Streaming Your Counseling Workshops for Awesome Family Engagement
Educators have simple and free ways to help make sure their content is accessible to families through the use of technology. Check out this tutorial to help you go from start to live on Facebook and YouTube to bring your workshops to your families.
15 Minute Tech Tools for School Counselors: The Amazing 6 Part Video Miniseries
A FREE 15 Minute Tech Tools, six-part video tutorial miniseries for school counselors, teachers, and other educators.
The Other Side of the Submit Button: Holding a HS College Admissions Case Study
2018 was the third year that my school hosted our annual College Admissions Case Study event and it was a huge hit for the third year running. Not familiar with a Case Study? Don’t worry – I am going to walk you through what it is and how to run your first one over the next few minutes.
How to Manage Your School Counseling Appointments 2.0
How to Manage Your School Counseling Appointments 2.0 Without going completely crazy in the process. Checkout the 1.0 Version I’ve made some changes. I have long been a proponent and avid user of online scheduling tools in my school counseling practice. For...
Using Canva in your School Counseling Program
Why do I need to worry about graphic design?
School counselors have a lot to offer. Our core curriculum, sharing of data with stake holders, promoting opportunities to students and parents and so much more. We offer so much that it keeps is up to our necks in busy. It’s hard to justify spending time learning and creating interesting graphics to support our efforts and that is understandable. Stick with me today and I hope to show you that spending a little time on your public image and outreach is actually something that is essential to your full success and professionalism.
Introducing my Teachers Pay Teachers store
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!
1 Simple Survey to Help Connect Students with Caring Adults
I want to share with you a step by step guide to creating a tool that we, at my school and other schools in my district, use a ton since we have had it implemented. I cannot take credit for the idea – a colleague in our district had the idea – but I cannot just sit on a great opportunity like this. School counselors know that relationships reign king (or queen) in our line of work. A number of indicators with research backing show that students who feel connected with at least one caring adult at school tend to fare much better. We wanted to capitalize on this fact, but need to know who is or is not connected and with what adults.
Useful and Beautiful: A Simple Guide to School Counseling Websites
Hop on just about any school counseling department’s website and take a look around. 9 times out of 10 – the website looks like it is straight from the turn of the millennium. It also happens to be about as useful. Luckily for you – there are some really easy and FREE tools out there to make your school counseling websites both useful AND beautiful. Check out the video below to learn about how to quickly and easily setup a new website using Weebly.com.
Living In The Cloud: Google Team Drives
I wanted to share a pretty recent feature added to many Google Apps for Education users and districts. Most people are pretty well-aware of the power of Google Drive, but in the last few weeks they actually added some functionality to the platform. This comes in the form of Google Team Drives. The name itself is pretty intuitive and self-explanatory – it allows you the share a common Drive space with your team.
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