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Essential Resources for Counselors

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Using the Choose Your Own Adventure Tool As a College Essay Curriculum

  • This resource offers 6 ready-to-go syllabi that counselors/teachers/other mentors can use to lead students through the college essay writing process. There are 3 in-class syllabi (a 3-day, 4-week, and 8-week version) and 3 flipped classroom syllabi (also as a 3-day, 4-week, and 8-week version). The syllabi can be tweaked, or used as they are.

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Counselor’s Guide to the Choose Your Own Adventure Tool (Login Required)

  • A guide to different ways you can use the CYOA Tool with your students, depending on your caseload and needs

  • Also includes counselor Frequently Asked Questions (scroll down to the “I have a question about …” section)

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Resource Email Templates Organized by Month and Grade

  • A counselor curriculum with templates of monthly emails and resources to help keep students on track throughout their high school career.

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College Application Hub

  • Contains free guides to almost every part of the college application process. If you bookmark just one page from the College Essay Guy site, this just might be the one.

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College Essay Guy's Complete Resource Library

  • A spreadsheet with links to almost every resource we’ve ever built, organized by category. (Yeah, really.)

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College Essay Guy’s Professional Development Workshop Series for School Counselors

  • These PDs cover brainstorming, choosing topics, outlining, and providing feedback. Click the link for more details, including video recordings of each session.