How to Plan Your Career or College Pathway

This book is jam packed with information to assist parents and students in maximizing the opportunities during middle school and high school to plan a student's pathway into the workforce, military, or college.

Contains:

• The 16 National Career Clusters
• Salary based on educational level
• Estimated lifetime earnings by level of education
• Salaries and education level for over 100 occupations and certifications (from construction to professional sports)
• Salaries for over 50 STEM occupations and sample college curriculum for pathways in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics
• Salaries, certifications, and descriptions for over 30 nursing occupations
• Complete listing of enlisted and commissioned military occupational groups
• Examples of students who pursued full scholarship college pathways, with sample résumés, and excerpts from their college essays
• Step-by-step guidance on how to set goals, create opportunities, and plan pathways based on each student's gifts, talents, and interests
• Comprehensive references, links, and index

Author: Mychal Wynn
Publisher: Rising Sun Publishing
Published: 09/05/2000
Pages: 130
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.35d
ISBN: 9781880463642

About the Author
Wynn, Mychal: - Mychal Wynn is the CEO/Founder of the Foundation for Ensuring Access and Equity, a Georgia-based nonprofit working to expand college access for students from marginalized and under-resourced communities. He is an internationally renown poet, speaker, trainer, curriculum developer, researcher, strategist, and author. He is the author of over 40 books and his story of The Eagles who Thought They were Chickens is in the Guinness Book of World Records for the largest Choral Reading by over 5,000 elementary students in Gary Public Schools. His College Planning Cohort Program is the recipient of the 2020 Magna Award from the National School Boards Association for expanding college access for first generation students.As a child of poverty and first in his family to attend college, Mychal Wynn has been an educator for over 30 years, writing extensively on creating positive school climates and cultures to inspire youth to spread their wings and follow their dreams. His College Planning Cohort ProgramTM has guided students from middle school through high school into some of the most prestigious colleges and universities in the United States and into full scholarships at over 25 times the national average.In HBCU Scholarships...and more*, one of 4 recently published books on HBCUs, Mychal Wynn brings together his extensive experience in guiding students in expanding their college and scholarship opportunities, together with his extensive research into the unique educational and scholarship opportunities available to students attending HBCUs. He has developed a step-by-step scholarship playbook. The reader expands their knowledge of how to avoid the yoke of student loan debt that will burden them for years after leaving college; how to develop a "body of work" across the 3 pillars of scholarship, leadership, and service that will make them a competitive scholarship applicant; how to develop a résumé and write essays that showcase their gifts, talents, and interests; and the impact they have made on their schools, communities, and families; and how to develop "high quality" scholarship application packages.Mr. Wynn further guides the reader in identifying, and matching themselves to the plethora (over 40 pages) of scholarship, internship, and mentorship opportunities that are only available to students attending HBCUs, and how to identify the HBCUs that best match to their educational and career aspirations. His 384-page book will serve as an invaluable resource for any student, parent, teacher, counselor, mentor or program seeking to provide students with debt free pathways through HBCUs into graduate school or careers.

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