Blogs for Educators
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Treating Students Like Adults: One CTE Teacher’s Approach
As a high school teacher with a bachelor’s degree in animal science, I thought I’d spend my life teaching agriculture classes and leading a school’s FFA program (formerly known as Future Farmers of…
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Don’t Allow Stereotypes to Limit Your Child’s Career Opportunities
You just boarded the plane and are settling in for your cross-country flight. The flight attendants have gone through the safety announcements, and you’re all buckled up. The captain comes on to…
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Introduce Your Students to Data Analytics
Data. It’s collected everywhere by seemingly everyone. With rapidly advancing technology and the ability to store large amounts of data affordably in the cloud, never before has there been so much…
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Why Your Kids Should Consider Careers in Manufacturing
By Philip Brown, Marketing Director, Kansas Manufacturing Solutions (KMS) What do you want to be when you grow up? It’s a common question asked of kids. Answers are often a fireman, a…
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In Honor of National Apprenticeship Week, Embrace Apprenticeships in Your Career Conversations
For National Apprenticeship Week, observed Nov. 14-20, 2022, educators, industries, workers and employers are celebrating the benefits and successes of apprenticeships.
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Bring the FutureMaker Lab to Your School For Hands-On Career Exploration
Kansas teachers and parents can help students “try on” in-demand jobs through an innovative career exploration program that delivers activities and resources directly to them.
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The Missing Chapter: Career Exploration Before High School
When first becoming parents, most of us spend time learning from parenting books, blogs and one another about what we are supposed to do with these squirming, stubborn, tiny humans. Whether we’re…
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Parents and Educators: Spring into New Thinking About Post-Secondary Careers
Spring is the season students often make commitments for their future. Whether that’s enrolling for next year’s classes, choosing a post-secondary institution of higher learning, or submitting job…
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Turner High School Teacher Launches Health Career Podcast
KANSAS CITY, KANSAS — From a quiet hallway between the pool where he teaches swimming two hours a day and a classroom where he teaches health and health sciences classes, Drew Garner, Turner…
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Find the Sweet Spot between Personal Passions and Workplace Demands
As a product of Kansas public schools in the 1980s and early 1990s, I grew up believing that if I (as a girl) wanted to be president of the United States, I could be. My parents taught me that if…