WEBE COLLAB BUILDS BRIDGES TO BELONGING
Our Vision
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We support students seeking postsecondary education, especially from families who have never been there and need a secure bridge to that world. They need mentoring, information, and insight to find how and where they belong. We provide that guidance.
How To Build
A Bridge
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WeBe is centered around our most marginalized students’ needs and seeks to reimagine the K-12 system’s transition into higher education and an ever-evolving workforce. WeBe holds the key to unlocking all the incredible potential that is often lost when students cannot access the right opportunities. WeBe was created to eliminate the barriers in post-secondary processes, including the natural challenges of any academic pursuit and the difficulties of unfamiliarity with cultural and social norms at college.
WeBe connects information from many sources, uniquely enabling the whole P-16 sector to analyze, compare, and combine data in novel ways. This enablement will be a game-changing system using real-time data, analytics, and artificial intelligence to identify precise answers and trends, encouraging informed decision-making for organizations preparing students to navigate the marketplace of postsecondary opportunities.
The urgent need to unravel the complexity of existing institutional data related to AP, ACT, P/SAT preparation, recruitment, admission, retention, and professional development is greater than ever, with student uncertainty, mental health anxieties, and student debt rising across the country. Wealth and income inequality accelerate that urgency here in the United States.
Production efficiency, transparency, and consumer trust will be critical for the P-16 sector graduates to compete successfully in an evolving globalized tech-knowledge-based economy.
Looking Forward
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WeBe seeks not only to support students on their journey beyond high school. It also aims to remove boundaries in local and campus communities, technology, formats, and sourcing that prevent educators from finding the solutions within the facts and figures across the P-16 system that lead to more successful and fulfilling placement in the workforce and life. WeBe will revolutionize the ways counselors are trained to support students and how colleges are accessing and sharing data on attendance and completion to serve future students better. WeBe is a tool that every career counselor and community-based organization will want at their fingertips to help staff provide more practical, useful, and timely support in the complex process of college access. AI will create a universal tool to fit individuals’ needs and respond to changing opportunities in both academic and professional environments.
WeBe aspires to become the US's leading independent authority on P-16 data with an ability to connect to and combine any sources of data. This capability to structure and combine fragmented and limitless amounts of data enables organizations and individuals to derive value for their own purposes—to conduct research, increase access to academic preparation, increase institutional recruitment and capacity, and enhance student support programs for students to more effectively bond with others in their new campus community. This capability can also ensure greater productivity, certainty, security, transparency, and belonging across the workforce and life.
Who We Are
Rhoan Garnett, Ph. D.
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Mentor in Residence, Research Scientist, Higher Education Consultant, and Racial Justice Educator
I am devoted to understanding the past and current practices that limit students’ access to success. I have spent decades engaging youth in various capacities, primarily as a bidirectional mentor and coach. My Ph.D. research involved frequent discussions and interactions with high school students in a CBO that supported students moving through the college access process. Bidirectional mentoring-teaching is guided by dialogue, visual, multicultural-interrelation, and peripheral learning while pursuing a sense of belonging in American schooling and society. Bidirectional-mentoring-teaching emerged as my pedagogy while conversing with youth about their schooling experiences and resulting in mutual understanding in an encouraging, multicultural virtual environment.