myOptions Encourage is a free college & career program for busy educators. Get reports to focus your efforts, ongoing resources, and continual support for your students with our mobile app.
Every year more than 20,000 educators use myOptions Encourage to serve about 1 million students across 5,000 school districts and 13,000 high schools in all 50 states.
We believe all students—regardless of background, income, or zip code—should have access to free and robust college and career planning tools.
The no cost myOptions Encourage program complements the critical college and career work you do each week, month, and quarter. It supports your students outside of 1:1 meetings.
Students have the option of being contacted by our network of 2,000 partnering colleges and universities looking for students like them. This network allows us to offer the program for free and provides previously unknown or out-of-reach opportunities, making college more accessible.
"Encourage helps me understand what colleges would best fit me and what majors they have to offer so I know what college would be best for my future professions. A college has also reached out to me via email and showed interest in me as a future student."Arkansas
The college, scholarship, and career data in the Encourage app comes from respected national sources including SuperCollege, O*NET, and IPEDS so you can rest assured your students are making decisions based on credible information.
Use the Encourage app to structure the big conversations about college – including career and college exploration, financial planning, and more.
Our free lesson plans include ideas for in-class interactive activities and our family guide is a resource to provide to families to guide conversations with their student(s).
As a partner organization, you can customize questions on the college and career preference form for students and educators in your network. myOptions Encourage will add your results to an interactive dashboard with comparative local, state, and national data to inform:
We'd love to connect, demonstrate our tools, and show the suite of resources available to students and educators. Complete the form below to reach out to our team!
Melissa Caperton Senior Director of Education
Peggy Jansen Educator Liaison
Melanie Goodson Partnerships ManagermyOptions Encourage is a free college and career planning program providing streamlined resources to broaden your impact and enhance your efforts in guiding all students toward their paths after high school. myOptions Encourage serves about 1 million students annually across 5,000 school districts and 13,000 high schools in all 50 states.
Encourage is the name of our free college and career planning app for students. Find it online through your browser, on iOS and Android.
Students with the Encourage app have the option of being contacted by our network of partnering colleges and universities looking for students like them. This network allows us to offer the program for free and provides previously unknown or out-of-reach opportunities, making college more accessible.
Students can control their recruiting preferences at any time and the app experience is the same whether they are included in recruitment or not.
