Find Your School Center
Edison High School
700 22nd Ave NE
Minneapolis | 55418
Room 219
Hours: Monday-Friday, 8:30am-4:30pm
Phone: 612-668-1370 | Nora: 612-414-7207 (cell)
Coordinators: Nora Guerin
Fair School Downtown
10 S 10th St
Minneapolis | 55403
Room 301
Hours: Monday-Thursday, 8am-4pm
Phone: 612-399-6075
Coordinator: Sam Smith
Heritage Academy
1042 18th Ave SE
Minneapolis | 55414
Room 317
Hours: Thursday, Friday and every other Wednesday, 8am-3:30pm
Phone: 612-668-1583
Coordinator: Munira Mohamed
Longfellow High School
3017 E 31st St
Minneapolis | 55406
Room 102
Hours: Check back soon!
Phone: Check back soon!
Coordinators: Check back soon!
MPS Contract Alternative Programs
Various sites (MPS)
Hours: Jessica: 9am-5pm | Haley: 8am-4pm
Phone: Jessica: contact via email | Haley: 806-553-4336
Coordinators: Jessica Bedward (Menlo, MACC, PYC, MERC) and Haley Wireman-Sobba (Center, Loring, Nicolle, Takoda, VOA)
MPS Online Learning
1250 W Broadway
Minneapolis | 55411
5th floor
Hours: Monday-Friday, 7:30am - 3:30pm
Phone: 612-399-6075 (Google voice)
Coordinators: Sarah Blouin
North Community High School
1500 James Ave N
Minneapolis | 55411
Rooms 677 and 678
Hours: Monday-Friday, 8am-4pm
Phone: Check back soon!
Coordinator: Anthony Villagrana
Patrick Henry High School
4320 Newton Ave N
Minneapolis | 55412
Room 169/170
Hours: Monday-Thursday, 8am-4pm
Phone: India: 612-668-2008 | Lisa: 612-668-1992
Coordinators: India Burton and Lisa Dornacker
Roosevelt High School
4029 28th Ave S
Minneapolis | 55406
Room 207
Hours: Appointments will be held and emails / texts will be checked during school hours, 8am – 4pm
Phone: Eric: 612-567-6897 | Kong: 612-668-4822
Coordinators: Eric Rodgers and Kong Xiong
South High School
3131 19th Ave S
Minneapolis | 55407
Room 246
Hours: Monday-Friday, 8am-4pm
Phone: 612-668-4363
Coordinators: Katie Hanson and Kelsey Massey
Southwest High School
3414 W 47th St
Minneapolis | 55410
Room W106
Hours: Monday-Friday, 8am-4pm
Phone: 612-668-3065
Coordinator: Katherine Hauschild and Donte Wilkins
Washburn High School
201 W 49th St
Minneapolis | 55419
Room 107
Hours: Monday-Thursday, 8am-4pm
Phone: Erica: 612-668-3546 | Hana: 612-668-3442
Coordinator: Erica Lebens-Englund and Hana Sato
Wellstone International High School
1501 Hennepin Ave
Minneapolis | 55403
Room K.3100
Hours: Monday - Friday 8am-4pm
Phone: 612-659-6164
Coordinator: Chris Stoltenberg
Central High School
275 Lexington Pkwy N
Saint Paul | 55104
Room 2026
Hours: Monday-Friday, 8am-4pm
Phone: 651-744-3562
Coordinator: Tory Waggoner
Como Park Senior High School
740 Rose Ave W
Saint Paul | 55117
Room 1304
Hours: Monday-Friday, 8am-4pm
Phone: 651-744-5329
Coordinator: Aisha Mohamed
Creative Arts Secondary School
65 E Kellogg Blvd
St Paul | 55101
Hours: Monday-Friday, 8:30 am-4:30 pm
Phone: 651-292-3480 Ext. 52879
Coordinator: Doyen Kulee
Harding High School
1540 6th Street East
East Saint Paul | 55106
Hours: Monday-Friday, 8am-4pm
Phone: 651-793-4700 ex. 43599
Coordinator: Katie Kovacovich
Humboldt High School
30 Baker St E
St Paul | 55107
Hours: Check back soon!
Phone: 651-293-8600 Ext. 52893
Coordinator: Rose Yackley
Washington Technology Magnet School
1495 Rice Street
St Paul | 55117
Hours: Monday-Thursday, 8am-4pm
Phone: 651-325-2669 | 651-603-4613 (text only)
Coordinator: Colin Peters
Student-focused
career and college readiness advising
and support
We help students 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 planning guidance and resources for nearly 20,000 high school students each year.
Through centers embedded in our partner high schools, we create a supportive landing space for students and families to connect with expert guidance, resources and opportunities in their path to self-discovery.
As the sole universal career and college readiness provider in MPS and SPPS school districts, Achieve services are open to all students for discovering, exploring and planning for life after high school.
Our reach in Minneapolis and Saint Paul schools:
Our Career and College Readiness Team in MPS and SPPS High Schools
Our professional staff work as expert career and college readiness leaders and peer partners within their schools, and include 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 career and life goals.
Many of our staff are graduates of the schools we serve – including some of our former students – or were the first in their families to attend college.
Services We Provide
One-on-one Student Advising
Our student-centered approach focuses deeply on building the kind of trusting, long-term relationships that are essential for creating successful post-graduation plans. Our team works one-on-one with students and tracks their planning throughout high school. We offer individualized guidance for:
- Personal interest and identity development
- Exploring pathways and career options
- Researching and applying for postsecondary programs
- Financing planning through financial aid, scholarships, and budgeting
- Preparing to enter the workforce, including help with job searches, resumes and interviewing
Career and Postsecondary Experiences and Resources
We collaborate with school counselors, partner organizations and district leadership to provide engaging opportunities for students to explore career and college pathways. Together we provide:
- Career and college field trips, networking and connections with local professionals
- Postsecondary exposure through campus tours, rep visits and fairs
- Career information sessions, workshops and networking events
- Links to partner organization for additional opportunities
Integrated Systems of Support
Achieve partners deeply with school counselors, serving as key members of these teams and managing the central tracking of students' postsecondary planning progress.
We provide additional capacity and focus to build holistic career and college readiness instruction and services that follow students from ninth grade through graduation.
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 in our community.
Here's a glimpse of our work with students.
How does Achieve Twin Cities differ from other career and college readiness organizations?
Achieve Twin Cities is one of many outstanding 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 Twin Cities is the only universal and fully embedded career and college readiness provider in Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS) and Saint Paul Public Schools (SPPS), coordinating and delivering services for all students in our partner schools.
- Our career and college readiness coordinators serve as de facto school staff in MPS and SPPS and work in tandem with school counseling teams.
- Our data-sharing agreements with both districts provide unparalleled access to student data, which 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.
- We connect students with additional opportunities provided by our peer career and college readiness organizations by identifying student participants, coordinating logistics and providing follow-up advising and connections.
How we know our approach works:
"Without the Southwest High Career & College Center I would never have made it to college. The coordinators were so caring and knowledgeable, and they helped me believe in myself and my potential."
