Ida Byrd-Hill is President of Uplift Inc. Ida has spent 10 years as a financial advisor/ 5 years as a mortgage loan officer having advised 2200 individual clients and 10 corporate clients. She also worked 5 years in human resources and executive search trotting the globe recruiting and placing executives. She is the proud parent of teenage twins, Kevin and Karen Hill, who attend Detroit School of Arts. Ida has a Bachelor’s of Arts in Economics from the University of Michigan where she attended on a full ride scholarship after scoring in the 80th percentile on the ACT. She is extremely passion about education as both of her parents were high school dropouts. While they were lucky in the 1960’s through the 1980’s to provide a good lifestyle, the economy has changed that luck to struggling for those without some sort of post secondary education. She has vowed to assist as many students and parents graduate from high school and obtain post secondary training. Her portfolio of ideas includes Hustle & TECHknow Preparatory High School - an urban cyber school for alternative youth, The Learning Odyssey and Upheaval Media. She is the author of Breakin’ Out of Your Financial Funk!, My Daily Odyssey Journal and Follow Your Inner Compass Teen. Uplift Inc. can be found at http://www.upliftinc.org.
I was once riding to my family’s hometown, Vidalia, GA, where everyone is your cousin. The trip from Detroit is 12 hours straight down I-75. I fell asleep and when I woke up, we were in West Virginia. My cousin stopped to get some gas and got on the wrong highway going southeast rather straight south. I was furious as the trip to me was intuitively simple, 12 hours straight down I-75. It took us 20 hours to get Vidalia. However, I learned a great lesson, “Many people need a road map to remind them where they are going.” That lesson applies to adults and children equally.
Children-Students need a life road map to their adult destination — their career. Many have no idea which career is suitable for themselves and worse yet, they have no idea that school is important foundation for their career. Before college, military or professional sports, students need to graduate from high school. For us adults this fact seems intuitive. However, students are children, whose mantra in life is folly and play.
Without a road map, they wander from class to class, school to school, playing and trying to find themselves. Their wandering, often, translates into failed classes, behavior issues, truancy and then low graduation rates.. When they finally land at high school graduation, they are 23 years old and forced to get a GED. Every child deserves a road map by the end of the 5th grade, no later than the beginning of the 11th grade to remind them of where thy are going.
With schools reducing the number of counselors, many children will be without a person to assist them create their Life Road Map. Be the first to secure, Follow Your Inner Compass Teen, a Life Road Map program. The program includes a book, online interactive website and motivational sessions for both parents and students. This program can be funded out of your Title I parent involvement monies. Don’t wait!!! Assist your children-students secure their Life Road Map. Help them utilize their teen years effectively. Keep them from wasting 5 years or more trying to find themselves. Encourage your school to bring this program to every student 5th through 11th grade or purchase the book yourself at http://www.followyourinnercompass.com.
- Related Videos
- Related Articles
- Ask / Related Q&A
- Tips on Finding the Best Graduate Internship in the UK
- What to Consider Before Deciding to Go to Graduate School
- Moving Beyond the Typical Careers Advice for a Successful Career
- The Outlook for Graduate Careers in the United Kingdom
- Taking Free Career Advice With a Grain of Salt
- The Right Approach for Broker Graduates in the United Kingdom
- What Jobs Can A Graduate Expect?
- Comprehensive Approaches to Keeping Design Graduate Jobs
School Backpack - An Important Backpack For Kids to Use
By: Alicia McWilliams | 26/11/2009Every kid should be well prepared for school with the right materials that are needed for classes. A school backpack can be used to help with storing materials that are going to be necessary for school. One of these backpacks should be light in weight and should feature plenty of useful compartments for materials of different sizes. Having a good amount of durability is always important too.
Theme Ideas for a Quinceanera Party
By: Sara Davoodi | 26/11/2009These are some fun quinceanera party theme ideas to help you plan a memorable 15th birthday party.
Therapeutic Boarding Schools for Troubled Teens
By: Mia Ava | 26/11/2009If you are a parent having some difficulties handling your teenager’s behavior or academic performance, then therapeutic boarding schools could help provide the solution. These institutions can address both issues and help your child achieve his/her full potential while building his/her character and inculcating the right set of values. These therapeutic boarding schools differ in several aspects from traditional boarding schools.
How to protect your child from Internet
By: olu mike omoasegun | 25/11/2009It become necessary to protect our child from internet influence that can lead our child to destruction. Internet has become the target place of the whole world to do anything they likes. As internet is good so also it has bad influences. It's a normal thing for each parent to take note of this and make right step at the right time to protect their child or children from the evil of the internet.
Are Teenagers Obsessed With Texting?
By: Peter Moore | 25/11/2009There was a time when families would talk with one another. They would sit and communicate around the table, regardless of how banal the conversation was. So what has happened to today’s teenagers that they seem no longer able to hold a meaningful conversation without the interruption of a text from a friend accompanied by an annoying beeping noise?
Cloud Types for Kids
By: Alfred | 25/11/2009Such was the case with my family on our summer vacation. I was in totally foreign territory. I don't speak Spanish, and my feeble attempts at putting an "el" in front of every word with an "o" behind it (i.e. "el guide-o") were only met with side-splitting laughter by my fluent husband and kids. "Por favor, club soda with lemon" became another mealtime joke.
Teens and Anxiety Disorder
By: Emma Hudson | 24/11/2009Some teenagers make it through adolescence with only an odd crisis here and there. Others, however, find the going a lot tougher and are at higher risk of developing an anxiety disorder.
Schools can Combat “Anti-intellectualism” and WIN!!!!
By: Ida Byrd-Hill | 05/11/2009 | K-12 EducationThere are only two things to counter “Anti-intellectualism.” Discovering the secret dream of each and every individual student and creating schools that allow students to embrace both their urban and intellectual cultures, simultaneously.
Life Road Map
By: Ida Byrd-Hill | 05/11/2009 | TeenagersChildren-Students need a life road map to their adult destination — their career. Many have no idea which career is suitable for themselves and worse yet, they have no idea that school is important foundation for their career. Before college, military or professional sports, students need to graduate from high school.
Parents- - the Key to School Success
By: Ida Byrd-Hill | 05/11/2009 | K-12 EducationPublic primary/ secondary schools began were not meant to supplement at home learning. The home is still critical to process of lifelong learning. Most children learn and replicate their parents’ strengths and weaknesses. In essence, the parent is the child’s first teacher.
Special Education No More!!!!
By: Ida Byrd-Hill | 01/12/2008 | EducationSince the 1940s k-12 schools taught the whole language concept of reading- memorizing words, known as sight-reading. When we were a manufacturing society, sight-reading and memorization was the easy quick way to prepare people for the factory as basic reading skills were necessary. Unfortunately, whole language has virtually left generations...
Video Games - The Savior of Public Education
By: Ida Byrd-Hill | 19/11/2008 | Home & FamilyFour of every ten young-adult dropouts receive some government assistance. Dropouts are eight times more likely to be in jail, and half of all prison inmates are dropouts. (Milliken, 2008) Dropouts begin the dropping out process as early as fourth grade when it becomes quite apparent they cannot read well...
Stuck With McMansion
By: Ida Byrd-Hill | 27/09/2008 | FinanceWere you lured by low mortgage payments into buying a palatial mansion, only to be stuck with a big house and earth shattering mortgage payments? You are not alone. Many well-educated individuals are in the same position. The subprime mortgage crisis and its foreclosure cousin has affected more than the less...
Cyber Schools Coming to a Location Near You
By: Ida Byrd-Hill | 30/07/2008 | Online EducationIda Byrd-Hill believes the mastery of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematical (STEM) will allow “the forgotten students” to rise out of poverty just as these skills have allowed professionals from Asia, Eastern Europe and Africa to rise out of poverty. Cyber schools - fulltime online learning in brick and mortar buildings- are set to accelerate the acquisition of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematical (STEM). Be on the ground floor of a major paradigm shift, join Ida Byrd