Power Hour — Slide Preview (Skill-Spine Edition)

GIRLS INC. OF GREATER MIAMI

Power Hour: The Skill Spine

18 Named Skills · 6 Clusters · 4-Year Vertical Alignment Matrix

FL Chamber 2019 + 3 PH adds Aware → Leading 6-Month Arc Portfolio Spine Paid Internships

May 2026 · Team Planning Presentation · Confidential

WHAT CHANGED IN THIS REVISION

From "What E-level am I?"
to "What skill am I building?"

Old (E-level by year)

Y1 = E2 Exposure, Y2 = E3 Exploration, Y3 = E4 Experience. Skills referenced as "18 from FL Workforce Study" but never enumerated. Vague. Implicit. No mastery rubric.

New (skill spine)

18 named skills, grouped into 6 clusters (one per session-month). Same skills every year, deepening: Aware → Practicing → Applying → Leading. Explicit. Measurable. 5 E's now internal layer.

Sectors and the 5 E's are preserved — sectors as practice context, E's as the depth dial. The skill spine is what girls, families, mentors, and funders see.

THE WHY

Miami's economy is moving. Our girls need to be ready.

100K+

Jobs added in Miami-Dade by 2034 (pro services, healthcare, tech)

55¢

Hispanic women earn per dollar (Black women: 61¢)

14%

Girls in traditionally male career fields

2%

High school students who've completed an internship

Power Hour fills the gap with named skills, real industry feedback, and paid internships — for girls who've been left out of high-wage pathways.

THE SPINE

18 Skills, Grouped Into 6 Clusters

One cluster per session-month, Nov–Apr. All 4 years revisit the same 6 in the same order, deepening each year.

01 · Nov

Foundation of Self

Reliability · Learning Agility · Adaptability

02 · Dec

Communication & Connection

Communication · Networking · Virtual Collab

03 · Jan

Thinking Tools

Critical Thinking · Problem Solving · Systems Design

04 · Feb

Doing & Delivering

Teamwork · Resource Mgmt · Project Execution

05 · Mar

Influence & Advocacy

Leadership · Negotiation · Financial Resilience

06 · Apr

Innovation & Future Fluency

Entrepreneurial · Design Thinking · AI & Tech

Within-year arc: know yourself → connect → think hard → do the work → influence & advocate → look ahead.

THE RUBRIC

Same skills every year. Deepening every year.

A girl in Y1 and a girl in Y4 work the same skill in the same month — at different rungs of the same ladder.

Y1

Curious Observer

Aware

Knows the skill exists; can name it; has done it once.

Y2

Active Investigator

Practicing

Uses the skill with intention in low-stakes settings.

Y3

Practitioner

Applying

Uses in real (industry-reviewed) capstone work.

Y4

Launcher

Leading

Models the skill for others; uses it in real-world settings.

18 skills × 4 depth levels = 72 cells of behavior + portfolio deliverable. The full matrix lives in Four_Year_Curriculum_Scope.md.

SAMPLE SKILL LADDER · CLUSTER 5 · MARCH

Negotiation: From "First Asks" to live job offers

Promoted from a sub-skill in the FL framework to a standalone skill — for a women-in-leadership program targeting the wage gap.

Y1 Aware	Y2 Practicing	Y3 Applying	Y4 Leading
Practice asking. Wage-gap statistical literacy.	Negotiate small things in peer/mentor context (deadline, role, scope).	Salary negotiation simulation with industry mentor; benefits comparison.	Live negotiation: real job offer, scholarship, or internship terms.
Deliverable: "First Asks" reflection + wage-gap data quiz	Deliverable: Negotiation script + outcome reflection	Deliverable: Mock offer-letter transcript + analysis	Deliverable: Real negotiation outcome + memo

Why standalone: A program literally framed around women in leadership shouldn't bury negotiation as a sub-skill. The wage gap and ask gap demand a discrete depth ladder.

SAMPLE SKILL LADDER · CLUSTER 6 · APRIL

AI & Tech Fluency: From critical user to career co-pilot

Net-new Power Hour addition. Builds AI judgment over 4 years — when to use it, when not to, how to critique its output.

Y1 Aware	Y2 Practicing	Y3 Applying	Y4 Leading
AI-assisted email drafting; "what did the AI get wrong?"	AI for career research + cover letter editing; learn 1 sector tool.	AI as critical editor in capstone; prompt engineering; data tool fluency.	AI as career co-pilot: ATS optimization, company research, interview prep.
Deliverable: AI artifact with critique annotations	Deliverable: AI-supported career research brief	Deliverable: Capstone with full AI-process documentation	Deliverable: Job-app portfolio with AI co-pilot process

Why this matters: 75% of high school students used generative AI in 2024–25. Power Hour treats AI as something to develop judgment about — not just use uncritically.

CALENDAR

The 6-Month Arc · 1 + 4 + 1

Foundation (Nov, C1) → Development (Dec–Mar, C2–C5) → Launch (Apr, C6). 6 sessions, monthly. Pre-program orientation event in late October absorbs the legacy 7-session model's second Foundation runway.

01

November

Foundation of Self

Foundation

HI Pre-Survey

02

December

Communication & Connection

Development

03

January

Thinking Tools

Development

HI Check-In

04

February

Doing & Delivering

Development

05

March

Influence & Advocacy

Development

06

April

Innovation & Future Fluency

Launch

HI Post-Survey

SEL is in every session — constant, not siloed. Within-year arc reads naturally: know yourself → connect → think hard → do the work → influence → look ahead.

PRACTICE CONTEXT

Sectors are how we practice. Skills are what we build.

All 4 sectors appear every year, every cluster. Sectors color the practice — they don't replace the cluster structure.

Healthcare & Life Sciences

Higher-wage pathways: clinical research, health informatics, biotech.

+26,118 jobs by 2034

Technology & Innovation

70–89% male. Deliberate counter-programming. Software, data, UX, fintech.

$121K–$141K senior roles

Professional & Business Services

Finance, consulting, marketing, legal, architecture, engineering.

+33,910 jobs by 2034 (largest)

Creative, Social Impact & Entrepreneurship

Design, media, nonprofit, public policy. Honors interest crossings.

$4.6B VC invested (2024)

24 sector-flavored variants needed: 6 clusters × 4 sectors. Each cluster deliverable comes in 4 sector flavors so a Healthcare-focused girl and a Tech-focused girl both build Communication skills in December — through different sector lenses. Separate scope-of-work to build.

INTERNAL CURRICULUM LAYER

The 5 E's are still here — just internal.

E1 + E5 stay as through-lines (operationalized as the 18 skills and Cluster 6). E2/E3/E4 set year posture / depth dial.

E1

Employability

Operationalized as the 18 Skills. Every cluster, every session.

Through-line

E2

Exposure

Y1 depth setting "Aware". Sector breadth in every cluster.

Y1 Posture

E3

Exploration

Y2 depth setting "Practicing". Narrowing through deeper deliverables.

Y2 Posture

E4

Experience

Y3 "Applying" / Y4 "Leading". Capstone in Y3; real-world Y4.

Y3–Y4 Posture

E5

Evolution

Distributed across C1, C5, C6. The future-ready layer woven into the spine.

Through-line

The 5 E's continue to inform curriculum design and language internally. The skill spine is what's public.

EVIDENCE

Portfolio compounds. 24 skill-touches across 4 years.

Every deliverable maps to a specific skill at a specific depth. By Y4, she has 72 cells of skill evidence — searchable, defensible, portable.

Component	Y1 Aware	Y2 Practicing	Y3 Applying	Y4 Leading
Resume	Skills-based, 1 version	Sector-targeted, 2 versions	Industry-specific, 3+	Job-ready, tailored per role
Network	Peer + mentor + 1–2 contacts	5+ professional contacts	10+ active, employer partners	15+ portable references
Capstone	—	Sector research project	Industry-reviewed capstone	Cross-sector capstone or venture
Mock interviews	1 round (peer)	2 rounds (peer + mentor)	3 rounds (peer + mentor + employer)	Live interviews completed
Growth Narrative	"Who am I today?"	"What's changed?"	"What do I stand for?"	Full arc

Plus 18 per-skill deliverables across the 4 years (one per cell of the matrix).

CREDENTIALING

Triple-credentialed outcomes. Real internships.

Provenance of the 18

13 skills from FL Chamber Foundation 2019 Employability Skills Framework
2 promoted from FL sub-skills: Leadership · Negotiation
1 split from FL Interpersonal Skills: Networking & Relationship Building
2 net-new Power Hour: AI & Tech Fluency · Financial Resilience

The 18 map to HelloInsight Applied SEL constructs AND Top 10 Durable Skills (76M postings). Funder pitch: same content, three legitimate credentialing claims.

Internship pathway

10 placements

Summer 2027 · 15 hrs/wk · 5–6 weeks

10 on-site + 5 with Girls Inc. Funded by Girls Inc. and/or industry partners. Either via SYIP feeder ($0 wages) or direct pipeline (~$1,500/intern).

Y1: Career exposure only (panels, site visits)
Y2: Micro-internships (10–20 hrs)
Y3: Paid summer internship (15 hrs/wk)
Y4: Light touch + outcome tracking

WHAT THIS DOC REPLACES (CONCEPTUALLY)

The skill spine is the new public face.
The 5 E's are now backstage.

Open decisions

→ Pre-program orientation event (format, timing)
→ 24 sector-flavored cluster variants (separate SOW)
→ FL Workforce Needs Study 2.0 reconciliation
→ Cluster 5 final name (drafted "Influence & Advocacy")
→ T4 employer pipeline (5–10 partners by Feb 2027)

Verification ahead

→ CLAUDE.md hard-rule audit (10 rules, all met)
→ Vertical alignment integrity (SME spot-checks)
→ Curriculum dry-run on 1 cluster (Y1 March session)
→ Funder pitch test (1-paragraph version)
→ Y1 deliverables 2.5 hr feasibility

Designed by: Marlena Candelario Romero & Sarah Maldonado · Lead Facilitator: Kasidy Brown