by Jeff Ream | Feb 6, 2015 | books, counseling, Featured, library, school counselor, School Counselor Shopping List, shopping
…they end up in the office all day with nothing to do. In steps the school counselors! Check out the second half of the list by clicking here! I did a bunch of research and put together a long list of books that may be interesting to you as well. Many of the books are targeted towards the middle/high school level, but a lot have younger versions available once you click the link. I will be splitting this list into two different posts and this is t…
by Jeff Ream | Sep 1, 2014 | Featured, school counselor, technology
…reading tool If feedly is not quite for you – there are quite a few school counselors out there that use Bloglovin to follow their favorite school counseling bloggers. Using the same RSS feed as feedly, Bloglovin is a website and set of mobile apps that helps you gather all of your feeds into one place. Another great feature is that it helps you find other blogs similar to what you already read that you may be interested in. Bloglovin, from my som…
by Jeff Ream | Jul 8, 2014 | #scchat, award, Featured, Geeklie Awards
…o one super school counselor and has worked hard to grow her blog – School Counselor Space – into a resource for counselors across the country and around the globe. It is because of this and her dedication in the Twitter community that I am happy to award Franceine the 2014 Geeklie Award. Congratulations! And the 2014 Geek of the Year Award Goes To… Dr. Erin Mason is a tenured professor at DePaul University in Chicago. Before that she worked as a…
by Jeff Ream | Apr 11, 2014 | Counseling Tech, Featured, free, teachers, technology, tools, Uncategorized
PDF Tools: PDFMerge! and Compress PDF – Tools for School Counselors (And Teachers!) Many times, when I am working with PDF (Portable Document Format) files, I run into a few common issues. First is that I have a few different pages from different files that I want to put into one PDF file. Whether this is because I am pulling together a lesson plan from a few different resources or because I am using CutePDF (<- an extra tool for you!) to print…
by Jeff Ream | Jul 25, 2025 | Featured
…y into their workflow at various grade levels. Do note, I am a high school counselor. I have never been an elementary school counselor. My connections may be generalized. Take it with a grain of salt, but the broader application perspective should still apply. Elementary Excellence: Supporting Selective Mutism with Current Research The Professional Challenge When third-grader Emma hasn’t spoken at school for six weeks, your intervention plan needs…
by Jeff Ream | Feb 26, 2020 | Featured, scheduling, tips
…Fair a go (I will go through the specifics below). I ran the idea by my co-counselor and admin team and our teacher leaders – and they were on board with a pilot fair to see how it went. This was mid-December. Our scheduling requests take place in February. So I had about 3.5 weeks to figure it out and make it happen…in a school counselor’s ample free time. A bit daunting but I got to work. A bit of context I am always a bit of a skeptic when read…
by Jeff Ream | Feb 17, 2016 | Counseling Tech, Featured, school counselor, technology, tips, tools
…I find functional. [Tweet “Checking out some great Android Apps for #schoolcounselors #scchat”] Another new app that I am giving a try is Today Calendar. One feature I am liking so far is the ability to see all of your appointments in the day on one screen. It makes a great way to see your day at a glance, but also have very similar design elements as Google and Sunrise calendars. 2 – Dropbox – Free I am an avid Dropbox-er (is that even a word?) a…
by Jeff Ream | Feb 21, 2015 | ASCA15, Featured, School Counselor Community Scholarship
…hool Counselor Community Scholarship (SC|CS 15) – a scholarship for school counselors by school counselors. The scholarship goes towards supporting counselors by paying for the registration cost of the American School Counselor Association national conference each year. We set a goal of $1,750 (5 full registrations for ASCA). We ended up raising $1,435 and while we ran short of our goal – it is the largest year yet for SCCS. We are lucky to be abl…
by Jeff Ream | Jun 21, 2012 | 21st century skills, counseling, counseling technology series, dropbox, free, geek, jeffrey ream, learning, school counselor, technology, thecounselinggeek, tutorial
…the letter, returned it signed, and has been attending homework club. The counselor can open the spreadsheets and update or verify the info on demand. This gives the counselor time to do other, more important matters than paperwork and data organization/tracking. Sadly, she went on maternity leave soon after and I had finished my fieldwork a short time later, so I did not have the chance to implement my idea at that school. Other ideas include 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
…our new registrar should learn the ropes quickly) – she was my almost 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 i…
