Do you remember your senior year of high school? Well, for the graduating class of 2021 things are very different. In this episode, we sit down with three seniors (Dejia, Talik, and Samantha) from the Partnership for the Future program and discuss how they managed the unexpected events of their senior year. That's not all. We have the new CEO of Partnership for the Future, Dionne Henderson, sharing her experience as a former PFF student and how she wants PFF to grow.
Bullet points of key topics
- Graduation Limitations
- Coping with missing senior activities
- Managing college admission and scholarship process
- Advice for future seniors
- CEOâs experience being a PFF student
- Mentor and staff provide a sense of normalcy for students
- How the pandemic opened other options for connection
- Growing areas of PFF
- Advice for graduating seniors
List of resource(s)
- Facts about school dropout rates in the U.S.
Link:https://www.dosomething.org/us/facts/11-facts-about-high-school-dropout-rates
Link: https://educationdata.org/college-dropout-rates
- Partnership for the Future website
www.partnershipforthefuture.org
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