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River Valley is a small Pennsylvania district of roughly 1,500 students in the communities of Blairsville and Saltsburg, and its career-connected work did not begin with a pathway or a program. It began with a decision t...

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In its first year as a Career Connected School, Central Montcalm worked to make career conversations a natural part of the school day across all three building levels. Three visits from Educators Cooperative, each pairin...

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Findings from Vista USD Elementary Schools, 2025–2026

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Based on group interviews with 22 teachers across all eight schools in the Quakertown Community School District, this report examines how career conversations have evolved in their second year of implementation and what ...

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This report presents findings from the first term of the 2025–26 Montgomery County Career Advising Program (MoCo Cap), which reached 18,920 middle and high school students across 66 schools in October 2025. Fifty-two car...

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A Brief by Dr. Cristina Santos, PhD and Ed Hidalgo

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This report examines the 2024–25 pilot implementation of RIASEC-based career conversations across eight Orange County Public Schools serving more than 19,000 elementary and middle school students. Teachers received train...

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This report presents findings from the 2024–25 Montgomery County Career Advising Program (MoCo CAP), which reached more than 87,000 middle and high school students across 76 schools. Fifty-two career coaches worked direc...

","url":"https://educatorscoop.com/f/student-engagement-and-career-development-impact-of-moco-cap","title":"Student Engagement and Career Development: Impact of MoCo CAP","summary":"This report presents findings from the 2024–25 Montgomery County Career Advising Program (MoCo CAP), which reached more than 87,000 middle and high school students across 76 schools. Fifty-two career coaches worked direc...","date_modified":"2025-11-04T21:05:11Z"},{"id":"https://educatorscoop.com/f/advancing-career-development-and-student-wellbeing-districtwide","html_content":"

Based on nearly 1,600 student surveys and interviews, this report shows how Quakertown Community School District strengthened career development and wellbeing through RIASEC career conversations in everyday classroom pra...

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","url":"https://educatorscoop.com/f/career-champions-are-made-in-the-off-season","title":"Career Champions are Made in the Off-Season","date_modified":"2025-09-02T17:16:40Z"},{"id":"https://educatorscoop.com/f/building-career-identity-and-agency","html_content":"

Across Orange County, early findings from Dr. Cristina Santos’ 2024–25 first-term regression analysis indicates a powerful opportunity for school district leaders, county education officials, teachers, counselors, and co...

","url":"https://educatorscoop.com/f/building-career-identity-and-agency","title":"Building Career Identity and Agency","summary":"Across Orange County, early findings from Dr. Cristina Santos’ 2024–25 first-term regression analysis indicates a powerful opportunity for school district leaders, county education officials, teachers, counselors, and co...","date_modified":"2025-08-21T08:00:00Z"},{"id":"https://educatorscoop.com/f/collective-impact-how-career-coaches-advance-student-success","html_content":"

by Jessie Tena, Consultant at Educators Cooperative

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A Conversation with Molly Fults and Dr. Melinda Pierson

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By Steve Regur, CEO, Educators Cooperative

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by Steve Regur, CEO, Educators Cooperative

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by Dr. Steve Regur, CEO, Educators Cooperative

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by Dr. Steve Regur, CEO, Educators Cooperative

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by Ed Hidalgo, Careers Leader at Educators Cooperative

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After reviewing over 21,000 student surveys from October 2024 and February 2025, it is clear that the MoCoCAP (Montgomery County Career Advising Program) is making a meaningful difference. Students are not only more enga...

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by Kirk Melkonian, Senior Consultant and Lead Project Manager at Educators Cooperative

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by Ed Hidalgo, Careers Leaders at Educators Cooperative

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by Ed Hidalgo, Careers Leaders at Educators Cooperative

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by Ed Hidalgo, Careers Leaders at Educators Cooperative

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by Ed Hidalgo, Careers Leader at Educators Cooperative

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by Ed Hidalgo, Careers Leader at Educators Cooperative

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by Kirk Melkonian, Senior Consultant and Lead Project Manager at Educators Cooperative

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by Kirk Melkonian, Senior Consultant and Lead Project Manager at Educators Cooperative

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by Ed Hidalgo, Careers Leader at Educators Cooperative

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by Ed Hidalgo, Careers Leader at Educators Cooperative

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by Ed Hidalgo, Careers Leader at Educators Cooperative

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by Ed Hidalgo, Careers Leader at Educators Cooperative

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by Ed Hidalgo, Careers Leader at Educators Cooperative

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by Ed Hidalgo, Careers Leaders at Educators Cooperative

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by Ed Hidalgo, Careers Leaders at Educators Cooperative

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by Ed Hidalgo, Careers Leader at Educators Cooperative

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by Kirk Melkonian, Senior Consultant and Lead Project Manager at Educators Cooperative

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by Ed Hidalgo, Careers Leader, Educators Cooperative

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by Ed Hidalgo, Careers Leader, Educators Cooperative

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by Ed Hidalgo, Careers Leader, Educators Cooperative

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Transformational Career Education: Helping The Next Generation Navigate the Far Reaches of Inner Space

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Two is a meeting three is a network. Rebuild schools with Personal Learning Networks to lift up every student.

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The annual list of skills employers are looking for has been released and once again the cataloging includes what historically were referred to in career development circles as “soft skills”. Forbes’ list for 2022 incl...

","url":"https://educatorscoop.com/f/scott-houston-and-strategic-thinking","title":"Scott Houston and Strategic Thinking ","summary":"The annual list of skills employers are looking for has been released and once again the cataloging includes what historically were referred to in career development circles as “soft skills”. Forbes’ list for 2022 incl...","date_modified":"2023-11-20T20:47:58Z"},{"id":"https://educatorscoop.com/f/juancarlos-nieblas-and-educational-justice","html_content":"

Educator and writer, bell hooks once said that “what we do is more important than what we believe or what we say we believe.” This timeless quote is often cited in staff meetings or posted on walls behind school administ...

","url":"https://educatorscoop.com/f/juancarlos-nieblas-and-educational-justice","title":"JuanCarlos Nieblas and Educational Justice","summary":"Educator and writer, bell hooks once said that “what we do is more important than what we believe or what we say we believe.” This timeless quote is often cited in staff meetings or posted on walls behind school administ...","date_modified":"2023-11-20T20:40:39Z"},{"id":"https://educatorscoop.com/f/kirk-melkonian-and-career-transformation","html_content":"

While the majority of our work at Educators Cooperative over the years has been focused on marshaling the strengths and talents of educators to transform outcomes for students, many of us within the Cooperative have expe...

","url":"https://educatorscoop.com/f/kirk-melkonian-and-career-transformation","title":"Kirk Melkonian and Career Transformation","summary":"While the majority of our work at Educators Cooperative over the years has been focused on marshaling the strengths and talents of educators to transform outcomes for students, many of us within the Cooperative have expe...","date_modified":"2023-09-28T16:36:02Z"},{"id":"https://educatorscoop.com/f/meet-dr-melinda-pierson","html_content":"

One of Dr. Regur’s talents, as the CEO of Educators Cooperative, is his intuitive ability to bring together a balanced and harmonious team that reflects a spectrum of areas of expertise to support a wide variety of clie...

","url":"https://educatorscoop.com/f/meet-dr-melinda-pierson","title":"Dr. Melinda Pierson and Connectedness","summary":"One of Dr. Regur’s talents, as the CEO of Educators Cooperative, is his intuitive ability to bring together a balanced and harmonious team that reflects a spectrum of areas of expertise to support a wide variety of clie...","date_modified":"2023-09-28T16:28:13Z"},{"id":"https://educatorscoop.com/f/scott-houston","html_content":"

Wellbeing at Work has been a guiding text and paradigm-shifter for our team since we discovered it in 2021 as a collective and as we move forward, Educators Cooperative has prioritized the book’s central tenet which is n...

","url":"https://educatorscoop.com/f/scott-houston","title":"Scott Houston and Well-Being at Work","summary":"Wellbeing at Work has been a guiding text and paradigm-shifter for our team since we discovered it in 2021 as a collective and as we move forward, Educators Cooperative has prioritized the book’s central tenet which is n...","date_modified":"2023-09-28T16:22:14Z"}]}