Our professional career and college readiness (CCR) staff includes licensed school counselors, social workers, admissions experts, educators and youth workers. Each team member brings extensive experience in helping students develop and pursue the best postsecondary plans for their individual education, career and life goals. Many of our staff are graduates of the schools we serve – including some of our former students – or were the first in their families to attend college. 

Meet our CCR team

It’s important that all students have the support they need to develop the knowledge and skills they need to create a solid vision of their future. Achieve provides individualized, student-centered advising to foster student self-discovery and agency in their postsecondary transition. We work one-on-one with students, tracking their individual postsecondary plans and using data to provide targeted support. We also guide students through the three postsecondary transition stages, including:  

• Self-knowledge: decision-making, problem-solving, self-advocacy skills and identifying interests and strengths 

• Career pathway knowledge: connecting interests and strengths to potential careers, career research and exploration  

• Postsecondary plan development and completion: postsecondary plan research, applications, financial aid and scholarships, financial planning and literacy  

We collaborate with school counselors, partner organizations and district leadership to provide engaging opportunities for students to build their knowledge of career and postsecondary pathways.

• We deliver workshops and lessons on career exploration and postsecondary planning 

• We coordinate school visits from postsecondary schools, scholarship organizations, the military and other organizations

• We host college fairs, college tours, family career and college events, and career exposure opportunities  

• We connect students with internships, summer programs and employment

• We link students with college access programs and other partner organizations for additional resources 

Partnerships and collaboration is key to our programming at both the school and district levels. 

• Achieve coordinators partner deeply with school counselors, serving as key members of these teams to deliver high-quality programming and manage the central tracking of student postsecondary planning progress. 

• We provide additional capacity and focus to build holistic career and college readiness instruction and services that follow students from ninth grade through graduation. 

• Collaborating across school districts, higher education and training institutions, and with employers and trade unions, we work to build a continuous system of support to ensure that all students have full access to career and college opportunities.