The Counseling Geek Interview Series: Dr. Erin Mason (@ecmmason)

The Counseling Geek Interview Series: Dr. Erin Mason (@ecmmason)

…nformative and innovate interview. For the last video interview with Rebecca Lallier of School Counseling By Heart, we used Skype to perform the video chat and in the interest of showcasing new software – this time we decided to utilize Google’s new Hangouts. A feature of Google+ and G-Chat, hangouts was an altogether well rounded and easy to use platform. I really hope you enjoy the interview and as always, check out our contributor’s blogs and r…

ANFSCD: ScheduleOnce: Take the work out of setting up meetings!

ANFSCD: ScheduleOnce: Take the work out of setting up meetings!

…with your schedule. As a counselor without a secretary – it makes up for it! Check out a few of the shots below and head to ScheduleOnce to check out what they offer. Sync Program between Google and Outlook The blog author, Jeffrey Ream M.S, PPS, writes for The Counseling Geek. Connect with Jeff via email, Twitter, Google+, and Facebook….

August #SCCHAT Transcript – Supervising School Counseling Interns

August #SCCHAT Transcript – Supervising School Counseling Interns

…Counselor, and blogger at School Counselor Blog, a place where school counselors share innovative ideas, creative lesson plans, and quality resources. Connect with Danielle via email, Twitter, Pinterest, LinkedIn, Google+, and become a fan of the School Counselor Blog Facebook Page. The blog author, Jeffrey Ream M.S, PPS, writes for The Counseling Geek. Connect with Jeff via email, Twitter, Google+, and Facebook….

Streaming Your Counseling Workshops for Awesome Family Engagement

Streaming Your Counseling Workshops for Awesome Family Engagement

…e streaming in the settings after you create your channel. https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2474026?co=GENIE.Platform%3DAndroid&hl=en Setting Up Your Facebook Page For Live Streaming To stream to Facebook (and yes – you can stream to both at the same time if desired) – you will need to create a Facebook Page for your school counseling department. This is simple and has lots of other benefits too – but this will allow you to send your stre…

High School Tips: Running Your First Course Fair

High School Tips: Running Your First Course Fair

…our advisory period by 15 minutes (30 minutes is too short) – I hopped on Google Drawings via Drive and mapped out our gym with the layout of tables and teachers. Google Drawings is a great blank canvas tool you can use for lots of things. It was easy to create a map on it for this purpose. Creating Organizational Media After that plan – I got to work on my go-to digital design too, Canva, and designed large signs for each of our teachers. We hav…

ASCA 2018 Presentation – Make Your School Counseling Program POP with PR and Marketing

ASCA 2018 Presentation – Make Your School Counseling Program POP with PR and Marketing

…the school counseling profession. While the slide deck doesn’t capture everything we covered – it does have some great links and you can get a feel for the presentation. We also collected notes and compiled them into a shared Google Drive folder. You can click here to check that info out too. Want to submit your notes? Share them with me in Google Drive at [email protected] or you can also upload to Dropbox via the second button. Enjoy…

Making The Cut: School Counselor Application Tips and Tricks

Making The Cut: School Counselor Application Tips and Tricks

…he country. I want to share that with you! Below you will find an embedded Google Slides presentation and a link to make a copy of the raw survey results if you want to see it a little more broken down. There is a social locker on these and I hope you consider sharing or following this post to help more people find it – but you can always x out of the box. I do not limit your access if you do not wish to share or follow. Thank you for considering…

The Other Side of the Submit Button: Holding a HS College Admissions Case Study

The Other Side of the Submit Button: Holding a HS College Admissions Case Study

…roups. This event cannot happen without them. We use a short survey (using Google Forms or TypeForm) to garner interest from both the NACAC Engage and the College Admissions Counselors Facebook Group (closed – must request access) – both are excellent resources. In our first year we had about 6 reps attend (which we thought was pretty good for our first go) and since we have had 8. Almost half have been return guests each year and they represent a…

Beg, Borrow and Steal: Form Dump

Beg, Borrow and Steal: Form Dump

…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 create them will be added in the future. Hope you get a few uses out of these forms. (Some are PDF’s so you may have to re-write them in…

Be Data Inspired: Using EzAnalyze TimeTracker to Track School Counseling Time Allocation

Be Data Inspired: Using EzAnalyze TimeTracker to Track School Counseling Time Allocation

…There are a few different ways that I know people track there time – from Google Drive Forms, School Counselor Central, and SCUTA Pro to old school pen and paper – I use a free and, what I see as, user-friendly tool called EzAnalyze TimeTracker. After a brief overview – please check out the video blog embedded below for a demonstration and further details about EzAnalyze TimeTracker (henceforth referred to as TT). ASCA National Model Focused For…