For schools and counselors
Your own workspace for your own students. You decide who you work with, and you never have to work with a community organization.
Free for a high school, a charter network or a district counseling office.
A counselor at Mission Creek High
Your counseling office, on its own terms
01Your students, nobody else's
A school is its own organization here. No community organization can see your caseload or write to your staff.
02Families hear from you
Write to a student or a parent. A parent reads along on their own student's progress.
03Colleges ask, you decide
A university can ask to partner with your school. Say no and nothing changes.
04Names move only with consent
The same rule as everywhere on the platform: staff decide, then the family decides.
- You
Reminder for juniors: transcript requests are due Friday.
- Mr. Quintero, parent
Thank you. Marisol finished hers last night.
- Northfield University
Partnership accepted by you. A shared staff channel is open.
- Northfield University
We would like to invite NAME WITHHELD to a preview day. The request is with the family now.
A school is not a CBO
Community organization
An independent nonprofit that students choose to join. It helps them get to college outside the school day. Its advisors work for the nonprofit, not for a school.
School
The place a student is enrolled: a high school, a charter network or a district counseling office. Its counselors work for the school and serve every student enrolled there.
| Community organization | School | |
|---|---|---|
| Who it is | An independent nonprofit, such as a college access program. | A high school, charter network or district counseling office. |
| How students arrive | They apply or sign up by choice. | They are enrolled there. |
| Who the staff work for | The nonprofit. Often called advisors or coaches. | The school or district. School counselors. |
| Records | Keeps its own student records. A school cannot read them. | Keeps its own student records. A CBO cannot read them. |
| Working together | Can work with universities. Has no link to a school on the platform. | Can work with universities. Never has to work with a CBO. |
| Cost | 500 USD a year. | Free. |
How a school takes part
A school is its own organization here, with its own staff and its own students. It does not join through a community organization and it does not need one.
A community organization cannot see your students, message your staff or send you a partnership request. Universities can ask to partner with you, and you can say no.
What counselors get
- A caseload
- Your students in one list, with what each one has done and what is still open.
- Tasks
- Assign a task to a student or a group and see when it is finished.
- Channels
- Talk with your own team inside the workspace.
- Messages
- Write to a student or a parent directly. Parents can read along on their student's progress.
What stays protected
A school sees its own students and no one else's. A student who is also in a community program has two separate records, and neither side can read the other.
Universities never see a name through a school either. The same four steps apply: a request, a staff decision, a family decision, then a release that can be taken back.
Students under 13 cannot have an account. We never ask for FAFSA, tax or aid documents.
Cost
A school pays nothing. There is no deposit to join the list. We will reach out at launch.
Add your counseling office to the list. It is free.
In the demo you can sign in as a school counselor at a fictional high school.