…I am following Biff’s advice and getting out of town. I will be out of touch, social media, blogging, and email contact for the next month as my wife and I get over to Europe for a much needed vacation. I come back and jump right into work, but my next post will be the second chapter to the Public Speaking for School Counselors Series. I hope you have a good end of your summer breaks and we will see you all in August….
…ars. This first chapter of the Public Speaking: Tips for School Counselors series of posts will focus on how YOU can take easy steps to feel more comfortable on stage and in front of others. The second chapter will transition into tools and techniques for making your presentation more engaging, remember-able, and awesome. Let’s dive in to Chapter 1. Speaking Skills Tip #1 – Find your strength(s) Each person on planet earth is good at something,…
…back that covers a little you can read here and I have some plans to do a series of posts regarding LinkedIn and it’s benefits to School Counselors. But what I really want out of this post is for those school counselors and employees that do use LinkedIn to connect with other professionals – do you or would you connect via LinkedIn with parents of your students? Please sound off in the comments below and also answer the quick poll below. I want a…
…aviance) into my counseling curriculum. You can find the first post of the series here. Since my last post, I have had a few new things come up while building my case for bringing Naviance to my school. I met with my principal and registrar a few weeks ago and had a good discussion with them laying out the great features that Naviance offers. They were both supportive and provided some excellent questions that I had not thought to pose to the sale…
…through the first year of Naviance implementation. This is an update to a series of posts I wrote almost a year ago about my Road to Naviance which are linked to here if you would like to read it for some context. I hope to share some of the cool things that Family Connection has allowed us to do and some things I feel could be improved or better implemented through other means. Short history – when I came to my district (a smaller, rural school…
