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Kevin Wall Guidance Counselor | Building College Partnerships That Outlast the Person Who Started Them
Kevin Wall guidance counselor from Rochester, New York, built college partnerships in Worcester, Massachusetts, that didn’t depend on him being in the room. That’s the test most partnership programs fail. The typical model looks like this: a motivated counselor makes friends with an admissions officer. They set up a few visits. Students get some face…
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Kevin Wall Guidance Counselor | What Communication Studies Actually Prepares You For
Kevin Wall guidance counselor from Rochester, New York, earned his B.S. in Communication Studies from Cazenovia College. It’s the kind of degree people ask about at career fairs. “So, what do you do with that?” The answer, in Wall’s case, is almost everything. The Misunderstood Degree Communication studies is sometimes dismissed as a soft major.…
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Kevin Wall Guidance Counselor | Civic Engagement Isn’t Optional, It’s Infrastructure
Kevin Wall guidance counselor from Rochester, New York, has volunteered on state and federal political campaigns. That’s not a side hobby. It’s an extension of the same work he does in education and community programming: making sure people have access to the systems that affect their lives. Civic engagement gets reduced to voter registration drives…
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Kevin Wall Guidance Counselor | What Residential Program Management Teaches You About People
Kevin Wall guidance counselor from Rochester, New York, once directed community life at a senior living facility in New Hampshire. It’s not the line on a resume most people notice first. But it might be the one that explains the most about how he works. The role involved managing multiple departments, coordinating events, and overseeing…
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Kevin Wall Guidance Counselor | Early College Programs and the Students They’re Built For
Early college high schools exist for a specific reason: to reach students who might not otherwise see college as a realistic option. Kevin Wall guidance counselor from Rochester, New York, worked on the recruitment side of one in Baltimore. He saw what these programs can do when they’re run well and where they fall short…
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Kevin Wall Guidance Counselor | How One Rochester Professional Brought Clean Water to Rural Kenya
In 2022, Kevin Wall traveled to Kenya with The Water Project. Not as a tourist. Not as an observer. He went to help build infrastructure for clean water access in rural communities. The trip was an extension of something Wall had been doing for years: showing up where the work is and figuring out how…
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Kevin Wall Guidance Counselor | The Real Problem With School Counseling Ratios
The American School Counselor Association recommends a ratio of 250 students per counselor. Most states blow past that number without flinching. Kevin Wall guidance counselor from Rochester, New York, worked within that exact ratio at a Worcester, Massachusetts high school and still found it wasn’t enough. Not because he wasn’t working hard. Because the job…
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Kevin Wall Guidance Counselor | What 250 Students Taught One Counselor About College Access
Most guidance counselors will tell you their caseload is too large. Kevin Wall guidance counselor from Rochester, New York, had over 250 students on his roster at a Worcester, Massachusetts high school. He didn’t complain about it. He built a system around it. That system started with partnerships. Wall connected with local colleges, scholarship organizations,…