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Book SynopsisDiscover how to help young people make it in a rapidly changing world
Author Stephanie Malia Krauss gets it. Every day she works with leaders across the country as they upgrade learning experiences to better equip young people for a changing world. A mother, former teacher and school leader, Stephanie knows firsthand how hard it is to balance school and program requirements with young people''s needs. In Making It: What Today''s Kids Need for Tomorrow''s World, she lays out what adults can do to get young people ready for the future. What you learn may surprise you.
With so much changing so fastaccelerated by the impacts of COVID-19the most in-demand jobs and skills of today may be obsolete by the time our youngest become adults. For kids to be ready for this new reality, they must acquire four critical currencies that will serve them well, whatever their future holds: credentials, competencies, connections, and cash. This book focuses on how to prioritiz
Table of Contents
About the Author ix
Preface xi
Foreword by Karen Pittman xv
Foreword by Maria Flynn xix
Introduction xxiii
I A Changing World 1
1 Today’s Kids 3
2 Tomorrow’s World 21
II Life Currencies 51
3 Competencies 53
4 Connections 73
5 Credentials 91
6 Cash 109
III Currency-Building 129
7 Becoming a Currency-Builder 131
Acknowledgments 147
Index 151
