Crisis Proofing Today's Learners featuring Jean Eddy

On this episode of Tradeswork: The Rocky Mountain Mechanical Contractors Association Podcast, we welcome Jean Eddy, President & CEO of American Student Assistance (ASA), an organization that aspires to help students know themselves, know their options, and make informed decisions about their education and career goals early in life. Our overall objective is to build a generation of successful individuals who are confident, competent, and ready to realize the future they envision. A national non-profit, ASA has been pioneering solutions to help students for more than 60 years. 

Jean is also the author of a book titled Crisis-Proofing Today’s Learners: Reimagining Career Education to Prepare Kids for Tomorrow’s World. The book is an informative guide – for parents, educators, policy makers, and business leaders – of the best way to prepare youth for post high school education and career success. Here are some of the questions you can expect to be answered on this episode:

• Who is the ASA, and what kind of work do they do? 
• Why is there a stigma around trade schools, community colleges and other forms of secondary educational opportunities?
• How early should we be exposing kids to different career options?
• Plumbers in Massachusetts make HOW MUCH?
• How do we continue to evolve the perception of what jobs in the skilled trades actually look like?
• What would an ideal high school experience look like to equip kids to better approach adulthood and their career?

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For more information about American Student Assistance, please visit their website. Jean's book can be found here.

For more information about Rocky Mountain Mechanical Contractors Association, please visit our website.