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Get involved with the Chamber and other business organizations. The career fair is great but it may not have the key people that the school needs to connect with. You need to get involved with the business community.

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Please keep the community involved. There’s comments on importance of equity. Businesses do not care as much as equity. Show respect to others. Academia over complicates it.

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Students needs to know how to get along with all kids of people. They need to know how to respect, accept, and understand each other.

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Teach writing a theme at 7th grade or later by one-on-one draft one, draft two, and final by providing suggestions at all points along the way.

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Reality of what is a hobby and what is a career.

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Involve the community

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College/ Trade options

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Partner with the community

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Spend time teaching about things like retirement planning, what is a credit score, how to budget, etc...

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Invite in business leaders and owners to discuss opportunities and invite them to show off the fruits of their labor - cars, vacations, homes etc.

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Learn basic financial skills

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Community career representative visits to the schools

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Partner with companies that pay for college. Work and make money and get free schooling

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Teach and have more conversations about social justice.

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Community mentorship

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Have recent graduates come back and discuss their experiences

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Teach about how debt works , the cost of money and punishment of debt if not used properly

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Provide students opportunities for self-care

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Field trips to manufacturing facilities 

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Field trips to manufacturing facilities 

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Ensure all students work to have 3 references before they leave HS.

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Track how and where our college bound students end up in 6 years

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Track how and where our college bound students end up in 6 years

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Good communication with co workers even when you dont like them.

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Good communication with co workers even when you dont like them.

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There is more than Berks County but be proud of your community. This is an amazing community.

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Provide professional communications training...professional writing class, professional speaking, etc...

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There is no shame in work, there is no shame in taking time to figure out life while you work and treat each day as learning as opposed to not achieving

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How to emotionally deal with failure

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To offset college costs, Foster and promote more relationships with companies to hire HS graduates and immediately enroll in a paid college in return for work commitments.

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Teach them about a 401K

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Real Life Skills- Financial Planning

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Provide exposure to as many occupations as possible. For most industries, this can be done through projects from an academic standpoint...shadowing or internships for real world.

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Show students real world examples of successful skills by having guests come in and talk to our students throughout the K-12 continuum. Many individuals are happy to share their life experiences.

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Options for students with learning disabilities

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Provide more opportunities for students to experience servicing or working with their communities and populations outside of their communities.

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Tell the hard truths - not everything is incredible/amazing - sometimes it’s just hard or hard work

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Jobs within the community that give them grades. Internships

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Get them out of their comfort zone and learning about other people and cultures- there is more out there than just Berks County.

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Career field trips in middle school

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Provide experiences starting with the earliest years for students to observe people in various careers and participate in their work day.

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Continue to encourage and inspire kids to extend their school experience outside the walls of WSD. 

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Continue to encourage and inspire kids to extend their school experience outside the walls of WSD. 

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Treat the school day more like a work day

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Treat the school day more like a work day

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Shadowing

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Business meal ettqtte

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Remove the pressure of “this or that” / “college or not” - they can succeed in steps

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Critical thinking skills

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Interview skills and dress code

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Mentorship program for HS students.

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Teach them to write a professional email

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Stop test prepping them and give them real life experiences instead

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Personality testing

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On the job shadowing of a variety of jobs

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Explore as many career opportunities as possible