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Author: Jason Bullock

Will college pay off for your students?

Students and families today are getting smarter about college choice, but experts say they could still learn more about the value of schools, especially specifics about how well their education will pay off. There are a number of spots where counselors can learn more about college value and find resources that they can make available Read More

Helping Counselors manage the workload

So it’s a normal day – and you’ve responded to a handful or requests for information, spent an hour or two in valuable and not-so-valuable meetings, devoted a big chunk of time answering email and calls from parents and what seems like half your day assisting students who show up at your door, typically at Read More

A college night might be the answer

There is a great deal of information for counselors to convey to a lot of students and their families about college admissions, and despite the work involved, a college night may help answer a lot of questions and lighten the load for busy counselors in the end. “Counselors don’t have enough time in the day Read More

Counselors can flip too!

The flipped classroom has been one of the biggest innovations in education in the last decade, proponents would say, and now it’s finding its way into the counselo’rs toolkit as a technique to get classroom lessons to more students and make much-repeated instruction available in one installment. “Every time I don’t have to field a Read More

5 Simple Tips to Help Juniors Prep for the College Essay

You probably already know that at its core, the college application essay is all about reflection. We tell our students time and again it’s as much a thinking task as a writing task. While we have many tools to help you guide your college-bound junior class on the essay, this time of year we focus Read More

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