Leila's Story: Planning a Postgraduate Path is an Essential Element of K-12 Education
As students prepare to enter a rapidly evolving global job market, empower them with the skills, knowledge, and confidence they need to excel in their educational journey and beyond. Follow a counselor as she finds the tools she needs to help her team better connect student learning to their postsecondary goals.
Leila's Challenge: Students feel unprepared to make decisions about life after high school
After conducting a district-wide survey, Leila found that students felt overwhelmed in facing their futures. They lacked an opportunity to self-reflect, identify their strengths and interests, and explore postsecondary options. With no centralized data to indicate workforce trends or market needs, Leila’s staff were unsure how to guide students who wanted to make savvy decisions about learning skills that would be in-demand in the local economy.
Leila's Solution: A comprehensive college, career, and life readiness solution for postsecondary paths
Not knowing exactly what support students need, understanding that many students are graduating without a plan in place, and seeing issues meeting local workforce demands, Leila followed the advice of colleagues in a nearby district and implemented a comprehensive college, career, and life readiness (CCLR) solution to actively engage students and key stakeholders. The solution also offers insights into how well the program aligns with the demands of the regional workforce.
Giving Every Student Future Opportunities for Success
With a single sign-on (SSO), Leila and the district’s counselors can help students create a personalized postsecondary plan that aligns with their strengths and interests, bridges the gap between the workforce and the labor market, and empowers students to excel in their postgraduate journey.
Challenges
- Underinformed students
- Misaligned student preparedness
- Lack of data
- Lack of personalized pathway planning
Solutions
- Students learn all available paths
- Students develop relevant employability skills
- Centralized data and analytics
- A unique postsecondary plan for every student
Driving postsecondary planning and workforce success
Leila is proud that her district’s approach to future planning is now making an impactful difference. With PowerSchool’s College, Career, and Life Readiness Cloud, her students feel empowered with the skills, knowledge, and confidence needed to understand their strengths and interests and excel in the educational journey and beyond.
Timely Resources for Counselors
Connecting Learning to Life
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Cultivating Career Interests of Students to Support Long-Term Success
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