The Kentucky Department of Education’s Unbridled Learning: College/Career Readiness for All initiative is designed to ensure that every student is prepared for college and/or career by the time they graduate from high school. Advising is a key strategy for reaching this goal.
Operation Preparation is a joint effort of the Kentucky Department of Education and the Department of Workforce Development and provides a powerful opportunity for schools, students, parents and communities to collaborate in the process of effective advising and focus attention on the importance of planning for college and/or career.
Volunteer community advisors will meet one-on-one with every eighth-grade and tenth-grade student. The community advisor will use the student’s Individual Learning Plan, or ILP, (including career interest inventory and EXPLORE/PLAN results), to discuss the student’s:
- career aspirations, required education/training and workforce skills
- whether the student is on target to meet their goals
- whether the student is taking the courses recommended to prepare them for a successful future
“I will have more than 900 students going through this program and I need your help,” says Mayfield-Graves County Community Education director Kim Wheeler. “If you helped last year, you know that we had an organized plan and we helped approximately 375 students in just three hours! I hope you can help again or if you are new to this project, please come and try it out. The students and I really need your knowledge to work with them.”
The advising sessions at Graves County Middle School are scheduled between 8:30 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. Friday, Feb. 27.
Graves County High School’s advising sessions will take place between 8:30 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. Thursday, April 2.
To volunteer for either session or both or to learn more, phone Wheeler at 270-705-3033 or email her at kimberley.wheeler@graves.kyschools.us.