KEEP
Knowledge • Exploration • Exposure • Program
(KEEP) is The Breakfast Group’s Diversity Career Program focuses on specific career skill building for young women and men, utilizing technology to create a "Career Media" approach.
This Scalable STUDENT FIRST program is designed to serve and guide 10,000+ students with Specific Career Skills and is for the support of Educators, Counselors, Parents, Mentors, other Student development programs along with Employers in the development of Student Career Skills that Employers want now.
It’s a Community Partnership Students first model. It aims to empower students to pull knowledge based on their career interests, emphasizing mastery-based learning and personalized assistance.
It draws inspiration from research by Stanford professors Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller on skill development, particularly addressing Benjamin Bloom's 2 Sigma problem - moving from lecture learning to Mastery Based Learning with follow on Personalized Assistance at the higher levels thus moving two standard deviations greater in success.
The program follows a 1-2-3 journey approach:
Select careers, gain exposure through professionals, and start building skills now. Major partners include employers across various fields, with an emphasis on providing specific career skills.
Funding is needed for program management and student led product evolution, continued skill development partnerships, and technology infrastructure/maintenance.
The program's early pilot success attracted over 1,000 students to a 3 hr. Celebration of Careers 10 Career Rooms w 68 Career Speakers.
KEEP is what we call Career Media: www.keeprg.org – A way to reach many students via scale like social media - we call it CAREER MEDIA. We are also adding additional areas of Keep.
We believe if we start early and continue throughout their life: Pre -Kindergarten through College then provide support in Corporate Career Talent Development we will see Talent beyond measure.
The Career Certifications (Self selected Purpose/Passion) (Employer Created) are following a 10-3-1 effort:
• 10 - Explore Ten Certifications in Middle School because exploration is a Purpose driver
• 3 - Focus on Three Certifications in High School
• 1 - Graduate with One Certification at HS graduation and launch into what’s next on the way to 10,000 hrs
Social Media Balancers and Offsets: Career Media is a Scalable ways to reach many Youth in self-paced Career Certifications: www.keeprg.org – Based on Stanford Research and Benjamin Bloom’s Two Sigma: (Stanford Professor & Bloom's Two Sigma) Mindfulness Media: Mindfulness Resources for Students, Parents, Families and Community Elevated Emotional Intelligence Creates High Academic Efficacy Impact Based on Yale Study – Creating Elevated Emotional Intelligence - K (Age 5) and up.
We are developing a model to measure and enhance EQ via the BG Happiness and EQ Rating Model.
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