by Jeff Ream | Sep 19, 2015 | counseling, Featured, free, school counselor, teachers, tools
…resources throughout this year. Don’t forget to follow me on the different social media accounts for new updates, info and re-posts from the top School Counseling info sources. [et_social_follow icon_style=”flip” icon_shape=”rounded” icons_location=”top” col_number=”auto” counts=”true” counts_num=”0″ total=”true” outer_color=”dark” network_names=”true”] If you want to get all the latest updates straight to your inbox – fill out the form below or o…
by Jeff Ream | Jul 22, 2015 | Featured
…I am following Biff’s advice and getting out of town. I will be out of touch, social media, blogging, and email contact for the next month as my wife and I get over to Europe for a much needed vacation. I come back and jump right into work, but my next post will be the second chapter to the Public Speaking for School Counselors Series. I hope you have a good end of your summer breaks and we will see you all in August….
by Jeff Ream | May 12, 2015 | Featured, free, tools
…colleges.edu for some of the content. Please consider sharing this post on social media or following one of TCG accounts to access the resources below: [sociallocker id=1387] Download the PDF [ddownload id=”1377″ text=”Download the Community College Advising Handbook in PDF format”] [ddownload_count id=”1377″][ddownload_filesize id=”1377″] Download the .docx [ddownload id=”1378″ text=”Download the Community College Advising Handbook in editable .d…
by Jeff Ream | Sep 1, 2014 | Featured, school counselor, technology
…formation like you are drinking from a fire hose. The constant influx from social media, network news, and all of our favorite school counseling blogs can quickly become overwhelming. You may have some other similarities to me like trying to keep up with your learning efficiently. Luckily for both of us – there are ways to help streamline our information feeds and I am going to show you some of my favorite and most popular tools. When reading blog…
by Jeff Ream | Oct 22, 2012 | 21st century skills, counseling, Counseling Tech, geek, professional development, school counselor, social networking, technology, tips
…ods. Today, I will be focusing on communicating electronically (via email, social media, etc.) – but the following can be applied to other forms of communication as well. I created a simple acronym of TACT for the four points of electronic communication that I feel are essential for all school counselors to know: Targeted Accurate Clear Timely Lets break them down a bit and then, in a follow-up post, I will share three tools to help us provide TAC…
by Jeff Ream | Apr 2, 2014 | 21st century skills, ASCA14, Counseling Tech, Featured, professional development, technology, tutorial, video blog, YouTube
…someone searches for videos. Some other recommendations are including your social media links, a link to your website, and other contact information onto within your account and Channel Page. This let users go to your Channel and access your other profiles in social media or on the web. There are endless ways to customize your YouTube channel – from background images to different organizational tools and different playlists — but these are all adv…
by Jeff Ream | May 5, 2023 | 21st century skills, counseling, Counseling Tech, Featured, technology, tools
…n that time. So this is still a little unrefined, but can still be useful. Social/Emotional Supports 1. Help Create Calming Routines and Supports Using ChatGPT can help students who may be struggling (though probably not in full on crisis) with some mental health or social emotional regulation problems. For example, I asked ChatGPT if “it can help me with an anxiety attack” and it provided some solid suggestions including reaching out to trusted p…
by Jeff Ream | Jan 2, 2016 | #scchat, Counseling Tech, counseling technology series, Featured, free, Marketing, social networking, technology, tips, tools
…find something related to school counseling on Twitter (or any other major social media network) – just search #scchat and Tweets related to that topic will appear. Further Reading: The Beginner’s Guide to the Hashtag (Source: Mashable) 3 Twitter Hashtag Mistakes That Make You Look Like A n00b (Source: Adrian Jock’s Internet Marketing Tips) Facebook: I don’t use Facebook to connect with my personal friends – I use it strictly for professional purp…
by Jeff Ream | Feb 26, 2020 | Featured, scheduling, tips
…sely connected to. How have you done your course fair? What should I add that you found helpful? Leave a comment below or reach out on social media. I would love to hear from you….
by Jeff Ream | May 2, 2019 | Featured
…ucation system is taxed enough as it is having to take care of every other social need in addition to trying to educate our future generations. 2. Stop taking me away from my job and time with my students. I have already spent over 20 hours this year simply getting through the PSAT exams alone and we haven’t even gotten into AP exams. I am lucky too – in that, I have advocated and have a district with means to support me not even needing to proc…
