by Jeff Ream | Jul 30, 2013 | 21st century skills, Back to School, calendar, Counseling Tech, dropbox, google docs, Linky Party, school counseling on air, SCOA, technology, tips
…ben’s blog School Counselor Space and get in on the fun. It is basically a series of questions that you, as a blogger, answer along with many other writers. After heading home from ASCA 2013, I am connected to so many new people – I am going to be making more of an effort to participate and reflect on as many other blogs as I can possibly digest. My contract is based on the teacher’s pay and time scale, but I do have an extra 15 days on top of the…
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by Jeff Ream | Feb 1, 2014 | #scchat, ASCA 2014, ASCA14, Collaboration, contest, counseling, Counseling Tech, donate, donation, free, scholarship
…lease follow the final submission instructions to finish. – Digital Poster Series: Create a series of 3-5 posters that counselors can post around their schools. Should be 8.5×11 or Legal paper size and have a common theme. Final images to be submitted in .pdf or .jpeg format. – Song with a Message: Create an original or rendition of a song and record sound or video with sound of your song that gets an important message about school counseling acro…
by Jeff Ream | Mar 19, 2014 | #scchat, 21st century skills, ASCA 2014, ASCA14, Branding, CASC, counseling, Counseling Tech, Marketing, Presentation, school counselor, thecounselinggeek
…rk” Jeremy Goldman and I are glad to be privileged with writing a two part series of articles focused on Branding and Marketing Your School Counseling Programs for the ASCA School Counselor Magazine. Part one was just published and paper copies are on their way to you as we speak, but the electronic version is now out (linked below). At our ASCA 2014 conference session, we will be building on these two articles and going further in depth with prac…
by Jeff Ream | Apr 30, 2020 | automation, Counseling Tech, counseling technology series, Featured, learning, professional development, school counselor, technology, tips, tools, video blog
…lete box set of the FREE 15 Minute Tech Tools, six part video tutorial miniseries for school counselors, teachers and other educators. I know that most of us are usually busy, be it with work or life. I noticed a plethora (50 cent word right there) of professional development resource available (check out CASC/WSCA’s resource page if you haven’t yet: https://covid19k12counseling.org/), but many of them were at least an hour long, if not more. Some…
by Jeff Ream | Dec 25, 2017 | Featured, school counselor, School Counselor Shopping List, shopping, thanks
…School Counseling Week. For other great shopping ideas – check out my post series titled School Counselor Shopping Lists! And if none of these things seems like a good fit – it’s hard to go wrong with an Amazon Gift Card! ASCA also has great gifts and resources to celebrate your school counselors. (Note: some items contain affiliate links which provide a small percentage back to this blog at no cost to you for the referral) Books Shirts, hats, mug…
by Jeff Ream | Dec 5, 2018 | counseling, Featured, free, school counselor, teachers, technology, tips
…during the admission committee review. You can think of it similar to the series I posted on the other side of the job application process – letting people see past the mysterious veil that hides the behind the scenes steps. Often there are many assumptions and false beliefs that exist about college admissions, so this event helps families see how difficult the process actually is and that (spoiler alert) it is not always the candidate that has t…
by Jeff Ream | Feb 12, 2017 | Featured, ASCA, coursera, deals, learning, learning software, pro-d, professional development, school counselor
…ing of readings with several quizzes of 15-30 questions after each book or series of readings (the total number of quizzes vary by program and you do get to try again if you do not pass for some reason) and I have had luck getting these to count for about 3 units on my salary schedule. After 2/28/17 the price goes up to $99 (which is still cheap!). You CAN register for several by that date and complete them throughout the year or longer. Just no…
by Jeff Ream | Feb 4, 2017 | Featured, free, school counselor, tools
Lots of tools – little writing I am starting a new series I will re-visit throughout upcoming years called Beg, Borrow and Steal. This will be resource rich posts with limited reading required. I hate having to recreate the wheel so here are some forms that I have created for my school counseling program that you can…Beg, Borrow and Steal from. Get it? No attribution needed. The folder is my live Google Drive folder where additional forms as I cr…
by Jeff Ream | Sep 17, 2016 | Featured, video blog
…ve. We have used Google’s Hangouts on Air for our School Counseling On Air series a few years back, which I think is due for a return in this coming school year. This tool allows us to collaborate, and in my instance, share information live with anyone that has internet connectivity. In the video below (recorded WITH YouTube Live and the Hangouts feature), I will show you the basic requirements and how easy it is to set up. There are a few require…
by Jeff Ream | Jul 23, 2016 | Featured, school counselor, School Counselor Shopping List, shopping
…e the last School Counselor Shopping List of the 15-16 year with you. This series about products that I have purchased myself and love. I want to share the personal experience and pass on the goodies to you too! (Please note – most of the item links below are affiliate links. These provide a small % back to the referring party (me) for sending business but cost the customer (you) nothing and you get the same price! This is what I use to pay the co…
