Counselor, Educator, Librarian and Youth Organization Leader Publications

Available from Education Now

Publications can be ordered directly from Education Now, PO Box 2832, Springfield, VA 22152 or online. When sending prepayment, makes checks payable to Education Now. Allow 15 days for handling and shipping.

Bridge to College Training Guide

A turn-key training program for conducting student and parent programs on college admission and financial aid

Dr. Frank Burtnett, veteran counselor, author and educational consultant has written the Bridge to College Training Guide, a four module training program containing everything the presenter needs to conduct student and parents workshops on the school-to-college transition.

The Bridge to College Training Guide contains the following four modules:

• Student Awareness of Self
• Learning About Colleges
• Unlocking the Mysteries of the College Admission Process
• College Cost and Financial Aid: What's the Real Bottom Line?

Included in each module:

• Goals: The college guidance objectives of the module.
• Audience: The student or parent population most likely to benefit from the information contained in the module.
• Visual aids and handouts: Materials presenters may reproduce as overhead transparencies and/or handouts for participants.
• Resources needed to enhance presentation: Suggested items that presenters can acquire for distribution to or as "pass around" items for participants.
• Message: The core information---in script form---the presenter will convey to participants.
• Strategies: Teaching techniques and tips that presenters can employ to enhance the message.
• Bibliographies: Print and electronic resources for students and parents.

Everything you require to present student and parent programs is contained in this "user friendly" training guide, organized in a loose-leaf notebook. Acquire the Bridge to College Training Guide today and before you know it you will be ready to set dates and begin inviting clients to your very own college admission and financial aid programs.

Cost: $80, plus $3 shipping and handling. Quantity rates available: Contact info@ednow.org.

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Building a Career and College Center

A step-by-step guide to creating or growing a student Center based on proven techniques and tools

Schools, colleges and youth-serving organizations across the United States are playing a vital role in the school-to-college and education-to-work transitions experienced by high school and college students. This guide from Education Now provides 125+ pages of everything that counselors and educators need to know to create a new Center or improve an existing one, including extensive lists of print and electronic resources that can be added to each operational center.

Written by veteran counselor Frank Burtnett, Building a Career and College Center includes dozens of ideas for student activities and services and identifies hundreds of print, media and Internet resources just waiting to be acquired and used. Dr. Burtnett offers a series of "tips" throughout the guide that will make the work of the Center creator or manager easier and more efficient. Unlike any guide to date, it emphasizes the need to create a career and college "culture" and offers strategies for doing just that. 

Topics: Following is a list of "nuts and bolts" topics that are included in the guide:

• Why a Career & College Center?
• Understanding Career and Educational Development and the Role of Information in Counseling
• Stages in the Development and Maintenance of the Career & College Center
• Identification and Acquisition of Center Space, Furnishings and Equipment
• Identification and Acquisition of Center Resources
• Building a Program of Information Activities and Services for Center Users
• Creating a User Friendly and Efficient Environment and Responding to the Needs of Diverse Users
• Evaluating Resources, Activities, Services and the Overall Center Program
• Using the Internet and Emerging Technologies
• Staffing the Center
• Creating and Managing the Center Budget
• Publicizing Center Programs, Activities and Services
• Involving Students, Parents, Educators and the Community in the Center
• Closing Thoughts ~ A Center for the Future: Prospects and Possibilities

Order this valuable new guide today and soon you will be taking steps to build or improve your Career and College Center.

Cost: $50, plus $3 shipping and handling. Quantity rates available: Contact info@ednow.org.

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College Planning Portfolio

Description: The College Planning Portfolio is a unique file folder designed to hold everything the student acquires and creates during the college exploration, decision-making and application process. Messages printed on the portfolio remind students of the tasks they must perform and the information they need to collect in their search for a college or university. The College Planning Portfolio stresses the importance of planning and organization and helps the student take charge of their personal college search

Target Audiences: Distribute to sophomores and juniors as they begin their involvement in the college planning process.

Cost: $50 for 25 College Planning Portfolios (minimum order). For larger quantities, contact info@ednow.org and indicate the required number.

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Career Planning Portfolio

Description: Like the College Planning Portfolio described above, this special file folder helps the career explorer organize and maintain everything he or she needs to explore options, make decisions and move toward their future career. Printed on the inside of the portfolio are lists and checklists students should complete to aid in their examination of career and job opportunities. Students will be better informed and organized because everything will be in one place.

Target Audiences: Distribute to freshman, sophomores and juniors as they begin and move through the career exploration process.

Cost: $50 for 25 Career Planning Portfolios (minimum order). For larger quantities, contact info@ednow.org and indicate the required number.

All of the above publications can be ordered directly from Education Now through prepayment or online purchasing. Prepaid orders and purchase orders should be directed to Education Now, PO Box 2832, Springfield, VA 22152. Make checks payable to Education Now and allow 15 days for handling and shipping. Customers wishing to pay via credit card can do so at Order Online.