What Does Your Student Love to Create?
Audio Engineering & Sound
Audio Engineering • Sound Engineering • Recording • Live Sound
Music Production
Music Production • Recording • Beat Production • Audio Editing
YouTube & Content Creation
YouTube Creator • Content Creator • Social Media Content • Digital Branding
Podcasting & Broadcasting
Podcast Production • Broadcasting • Audio Editing • Media Production
Film & Video Production
Videography • Video Editing • Film Production • Cinematography
Photography, Design & Digital Media
Photography • Graphic Design • Digital Media • Animation • Web Design
1. EXPLORE
Discover creative careers that match the student's interests.
Can I Start Before Graduation?
YES! You can start building creative skills now.
Your portfolio can start before your career does.
Middle and high school students can begin exploring creative careers before graduation by developing skills, creating projects, building a portfolio, exploring Career Technical Education opportunities, taking eligible college courses through dual enrollment, and learning about the education or training required for different creative careers.
2. LEARN
Explore classes, career education, dual enrollment, workshops, and skill-building opportunities.
3. CREATE
Begin producing projects such as videos, music, podcasts, photography, designs, or digital content.
4. BUILD
Create a portfolio that demonstrates the student's skills, growth, and creative work.
Homeschool Family Tip
Ask the college whether your student can take courses in audio production, music technology, digital media, film, photography, graphic design, broadcasting, marketing, or related subjects through dual enrollment or special-admit enrollment. Program availability, minimum age, course prerequisites, and enrollment eligibility vary.
VIDEO PRODUCTION
Filming • Lighting • Camera Skills
DIGITAL MARKETING
Social Media • Promotion • Content Strategy
So You Want to Be a YouTube Creator?
Turn “I want to be a YouTuber” into skills, experience, and a pathway.
Creating content can involve much more than being on camera. Digital content creation combines creative, technical, communication, marketing, and business skills. A student's interest in YouTube can become an opportunity to learn valuable skills that may connect to careers in media, marketing, communications, film, production, entrepreneurship, and other creative industries.
VIDEO EDITING
Editing • Sound • Graphics
BUSINESS & ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Budgeting • Business Basics • Monetization Basics
BRANDING
Visual Identity • Storytelling • Audience
COMMUNICATION
Public Speaking • Interviewing • Script Writing
Ready to Start Creating?
YWMP TIP
Treat content creation like a career skill.
Encourage students to develop skills in video production, editing, communication, branding, digital marketing, entrepreneurship, and responsible digital citizenship while building a portfolio of original work.
Audio Engineer
Photographer
Digital Marketing Specialist
Where Can Creative Skills Take You?
One interest can lead to many career possibilities.
Music Producer
Podcast Producer
Broadcasting Professional
A student does not have to know their exact career today. Exploring different creative skills can help them discover what they enjoy, what they are good at, and which education or career pathway they may want to pursue after graduation.
EXPLORE → CREATE → BUILD → GROW → LAUNCH
Content Creator
Graphic Designer
Film & Video Production
Video Editor
Digital Media Specialist
Web Designer
Videographer
Social Media Manager
Creative Entrepreneur
For Parents: Help Turn the Interest Into a Pathway
If your student spends hours making videos, editing, creating music, designing graphics, taking photos, recording podcasts, or learning digital platforms, start asking questions about the skills behind the interest.
- What does my student enjoy creating?
- Which part of the process do they enjoy most?
- Do they enjoy being on camera or working behind the scenes?
- Do they enjoy editing?
- Are they interested in music or sound?
- Do they enjoy design?
- Are they interested in marketing and branding?
- Would they enjoy entrepreneurship?
- Are there dual-enrollment courses related to their interests?
- What could they create for a portfolio?
- What education, training, certification, or experience could help them after graduation?
The goal isn't to have everything figured out today. The goal is to start exploring intentionally.
YOU'RE WORTH MORE PATHWAYS™
CREATIVITY CAN BECOME A PATHWAY.
Your student's interests matter. Whether they dream about producing music, creating YouTube videos, working behind a camera, editing films, producing podcasts, designing graphics, building a brand, or starting a creative business, the first step is understanding how their interests can connect to education, skills, and future opportunities.
Don't Just Graduate. Graduate With a Pathway.™
Need Help Turning Your Student's Interests Into a Plan? You're Worth More Pathways™ helps homeschool families explore college, career, certification, entrepreneurship, and other postsecondary pathways based on each student's individual interests, strengths, and goals.
There's More Than One Pathway to Success.™