Mission: Give Them Tomorrow helps schools develop sustainable systems to thrive with a culture of student led conferences and supports schools in guiding students to prepare for and plan their own futures through mock interviews, career days, high school choice planning, panel discussions with older students, and more, all while taking this work off of the shoulders of teachers, counselors, and school leaders.
Amanda Doran Eby of Give Them Tomorrow is a 15 year educator with extensive experience tailoring future programming to students’ needs and goals. She has served as a founding teacher in a brand new school, program director, curriculum writer, conference presenter, mentor, high school choice liaison, and much more. Learn more about Amanda and how she can support your school community.
Why Give Them Tomorrow?
Why SLCs and Portfolios?
Students, and as result, their families, often do not have an accurate understanding of their own reading levels or math capabilities and aptitudes and progress in content classes and social emotional learning. Conferences between families and teachers leave out children and turn them into passive non-participants in their own education. Additionally, traditional conferences are often centered on one-way communication regarding behavior instead of true partnership between home and school about learning and progress. GTT has seen how SLCs can transform the way a student talks about their own work and growth in classes and as a citizen of the school and the larger world.
Why “Future Education”?
School leaders, classroom teachers, and staff are often already working beyond their hours and have full plates without time to plan for important programs that help our students plan for their futures. Mock interviews and career programming help students learn to speak with professionals and practice the skills they’ll need for whatever comes next–they build confidence and can picture their own futures. We’ve seen how mock interviews and career days can create meaningful connections between students and professionals and allow students to practice important future skills. GTT has also fostered incredible conversations between middle school students and high school students through panel discussions–allowing 8th graders, for example, to ask high school students what to expect, how to prepare, and what advice older students have. These conversations are a powerful tool for our students to picture themselves in future roles.
Why today?
More than ever before, we are facing screens, communicating through screens, and learning through screens. Our students must learn how to thrive face-to-face for their own social development, to practice essential skills needed for college and careers, to learn social cues, how to react to and adjust to realtime feedback, and grow their own emotional intelligence.
Our students also need exposure to what’s out there in order to dream about then learn how to plan paths to their futures. Let’s give them tomorrow, today.
How GTT can support your school community:
Student Led Conferences & Passages
Start a sustainable and expandable Pilot for Student Led Conferences and/or Passage Portfolio Presentation
Enhance and grow an existing SLC or PPP program
Train staff, leaders, and teachers in SLCs or PPPs or train the trainers
Launch a culture of SLCs/PPPs for students, families, and staff
Develop an SLC or PPP toolkit tailored to the needs of your school community
Future Education
Enhance and grow mock interviews, career days, panel discussions
Train staff, leaders, and teachers in future education or train the trainers
Develop mock interview, career day, and/or panel toolkit(s) tailored to the needs of your school community
Help gather community members to volunteer for mock interviews, career days, panels
Let’s get to work!
Reach out to GTT for a free consultation meeting
GTT will put together proposals for your school community
Begin our partnership!