This document, intended for letter recommendation writers (especially school counselors and teachers), focuses on writing “character-conscious” letters of recommendation.
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This resource is intended for high schools that want to share better, more helpful information about student character with college admission offices. It provides high schools with general information and promising strategies regarding character assessment practices.
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This tool is intended to help high school educators reflect on whether—and to what extent—they are creating a healthy college admissions culture and climate.
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A healthy, sane college admissions process depends on high schools and parents working together effectively. College counselors are often the bridge between schools and parents and have a crucial role in this collaboration.
This resource is designed to guide counselors in their work with parents. It is designed for school communities where students experience excessive achievement pressure in the college admissions process.
Help your students learn how to prioritize and balance their commitments with this time management lesson plan.
Total time: 1-1.5 hours over 2-3 sessions.
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As children get older, they encounter increasingly complex academic, social, athletic, and familial demands on their time which can be difficult to navigate.
Help your students learn how to prioritize and balance their commitments with this time management lesson plan.
Total time: 1-1.5 hours over 2-3 sessions.
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This resource is designed for school communities where students experience excessive achievement pressure in the college admissions process. When this pressure gets too great students often suffer anxiety and depression and other mental health troubles. This pressure can also undermine meaningful learning and students’ ability to focus on and care for others.
Below is a template with suggestions for schools to create a compact with parents focused on reducing excessive achievement pressure and creating a healthy college admissions process. This template is intended to be adapted collaboratively between schools and parents based on each school community’s specific needs and culture.
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How can high schools shape a college search and application process that promotes rather than undermines ethical character? What are key ways that high schools can reduce harmful achievement pressure and promote equity and access that advance the recommendations in our first Turning the Tide report? We offer the following guideposts.
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