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Real Life students will have their program attendance, goals, and achievements available for viewing online. This tool will be open to parents/guardians and any employer interested in participating in the internship program.

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About Real Life
This after school program is funded by a federal grant and is designed to serve inner-city youth. The goal is to help our teenagers graduate from high school with the skills needed for success in college and/or careers.

Program Overview
Students participate in twelve (12) hours of programming a week. Four (4) hours are academic or homework help, three (3) hours are dedicated to career exploration, and five (5) recreational, health, and social/emotional. Parent and student enrichment programs are offered each month. If a student is unable to make up the 12 hours after a number of weeks they will be asked to leave the program and lose their Teen Center scholarship.

Career Exploration
Teens rotate through (8) week sessions in which they will explore a variety of career paths including; Media, Health & Fitness, Business Management, Vocational and Hospitality. Some of the classes/programs within these career strands are:

  • Media:
    Video/Film Production, Recording Arts, Visual Arts, Fashion and more.
  • Health & Fitness:
    Defense Tactics, CPR, arrangement of different sports and more.
  • Business Management:
    Public Speaking, Debate, Journalism, Marketing management and more.
  • Vocational:
    Landscaping, Architecture, Robotics, Construction and more.
  • Hospitality:
    Law Enforcement, Culinary Arts, Hotel Management and more.



    • Real Life Curriculum:

    The curriculum is built on the National Career Development Guidelines (NCDG) framework and is organized into three, seven-week sessions for a total of 21 lessons. Each lesson is guided by an essential question which promotes inquiry and analysis leading to understanding and mastery of a subject. Essential questions should not yield a simple straightforward answer but rather produce rich, thoughtful responses. Each 50 minute lesson begins with a business expert who uses the essential question to frame his/her introductory remarks. All lessons are co-taught by a teacher who will provide the business expert with a scripted lesson plan prior to the presentation.

    Session I
  • Week 1: What are your career interests?
  • Week 2: How can you develop a career plan to meet your goals?
  • Week 3: What skills needed to manage your career?
  • Week 4: How can my personal traits help manage my career?
  • Week 5: How might changes in you, the world, and work affect your career goals?
  • Week 6: What is your decision-making style?
  • Week 7: What decision-making model work best for you?

    Session II
  • Week 8: What are your strategies for managing life changes caused by external events?
  • Week 9: How might your personal priorities, culture, beliefs, and work values
    affect your decision-making?
  • Week 10: How might education, work, and family experiences impact your decisions?
  • Week 11: How might biases and stereotypes limit decisions?
  • Week 12: What are ways you could manage biases and stereotypes when making decisions?
  • Week 13: How might you analyze the effectiveness of your approach to making compromises?

    Session II
  • Week 14: Why is career information important in your plans and how may it be used in future plans?
  • Week 15: How do you use different types of career information resources to support career planning?
  • Week 16: What are the several ways to classify occupations?
  • Week 17: Why is openness to consideration of non-traditional occupations important?
  • Week 18: What academic, occupational, and general employability skills are important to you?
  • Week 19: How does your geographic mobility impact your employability?
  • Week 20: What are the advantages and challenges of self-employment?
  • Week 21: How effective is your ability to complete an application and find and pursue employment leads?

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