Save the Date: 2025 ConferenceOur 12th annual conference is coming to Champaign, Illinois! Please mark your calendars today and plan to join us on Tuesday, February 25, 2025, at the I-Hotel and Illinois Convention Center. >> Add a save the date to your calendar      
|  has an urgent request for information. ISAC is currently offering funding to compensate school counselors or other school staff to work with ISAC to host outreach and completion efforts during the summer to continue to assist students. Over 16,000 fewer graduating high school seniors completed a FAFSA in 2024 than in 2023. Research shows that students who leave high school disconnected from postsecondary education are far less likely to ever get connected to and complete any form of postsecondary education.>> Interested in participating? Sign up at surveymonkey.com/r/FAFSACampaign>> Questions? Email isac.summerfafsa@illinois.govPaCE Curriculum TrainingAugust 15, 8 a.m.–12 p.m. @ Illinois Valley Community CollegeAttend a free, in-person training from ISAC on the recently developed Illinois Postsecondary and Career Expectations (PaCE) Curriculum for 6th through 8th grade. Learn how student engagement with the curriculum helps meet the Illinois PaCE benchmarks for middle school and about the structure and content of the curriculum. This training is open to both middle and high school practitioners. Registration is now open (registration closes on August 12, 2024, or when full capacity is reached). Please share this opportunity with your networks.>> Register now on the Upcoming Professional Development Offerings webpageIllinois Work-Based Learning 101September 3, 12–1 p.m.Kick off the school year with an introduction to work-based learning fundamentals. This free webinar from EdSystems will help you better understand the resources and communities available to support work-based learning practitioners. >> Register nowEssential Skills and Career Exploration: Empowering K-12 Students for the FutureSeptember 10, 10–11 a.m.Join EdSystems at a free webinar to learn about new resources to support work-based learning practitioners in designing career exploration activities and embedding essential employability competencies. >> Register nowSave the Date: 2025 ConferenceOur 12th annual conference is coming to Champaign, Illinois! Please mark your calendars today and plan to join us on Tuesday, February 25, 2025, at the I-Hotel and Illinois Convention Center.>> Add a save the date to your calendarThe Illinois Education and Career Success Network Organizers: &source=https://dmluoj0wft2i7.cloudfront.net/thumbnails/media_slide_16x9/cdn/images/66ba638b261b0.jpg "LinkedIn")
 has an urgent request for information. ISAC is currently offering funding to compensate school counselors or other school staff to work with ISAC to host outreach and completion efforts during the summer to continue to assist students. Over 16,000 fewer graduating high school seniors completed a FAFSA in 2024 than in 2023. Research shows that students who leave high school disconnected from postsecondary education are far less likely to ever get connected to and complete any form of postsecondary education.>> Interested in participating? Sign up at surveymonkey.com/r/FAFSACampaign>> Questions? Email isac.summerfafsa@illinois.govPaCE Curriculum TrainingAugust 15, 8 a.m.–12 p.m. @ Illinois Valley Community CollegeAttend a free, in-person training from ISAC on the recently developed Illinois Postsecondary and Career Expectations (PaCE) Curriculum for 6th through 8th grade. Learn how student engagement with the curriculum helps meet the Illinois PaCE benchmarks for middle school and about the structure and content of the curriculum. This training is open to both middle and high school practitioners. Registration is now open (registration closes on August 12, 2024, or when full capacity is reached). Please share this opportunity with your networks.>> Register now on the Upcoming Professional Development Offerings webpageIllinois Work-Based Learning 101September 3, 12–1 p.m.Kick off the school year with an introduction to work-based learning fundamentals. This free webinar from EdSystems will help you better understand the resources and communities available to support work-based learning practitioners. >> Register nowEssential Skills and Career Exploration: Empowering K-12 Students for the FutureSeptember 10, 10–11 a.m.Join EdSystems at a free webinar to learn about new resources to support work-based learning practitioners in designing career exploration activities and embedding essential employability competencies. >> Register nowSave the Date: 2025 ConferenceOur 12th annual conference is coming to Champaign, Illinois! Please mark your calendars today and plan to join us on Tuesday, February 25, 2025, at the I-Hotel and Illinois Convention Center.>> Add a save the date to your calendarThe Illinois Education and Career Success Network Organizers: "Facebook")