1. Improving Advising for First Generation College Students at Independent Schools
Facilitated by Nicole Yeftich
College Support Coordinator at KIPP Baltimore
Panelists: Daymond Cooper, Liz Hirsch, and Jen Pineau

2. Session Agenda
Introductions & Opening Activity Alumni Testimony Panel Sharing Discussion Scenario Activities Reflection & Next Steps

3. TURN AND TALK: Pair up with someone sitting nearby
TURN AND TALK: Pair up with someone sitting nearby. Choose one of the questions below and share your thoughts with each other about it.
What’s one thing about the college application process that might be more complicated for first generation students at independent high schools?
What are two things we assume students know about the college and financial aid processes?

4. Alumni Testimony: Daymond Cooper
December 4, | 4

5. Coordinated Programming
Panel Sharing
Individual Advising
Coordinated Programming
School-Wide Practices
December 4, | 5

6. Conversation and Questions

7. Scenario Activity
Organize yourselves in groups of three. Each person in your group should have a different scenario.
Take turns role playing each of the three scenarios. Each person should have a chance to be the counselor, the student, and the observer.
Provide feedback in your group.
Prepare to share out insights and lingering questions/issues.
December 4, | 7

8. Personal Reflections and Next Steps
What is something that I can do today to affect my work with students?
What is something about which I need to find out more?
What is something that I can strive to do for the next school year?
December 4, | 8

9. Thank you!