At our first convening of the 2024–25 school year, the Student Advisory Council (SAC) members participated in small group workshops focused on college and career readiness resources.
Incoming SAC students explored the PACE-Student-Checklist and ISAC Student Portal as valuable resources for their personal and professional development journeys. They were then tasked with creating a presentation on the PACE-Student-Checklist or any of the tools from the ISAC Student Portal and sharing it with students at their school in some creative way so that their peers may also benefit from the resources.
Below are some of the ways the SAC students chose to share the tools:
Massillon Boyd
This presentation is targeted to high school students ranging from freshman all the way to seniors and focuses on the three parts of the PaCE framework for students in this secondary education phase: career, money, and college. This presentation provides the most important ideas regarding each stage of high school for students and provides tips and tricks for what students can do to stay on track or to get ahead in terms of their education and life after high school whether that may be in the trades or workforce, or in a continued education at a college or university.
Ethyn Bradley & Kendyl Sparks
We were able to not only make a flyer with information and links to multiple of the useful resources provided, but we also had multiple teachers share it to their Google Classroom Stream, we placed the flyers around the school, and also added the information to TV monitors placed around our school which provide students the access to school announcements and information.
Paige Emerson
I gave two presentations over the resource section of the ISAC Student Portal. For the first, I scheduled a time during our free period at Fulton High School for any students who were interested in learning about the ISAC Student Portal to attend. For the second, I gave a mandatory-attendance presentation to the senior class. After both, I asked the attendees what resource(s) they could see themselves using. I also made a digital poster promoting the PaCE Student Checklist. It is now up on the rotating slideshow on the TVs around the school.
Caitlyn Flowers
I shared a presentation on the PaCE framework with students in the Student Access Center at Evanston Township High School.
Raymond Otis & Paishynce Prude
Annah Stevenson
I am the person who films the Tuesday Tidbits, our school-wide newscast. I highlighted some of the SAC resources that will be shown! I also went to talk to one of the college and career counselors about what resources would be best to highlight for the student demographics at our school. In the clip I filmed, there is only a bit of them.
Our returning SAC members participated in an in-depth discussion about the spectrum of work-based learning. They explored various forms, how these opportunities can benefit students, and where to learn more about options available at their schools. Members also identified potential barriers they or their peers might face when accessing work-based learning.
Following this session, returning SAC members were assigned a project to investigate WBL opportunities at their schools further and find creative ways to share these resources with their peers.
Below are some of the innovative methods students chose to share these resources:
Anasia Beckham & Heaven Holloway
Samuel Matura
Rowan Smith
My creative way to share work-based learning opportunities was to put a career into the announcements since I am the one who does them. Twice a week there is a career or an industry so that students could hear about an interesting position and/or career path and the qualifications that might be needed.
