Tune In, Take Away: Free Resource Share to Kickoff the School Year Strong

• Read a transcript, identifying critical elements of the transcript along the way.

• Identify trends in students’ grade point averages (GPAs), which can affect college admissions decisions.

• Connect a transcript to the “5Ps of College Admissions”.

• Ask probing and clarifying questions that illuminate student strengths.  

• Explore career resources that help students link academic strengths and interests to possible careers and/or fields of study.

• Connecting co-curricular involvement to the 5 Ps of college admissions.

• Explaining the depth, breadth, and impact of co-curricular involvement.

• Strategies for assisting groups of students in mining for co-curricular involvement,

• Resources for assisting groups of students in writing impactful co-curricular involvement statements.

• Identify viable postsecondary pathways that lead to early career opportunities.

• Locate postsecondary opportunities in your state, county, or city.

• Define college match and college fit.

• Explain how college wish lists are created, with an emphasis on match.

• Compare college and university admission criteria to academic credentials to determine eligibility.

• Define college fit.

• Explore various aspects of college fit.

• Evaluate colleges for individual fit.

• Connect college entrance examinations to the 5 Ps of

college admissions.

• Explain the structure and format of the SAT & ACT.

• Sketch out a testing roadmap, including registering for exams, and figuring out when and where students should take them.

• Activate free test preparation resources.

• List general personal attributes that colleges ask about in essays and personal insight type questions.

• Match general personal attributes with particular essay and personal insight type questions.

• Generate specific examples linked to personal attributes.

• Visualize student attributes to create a narrative that forms a story relevant to their identity.

• Discuss the purpose of the counselor recommendation.

• Contrast the purpose of the teacher recommendation with the counselor recommendation.

• Identify effective elements of counselor recommendations.

• Develop approaches and strategies for writing effective letters.

• Common types of postsecondary credentialing.  

• Linking a student’s interest with potential jobs and careers. 

• Helping students explore a particular job or career of interest.

• Differentiate between intrinsic and extrinsic motivators. 

• Identify benefits that are both extrinsic and intrinsic motivators for a variety of postsecondary pathways.

• Types of enrichment opportunities. 

• Effective search strategies to find enrichment experiences that connect to students’ personal and professional interests and strengths. 

• Tips and strategies for setting up an effective enrichment program on your campus.  

• Self-control techniques “change your environment” to help students avoid distraction and meet goals. 

• Mindfulness techniques that can help students center their minds to bring themselves to a state of calm. 

• Scenarios when students can activate self-control and mindfulness strategies. 

• Identify goals and wishes that are worth pursuing.  

• Identify barriers and obstacles that might get in the way of those goals and wishes. And, 

• Develop a plan and strategy, utilizing Contigo Ed resources when applicable, for overcoming them.