Pathways Innovation: Finding Ways to Do Great Things
I think that libraries could be filled with books about all the great things that nobody did. Often times, we human beings get in our own way; we create our own problems and then create rules that can prevent us from solving those problems. We create our own box, and then challenge ourselves to think outside of a box that never existed in the first place. Pathways Innovation has been created for finding "no box" ways to do great things.
I Think We're Onto Something
Case Study Currently in Process: Personality and Career Testing for Teenagers.
It was an opportunity too good to miss for a way to solve multiple challenges:
I Think We're Onto Something
Case Study Currently in Process: Personality and Career Testing for Teenagers.
It was an opportunity too good to miss for a way to solve multiple challenges:
- Giving a sense of purpose and vision to teenagers (and possibly as low as 3rd grade) who need to know about and be supported for success in life. It's not just the test part, it's the whole process for students and their parents.
- Giving kids a head start in preparing for success in life that fits who they are and to make better choices.
- Helping businesses through youth apprenticeship and other programs overcome their extreme shortages in finding competent and reliable employees to fill good-paying jobs with a future.
- Pulling together many programs that already exist to form a consistent Student Success Pathway like the image here.
The Mission: Saving Teenagers from the Great Unknowns
There are many reasons why people fail to find happiness and fulfillment in their lives. It has been said that if we lose our kids in middle school, we don't get them back. Many of them are looking to find who they are—they suffer from the Great Unknowns. They don't know their strengths, don't know their success factors, don't know their self-ambush factors and don't know positive things that create a sense of vision, purpose and pathway for a fulfilling future. They fall victim to the dark side. Developing the Student Success Pathway is showing promise to turn on the light and keep it on.
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Pathways Innovation, a 501 (c) 3 Nonprofit Organization
It started in 2015 when Mack Arrington, an ICF Professional Certified Coach, realized he had a solution to offer middle and high school students for their future success and happiness. The testing materials he'd been using with adults had been validated for use with teenagers. So many students didn't know who they were, didn't know their strengths, didn't know their primary motivators, and didn't know what they wanted to do—or what were driven to do—for their happiness and success in life. All of this and more shows up in the reports from their testing.
In 2017, he started a pilot program with Say Yes of Guilford, an organization that provided "last dollar" tuition assistance to students. Say Yes had been looking for ways to inspire younger students to aim for further training and education after high school. Observers of the pilot program were amazed. Mack's process "turned the light on" for students and their parents. The challenge was to keep the light on with some followup support and development.
Meeting this challenge proved to be an interesting adventure. Organizations such as the YWCA, YMCA, Communities in Schools, PEAK Adventure Ministries and Boys and Girls Clubs all had excellent programming to help kids, but Mack saw much of the programming as pieces of a greater whole that needed to be brought together. Mack sought to partner with over a half-dozen organizations with youth programs. Each could see the synergy in working together, but personality, career and motivator testing was outside their usual programming. Many of them, and many business people in addition, recommended that Mack create his own nonprofit 501 (c) 3 organization to seek funding and to development of his testing and followup efforts. Thus, Pathways Innovation was born in May, 2019.
Pathways Innovation is gearing up to find ways to connect people with a positive future that fits, and then help them develop themselves to get there. We are looking for partners who need good employees, for partners who want to develop and inspire a meaningful vision for their students and youth, and for partners who want to fund these efforts. This adventure is really just getting started, and if you'd like to keep up, sign up below for our updates.
Our Basic Mission in Education:
To develop and support people, childhood through adult, in life fulfillment via personality testing and other processes to have a positive impact on their success.
There are many reasons why people fail to find happiness and fulfillment in their lives. It has been said that if we lose our kids in middle school, we don't get them back. Many of them are looking to find who they are—they suffer from the Great Unknowns. They don't know their strengths, don't know their success factors, don't know their self-ambush factors and don't know positive things that create a sense of vision, purpose and pathway for a fulfilling future. They fall victim to the dark side. Developing the Student Success Pathway is showing promise to turn on the light and keep it on.
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Pathways Innovation, a 501 (c) 3 Nonprofit Organization
It started in 2015 when Mack Arrington, an ICF Professional Certified Coach, realized he had a solution to offer middle and high school students for their future success and happiness. The testing materials he'd been using with adults had been validated for use with teenagers. So many students didn't know who they were, didn't know their strengths, didn't know their primary motivators, and didn't know what they wanted to do—or what were driven to do—for their happiness and success in life. All of this and more shows up in the reports from their testing.
In 2017, he started a pilot program with Say Yes of Guilford, an organization that provided "last dollar" tuition assistance to students. Say Yes had been looking for ways to inspire younger students to aim for further training and education after high school. Observers of the pilot program were amazed. Mack's process "turned the light on" for students and their parents. The challenge was to keep the light on with some followup support and development.
Meeting this challenge proved to be an interesting adventure. Organizations such as the YWCA, YMCA, Communities in Schools, PEAK Adventure Ministries and Boys and Girls Clubs all had excellent programming to help kids, but Mack saw much of the programming as pieces of a greater whole that needed to be brought together. Mack sought to partner with over a half-dozen organizations with youth programs. Each could see the synergy in working together, but personality, career and motivator testing was outside their usual programming. Many of them, and many business people in addition, recommended that Mack create his own nonprofit 501 (c) 3 organization to seek funding and to development of his testing and followup efforts. Thus, Pathways Innovation was born in May, 2019.
Pathways Innovation is gearing up to find ways to connect people with a positive future that fits, and then help them develop themselves to get there. We are looking for partners who need good employees, for partners who want to develop and inspire a meaningful vision for their students and youth, and for partners who want to fund these efforts. This adventure is really just getting started, and if you'd like to keep up, sign up below for our updates.
Our Basic Mission in Education:
To develop and support people, childhood through adult, in life fulfillment via personality testing and other processes to have a positive impact on their success.
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“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something,
build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
—Buckminster Fuller, Creator of the Geodesic Dome
https://www.bfi.org/
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“The Invention of the system deserves to be ranked among the best contributors to
learning and science, if not the greatest benefactors of mankind.”
—Josiah Bumstead, 1841, on the invention of the blackboard/chalkboard
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Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
—Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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"Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible."
—Lord Kelvin (William Thompson) 1895
Lord Kelvin, Mathematical Physicist, helped develop the second law of thermodynamics and
he invented the absolute temperature scale named after him.
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"We create our own box, and then challenge ourselves
to think outside of a box that never existed in the first place."
—Mack Arrington, Creator of Pathways Innovation
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“We can not solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them.”
—Albert Einstein.