Session 3: Opportunity Network Career Fluency Partnership

Pivot or Persevere: Cultivating Curiosity in Pursuit of Career Success

The search for a best fit career is a perpetual process that requires self-awareness and personal development. Identifying passions, values, and skills is the first step, but it is equally important to have the tools and resources to navigate the unexpected twists and turns that pop up on this journey. In this session, we will go deeper into a process for helping students navigate through the myriad obstacles that arise in pursuit of a career, such as academic challenges, imposter syndrome and identity in the workplace, and the importance of centering wellness. Participants will leave with tools and resources to help guide students through determining when to pivot in their career journey and when to persevere while fostering a spirit of lifelong exploration.

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This training will increase your ability to advise students around critical summer affordability activities, including paying the fall bill and planning for indirect expenses.

You'll be able to:

1. Describe the key affordability tasks students must complete during the summer to successfully matriculate

2. Help students understand the college bill and prepare for indirect expenses

3. Identify payment options and strategies to minimize the cost of attendance

4. Find opportunities for students to build self-advocacy skills

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Session 2: Opportunity Network Career Fluency Partnership 

Passions, Values, and Skills: Creating Opportunities for Students’ Career Exploration

As educators, it is our responsibility to empower the young people we work with to define their own path towards career success. In this session, we will discuss how to guide students to consider career exploration as a discovery of their assets – passions, values, and skills. Learn tips and best practices to provide students the space to identify their interests and take action to learn more about careers of interest. Participants will leave this workshop with new tools to guide personal reflection and career exploration and additional resources for continued student support. 

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This training will show you the power of analyzing aid offers and give you the tools and knowledge to support your students with this critical step in the financial aid process. We will begin by reviewing key aid offer terminology, examples, and practices. We will then introduce uAspire's new College Cost Calculator and walk through a case study to show how to use this tool and explain the results to students.

You'll be able to:

1. Name the key student outcomes of financial aid offer review

2. Define important aid offer terminology

3. Identify aid offer best practices, as well as common ways they can be confusing

4. Accurately utilize uAspire's College Cost Calculator and explain the results to students

5. Identify possible responses to difficult scenarios that may arise from aid offer review

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See you soon!

The Embodied Classroom: Trauma and Culturally Informed Approaches for Instruction to Learning

Dr. Jinaki Flint

Staff Psychologist, Counseling Center

Tulane University

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Agenda:

1. Introductions & Community Updates
   

2. Policy & Advocacy Updates

   1. 2023-2024 FAFSA Changes

3. Professional Development Opportunities

   1. Upcoming UAspire Trainings

   2. Opportunity Network Career Fluency Partnership

   3. Cowen Institute Collaboratives Mental Health Workshop

4. Guest Speakers
   

   1. Sheena Reed - Preparing Juniors for 2022 Admission

5. Open Forum

6. Closing

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Thank you all so much for attending our Career Fluency Workshop yesterday with The Opportunity Network.

Below please find the resources shared during the workshop as well as the workshop recording.

Workshop Recording

Please Complete: Exit Ticket
We had a few responses to our exit ticket, but I'd love to get more feedback from attendees! The survey can be found here: https://forms.gle/iwRGnSmmnLb5kTnn9

Presentation MaterialsI've uploaded the materials (deck and worksheet) that we used during the presentation here. Engagement Menu Padlet.

Career Fluency ResourcesI've also added the Career Fluency resources to share in a Google Drive folder it includes; a facilitator's Discussion Guide for the course "Intro to Networking" on UninterruptED and a lesson plan for hosting a Career Exposure Panel via Zoom.

Additional Information

If anyone would like to know more about UninterruptED, our open access virtual learning platform, they can do so here: https://opportunitynetwork.org/uninterrupted/.

Mental Health Resources : Link to google doc.

It was so great to share time with you all this morning, it was the perfect way to start the week!

Thank you again to all who were able to join for the first New Orleans College & Career Collaborative meeting for the Spring semester!

Please find the recording and presentation below. The Louisiana Educate & Tulane Summer Programs presentations are attached to this email.

NOCCC Meeting Presentation 1/25/2021
NOCCC Meeting Recording 1/25/2021

Next Level NOLA Presentation

NPSI Conference

As a reminder, you are invited to join us free of charge for the NPSI Conference: Equity at the Practice Level. We have a few spaces left and would love to have you join us. If you are interested, please just reply to this email and I will follow up with registration instructions.

UAspire Professional Development Survey

Please do not forget to complete the Professional Development Survey. We will be partnering with UApsire to offer a few different workshops over the next several months. Please share your thoughts about the current course offerings and any information you want to make sure we cover during these sessions.

Pre-College Virtual Programs Fair

Tulane Pre-College Programs invites you to the Association for Pre-College Program Directors’ 2021 Summer Pre-College Program Fairs, a series of virtual events that provide students, families, and education professionals the opportunity to learn about academic summer programs at top US college and universities. Tulane will have representatives at the fair on February 3rd, 2021 from 7 PM – 9 PM EST.

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER!

At each fair, attendees may:

• Visit virtual booths, where you can ask questions via text or video chat with summer program representatives.

• View helpful webinars on how to choose a summer program, how to strengthen your application, and how to make the most out of your summer program experience.

Registration is FREE to attendees. You can visit the Virtual Fairs website for complete information on dates, times, and which institutions will be represented at each event. We also encourage you to check out SummerStudyintheUSA.org, where you can search participating programs by grade level, academic interests, financial aid, and more.

Teaching Academic Survival and Success Conference 

Registration is open for the Virtual Asynchronous TASS Conference (March 1-14, 2021).

NO REGISTRATION FEE for TASS-2021.  

31st Annual Teaching Academic Survival and Success Conference

March 1-14, 2021 (Virtual Asynchronous Conference)

http://tassconference.org

 SPONSORED BY NORTHERN ESSEX COMMUNITY COLLEGE, HAVERHILL, MA

HOSTED BY BROWARD COLLEGE, FORT LAUDERDALE, FL

Registration is Open

http://tassconference.org/forms/regform.php

Today, more than ever, we are focused on the goal of helping our students, especially underprepared and underrepresented, survive and succeed despite exceptional difficulties.  We must deal with historically unprecedented challenges in education, and we also strategize for the future.

TASS Executive Board has made the decision to hold our 2021 conference in virtual/asynchronous format in March 2021, thus keeping our attendees safe and healthy and, at the same time, providing an opportunity for a productive professional convention.

Attendees will have to register online, and there will be NO REGISTRATION FEE for TASS-2021. The Virtual Asynchronous Conference 2021 webpage will be available March 1-14 to all registered participants, free of charge.

We hope that you will join us for the 31st  Annual TASS Conference!

Mission of TASS:  Voice of the Practitioner

This is a conference for the serious practitioner who is passionate about helping all students, especially those who are underprepared or underrepresented, to survive and thrive in college and beyond. 

This conference offers a holistic approach to academic survival from the points of view of college faculty, learning assistance, and student support professionals, administrators, and high school teachers. This is the forum where they share lessons learned from evidence-based decisions and real experiences in the classroom, as well as tutoring, mentoring, advising, or counseling sessions. 

It is for faculty, teaching student success courses and General Education courses in a variety of disciplines, who want to demonstrate and adopt effective, inclusive pedagogical methods that help students of diverse backgrounds learn.

It is for tutors, mentors, student success coaches, navigators, counselors, and advisors who share and learn from other's best strategies in building our students’ academic and life skills.

At a time when there is rightly a growing focus on college completion, not just access, TASS is for administrators who want to share and learn new successful initiatives enhancing student engagement, retention, and graduation rates.

This conference is for reformers who feel an urgency to meet students where they are and give them the experiences, they need to grow and succeed. 

TASS offers networking opportunities to meet new, like-minded professionals, from all over the country in small settings where substantial discussions occur, and friendships are made. 

New Orleans College & Career Collaborative Monthly Meeting