College Readiness CURRICULUM
College readiness, introduced in a series of client-ready assignments.
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- The complete college readiness process delivered to you in client-ready assignments.
- Transcript preparation, letters of recommendation, academic resume, financing, self assessments, writing and more.
- Student tasks, parent educational articles, general broadcasts.
- Corresponding informational graphics download free.
How it Works
THERE ARE TWO PARTS TO COLLEGE COUNSELING SERVICES
A College Counselor may work with students on College Readiness Assignments, which focus on preparedness steps before the College Application Process and are not associated with school-specific application requirements. Other counselors may work only on College List Generation and Application Tracking, with a focus on time management and adherence to deadlines. CounselMore serves both types of College Planning operations. Below is a description of how CounselMore supports the College Readiness side. To learn about how CounselMore supports the College List and Application Tracking part of a College Planner’s practice, see here.
WHY A CURRICULUM?
- A repeatable process allows you to serve more clients efficiently, scaling your services without compromising quality.
- Consistency ensures that you can set clear expectations, leading to higher customer satisfaction as clients know exactly what to expect and when.
- Reputation defense is strengthened through consistent, reliable service delivery, building trust, and amplifying word-of-mouth referrals, the lifeblood of service-based enterprises.
COLLEGE READINESS CURRICULUM
The counselor can build their own College Readiness curriculum or purchase a client-facing curriculum from CounselMore. The counselor builds their own curriculum in Routine Assignments, storing assignments in groups under chosen titles. Each assignment is a container with the ability to hold resources associated with each assignment. College Readiness primarily focuses on preparing for the application process. This means making ready the documentation needed at the time of applications. Some of these tasks include requesting letters of recommendation, tallying community service hours, amended credit hours, or testing.
CREATING A REPEATABLE PROCESS
Creating a consistent College Readiness plan that is adaptable to every student is how counselors stay focused on providing quality and efficiency in their services. In CounselMore, counselors build assignments that are easily applied to the next student but editable to be infused with specific student awareness. Previously, counselors managed their processes via back-and-forth email communications, causing them to constantly chase the process. After observing counselors digging through Sent bins to find previous instructions to copy/paste to the next student, CounselMore provided the ability to lay out their steps, write their instructions once, and build a consistency of service that led to a calmer administration of the process and the ability to increase per Counselor capacity to serve. Typically a private college counselor will fill their client list with 15 students per grade. Single Counselor practice, using CounselMore serves 35 students per grade. New users of CounselMore double their capacity to serve in less than 6 months.
APPLYING A ROUTINE CURRICULUM PER GRADE
Most parents ask, "When should we start?" College counseling deals specifically with preparing for the College Application process. While this can include traditional Academic Advising markers: choosing courses or pre-college credit matriculation, which many private counselors do include in their services, more typically, the private counselor is focused on making ready the items needed for the application process, and services begin in Junior year of high school. CounselMore counselors have the ability to build multiple curriculums per grade or service-type focus.
Pull from a routine of pre-written client-ready student character preparation tasks
Supplement to your CounselMore account (not sold separately).
"I’m a happy customer! I signed up after years of creating my own systems and decided i needed help scaling up for more clients."
Measuring Success and Building Value
One of the most significant advantages of the CounselMore Routine Assignments package is its ability to define and measure the comprehensiveness of your service. Each assignment acts as a checkpoint in the student's journey, allowing you to track progress and ensure that no critical step is overlooked. This structured approach not only facilitates a thorough counseling experience but also provides a tangible measure of the value you deliver. With a clear overview of the services included in your comprehensive college counseling package, you can accurately determine the number of hours, set your pricing, and establish a meeting schedule that reflects the depth and breadth of your offering.
Streamlining Your Practice with Precision and Efficiency
The CounselMore Routine Assignments package is the cornerstone of a repeatable, efficient process that underpins your "service" to students. By integrating this package into your practice, you gain access to a set of assignments that automatically populate your Routine Assignments bank. These assignments, meticulously crafted based on the collective wisdom and best practices of seasoned counselors, provide a solid foundation for your counseling services. Whether you choose to use these assignments as they are or customize them with your own insights, they serve as a blueprint for success—ensuring consistency and quality in the service you provide.
The Blueprints to college counseling are a series of assignments following what independent educational consultants commonly refer to as a comprehensive college planning package. These Blueprints are college readiness tools designed to guide the educational transition from American high school to domestic higher education. They have been researched, developed, and prepared specifically for you.
The college readiness process usually happens from Junior year to Senior year of high school. Some of these readiness assignments can be used for an earlier start in the lower grades. If you are just beginning to; build a practice, streamline a busy practice, or start an institutional program from scratch—this is more than a jump start; this is the Go button.
This detailed collection of assignments is offered by CounselMore Business Development Academy through their extensive research projects. Expressly developed for use in your CounselMore software platform, any member of CounselMore may purchase these assignments and begin using them immediately with any student—beginning anywhere in the process and edited to any counselor’s style.
Assignments include an education for the parent, a simplified student task and an estimated time to completion, in the only college counseling software with a 72% student portal engagement rate.
forgo redundancy • implement routine
- Access to documented best practices for incoming practitioners
- Streamlining and defining current service delivery processes
- Established accountability standards across counselors and student relationships
- Tighten-up service delivery efficiency, improving task vs time, management
- Elevate student preparedness with consistent milestones of discovery and accomplishment
- Noticeable increased parent satisfaction, lower incoming current customer call-in volume with timely communications
- Reduce counselor note taking and summary iterations
- Provide client service equity, offering consistent measurements of service satisfaction to capitalize on word-of-mouth marketing
- Spend time perfecting your own assignments or spend time branding these — one way moves you forward faster.
- One-time cost, auto-loaded into your Routine Assignments Bank, fully editable, receive automatic updates annually — only available to CounselMore members
Upon purchase you will receive the assignments directly into your software assignments menu. At the same time you will receive access to the Counselor's pdf Reader. Packed with software hot tips and colleague advice.
Student portal vs Counselor portal
All portals employ the same UX, putting everyone on the same page. The CounselMore design reinforces understanding throughout your practice by delivering simplicity, driving the process forward. Each time you share your screen, you are presenting ease-of-use and lowering student anxiety. Right away, your student will say, "This isn't Naviance!"
view within the counselor's portal
This is a sample of one of the assignments as it appears in the Counselor's portal.
view within the student's portal
Assignment as it appears in a Student/Parent Portal
Assignment Packages: A small sample presented above. Financials package includes 15+ Assignments, Comprehensive package includes 40+ Assignments.
One time charge, auto-populated into your account. Specific assignments for Counselors, Parents and Students included, all are edit-able.
A Strategic Investment in Your Practice's Future
With a one year commitment, you can kickstart your practice, start your trial, and check out the other incredible resources included in the Toolbox.
CounselMore Routine Assignments package represents a strategic investment in the future of your educational consulting practice. By standardizing the core elements of your service, you gain the ability to scale your practice, accommodate diverse student needs, and maintain high standards of quality.
This package not only simplifies the operational aspects of your practice but also empowers you to build stronger, more impactful relationships with your students.
Immediately upon purchase, Assignments will appear in your account.
- Each Counselor instruction includes a demonstration video.
- Sign up for the corresponding live training or peer-group training sessions that are essential to the software tools most associated with Blueprints.
- Types of assignments: Student/Parent calls to action include portal user help. Counselor assignments dedicated to administrative practices, student assignments dedicated to readiness, and parent assignments related to process overview.
- Each assignment audience is indicated: parent, student or counselor.
There is no one way to deliver college readiness services. Everything is editable.
- Never before has the roadmap to college readiness been this accessible. You may choose to change the assignment audience from student/parent to only parent or vice versa.
- Not all assignments may be pertinent to your current services yet. You may choose to use some assignments to build a lower grade college readiness process.
- The order of delivery is easily manipulated. You may choose to break one assignment into multiple assignments or use portions again with Broadcast messages.
- There are no per student fees within CounselMore software. Use Blueprints with all your students. Scale your services to grow your business.
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