Educators' Academy

At College Summit, we believe that if students are to aspire and achieve, their teachers and counselors must be equipped to utilize our tools and strategies proficiently. The Educators’ Academies provide our partner educators with the information and materials they need to ensure that every student who can make it in college makes it to college.

The goal of the Educators’ Academies is powerful: Educators are prepared to build and sustain a robust college-going culture in their schools and to implement College Summit successfully. Educators participate in the Educators’ Academy right in their own community and work with their local colleagues to plan for successful delivery of College Summit’s innovative approach.

Training topics include:

  • An overview of the College Summit model
  • The role of the College Summit Advisor and College Summit Coordinator
  • Use of the Navigator curriculum
  • How to engage Peer Leaders, and
  • How to utilize College Summit’s new web-based technology tool to support students in the career and college exploration process

Check with your local College Summit office to find out when the Educators’ Academy will be held in your region and to learn how to register for this important training opportunity. Some regions, listed below, have opted to have online registration.

Registration

New York Educators' Academy                       Register Now

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The Students' Own Words
In Their Words is a collection of some of the best student essays from our first ten years.

The College Summit strategy was born from a desire to stop expecting first-generation and low-income students to do what middle-class students can’t do: manage their own way through the college admissions process alone.

"It seemed to me that it took two kinds of adults to help students enroll in college: the expert resource person, usually the school counselor; and the college-experienced adult who manages each student through the process face-to-face, usually a college-experienced parent. With few college-experienced parents available, counselors are asked to take on the impossible task of providing expert resources, and directly managing the process for hundreds of students. Schools serving significant numbers of low-income first-generation students faced an enormous challenge: without someone to manage the process along with the student, how could they expect to send more students to college?"

J.B. Schramm, College Summit Founder and CEO