Here is a cool emotional awareness exercise that you might find helpful for your students. You can use it if you have students that struggle identifying or discussing their emotions. PDF & instructions are here: https://www.mygroupguide.com/emotionsgame/
Students think of all different ways to get off a waitlist, including delivering treats in person to admissions offices. Does anything work? Make no mistake about it: the waitlists are for the colleges’ benefit, and they can be quite long with only a small percentage receiving offers of admission. Consider these statistics from last year: Read More
Here are a couple different timelines you can share with your students to help them plan out their prep for the SAT and/or ACT Test (Courtesy of Rath Tutoring)
Here are the 2026-2027 SAT test dates you can share with your students (courtesy of Rath Tutoring)
The wait-list, commonly referred to as “admissions purgatory,” is that ugly and uncomfortable grey area – they didn’t like you enough to accept you, and they didn’t hate you enough to reject you. May 1st is College Decision Day, when students must decide and place a deposit at one college to which they were accepted. Read More
ZipRecruiter has posted salary estimates of school counselors by state. They use information from employer job postings and third-party data sources to come up with these estimates. Here is the list sorted from highest average salary to lowest: State Annual Salary Monthly Pay Weekly Pay Hourly Wage Washington $68,419 $5,701 $1,315 $32.89 District of Columbia Read More
Product philanthropy turns an operational liability into positive social impact Many schools in the United States are underfunded, with a significant number facing funding gaps that negatively impact student resources and outcomes. On average, American teachers spend between $500 and $900 out of their own families’ budgets to supplement the materials and supplies their students Read More
Whether it was intentional or coincidental, April features two “awareness” months that complement each other: Counseling Awareness Month and Stress Awareness Month. The former is a tool to help you cope with the latter. The way families live today is not the way people used to live. Fifty years ago, a majority of women were Read More
In the “old days,” you went to college to figure out what you wanted to do in life, become an adult, learn independence and become well-rounded. Along the way, you earned a degree. That was then, and this is now. In 1990, the cost of full-time attendance at a four-year college was around $10,000 a Read More
I wanted to share a recent exchange with a colleague on LinkedIn, who said one of her biggest college essay challenges is parent involvement. The underlying issue, as I see it, is how to respect and value parents while also keeping them from over-stepping. They are important, after all, and many of us are parents Read More
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