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Introducing my Teachers Pay Teachers store

by Jeff Ream | Aug 9, 2017 | #scchat, Back to School, buy, classroom tools, Counseling Tech, deals, donate, Featured, items, learning, pro-d, professional development, school counselor, School Counselor Community Scholarship, School Counselor Shopping List, teachers, technology, tools

Guess what? I started a Teachers Pay Teachers store. Come check it out and be sure to follow me there for all the latest updates and products!

8 Blogs Every School Counselor Needs to Follow

by Jeff Ream | Aug 8, 2017 | #scchat, Back to School, counseling, Featured, learning, professional development, school counselor, social networking, tips, tools

I went ahead and did a little heavy lifting for you and listed 15 of my favorite school counseling blogs below (in no particular order). If you have a favorite blog that is not on the list – please add it to the comments at the end to help myself and the readers find all the good stuff. Enjoy!

ASCA Specialist Certificate Programs: A Review

by Jeff Ream | Feb 12, 2017 | ASCA, coursera, deals, Featured, learning, learning software, pro-d, professional development, school counselor

Perusing Facebook and Twitter – I see more and more questions about the growing list of School Counselor Specialist Certificate programs offered by The American School Counselor Association’s ASCA U. Questions range from “is it worth the money and time” to “how much did you learn from the program” – I will aim to answer both about the two I have completed and the one I am delving into in a few months.

Branding and Marketing Your School Counseling Programs – Coming to #ASCA14

by Jeff Ream | Nov 13, 2013 | ASCA, ASCA14, Branding, Collaboration, counseling, jeffrey ream, learning, Marketing, Presentation, pro-d, professional development, Save The Date, school counselor, thecounselinggeek, tools

Come and meet Jeremy Goldman and I at this year’s ASCA National Conference as we present about Branding and Marketing Your School Counseling Program on June 30th 2014 at 9am. We look forward to presenting a visually stimulating, professionally encouraging, and...

The Counseling Geek Interview Series: @SchCslgByHeart

by Jeff Ream | Aug 8, 2012 | 21st century skills, counseling, Counseling Tech, interview, Interview Series, learning, professional development, school counselor, tips

This is the second edition of TCG Interview Series and with this post, I debut the first video interview. I was privledged to get to sit down with Rebecca Lallier (@SchCslgByHeart), writer of School Counseling By Heart and a PSC for 17 years. Please check out her...

Professional Development: Coursera — Courses for Everyone

by Jeff Ream | Jul 3, 2012 | 21st century skills, coursera, free, geek, jeffrey ream, learning, learning software, pro-d, professional development, teachers, technology, thecounselinggeek, tutorial, video blog

Power-Up your Pro-DThis week’s entry will be a video blog help you learn how to utilize, navigate, and maximize your learning through Coursera.org. Coursera is an online learning community that collaborates with top Universities like Stanford and Princeton to...

The Portal to Learning: ‘Steam for Schools’ at your school

by Jeff Ream | Jun 26, 2012 | 21st century skills, activity, classroom tools, counseling, free, games, geek, learning, learning software, news, pro-d, professional development, school counselor, STEM, teachers, technology, thecounselinggeek, tips

Portal 2 is coming to the classroom:Valve, the creators of games like Half-Life, Counter-Strike, and Portal, has launched it’s “STEAM for SCHOOLS” program and I think it is something to check out! Valve has adapted its...

Help Me – Help You!

by Jeff Ream | Jun 21, 2012 | 21st century skills, ANFSCD, counseling, donate, free, fundraising, geek, jeffrey ream, learning, pro-d, professional development, school counselor, support, technology, thecounselinggeek

Fundraising For You!Update (7/30): We have raised $290 (as of 7/30/12) with $2610 to go to reach my goal. Remember, that all funds go towards YOU — the counselors/educators. If we reach the goal, we fund a Pro-D workshop for a district — if we fall short,...

School Counseling Technology Series: Dropbox

by Jeff Ream | Jun 21, 2012 | 21st century skills, counseling, counseling technology series, dropbox, free, geek, jeffrey ream, learning, school counselor, technology, thecounselinggeek, tutorial

Cloud-based file storage wünderkind!

I have been using Dropbox for almost two years now, in both my professional and personal life. I use it so much that I now rarely store any documents on my local “My Docuements” folder, but most everything goes into Dropbox. Started in 2007 by MIT graduates, it quickly gained a strong following. They run on the “Freemium” model, which grants new users a free allocation of 2GB of cloud based storage. Users are able to earn more storage by referring new users and through other, more fun events they stage throughout the year. Last year, they held a large scavenger hunt throughout the internet for prizes and free storage space. Overall, it is a strong model and many companies are starting to implement this structure.

Professional Development: The use it or lose it phenomenon.

by Jeff Ream | Jun 19, 2012 | activity, counseling, coursera, free, geek, jeffrey ream, learning, pro-d, professional development, school counselor, thecounselinggeek, tips

How many times do we tell our students to keep pursuing their educations and use words like “lifelong learners”? I would venture a pretty safe guess of at least daily if not many times a day. This is sound advice and one that we should be working our hardest to plant in our students minds, but I feel that educators often conveniently remove themselves from this goal/requirement. Why should we get the free pass on continuing to enlarge our knowledge base? Why do we think that, when we have gotten our credentials, masters degrees, or doctorates, our brains are suddenly saturated and cannot hold any more information or else it will go into overload mode? It amazes me the lengths some (note: I say some, most people reading this blog are not of this group) educators will go to avoid having to continue learning. (More after the page break!)