The Next Steps web banner ads are for use on school websites or to be distributed to community partners (media, libraries, nonprofits, other community organizations) that help students and families plan for the future. There are two ad sets: one for websites students might visit and one for websites parents, families, and educators might visit.
Tools for Educators
Here, you’ll find resources for classroom instruction and resources that may help answer questions you, your students, or their families have as they decide what’s best for their future.
Next Steps Toolkit – Social Media Graphics
Next Steps social media graphics are intended to help schools promote the Next Steps Idaho website using school Facebook pages. There are images for student audiences and for a parent/family audience.
Next Steps Marketing Toolkit
The Next Steps website helps connect students and their families with resources that help students prepare for life after high school. These files, which provide print and digital marketing assets, can help your school or district promote the site and encourage use of Next Steps Idaho by school staff, students, and families.
College-Focused Lesson Plans and Activities
The following resources can assist teachers and other educators as they work to incorporate college awareness into both junior high and high school curricula.
Writing College Essays
Not all colleges require applications essays. but if you, or your students, are applying to a private college or university, chances are good that the process will include submitting either a personal statement or essay to demonstrate writing skills.
Idaho Public TV: Journey to Education
Working with the State Board of Education, Idaho Public Television has produced a series stories from real-life Idaho high school graduates, who talk about how they weighed their options for life after high school and arrived at a decision. These vignettes help give students ideas about some of the choices they might make to continue their education and choose a career.
College and Career Advising Program
The Governor’s Taskforce identified proper college and career advising as one of the key factors for student success at the secondary and postsecondary level and a critical investment in order for Idaho to reach its 60% goal. The College and Career Advising Program provides school districts and charter schools with additional funding to be used to enhance existing programs or develop new research based programs for providing college and career counseling to students in grades 8 through 12.