you relate to your students?

If you are a school leader...

To ground all stakeholders in the school's college and career readiness mission, here are some guiding questions that can be used to structure PD.

1. How do we want people to feel after this PD? What technical pieces would help lead to these outcomes?
2. What data can we show to support these outcomes?
3. How are we allowing people to make personal connections to this data?
4. What opportunities are we creating for people to create goals and next steps based on their reflection?