April 19th, 2021

Week of 4/19

This week is Career Day! Hopefully everyone will enjoy their speakers and learning about some new careers. Some things to think about during career day:

1. What challenges did this person have to overcome to achieve their goals?
2. How did they overcome these challenges?
3. What is something new you learned about each career?
4. What support did the person have to achieve their goals? What support do you have to achieve your goals?
5. What next steps can you take to help pursue the career you're interested in?

There are many ways you can take steps now to learn more about different careers and to pursue the careers you're interested in:

-Talk to someone in the field you're interested in
-Read books about topics you're interested in or about people in the career field
-Find after school and summer opportunities to help you increase your knowledge and build skills to help pursue the career you're interested in
-Watch videos about the career or people in the field you're interested in. A good website to explore is www.roadtripnation.com

• Here are some good videos if you need help getting started:​
  • Tracy Parrish (former teacher and senior marketing manager for the AT&T Foundry
    
  • Gerard Baker, first Native American Superintendents of Mount Rushmore National Memorial
    
  • Ira Glass, host of This American Life
    
  • Betty Cortina-Weiss, editorial director of Latina magazine
    
  • Raul Ruiz, physician, congressman, and first Latino to earn three graduate degrees from Harvard University
    
  • Paul Dateh, hip-hop violinist
    
  • Chris Wink, cofounder of Blue Man Group