{"id":14801,"date":"2017-02-06T15:54:58","date_gmt":"2017-02-06T15:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mcreativepr.com\/?p=14801"},"modified":"2017-03-14T15:58:11","modified_gmt":"2017-03-14T15:58:11","slug":"weekly-blog-to-focus-on-post-secondary-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcreativepr.com\/2017\/02\/06\/weekly-blog-to-focus-on-post-secondary-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly blog to focus on post-secondary education"},"content":{"rendered":"

FORT MYERS, Fla. (Feb. 6, 2017)\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Amanda Sterk, M.Ed., doctoral candidate, is partnering with the FutureMakers Coalition<\/a> to dedicate her weekly blog, Unmaze Me (Unmaze.me<\/a>), to the Coalition partners and their networks in hopes of reaching the Southwest Floridians who need it most. The blog aims to bridge the gap between K-12 and post-secondary education, and to provide a resource for both parents and practitioners to promote access to post-secondary education.<\/p>\n

Sterk is the counselor for the collegiate high school at Florida Southwestern State College. After working 15 years in education as a teacher, administrator and counselor in all levels elementary through college, she brings her passion for helping families to\u00a0Unmaze.me<\/a>\u00a0through content creation, presentation and collaborator relations.<\/p>\n

Unmaze Me began as a part of her doctoral work. While working as a full-time high school counselor, she looked for a \u201cone-stop shop\u201d to which she could point parents who had questions about things like college preparedness, the application process and all the other things that can challenge high school students.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI couldn\u2019t find one,\u201d she said. \u201cSo I decided to make create Unmaze Me to be a comprehensive, comprehensible, destination for anyone looking for guidance through high school and beyond.\u201d<\/p>\n

Unmaze Me partners with both professionals and participants in the fields of education, bringing a wealth of expertise and a freshness of experience to its community pages so that many voices and perspectives can provide a richer understanding of the challenges facing high school students, parents and professionals today.<\/p>\n

Some of the blog topics Sterk plans to focus on for FutureMakers are funding for college, high school and college programs, high school and career\/college pathways, career exposure and exposure to available resources.\u00a0There will be one new post a week.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a great example of a FutureMakers partner lending their expertise to reach the shared goal of transforming the workforce,\u201d said\u00a0Tessa LeSage, who as director of social innovation and sustainability for the Southwest Florida Community Foundation<\/a> oversees the FutureMakers Coalition.<\/p>\n

The goal of the FutureMakers Coalition is to transform the workforce by increasing the number of Southwest Florida residents with degrees, certificates and other high-quality credentials by the year 2025.<\/p>\n

In 2016, Southwest Florida was one of 75 metropolitan areas selected as part of Lumina Foundation\u2019s Community Partnership for Attainment to increase post-secondary attainment nationwide by increasing the number of working age adults with degrees and certifications.<\/p>\n

The Southwest Florida Community Foundation serves as the backbone organization for the Coalition. The FutureMakers Coalition encourages residents to join and support this community-changing initiative. For more information, visit\u00a0www.futuremakerscoalition.com<\/a>, call 239-274-5900 or email Tessa LeSage at\u00a0TLeSage@floridacommunity.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

FORT MYERS, Fla. (Feb. 6, 2017)\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Amanda Sterk, M.Ed., doctoral candidate, is partnering with the FutureMakers Coalition to dedicate her weekly blog, Unmaze Me (Unmaze.me), to the Coalition partners and their…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14803,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[6998,4191,17,6999],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcreativepr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14801"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcreativepr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcreativepr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcreativepr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcreativepr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mcreativepr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcreativepr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcreativepr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcreativepr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcreativepr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}