by Jeff Ream | Mar 24, 2017 | Featured, counseling, free, teachers
…ted. Grabbed some FREE Pathways to College resources off of The Counseling Geek #scchat Share on X Poster Downloads Senior Year Timeline Poster [ddownload id=”3864″] Downloads: [ddownload_count id=”3864″] Teacher Reminders – Getting Your Seniors to College [ddownload id=”3866″] Downloads: [ddownload_count id=”3866″] Teachers & Counselors: 5 Reasons Students Need YOU To Go To College Poster [ddownload id=”3865″] Downloads: [ddownload_count id=”3865…
by Jeff Ream | Feb 4, 2017 | #scchat, free, school counselor
…Enter to win a Data Inspired shirt from The Counseling Geek during National School Counseling Week 2017!…
by Jeff Ream | Feb 12, 2017 | Featured, ASCA, coursera, deals, learning, learning software, pro-d, professional development, school counselor
…n any of the ASCA U programs? What were your thoughts? Please comment below to help other readers and share with me. Geek on!…
by Jeff Ream | Dec 13, 2016 | Featured
…g is step 2. I suppose this is purely optional, but this is The Counseling Geek. We fine tune everything. Once we have the basics set up from Step 1 – we can head over to the Manage tab (see image to the right). On the manage tab – we can do a lot of neat things. The first place I go is the “Order Form” section. This lets you customize the information you collect (because we are all data-inspired school counselors right?). I usually limit the info…
by Jeff Ream | Dec 12, 2015 | ASCA, Featured, School Counselor Community Scholarship
…box Thank you for supporting SC|CS 2016. *Note: SC|CS 2016, The Counseling Geek, and/or The Middle School Counselor are not officially endorsing (we do think it is a neat resource), guaranteeing or in a business relationship with Rick Trow, The Career Game or any of their associates. Funds are not in return for a service, but sent as a gift to SC|CS 2016 from proceeds brought in by this post and online outreach. SC|CS 2016 donations are accepted t…
by Jeff Ream | Dec 7, 2015 | #scchat, automation, Branding, Counseling Tech, Featured, free, technology, tips, tools
…go nuts with what you want to put into your signature. If you are a super geek – you can even HTML code your own custom. Just don’t be this guy with your signature by adding 50 different things that are not useful…. My favorites Some of my favorite features include the ability to add images (pick small ones and be sure to try to add a link if possible – this may be more advanced for some of you). In the below example of my work signature – you ca…
by Jeff Ream | Nov 7, 2015 | Building A Better Blog Series, Featured, school counselor
…rdPress site. Part of my subscription (see costs of running The Counseling Geek) includes access to a few great plugins including Monarch (a social media tool) and Bloom (an opt-in tool). I use both, but Bloom is helpful for helping visitors connect to your email list. You have many different options to integrate Bloom into your site – from sidebar widgets to pop up or inline content. There are other WordPress plugins that do similar things if you…
by Jeff Ream | Nov 1, 2015 | activity, classroom tools, Featured, school counselor, tips, tools
…ided to post a curriculum I patched together at work to the The Counseling Geek. At the beginning of the school year, following ASCA 2015, I made a personal goal to run some groups this year. One of our major school wide goals was to decrease the D and F list (and thereby help to improve the number of students meeting the CSU/UC A-G Requirements) so my group is designed to be a short term, academically focused intervention. I chose the time frame…
by Jeff Ream | Jul 17, 2015 | Featured, Presentation, tips
…nd presentations for school counselors. Want to get all the new Counseling Geek posts straight to your inbox? Scroll down and complete the registration below with an email address and anytime a new post is published the week prior – you will get an email digest on the following Monday morning. “If you don’t know what you want to achieve in your presentation your audience never will.” Enlist the help of a trusted colleague or friend. Have them sit…
by Jeff Ream | Jul 7, 2015 | Featured
…Over the next week or two – I will be making some changes to the site. The site will be up and down over that time. When it is public – it will not be in “full display mode”. I will make an announcement and update this post when the site is re-published! Happy summer!…