Empowering Girls: Career Exploration and Social-Emotional Learning Strategies for K-12

Discover free, classroom-ready resources that help girls explore careers, build confidence, and develop essential SEL skills. Learn how to bring Career Girls’ powerful role model stories into your classroom or program—starting immediately.

This practical webinar introduces Career Girls’ high-quality, research-informed resources, including more than 16,000 role model videos from diverse women, expertly designed curriculum, Empowerment Videos, and interactive career and college major quizzes. 

Participants will learn innovative, discussion-based strategies that pair authentic role model stories with SEL-focused lessons to help girls expand career awareness, build confidence, and develop essential skills such as self-awareness, resilience, and goal-setting.

Educators will explore how to integrate Career Girls’ free resources directly into classrooms, counseling programs, and afterschool settings. The session highlights real-world examples from educators who are successfully using Career Girls to engage students and improve career readiness outcomes.

The webinar also offers a step-by-step overview of launching a Career Girls Club, a free, turnkey program that includes classroom-ready curriculum, activities, supplies, measurement and evaluation tools, and ongoing educator support. The flexible program includes a customizable curriculum, including a 20-week option, adaptable to a wide range of schedules and learning environments.

By the end of the session, participants will leave with actionable strategies, ready-to-use resources, and a clear implementation roadmap to help girls dream bigger, aim higher, and see themselves in a wide range of future careers.

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Executive Summary via ON24 AI:

Career Girls, a nonprofit focused on closing the “imagination gap,” helps K–12 educators expand girls’ career awareness while building the social-emotional skills that drive academic and long-term success. The webinar highlighted research showing girls’ confidence can decline as early as age six and connected this to the underrepresentation of women in STEM, AI, and leadership roles, reinforcing the need for early, relatable role models. Career Girls offers free online resources, including a large video library of diverse women professionals, career exploration pages, quizzes, and educator toolkits. Its flagship Career Girls Club is a flexible, school-run program (typically 20 weeks) for grades 3–12 that pairs role-model videos with discussion guides and hands-on activities to develop skills like confidence, teamwork, resilience, empathy, and decision-making alongside career exploration. Reported outcomes include improved self-belief, stronger engagement, better grades and attendance, and increased interest in STEM, supported by pre- and post-program surveys and educator feedback; participation is free, can include boys, and provides completion certificates, with school credit determined locally.