A Decade of Lobbying Efforts Pay Off for former NACAC President and Michigan State Admissions Exec Michigan could become a national model for counselor training when a new law requiring high school counselors to complete college and career guidance training to renew their state licenses goes into effect in 2020. It will be the first Read More

Next month our Spring 2018 issue will be published and we are proud to say we have put together a great issue of comprehensive articles that should be of interest to all High School Counselors throughout the country. Here is a summary of the scheduled articles: Who’s Deciding? – What’s going on in admissions offices Read More

Our primary readers are High School Counselors but we have begun receiving more correspondence from Counselors working with kids of all ages.  I came across a book that should be of interest to Counselors that are working with young students grades K-3. It was written by an elementary school counselor located in Lancaster, PA. The Read More

Feedspot is a site that lets you read all your favorite websites in one place. It has value in that it can help you save time by reading all the latest news in one spot as opposed to visiting a bunch of different websites. They recently reviewed all the websites in the Counselor space and Read More

Suicide is one of the leading causes of death in the United States. In fact, it is the 10th leading causes of death, and it claims approximately 44,000 people every year. Statistics show that men are more likely to commit suicide than women. And, among youth, suicide is the 2nd leading cause of death. As Read More

Here are some key tips from Business Insider that your Juniors can use to prepare for getting into a great college: Prepare for the PSAT: The number one test you should be focusing your student on this fall is the PSAT, the National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test. The primary test date is a little over Read More

As a documentarist with 30 years of experience as an anchor and news director, Mike Mickle of Davenport, IA, knows that today’s world holds an array of hidden dangers. And, as the father of three teen children, he is concerned about the fate of today’s young people. It was this growing concern that prompted him Read More

I recently came across a website (MastersinCounseling.org)  that had a selection of great websites for Counselors. They had sections for Grief and Anxiety Counseling, Art & Music Therapy, Addiction Counseling, Christian Counseling, Relationship Counseling, General and School and Children’s Counseling. i checked out the sites they summarized in the School Counseling section and these are Read More

Lee Bierer of College Admissions Strategies put together a nice list of college admissions acronyms and abbreviations that get used quite a bit. Test your knowledge of these terms and see how you score: Everybody is familiar with GPA — Grade Point Average. And SAT — it used to be the Scholastic Aptitude Test, but Read More