…the person I feel has had the largest impact in the past 12 months on the development and guidance of our digital PLC’s goal to further our technological prowess. Check out the 2013 winners here. And the 2014 Geeklie Award Goes To… Franciene Sabens, M.S. Ed., LPC, NCC is a Litigation Paralegal turned School Counselor who is passionate about helping today’s youth reach their full potential and become well adjusted members and contributors to our s…
…de scholarships for school counselors around the US to attend high-quality professional development each summer through the School Counselor Community Scholarship. I am also a life long learner. In addition to my Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Studies and Master of Science in Educational Counseling degrees – I have earned specialist certificates in School Counselor Leadership and College Admissions Counseling through ASCA. I am also a Google Certifie…
…volved with the #scchat movement. It has changed how I define professional development and lead me to growing endeavors (including this one with CASC). I will be taking notes at the conference and adding other resources to this list and future posts. The following are blogs that I follow and find the authors to share interesting and applicable posts regarding counseling, education, technology, or higher education. SCOPE: School Counselors’ Online…
…ng to write after I got the position – I look back and couldn’t imagine my professional life without this outlet. Going through undergraduate school studying teacher ed – I told myself (and cohort/professors) that I 1: did not want to teach and 2: did not want to teach little kids. I knew I wanted to go into Professional School Counseling and had a hoop to jump through. However, I find myself using ideas, practices, and techniques I learned from t…
…project that was assigned in one of my technology courses was to develop a professional portfolio utilizing a high-tech tool. I used PowerPoint to build an easy to navigate and professional looking “program” that will allow interviewers, principals, and other stakeholders to view all my qualifications (resume, cover letter, transcripts) and showcase my technological skills at the same time. Yesterday, I made a new portfolio for my counseling caree…
…skills. Be creative with how you present yourself. Last but not least, be professional. When submitting a resume, use a common format. A non-formatted notepad file is not very appealing. My recommendation: write it up on Word and ALWAYS submit any form in .PDF format. That saves your formatting the way you created it and it opens much faster on our ancient school district computers. We may open your Word document, or God forbid – your Mac OS docu…
…nselors with parents, students, teachers, administrators and other helping professionals, both within and outside the school setting. The goal of consultation is to empower those involved to assist students in the areas of personal/social, academic and/or career development. “Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential t…
…ehalf of Carol Miller and myself – we thank you for donating, sharing, and supporting school counselor access to high quality professional development….
…o pledge to support school counselors and continued access to high quality professional development by donating the 2016 SC|CS Donation Drive by clicking the button below. We count on your generosity to provide generously to others in our community each year. Thank you in advance for supporting SC|CS 2016. More info on the March 10th webinar can be found below: School Counseling Alignment of Program and Practice Tuesday, March 10, 2015 5 PM East…
…e it with work or life. I noticed a plethora (50 cent word right there) of professional development resource available (check out CASC/WSCA’s resource page if you haven’t yet: https://covid19k12counseling.org/), but many of them were at least an hour long, if not more. Sometimes that is not the kind of time I have to devote to learning. So I decided to go live and keep it under 15 minutes. 15 minutes seemed like a reasonable amount of time to…
