by Jeff Ream | Mar 29, 2015 | Counseling Tech, Featured, Naviance, school counselor, technology, tools
…The Road to Naviance: Part 3 – Training The Road to Naviance – A One Year Review Going on year three – we are starting to see results! To be fair and completely honest – my school is really only at about year 1.5 of true implementation school-wide. However, in that one and a half years, we have made some good strides towards students engagement, figuring out how to use the different features to the full potential, and beginning to hit some target…
by Jeff Ream | May 17, 2014 | Featured
…the tool is how action oriented it is. You can create categories and then label them as “decision” “action” “info” etc. This lets people reviewing minutes later have a much more streamlined approach to find out what needs to happen. From that, you can also assign specific people to tasks and give them a deadline all within the same line. At the end of the meeting, if you have added all members names and email addresses to the meeting, all you nee…
by Jeff Ream | May 10, 2016 | Featured, job hunt, jobs, research, resume, school counselor, teachers, tips
…making process. After going through the interview process – the panel will review these rankings and, in many cases, give each candidate an overall progressive ranking. In my district – we get to the end of a VERY long day and each panel member has rated each person interviewed. Those rankings are all added to a matrix and the numbers added together to give us an average rating. The bottom candidates are almost always eliminated right away. Interv…
by Jeff Ream | Jun 6, 2015 | box.com, Counseling Tech, dropbox, Featured, google docs, technology, tips, warnings
…nd accounts seems basic, but something that should be covered each year in review and with every new hire in-depth. This covers things like strong passwords, yearly password changes, settings related to shared documents and folders, to simple things like CC and BCC settings in email and forwarding emails with content to people who shouldn’t have access to that info. Don’t skip this because it seems simple or redundant. Regularly check your sharing…
by Jeff Ream | Feb 23, 2014 | buy, counseling, Counseling Tech, items, School Counselor Shopping List, shopping, teachers, technology, tips
…is not a replacement for being there and getting to ask questions. Overall review – it is a good buy for the money. You can spend as much or as little on a camera as you like, but from my review research and working with some of our audio visual inclined students – this was the one for the job. Records in full HD quality and microphone works well enough to put at the back of an auditorium and get the presentation (use a microphone though!) audio j…
by Jeff Ream | Jul 25, 2025 | Featured
…rch on family involvement and school-based approaches Direct links to peer-reviewed studies from 2023-2024 Professional Impact Within minutes, you possess current research to inform intervention planning, credible sources to share with parents and teachers, and confidence in your professional recommendations. The real-time sourcing ensures you’re implementing cutting-edge strategies rather than relying on historical approaches. Middle School Maste…
by Jeff Ream | May 2, 2019 | Featured
…n how bad it really is – check out this article from Nonpartisan Education Review. Prepare to be disgusted. It’s time to call it what it is – you are a company focused on your bottom line and not much more. Stop painting the pig. 4. You hassle educators for helping kids. Proof to some of the above is the amount of time you spend making sure that no school gets too many fee waivers. Sheesh! You should be handing out fee waivers (and trusting that…
by Jeff Ream | Dec 20, 2017 | Featured, free, school counselor, tips, tools
…point to write 2-3 letters per day. As I meet with students and parents or review data – I often find things I notice that do not always make it’s way to students. Or I will have met with a student and want to remind them of their goal or focus a few days later. One addition I have made this year is to spend about 10 minutes a day (not always at one time) to write short notes home to students. I try to highlight things we discussed, gains they hav…
by Jeff Ream | Aug 12, 2016 | Featured, Collaboration, counseling, school counselor, tips
…ack data. Start collecting data from the beginning. How many cases did you review? What were the outcomes? How many successful referrals to mental health support? Grades of cases studied. All things will help not only you improve your counseling program, but also back up these meetings. Remember that you are dealing with confidential information so be careful with your data tracking. Go for it! I hope that you decide to go for it! I have found it…
by Jeff Ream | May 13, 2015
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