2014-2015 Counseling Geek Financial Year In Review

2014-2015 Counseling Geek Financial Year In Review

…reader, nothing and provides a kick back of about 4-6% of each purchase to support the site. A very easy and non-intrusive way to support this site and improve it in the future. Please share this simple step with colleagues and friends. You can also ask your school person to change their link. If your school is anything like mine – they spend TONS of money on Amazon orders. This could give us lots of funds to put towards #SC|CS 2016 and beyond.  …

The Counseling Geek Speaks

…unseling and Marketing 101: Tapping Into Underused Tools and Techniques to Support Your School Counseling Programs” California Association of School Counselors Northern CA Conference – “Marketing 101: Tapping Into Underused Tools and Techniques to Support Your School Counseling Programs” American School Counselor Association National Conference – “Making Your School Counseling Program POP with PR & Marketing” California Association of School Couns…

Building A Better School Counseling Blog Series: Sprucing It Up

Building A Better School Counseling Blog Series: Sprucing It Up

…es as well. One way to set yourself apart and also gain some nice features/support is to use a custom theme. For my blog, I went with the theme group ElegantThemes.com – which I used Erin Mason’s judgment and outcome when she used it for SCOPE. With ElegantThemes, you can choose to buy individual themes or buy access to all the themes and plugins ($69 for 89 themes at the time of writing), which is what I did. I like the ability to try out a few d…

FREE MONEY! ASCA 2014 Scholarship Information [Lapsed]

FREE MONEY! ASCA 2014 Scholarship Information [Lapsed]

…thia Morton, & several other donors who wish to remain anonymous) – we can support two full registration scholarships with a partial scholarship to counselors and graduate students. Here is the low down on the application: This year we are changing it up and I am hoping to accomplish two things through the process: stretch your technology skills and provide re-usable resources for our fellow counselors. To submit yourself into the scholarship cont…

School Counselor Shopping List – February/March 2014

School Counselor Shopping List – February/March 2014

…Erin Mason – is one of the authors of this text and also founder of SCOPE. Support her and get awesome knowledge at the same time! The Use of Data in School Counseling: Hatching Results for Students, Programs, and the Profession (Price: ~$31 USD) My second book suggestion and great read. All school counselors need to use data in their programs, but not all know how to do it well (myself included). However, as I read through this book by Trish Hatc…

High School Tips: Running Your First Course Fair

High School Tips: Running Your First Course Fair

…s were engaged – from our highest achievers to some of our most in need of support – and they left with a better idea of their goals and next steps as we started to enter our course request process for the upcoming school year.   Do you do an event like our course fair? Many schools may do arena scheduling – which this is very loosely connected to. How have you done your course fair? What should I add that you found helpful? Leave a comment below…

Bits & Bytes: Jack-of-all-trades

Bits & Bytes: Jack-of-all-trades

…– often ignore this. You are a highly educated, highly experienced student support system all wrapped up into one person, but you are really just that one person. This means you do not have infinite time or energy. That is okay. But that’s the way I have always run my programs… I am sorry if I am direct (these are designed to be short posts though and hey — it’s my blog), but you are likely running some of your program wrong. It may be time to sit…

About The Counseling Geek

…oy the blog and I hope that we get a chance to meet in person some day. Until then – keep on geeking out and let me know how I can support you further. Cheers. Jeff  …