2015-2016 Counseling Geek Financial Year In Review
…Come and take a look at the ins and outs of running The Counseling Geek. Mostly financial outs this year, but take a look at where things are going and coming in….
Stand Out From The Crowd: One Simple Tool To Give Your Emails Pizzazz
…ff, words of thanks, request, or thanks from parents and a few emails that look something like… hey Ream Chico wants my transcripts. sEnd them now pls ~ [email protected] First off – I don’t know who [email protected] is. Second off – I need to do some classroom guidance on professional email correspondence or this kid is going to get fired. Needless to say – email is an embedded part of our every day personal and working…
Public Speaking Tips for School Counselors: Finding Your Strength
…have a short list of the good and bad of your public speaking experience. Look at that list – do any of the good correlate to the not so good? Can you find any themes between the two columns? For example: all my good things are related to the PowerPoint design, but the bad is all related to my speaking. We can use these areas of growth (remember how we phrase things makes a big difference — At Risk or At Promise?) to guide our next steps of devel…
NVSCA 2015 – How to NOT be a leader & Time Saving Tech Tools for School Counselor Sanity Presentations
…In the breakout session focused on school counselor technology, we took a look at about 8 tech tools that help school counselors save time and be more efficient. Below are the slides from each presentation. How to NOT Be A Leader – Jeff Ream NVSCA 2015 Time Saving Tech Tools for School Counselor Sanity – Jeff Ream NVSCA 2015 I love getting to speak at different events. Please see my professional portfolio or my speaking page for info on past topi…
What Next When Marketing and Communication Fails?
…are concerned about privacy and didn’t feel like coming and having parents look over our shoulder”. That tells me I need to keep an eye out and make effort to comfort parents that it is held in an area where I do my best to make all things confidential with space between stations and such. If you feel you failed or you got that “bad data” – re-look at your approach. One thing as simple as not touching on privacy or picking a different time can dra…
Looking Back at 2014: A School Counselor’s Blog Post Year In Review
…ake from it what you will! While each person’s style is their own and what looks good on Hugh Jackman may (or most likely) not be what looks good on me – you can take some great tips for finding high quality clothing for less! Read about how the guys can dress well here: Dress The Part Increasing Productivity: How Dual Monitors Changed My Life Did you know that there have been multiple studies showing the increased efficiency and productivity thro…
Read: Insight from Awesome School Counselors – Interview & Applicant Essentials
…ve pressing questions for people in the job market and what counselors are looking for when interviewing for new hires. Thank you to all my friends who took the time to answer some of the questions – many from #scchat on Twitter and my fellow board members at CASC. I picked a few answers from each that you can look through below for tips and advice. [Tweet “Getting #schoolcounselor interview advice from wise counselors around the US #scchat”] If y…
2012: My Favorite Posts of the Year
…t tends to happen around this time of year. I wanted to provide you with a look back at several of my favorite posts from other bloggers as well as a few of my own. There will be a link and a snippet from the post here, but please visit the full article! Without further ado… 1. Shepherding the Flock: Supporting New School Counselors Darrell Sampson – From The Counselor’s Office Think back to when you first started your job as a school counselor….
ASCA 2013 and My July Recap
…they are at. Getting connected with some of these teens has barriers that look like “what do you know, you are <insert color, economic status, or religion here>“, “you have never been where I am”, and “this is not important to me” and instead of trying to convince students why you do know, simply agreeing and telling them we do not know, but that we care about them and would like to know more about it. Jumping back a few sentences, I wrote “at-pr…
Tech Tool Video Blog: LucidChart
…TCG takes a look at LucidChart As I kick off my week of vacation (finally!) for Ski week, I wanted to get a new Vlog out to you. I started using LucidChart towards the end of last year for some scheduling documents at my site. It was handy for showing progressions, processes, or steps to take. Check out the video below for more info. Let me know what you think of LucidChart! …
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