Find your school center
Camden High School
4320 Newton Avenue North, Minneapolis | 55412
Room 169/170
Phone: 612-668-1992
Coordinators: India Burton and Kong Xiong
Contract Alternative Schools
Various Minneapolis Public Schools contract alternative school sites (see below)
Hours: Contact coordinators for hours via email
Coordinators: Doyen Kulee (Menlo Park Academy, PYC Arts and Technology High School, VOA High School, and Minneapolis Academy and Career Center) and Taylor Thanig (Loring Nicollet Alternative School, MERC Alternative High School, NaWAyEe Center School and Takoda Prep)
Edison High School
700 22nd Avenue NE, Minneapolis | 55418
Room 219
Phone: 612-668-1370 | Nora: 612-414-7207 (cell)
Coordinators: Nora Guerin and Nicole Merino Gonzalez
FAIR School for Arts
10 South 10th Street, Minneapolis | 55403
Room 301
Phone: 651-206-7312
Coordinator: Sam Smith
Heritage Academy
3345 Chicago Avenue, Minneapolis | 55407
Phone: 612-668-1583
Coordinator: Munira Mohamed
Longfellow High School
3017 East 31st Street, Minneapolis | 55406
Room 102
Phone: 612-440-7840
Coordinators: Lucia Mendez-Gutierrez
MPS Online School
1250 West Broadway, Minneapolis | 55411
5th floor
Phone: 651-206-7312
Coordinator: Sam Smith
North Community High School
1500 James Avenue North, Minneapolis | 55411
Rooms 677 and 678
Phone: 612-208-6306
Coordinator: Tina Kue
Roosevelt High School
4029 28th Avenue South, Minneapolis | 55406
Room 207
Phone: 612-668-4822
Coordinators: Kelly Delgado and Nicole Merino Gonzalez
Roosevelt CCC website
South High School
3131 19th Avenue South, Minneapolis | 55407
Room 246
Hours: Monday - Friday 8 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Phone: 612-668-4363
Coordinators: Katie Hanson and Kelsey Massey
Southwest High School
3414 West 47th Street, Minneapolis | 55410
Room W106
Hours: Monday-Thursday 8:30 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Phone: 612-668-3065
Coordinator: Gabrielle Brown and Erin Kottke
Washburn High School
201 West 49th Street, Minneapolis | 55419
Room 107
Phone: Hana: 612-668-3442
Coordinator: Hana Sato-Perry and Erin Kottke
Wellstone International High School
1501 Hennepin Avenue, Minneapolis | 55403
Room K3002
Hours: Monday - Friday 8 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Phone: 608-279-6707
Coordinator: Chris Stoltenberg
Central High School
275 Lexington Pkwy North, Saint Paul | 55104
Room 2026
Phone: 651-744-2246
Coordinator: Katie Culshaw
Como Park Senior High School
740 Rose Avenue West, Saint Paul | 55117
Room 1304
Hours: Monday - Thursday 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Phone: 651-744-2487
Coordinator: Aisha Mohamed
Harding High School
1540 6th Street East, East Saint Paul | 55106
Hours: Monday - Friday, 8:15 a.m. - 3:15 p.m.
Phone: 651-744-3599
Coordinator: Katie Kovacovich
Highland Park High School
1015 Snelling Avenue South, Saint Paul | 55116
Hours: Monday - Thursday, 8:15 a.m. - 3:15 p.m.
Phone: 651-788-3592
Coordinator: Matt Carlson
Humboldt High School
30 Baker Street East, Saint Paul | 55107
Phone: 651-293-8600 Ext. 52893
Coordinator: Rose Yackley
Johnson Aerospace & Engineering High School
1349 Arcade Street, Saint Paul | 55106
Room 1017
Hours: Monday - Thursday 8:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Phone: 651-325-2557
Coordinator: Cha Billy Vang
Washington Technology Magnet School
1495 Rice Street, Saint Paul | 55117
Hours: Monday-Thursday 8:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Phone: 651-744-7038
Coordinator: Phia Yang
We help students
explore and make
a plan for life
after graduation.
Achieve Twin Cities partners with Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS) and Saint Paul Public Schools (SPPS) to offer a wide range of career and postsecondary guidance and resources to help students discover, explore and plan for life after high school.
Our coordinators deliver student-focused services based in centers embedded in our 27 partner schools. In collaboration with school counseling teams, we connect students with two and four-year college, apprenticeships, training programs, the workforce and other options to discover, explore and plan for life-sustaining careers.
As the sole universal career and college readiness provider in MPS and SPPS school districts, Achieve services are accessible to over 17,000 students each year, with direct advising for over 6,000 students.
Our services in Minneapolis and Saint Paul schools
Our School-based Team
Our professional career and college readiness (CCR) staff includes licensed school counselors, social workers, admissions experts, educators and youth workers. Each team member brings extensive experience in helping students develop and pursue the best postsecondary plans for their individual education, career and life goals. Many of our staff are graduates of the schools we serve or were the first in their families to attend college.
Services We Provide
One-on-One Student Advising
Achieve provides individualized, student-centered advising to foster student self-discovery and agency in their postsecondary transition. We work one-on-one with students, tracking their individual postsecondary plans and using data to provide targeted support. We also guide students through the three postsecondary transition stages, including:
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Self-knowledge: decision-making, problem-solving, self-advocacy skills and identifying interests and strengths
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Career pathway knowledge: connecting interests and strengths to potential careers, career research and exploration
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Postsecondary plan development and completion: postsecondary plan research, applications, financial aid and scholarships, financial planning and literacy
Career and Postsecondary Experiences and Resources
We collaborate with school counselors, partner organizations and district leadership to provide engaging opportunities for students to build their knowledge of career and postsecondary pathways.
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We deliver workshops and lessons on career exploration and postsecondary planning
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We coordinate school visits from postsecondary schools, scholarship organizations, the military and other organizations
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We host college fairs, college tours, family career and college events, and career exposure opportunities
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We connect students with internships, summer programs and employment
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We link students with college access programs and other partner organizations for additional resources
Strong Partnerships and Integrated Systems of Support
Partnerships and collaboration is key to our programming at both the school and district levels.
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Achieve coordinators partner deeply with school counselors, serving as key members of these teams to deliver high-quality programming and manage the central tracking of student postsecondary planning progress.
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We provide additional capacity and focus to build holistic career and college readiness instruction and services that follow students from ninth grade through graduation.
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Collaborating across school districts, higher education and training institutions, and with employers and trade unions, we work to build a continuous system of support to ensure that all students have full access to career and college opportunities.
See our work in action
How we know our approach works
Our distinct role in the Twin Cities career and college readiness landscape
Achieve Twin Cities is one of many organizations that support high school students in planning for the future, including College Possible, Project Success, Genesys Works, Junior Achievement, TRIO, Gear Up and several others. Here’s how our work is distinctive:
- Achieve career and college readiness coordinators are fully embedded in our MPS and SPPS partner schools and work closely with district career and college readiness leaders. This unparalleled level of partnership and integration allows us to provide comprehensive, aligned services for all students.
- Our data-sharing agreements with MPS and SPPS provide comprehensive access to student data that allows us to target students who need extra support, track trends such as FAFSA and college application completion rates, and identify other useful data to inform and strengthen our programs.
- As a universal service provider, Achieve has a unique advising model that allows our coordinators to provide individualized postsecondary planning guidance for students of all ages, all interests, and all backgrounds, while focusing on the students who face the most barriers.
- We support students with all postsecondary plans, including both college and non-college pathways.
- We connect students with other great opportunities provided by our peer career and college readiness organizations by identifying student participants, coordinating logistics and providing follow-up advising and connections.
Learn more about our program model, strategies and impact
Achieve Twin Cities School-Based CCR Program Guide
Career and college readiness requires a thoughtful, student-centered approach and is highly collaborative. This guide provides a philosophical overview of our Achieve school-based CCR program, and outlines our strategies, activities and outcomes.
Achieve Twin Cities Youth Programs Impact Report
Find out more about the scope and impact of our school-based career and college readiness services and Step Up high school internships for the 2023-24 school year.
“If I didn’t go to the Career & College Center or if I didn’t talk with the coordinators, I would have never found the opportunity that I’m in right now. So I guess in a way, knowing them and just being there at the right time at the right place just kind of really changed my life.” - High school senior
