We’ve been really busy over the last month. We attended our semi-annual IECA conference and boy was it jam-packed with incredible seminars, updates on schools, colleges and programs!
At the IECA conference, we shared information with our colleagues and Claire and Chip Law organized and presented information on College Financial Aid in a preconference workshop. We proved that we really know our stuff when it comes to understanding the difference between a college’s sticker price and the true net cost to families. This a major factor in determining affordability and its impact on college choice. Educational Avenues will be giving free seminars late this year and into 2010 to help families understand where their student can get in for an affordable price.
As an introduction to her upcoming book Find the Perfect College for You, Claire Law presented ways for her colleagues to determine their personality type and how personality type applies to the Educational Avenues process when helping students find their best college match.
Claire Law worked on the IECA conference committee and secured the appearance and introduced the conference keynote speaker, Nido Qubien, who is currently the president of High Point University and among many other notable things, is known internationally as one of the top speakers in the world, as well as a successful business executive and philanthropist. Qubien presented his formula for success to the IECA conference attendees.
As usual the conference provided us with incredible learning opportunities. Daniel Pink, author of A Whole New Mind gave us a very compelling argument about how our educational focus and training needs to change radically and quickly. Only those that embrace change, develop the cultivation of right brain skills which include creativity, innovation and critical thinking will have mastery over the exciting yet unknown opportunities and challenges we face in the future.
The conference concluded with an absolutely fascinating master class that covered the essence of addiction in a developing young adult. The material presented by Jeffrey Georgi, a clinical faculty member of the Duke Medical School and the Duke Addictions Program was both enlightening and frightening. We at Educational Avenues plan to help our families fully understand the nature of this disease by providing factual data, resources and advice on how the family system needs to become a stronghold of support for the prevention and/or treatment of this corrosive malady.
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