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Build Career-Ready Skills in an AI-Driven World: Preparing Students for the Future
Wednesday, October 1, 2025 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EDT
Presented by Seth Walker, Student, Troy University; Andrea Cook, Lead Digital Learning Coach, Kansas City Public Schools (MO); and Cassie Graves, Senior R&D Program Manager, Digital Promise
Sponsored by Digital Promise
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How can we prepare students with the skills they’ll need in an AI-driven world? In this edWebinar, hear directly from a teacher and recent high school graduate about how they’ve used IBM SkillsBuild to bring career readiness and durable skills into the classroom. You also discover free resources from IBM SkillsBuild and Digital Promise to help your students explore AI, emerging tech, and future careers.
By viewing, you walk away with:
- Ideas and strategies to integrate IBM SkillsBuild’s free tools into your curriculum for AI and career readiness
- Firsthand insights from a student and educator on how hands-on learning builds durable skills like problem solving and adaptability
- An exclusive head start on our upcoming AI Classroom Challenge for grades 9–12, with a chance to win $1,000 for your students
This recorded edWebinar is of interest to middle and high school teachers, librarians, school leaders, and district leaders.
About the Presenters
Seth Walker is a 2025 graduate of Lincoln High School in Alabama and a cybersecurity major at Troy University. In 2023, Seth and his peers actively helped launch Talladega County’s first Cybersecurity Pathways program in partnership with Digital Promise, supporting the Region 2 site visit and raising awareness throughout the district about the value of the initiative for students. Driven by a passion for learning and teaching critical cybersecurity concepts, Seth chose this career path to empower others to understand and protect digital systems. His dream job is to become a cyber auditor, ensuring companies maintain proper security protocols and safeguard community data integrity.
Andrea Cook is the Lead Digital Learning Coach at Kansas City Public Schools in Missouri. Andrea’s 25-year career runs the gamut of education and has been a leading voice in Educational Technology. Andrea has served as a K-8 technology teacher and Coordinator of Digital Learning for Kansas City Public Schools. In that role, Andrea was instrumental in redesigning professional development so that all teachers and students within her district were familiar with the PIC-RAT model for technology integration before the pandemic. Andrea has also served as the Director of School District Partnerships for Leanlab Education, a non-profit that specializes in research and development of new edtech tools. Andrea has a bachelor’s degree in political science, a master’s degree, and an education specialist degree in educational technology, all from the University of Central Missouri.
Cassie Graves is a Senior Research and Development (R&D) Program Manager. She leads the League of Innovative Students at Digital Promise, where she champions placing youth at the heart of research and development. Her work includes partnering with community teams to co-design equitable solutions alongside youth, educators, and families. She has a passion for elevating youth voices, supporting newcomer students, and developing learner pathways. Cassie holds a bachelor’s degree in international studies – sociology from the University of California, San Diego, and a master’s degree in curriculum and instruction from the University of San Diego.
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Digital Promise is a global nonprofit working to expand opportunity for every learner. We work with educators, researchers, technology leaders, and communities to design, investigate, and scale innovations that support learners, especially those who’ve been historically and systematically excluded. Our vision is that every person engages in powerful learning experiences that lead to a life of well-being, fulfillment, and economic mobility.
