by Jeff Ream | Oct 2, 2012 | 21st century skills, Counseling Tech, geek, learning software, Naviance, school counselor, technology, thecounselinggeek
…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 sales rep. While this was happe…
by Jeff Ream | Jun 8, 2013 | ASCA, ASCA 13, counseling, geek, jeffrey ream, RAMP, school counselor, support, teachers, thecounselinggeek, tips
…ermine if it is effective. Try not to take it personally. I hope that this post and reflection from my experience of getting the beginning stages of an advisory counsel up and running was helpful. I will try to update or post a follow up at a later date with info about how the next year goes. If you have questions or have experience with an advisory council (either running or sitting on), I would love to hear it. Please share in the comments or sh…
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
…2nd counselor and helped me tremendously. 3. ScheduleOnce – I wrote a blog post about this scheduling software, but being an only counselor and not having a dedicated secretary, I need to organize my time effectively. This tool allows students and parents to request time slots for appointments and syncs it with my Google Calendar. Having only done it once before at my site, I imagine it will be pretty similar. I usually hold grade level meetings a…
by Jeff Ream | Apr 2, 2014 | 21st century skills, ASCA14, Counseling Tech, Featured, professional development, technology, tutorial, video blog, YouTube
…ready to take your YouTube-ing to the next level – check out the follow-up post here) This blog post will be discussing YouTube and all the power that it provides to school counselors everywhere. From morning school announcements to recording parent nights, the power of YouTube is unquestionable. As one of the most popular websites around the world, YouTube has created a huge name for itself in entertainment, education, and broadcast. Did you know…
by Jeff Ream | Apr 30, 2020 | automation, Counseling Tech, counseling technology series, Featured, learning, professional development, school counselor, technology, tips, tools, video blog
…Counseling Interesting with Canva Ep 3: Saving Time with Screencasting Ep 4: Easy Website Creation with Weebly Ep 5: Managing Your Appointments Digitally Ep 6: Gmail Efficiency Hacks – Tricks for your Inbox I’ve got blog posts too! If you enjoyed the videos – several also have blog posts that are a great accompanyment to the video tutorial if you wish to check out the write up. Just click the button below to go to the approparite post….
by Jeff Ream | Aug 9, 2017 | Featured, #scchat, Back to School, buy, classroom tools, Counseling Tech, deals, donate, items, learning, pro-d, professional development, school counselor, School Counselor Community Scholarship, School Counselor Shopping List, teachers, technology, tools
…ay from this site. I commit to still bring most of the things I create and post here for free. Even if something will be on TpT, I likely will post many things here for free for a limited time. I think it is important to provide these free resources to you. However, running a blog is expensive. I also have a scholarship I hope to growI also have a scholarship I hope to grow and this TpT store (plus The School Counselor Shop, TeeSpring and RedBubbl…
by Jeff Ream | May 10, 2016 | Featured, job hunt, jobs, research, resume, school counselor, teachers, tips
…pening for me and helped me hone my interview approach. Please check those posts out and let me know what you think. This post, however, will focus on demystifying the interview process. From the pre-interview to the post-interview stage — what kind of time, conversation and effort goes into finding the perfect candidate. [adrotate group=”1″] 1. An application. 2. A connection. Job-interviewing is just a skill. Like any skill, some people have mor…
by Jeff Ream | Mar 28, 2016 | Bits & Bytes, #scchat, Featured, school counselor, teachers
…ng A New Post Series Hi fellow Geeks. I am adding a new, ongoing series of posts that I am calling the Bits & Bytes series. I want to post more frequently and some of my more typical, long form posts take both time to develop and sit down and write. So it sometimes is a while between posts. I am adding this series to hopefully share some thoughts, reflections, insights, challenges and hopefully a slight amount of wisdom. These Bits & Bytes are pos…
by Jeff Ream | Jan 21, 2016 | #scchat, buy, Featured, free, school counselor, School Counselor Shopping List, shopping, tips
…op and love my dual monitor setup for productivity and ease of use. I will post an update of why dual monitors rock soon but check out this flashback post to learn more. Up until Christmas break – I had been using my laptop as one of my two monitors, but I recently moved another monitor from home to work and had two (closely) matching monitors to use at work. This let me do one important thing. Move my laptop into a vertical stand. This is a stand…
by Jeff Ream | Jan 2, 2016 | #scchat, Counseling Tech, counseling technology series, Featured, free, Marketing, social networking, technology, tips, tools
…e scary – but it doesn’t have to be with the right attitude . Through this post – I will share 10 insanely easy ways to start infusing technology within your active school counseling program. This is not starting a fad diet, telling you to stop what you are doing that works or that you have to give up your paper and pencil calendar cold turkey. Each of these tips can be taken and started where ever your comfort level lies on the technology continu…
