Preparing Career Ready Graduates

• I have realistic expectations about my future
• My high school education was valuable
• I'm prepared to work in the world (awareness of global economy)
• I am confident
• I have a solid foundation for that entry level job.  I have the skills to pursue my career (school was relevant)
• Academic experience was relevant and applicable to real life situations (school was relevant)
• What I learned is applicable, you taught me what I needed to know (school was relevant)
• Find the relevance while their in school, not just years later (school was relevant)
• I had my nose to the grindstone and got a rigorous education (school was rigorous)
• Relationships
• I know what I'm doing, I'm confident about my future (confidence)
• I have options (choices)
• Immediacy vs. long term is something we need to look at
• I understand my series of classes and the sequence was useful
• I was prepared for life, how to make a budget, how to fill out an application, etc.
• I have visited other neighborhoods, towns, cities, parks, etc.  (exposure)
• I had real life experiences (build social capital)
• My education in Fresno gave me an edge over others
• My individual career planning process was very important to my success after high school
• Equipped to make career changes smoothly throughout life

What we want our students' families to say about their childs' career preparation in FUSD:

• We want our children to have options
• We want them to be equipped for what ever they choose to do
• My child was personally engaged and inspired.  He/she was active.
• My child learned to be accountable to his/her own future
• She/he was cared about, valued, respected (not a number).  Someone beleived in him/her
• I felt like FUSD partnered with me to make my child successful
• I am pleased with the education my son/daughter recieved.  I am proud of their work.
• I appreciated the openness of the school.  I had access any time I wanted to connect with teachers, counselors and the administrators.
• My child's school identified my child's needs early and kept me informed.  When she/he was failing, I knew about it early on.  When my son/daughter was preparing for college, I was involved throughout the process.
• My school helped my child access $$ for college
• I expect the school to tell me what I need to do to help my child get to college
• I was well informed and educated about the options and programs available to my son/daughter
• Resources were made available to me on a drop in basis
• I am pleased that my child had the opportunity to take that advisory class (AVID, freshman seminar, sociology for living, etc.)

What we want our local employers to say:

• Able to communicate professionally
• Interacts well with others
• Strong foundation
• Prepared to be lifelong learner
• That students knew they had to start at the bottom, that they are lucky to have a job, that they need to work hard 
• Good attitude, positive outlook
• Humble
• Loyalty to our company
• Commitment
• Serve company well while they worked for us
• Respect for the job, the company, the work we do, and fellow workers
• Passionate about the work we do and our workplace
• They treat my business as if it were their own
• Invested in our success
• Hardworking people.  Doers.  Proactive.  Initiative
• Technology proficiency, or at least general knowledge