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How to Implement the ‘Get Focused’/Freshman Transition Course Using the Career Choices Series
Strategies and Resources to Ensure Success for Your Comprehensive Guidance Course

October 24–25, 2023

Come to picturesque Santa Barbara and join us at the historic La Cumbre Country Club for two days of exploration, inspiration, and innovative strategies related to implementing the Career Choices.


Explore new frontiers in education, exchange ideas, evaluate approaches, and learn how to develop plans and create the kind of models that work best in your school, for your students.

While the training revolves around the Career Choices series curriculum, the trainer will also discuss project-based learning techniques, team teaching tactics, curriculum integration models, and dropout prevention strategies.


October 24–25, 2023

  • Successfully teach the Career Choices series curriculum and adapt it to meet your classroom goals
  • Integrate career and life planning thematically into the academic classroom
  • Motivate students with relevant exercises and activities
  • Help 8th and 9th grade students make a successful transition into high school and plan for post-secondary education or training
  • Help students understand the impact education and training can have on their future life satisfaction
  • Help every student involved develop a 10-Year Plan
  • Practical strategies for using each student's plan to improve advisory and academic coaching functions
  • Tap into special funding opportunities and community resources

  • Proven college and career readiness, dropout prevention, and college completion strategies
  • A curriculum that helps students recognize the value of education and understand the importance of completing the post-secondary certifications and/or degrees needed to support the lifestyle they want
  • The Standards for a Freshman Transition Course from The George Washington University
  • An understanding of the Get Focused...Stay Focused!® program model

$295 per person

Special rate of $245 per person when you register a team of three or more!

Address: 4015 Via Laguna, Santa Barbara, CA 93110

Meeting Room: Riviera Room

Parking tips:
- When you arrive, drive to the uppermost part of the parking lot.
- The workshop will be held in the one-story clubhouse (on the ocean side of the pool).

La Cumbre Country Club is nestled between the Pacific Ocean and the Santa Ynez Mountains in the historic Hope Ranch hideaway. This oasis of serenity provides an excellent atmosphere for learning and collaboration.



How to Implement the ‘Get Focused’/Freshman
Transition Course Using the Career Choices Series

Strategies and Resources to Ensure Success for Your Comprehensive Guidance Course

La Cumbre Country Club

4015 Via Laguna, Santa Barbara, CA 93110


October 24–25, 2023