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Career coach outlines expanded job, college and military supports for Geneva City students
Summary
Latasha Henderson, Geneva City Schools' career coach, told the school board the program ran 13 guest-speaker events, 38 K'12 classroom visits, 20 recruiter visits and 290 career assessments this semester and invited community volunteers and sponsors for mock interviews and campus tours.
Latasha Henderson, the district's career coach, told the Geneva City Board of Education that the program's aim is to give students hands-on exposure to career pathways and practical skills before graduation. "When students can clearly picture their future, each step they take becomes purposeful," Henderson said as she outlined recent activities.
Henderson presented program metrics: 13 guest speakers and industry presentations, 38 career-coach classroom visits, 20 college or military recruiter visits and 290 completed career assessments this semester. She described five college campus tours, multiple industry tours and partnerships with organizations including Chick-fil-A and Cisco, and with military recruiters. "100% of our seniors have either created or updated their resumés," she said.
Board members asked for more detailed breakdowns of seniors' postsecondary plans. Henderson said an earlier summer survey of 75 seniors showed roughly 85% planned to go to college or seek additional training and about 11% were undecided; she offered to provide a more detailed trade-versus-four-year breakdown on request. A board member also asked how many seniors planned two-year versus four-year pathways; Henderson said she would obtain that finer detail for the board.
Henderson outlined ongoing events and needs: a "skills for success" workshop with a skid-steer course, a senior "lunch and learn" series, mock interviews, and an elementary "careers on wheels" event. She said funding was tight for meals and transportation for campus and industry visits and asked the community to sponsor meals and volunteer as interviewers. "We definitely want you in our schools," she said, asking community members to sign up via a partnership link she will circulate.
The board commended the work and suggested retired military personnel, business owners and local tradespeople could be good volunteers. The presentation closed with an invitation to community members to participate in mock interviews, campus visits and industry tours.
The district said it will circulate sign-up materials and that Henderson will follow up with requested breakdowns of senior postsecondary plans.
