…new…), but experienced enough to pass along some wisdom. Whether you are a counselor with your first job, an excited graduate student, or a counseling sage – the first time to a large conference can be an overwhelming experience unless you come prepared. In this article, I will help you optimize your experience to get the most from #ASCA14 as you can! Tip 1: Do your research! That is right – there is actually a lot to think about when you get read…
…nd then I will be working to provide partial scholarships to several lucky counselors to attend the ASCA 2013 National Conference in Philadelphia. Please consider donating $10, $20, or more in the last few days to help me get more young, new, or financially struggling counselors to the conference this year. Here are a few teasers for what is coming up this month: The Road Trip to Naviance Nirvana, a new Counseling Geek interview (with one of the b…
…w up email congratulating me on being one of the top 25 school counseling online resources, in the eyes of their readers. This is my first award or honor and I am truly grateful for it. To be in the same list as those like School Counseling By Heart, jyjoyner counselor, and School Counselor Blog is awesome. For the whole list, visit the site – which is also a great resource for finding new blogs to follow. Thank you! The blog author, Jeffrey Ream…
…is summer! Note: I reserve the right to validate your position as a school counselor, intern, or graduate student in school counseling before sending you the prize. Any winner not found to be a school counselor, intern, or graduate student of school counseling is forfeit the prize and it will be awarded to the next drawn entrant. Arrangement of transfer of funds will be setup by the winners and The Counseling Geek. The blog author, Jeffrey Ream M….
…my research on Advisory Councils (all credit to original authors): School Counselor Program Handbook for Advisory Councils (.pdf) ASAI Redesigning School Counseling – Advisory Meetings (whole meeting agendas and handouts) I decided to not go from no advisory team to a full-on 100% functioning team in my first shot. My goals were to gather interested parties, have a group of stakeholders I can bounce ideas off of (especially useful in a counseling…
…below – feel free to leave a “tip” in the form of a donation to the School Counselor Community Scholarship program that helps send school counselors to the annual ASCA National Conference each year. So without further ado – I present the 6 part series for your viewing pleasure. Ep 1: My distance set up and better Google Forms for School Counselors Ep 2: Keeping Counseling Interesting with Canva Ep 3: Saving Time with Screencasting Ep 4: Easy Websi…
…more in order to respond effectively. Luckily, our district and my fellow counselors/psychs descended on the two sites to provide support and there was an overwhelming amount of knowledge and skill between the two schools to help grieving students that I fell into more of a coordinator/administrator type role. I ensured that students were finding their way to designated rooms to get support, helped all the counselors/psychs access the things they…
…do it right. The process is a lot of collaborating between tech services, counselors, and people who do your information systems to get the data imports just right. I am still working on a few queries to find ways to get “required” fields. Not being able to remove college applications from students files (counselor override, not student) can cause some skewed data and student confusion. Once a school is added to the “colleges I am applying to lis…
…of their state School Counseling Association (SCA) or the American School Counselor Association (ASCA). It is a shame that so many are not involved, or even are aware, of the State associations that exist to help the hardworking Professional School Counselors. I went from being a non-member of all the associations to an active member of most that I maintain membership in. From talking with colleagues – and from going through the same feelings mys…
…u believe how many hours of video are on YouTube? So why would I, a school counselor or maybe a school counselor blogger, want to have a YouTube account and start uploading my own YouTube videos? There are a couple of good reasons. The first is that it produces high-quality videos that are accessible, on any device, anywhere. You can take videos recorded from a camcorder, your cell phone, a high-definition camera, or any other recording device and…
