Stephanie Krauss - The Four Currencies Young People Need to Be Ready for Adulthood

Graduating from high school is a huge accomplishment for young people – but it doesn’t always mean students are ready for what lies ahead.

Stephanie Malia Krauss knows that firsthand. As a high school dropout, she “needed people and opportunities within and beyond school to prepare [her] for adulthood.”

Krauss believes that’s more important than ever before in a rapidly changing world, and she joined host Dustin Odham of FranklinCovey Education and Change Starts Here to outline the four currencies young people need to succeed – competencies, connections, credentials and cash.

She and Odham, who have known one another for more than a decade, talked about her origins in teaching, her own unique learning path, a transformative experience in Africa, and her work now to prepare both young people getting ready to enter the wider world and the adults getting ready to receive them and interact with them.

“Sometimes, there’s a difference between what young people need to be ready for life in adulthood and for life in general … and what we get to experience in school,” she said. “There is a gap between completing high school and true readiness for life after it. So, that became this charge for me.”

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