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Giving students the skills and confidence to open their own doors "Students don't understand that they have the most powerful weapon in the world to open doors for themselves: they're kids and they can ask for help." - Dr. Troy Podell One of the most important lessons I learned as a high school leader was the power of pairing high expectations with high support. Everything started with students being surrounded by adults who believed they could do really hard things — and who

Today's students are caught between two narratives about their future: work hard and stay the traditional course, or brace for a world so uncertain that planning is futile. The systems meant to support them aren't much clearer. Schools and workforce programs are either placing students on predefined pathways and hoping for the best, or scrambling to identify the careers that AI won't touch (as if anyone actually knows). What will hold, I think, is this: the students who thriv