Tips and Resources for Featured Professional

Listen and be curious to get a great story out of your students. They have a lot to say, guide them and let them say it.

As we model our own process for professionals during our signature training, the College Essay Experience, we get a little bonus because we get to learn new, super cool things from them, too. (Like … You can finish a 500-mile hike with an injury, close your eyes to survive a snowmobile ride to the top of a glacier when you are afraid of heights, and open a knitting store even if you cannot knit!)

“Students should be encouraged to see the FPT (five paragraph theme) for what it is: a helpful but contrived exercise.”

These little litanies of joy help all of our writing coaches maintain our own enthusiasm, and they remind us...