College planning workshops for parents at your school can be a great resource

If you’re like most counselors, you probably wish for more hours in the day and more days in the week to help your college-bound students and their parents find the best-fit college.

With the 2024-25 school year rapidly approaching, there’s one possible solution on the horizon: Free college planning workshops for parents that will give them the tools and knowledge they need to successfully launch their student in their college experience and future career.

Individual counselors and guidance offices are able to host these on-line workshops exclusively for their schools, helping them to expand their reach and scope of services they provide to parents and students.

The benefits of hosting one or more webinars or workshops are many. For counselors, who are jacks-of-all-trades, they provide in-depth knowledge and expertise. For parents and students, they provide information they may not easily find elsewhere, for example:

·       How to set their student up for college success as early as their freshman and sophomore year of high school.

·       How to find pathways toward affordability

·       Why it’s important to start a conversation about career goals when selecting a major

·       How to improve the chances of completing a degree in four years

·       How grants, scholarships and financial aid packages work

·       How and when to appeal a financial aid award

·       How to help a student with an IEP or 504 plan succeed in college

Jack Schacht is the Founder of My College Planning Team. They offer some great webinars that are free to attend and are presented by college-and career-planning experts from My College Planning Team, who are longtime academic and career counselors and financial aid advisors. For more than a decade they have been making presentations like these at schools and libraries around the country. The workshops are completely free and packed with information, and there’s absolutely no sales presentation or solicitation. Parents may contact My College Planning Team for one-on-one assistance, but only after the workshop.

See 2024 workshop offerings here.

If you are interested in hosting a free workshop at your high school, contact workshops@collegeplanningteam.com for more information.