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Segue helps students become inspired
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and motivated about their future. They come to see how relevant is school, and that it's to their own benefit to take responsibility for their lives by putting in more effort now. As a school official shared with Segue in a letter, Segue "makes graduating high school a new and important priority in [students'] lives." For those already college bound, Segue helps solve the mystery about career options with personal real world insights from those that have been there.
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Schools that already have internal career programs
will find Segue to be a valuable and high impact addition
while requiring no ongoing admin support from their school.
See also "Comparable Options" by clicking here. The
profile of speakers at a school is largely driven by the profile
of the local community workplace, nearby communities, the
parents of students, and the outreach focus of the
Development Committee.
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A Champion engages five other individuals to form
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a Development Committee. Each of the six members of the Development Committee, during the school year, prompt a minimum of four other community members to speak in students' classrooms. We cal these speakers "Career Path Mentors." Each Career Path Mentor, one time during the school year, self-schedules online a time and date that fits his/her calendar, spends less than two hours on a campus, speaks in three consecutive classes, and reaches about 100 students as they speak about their personal career path experiences. Our Speaker's Guide supports speakers at all levels of experience. Reminder notices are emailed to each Career Mentor. Career Mentors, themselves, become living proof for students that long-term goals are achievable; they become the evidence that the path to these goals is through additional education or training.
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Segue metrics: Student Career Exposures (SCEs)
In addition to the twelve statistical student outcomes that Segue measures (click
here for bar graph), Segue has coined the term "Student Career Exposure." One SCE is one exposure to one career for one student. With Segue Community Champions, the minimum number of SCEs for a school each year is over 2,000. Here's the math: The Champion's Development Committee of 6 members each prompts 4 people to be a Career Mentor, and each mentor speak in 3 classes. The result is that mentors speak in a minimum of 72 classes (6 x 4 x 3). Assuming 30 students per class, the result is 2,160 SCEs for the school that year (72 x 30).
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Segue provides a concise Manual for implementing
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the Program at a school, with all the necessary information, and provides ongoing coaching to the Community Champion.
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The Development Committee also makes a donation
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to Segue for program support of $3,000 to $4,000, any portion of which may be fundraised by the Committee, or received as grants from individuals, corporations, or foundations. The option is also available for Co-Champions where one Co-Champion is chiefly responsible for the donation, and the other Co-Champion is responsible for the outreach for Career Mentors and other related administration support. Segue is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit duly registered with the IRS so that donations under this program are tax-deductible. The Committee is also tasked with a few additional administrative steps, requiring a total of about three hours during the school year.
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Survey research tools are provided to enable
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survey feedback from speakers (automatically sent by email), students, and teachers. New questions may be added.
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Join us in our mission to bring Career Path Mentors from each community to students and schools everywhere!
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To make an initial inquiry for additional information, please click here.
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We look forward to hearing from you!
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