Counseling Resources

The Individualized Learning Plan (ILP) is a formalized plan and process that helps students develop concrete plans for success in college and careers. It involves students setting goals based on personal, academic and career interests, and meeting with counselors or postsecondary staff to review.

The HS Transition Collaborative Toolkit for Elementary & HS Counselors has been created to address the overwhelming number of requests to distribute information to/from high school and/or elementary counselors!

Planning for H.S.I. Day 2012 is underway. We have several great resources for Counselors and HSI Day Coordinators to assist with planning your H.S.I. Day.

Tools and reference materials that may be helpful to your team's implementation of the 8th grade records transfer process.

There are literally 100's of FAFSA and financial related resources available to you and we can't possibly list them all. Here are some great ones, and if you know of any others that should be listed here, please let us know and we will get them posted here.

To promote preparation for and success in college and career for all students, CPS has designated Oct. 7-15 as Chicago Champions College and Career Week. CEO Jean-Claude Brizard has said: “A high school diploma is just the start – students need education and training beyond high school to have access to America’s middle class.”

Academic Planner

On January 23 CPS will deploy the new online SIM Academic Planner, which will enable High School counselors to view course-specific contributions to satisfying graduation requirements, forecast graduation based on current course load, and identify non-contributing credits.. These system enhancements will provide High School counselors with unprecedented capability to track and guide student progress towards graduation. To successfully leverage the new Academic Planner and understand the associated course conversion impact on High School Transcripts, please familiarize yourself with the information here.

Former Student Records
The Office of Former Student Records maintains student records for the majority of Chicago Public Elementary and High Schools. With written authorization the department can provide a copy of a high school transcript, verify a graduation date from high school, copy of an elementary registration card or medical records.
See http://www.cps.edu/About_CPS/Departments/Pages/StudentRecords.aspx for more information.

Webinars
There are sevaral video recordings from Safari Montage webinars available at CPS Live. Once the video screen opens click the play button (arrow) in the top left corner to start the video.

• http://cpslive.cps.k12.il.us/sml/join.php?id=55e412dc35e10a9f679d97e6e97...
  (this one follows the "Graduation Process Automation Webinar Presentation" listed above.
• http://cpslive.cps.k12.il.us/sml/join.php?id=48a76407f85153956e317d2a5de...
• http://cpslive.cps.k12.il.us/sml/join.php?id=b8ec190dea215d195a6357ca006...

Auto Grad Report
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American School Counselor Association
College Board Counselor’s Page
National Association for College Admission Counseling
Illinois Association for College Admission Counseling
Illinois School Counselor Association

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To assist in developing students who are college and career ready, each high school will be implementing a process for the collection, use, and storing of Social Security Numbers (SSNs). Please refer to the Chicago Public Schools Social Security Number Protection Policy, Section: 102.9, Board Report: 11-0525-PO3 for additional information.

The Chicago Public Schools - Office of Pathways to College and Careers has partnered with The Illinois Student Assistance Commission (ISAC) and Parchment to provide the College Illinois Transcript Exchange, a system powered by Docufide by Parchment, which will enable CPS high school students to request their official transcript online for electronic delivery to thousands of colleges and other destinations.