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Episode 11: National School Counseling Week: School Counselors Helping Students Dream Big
Episode 11: National School Counseling Week: School Counselors Helping Students Dream Big

What better way to celebrate National School Counselor Week than to have on Jill Cook, Executive Director of ASCA! This episode is loaded with great information about the following topics:

• 20th Anniversary of the National Model

• New Student-to-School-Counselor Ratio Report

• How school counselors support student mental health

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Episode 10: Deepening the Conversation with Students Around Academic Planning
Episode 10: Deepening the Conversation with Students Around Academic Planning

When beginning to think about how we support students through the academic planning process, it’s important that students understand the necessity of learning and exploring key self and college knowledge to build a set of skills and abilities for informed decision making.

We discuss how incorporating the 8 Strengths of College and Career Readiness with the 4 critical factors helps students make the most of their high school experience and prepare them for college. The 4 critical factors are the You Factor, Academic Factor, Career Factor, and Financial Factor.

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Episode 9: Supporting Students & Families with FAFSA Completion
Episode 9: Supporting Students & Families with FAFSA Completion

Join us as we talk with Julie Shields-Rutyna, the Director of College Planning, Education, and Training at the Massachusetts Educational Financing Authority (MEFA). Julie brings her expertise to talk with College UnMazed about how counselors have dive deeper into the planning, saving, and paying for college for their students and families they serve.

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College Conversations Podcast is hosted by Dr. Amanda Sterk, Dr. Timothy Poynton, and Dr. Richard Lapan- 3 dedicated college and career practitioners with 80+ years of combined experience.

It’s time for a podcast to focus on the practitioners supporting our college and career-bound students so we have the tools we need to guide our students to make more informed college decisions, while preventing workplace burnout.

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College UnMazed was developed by school counselors, counselor educators, and higher education administrators who integrate research and data-informed practices to create an effective and efficient school-based curriculum that 1) Helps students and families navigate the college-going process, and 2) Provides practitioners with the tools and resources to foster the necessary conversations to build college knowledge and higher order thinking skills.