• Lia Swanson

    Career Guidance Specialist/CTE

    Lia Swanson
    Phone: 206.855.0433
    Email: lswanson@bisd303.org
    Career Guidance Specialist-Academic Coach Advisor Bainbridge High School 
    Career Center, Room 215A

    I am the Career Guidance Specialist and work with students in grades 7-12 district wide. At BHS my office is located in the Career Center where I work with students on future planning and career connections while in high school. I help students determine their career goals and road map the educational pathway to get there through career exploration and planning activities and taking students on field trips to tour post-high school training/education options.  I work with students interested in going to 2 or 4 year universities, but I also specialize in working with students interested in apprenticeships, military, trade or technical schools or community colleges. 

    I am also the Academic Coach Advisor/Teacher. This intro to teaching course is a combination of learning introduction to teaching concepts and working in a classroom as an assistant teacher for part of the week. In this program, students are paired with a K-12 teacher in one of the BISD schools where they get to become an integral part of classroom, working with students and the staff member. Once a week I work with students on the "learning" component of the course diving into teaching concepts and activities. An overview of the program can be found here. 

    The Academic Coach syllabus can be found here.