What do you want to be when you grow up? We ask students this question starting from a very young age, and the truth is they may not be able to answer yet. How could they? They don’t know their options, what they’re passionate about, and what the road to success looks like. 

As educators, we can help students explore options before they have to start deciding on diploma paths. We can help them increase awareness in their self-discovery and education. 

National Careers Week is March 7 – 12th this year, and we’re here to help you boost career readiness for your students. Let’s get your class started with career exploration in the pharmacy industry. Here’s what to do with your class!

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Monday

Expose your students to a career in pharmacy. 

Engage students in deep career exploration and social-emotional learning experiences through immersive gameplay with the Community Pharmacy learning game. 

You’ll want to create a free Read to Lead account if you don’t already have one! See the lesson plan here.

Students will gain literacy and decision-making skills as they help their student pharmacist make their own career path choice — all within the immersive context of a day at work. 

Assign your students their first learning game, Career Crossroads.

Tuesday

Engage students in healthy debate.

Practice skills like listening, speaking clearly, and respecting all opinions by hosting a debate based on yesterday’s immersive work-day. 

Use this debate guide to center the discussion!

Tech Tip: You can post the debate in Google Classroom and allow students to comment on each other’s responses using conversation starters!

Wednesday

Give students a front-row seat into career exploration.

Grab the popcorn and watch an on-demand Read to Lead: Live! session where students will get an inside look into the leadership journey of passionate professionals around the country. 

If you thought the on-demand session was powerful, you have to catch a LIVE session! Sign up for the next one on April 1st here!

Thursday

Spark deep class discussion.

Read to Lead: Live! always seems to spark deep questions and reflections for students about their passions, desires, challenges, and futures. 

Use this discussion guide to spark deep discussion and reflection with your students!

Friday

Connect literacy to career readiness.

We know reading unlocks all other learning. Since your students have already played one Read to Lead game, each student has read 5K words!

Help students reach one million words read by joining the Million Words Read Challenge. 

When your class reaches Millionaire status (collectively), we send you student prize packs to celebrate this achievement with your class!

Check the leaderboard to see where your class stands!

And that’s a wrap! We hope your students leave this week feeling inspired, encouraged, and most of all confident in what’s next in their self-discovery and career journey. Want to continue bringing career worlds to your students? Sign up for a free account and start building students’ literacy, life, and career skills year-round!