1. Why Your Mentor Wants You to Get Good Grades

2. One thought, you might want to focus a tad more on is exactly how much money they will need to survive post-high school.  Maybe a simple visual for one thing, say transporation.  You could show cost to ride the bus for a year, cost to buy and maintain a beater car and cost to buy and maintain a nice car.    Oh, I think it's good to show what happens if you don't go to college and what kinds of jobs would then be available.
Possibly a table of diff types of jobs and their salaries

3. In Colorado from September 2013 through August 2014, the average unemployment rate for those with less than a high school diploma was 8.9 percent; the rate for those who completed high school was 5.2 percent. For those with some post-secondary training, it dropped to 4.7 percent. (

4. Students who end their ninth grade year on-track (that is, having enough credits to be promoted to tenth grade and having earned no more than one semester F in a core course) are almost four times more likely to graduate from high school than those who are off-track. In fact, a student’s on-track status is more predictive of high school graduation than their race/ethnicity, level of poverty, or test scores.
DON’T USE THIS SLIDE IF STUDENTS ALREADY HAVE MORE THAN 1 F, BECAUSE IT’S POTENTIALLY TOTALLY DEMOTIVATING.

5. Agenda Part 1: You And Your Responsibilities Part 2: Stuff You Need
Part 3: Where Does Money Come From?
Part 4: So Let’s Talk About Jobs
Part 5: What’s My Point?

6. Part 1: You And Your Responsibilities

7. How old are you?

8. How old are you?
NOW
Years Ago Years in the Future

9. What responsibilities do you have NOW that you didn’t have 4 years ago?
Years Ago Years in the Future

10. What responsibilities do you have NOW that you didn’t have 4 years ago?
What responsibilities will you have in 4 years that you don’t have now?
NOW
Years Ago Years in the Future

11. (Hold That Thought; We’ll Get Back to It.)

12. Part 2: Stuff You Need

13. What Are These Things?

19. (So, what are these things?)

20. What Do You Need to Have Them?

21. What Do You Need to Have Them?

22. (Pause.)

23. Part 3: Where Does Money Come From?

24. Where Does This Come From Right Now?

27. Where Will This Come From In 4 Years?
NOW
Where Will This Come From In 4 Years?

28. Where Will This Come From In 4 Years?
NOW
Where Will This Come From In 4 Years?

29. NOW
How Will You

30. NOW
How Will You
Get This

31. NOW
How Will You
Get This
So You Can Have This?

36. And…

38. (Pause.)

39. Part 4: So Let’s Talk About Jobs

40. NOW

41. There are some jobs that you qualify for now, & will be able to get in 4 years…
…Even if you don’t finish high school.

43. An if you don’t finish high school, you can always go back and get your GED.
But if you know people who have done this or tried to do this, talk to them, before you plan on not finishing school! It’s not easy!
DPS dropout rate: 45%

44. There are some jobs that you will be able to get…
If you graduate from high school.

46. If you graduate from high school…
You can always go back to school later in life, and get a certificate, or a 2-year degree, or 4-year degree, etc. People do this…
Because they want to get a better job, and/or
Because they want to learn more about something that interests them.

47. There are some jobs that you will be able to get…
If you graduate from high school…
…and get a certificate or a 2-year degree.

49. If you graduate from high school and get a certificate or a 2-year degree…
…You can always go back to school later in life, and get 4-year degree, etc. People do this…
Because they want to get a better job, and/or
Because they want to learn more about something that interests them.

50. There are some jobs that you will be able to get…
If you graduate from high school…
…and get a diploma from a 4-year college.

52. If you graduate from high school and get a diploma from a 4-year college…
…You can always go back to school later in life, and get more education, like an M.D. (doctor), J.D. (lawyer), Ph.D. (college professor), D.V.M. (veterinarian), M.Div. (pastor) or others . People do this…
Because they want to get a better job, and/or
Because they want to learn more about something that interests them.

53. (Pause.)

54. Part 5: That Was A Lot of Information. What’s My Point?

55. Remember This Slide…?

56. NOW
How Will You
Get This
So You Can Have This?

57. The Answer Is…

59. Get You Less or More of This
And of Course, Different Jobs
Get You Less or More of This

60. …without finishing high school $23,000
Jobs you can get…
Average Annual Salary
…without finishing high school
$23,000
…with a high school diploma
$30,000
…with a certificate or 2-year degree
$34,000
…with a 4-year college degree
$47,000
…with a Master’s degree or higher
$60,000
“Median annual earnings of full-time year-round wage and salary workers ages 25–34, by educational attainment: 1995–2012” (Adapted)

61. How Much You Need to Make to Support… Average Annual Salary
…Just you
$19,296
(2011 numbers)

62. How Much You Need to Make to Support… Average Annual Salary
…Just you
$19,296
…Just you and a baby
$39,381
(2011 numbers)

63. Different Jobs Have Different Paths That Lead to Them.
OtherJobs.
Doing a certificate or a 2-year degree
Some Jobs.
Other Jobs.
Graduating From High School
Not finishing High School
OtherJobs.
Doing a 4-year college degree
Getting more degrees
NOW
Years Ago Years in the Future
Other Jobs.

64. The Not-So-Serious News is That You DON’T Have to Decide Now What You Want For A Job.

65. The Serious News is That You DO Have to Decide Some Things. Now
The Serious News is That You DO Have to Decide Some Things. Now. And Every Day, Starting Now.

66. YOU Have to Decide:

67. Does This Look Familiar?:

68. Too Many of These…

69. Will Give You…

70. X Just One Path. -4 -3 -2 -1 NOW 1 2 3 4 Some Jobs.
OtherJobs.
Some Jobs.
Doing a certificate or a 2-year degree
Other Jobs.
Graduating From High School
Not finishing High School
OtherJobs. X
Doing a 4-year college degree
Getting more degrees
NOW
Years Ago Years in the Future
Other Jobs.

71. Lots of These…

72. Will Give You…

73. Lots of Paths.
OtherJobs.
Doing a certificate or a 2-year degree
Some Jobs.
Other Jobs.
Graduating From High School
Not finishing High School
OtherJobs.
Doing a 4-year college degree
Getting more degrees
NOW
Years Ago Years in the Future
Other Jobs.

74. So:

75. Think, NOW, about how many choices you want to have in 4 years.
Years Ago Years in the Future
And talk to your mentor about what you are thinking. Your mentor can help you get what you want.

77. (Useful websites.) http://www.gwhscounseling.com/career-planning.html

78. (Useful websites.)