Using Canva in your School Counseling Program

Using Canva in your School Counseling Program

…goods a snap. This can be helpful when you are working on setting up your social media accounts, promoting different events or happenings with your school counseling programs or even creating handouts, flyers, posters or school counseling core curriculum lesson materials. If you have a team of people, you can actually create team accounts through Canva (or likely just share one, but that is grey-area ethical so you didn’t hear it from me). In add…

Making The Cut: School Counselor Application Tips and Tricks

Making The Cut: School Counselor Application Tips and Tricks

…gh! Keep scrolling for an additional special CASC 2017 experience for me. [sociallocker id=1387] Making the Cut: Tips and Tricks for the (school counseling) Job Hunter Click the button below to make a copy of the Survey Data on Google Sheets. Access the Survey Data [/sociallocker] Bonus Prize: Let me share a little bit of my story with you. I am humbled and honored to have been selected for the 2017/2018 California School Counselor of the Year. I…

Introducing my Teachers Pay Teachers store

Introducing my Teachers Pay Teachers store

…vate with you. Please follow me on TpT, buy something you may like (100% of my profit goes to SC|CS 2018 if you purchase by Aug. 13th, 2017 by the way), and let me know in the comments or social media what you may be looking for. I have lots more ideas, but it will take some time to create the items for you and to do it well. And more…!…

The Way I Work: Erinn Murphy – Carbondale Community High School

The Way I Work: Erinn Murphy – Carbondale Community High School

…he space in our building to share a hallway with fellow counselors and our social worker, and I appreciate the centralized, but quiet location for students to visit our offices. Is there anything else we didn’t cover that you think readers would love to know about you?: We spend a lot of time in our offices, and it is worth it to make it feel good to you! Be creative and allow some of your personality and love of your work to show in your office s…

ASCA Specialist Certificate Programs: A Review

ASCA Specialist Certificate Programs: A Review

…ng the following book:   School Counseling to Close the Achievement Gap: A Social Justice Framework for Success Dr. Holcomb-McCoy came and spoke at the California Associaton of School Counselors 2016 conference and was excellent. I believe this book will drive change at my school and my district. The rest of the programs available: Anxiety and Stress Management Specialist (NEW) Bullying Prevention Specialist Grief and Loss Specialist (NEW) Legal a…

Putting the You in YouTube: Taking It To The Next Level

Putting the You in YouTube: Taking It To The Next Level

…the info out about the live broadcasts and recordings – this may be email, social media, robo-calls, etc. Suggested My latest setup includes an upgraded (and more mobile) studio quality microphone and webcam for recording. These are school items that we bought for our whole school to use (but I am the one who uses them the most!). We use the Yeti USB Mic by Blue Microphones and it is really easy to use and has studio quality recording (~$130 at ti…

Building Safe School Communities: Our Circle of Care

Building Safe School Communities: Our Circle of Care

…n 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 to turn a life around.” “No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it.” “If you can do what I can’t and I can do what you can’t. Then…

5 Top School Counseling Apps for Your Mobile Devices

5 Top School Counseling Apps for Your Mobile Devices

…it on my work laptop in less than 10 seconds. I can then post the photo to social media, add it to a new project or do anything I would need to do on my work laptop.   3 – Remind – Free Remind is a great service that recently has been spruced up. I used it during my first year as a school counselor and it had mild success, but this year brought it back from the grave to give it another shot based on some parent feedback of what they were looking f…

#NOTATASCA16: A little sad but a-lotta stoked!

#NOTATASCA16: A little sad but a-lotta stoked!

…s, toys, tools, etc? PLEASE comment below or get a hold of me via email or social media! I love being able to connect with you all and this is definitely a growth area for me. A few people have already asked about a registry already so I am going to post a link below. Please know – I am just happy you are reading and visiting the blog. We do not expect anything, but if you are a gift-giving type — we are using Target and Amazon for our registries….

Take Back Your School Counselor Time with Unroll.me – Tame Your Inbox Today

Take Back Your School Counselor Time with Unroll.me – Tame Your Inbox Today

…heck it out. Please share your thoughts and tips with me and fellow readers in the comments below! [Tweet “Liberating my #schoolcounselor time using @unrollme – take that inbox! #emchat #scchat”] [et_social_follow icon_style=”slide” icon_shape=”circle” icons_location=”top” col_number=”auto” counts=”true” counts_num=”0″ total=”true” outer_color=”dark” network_names=”true”]…