…otional Development/Resiliency with 9th/10th graders, 2- Community College support and advising, and 3: financial aid and FAFSA completion. To start this, I put together a resource for my students and parents that I will continue to update that is similar to the 4 year college handbook, but focused on the 112 CA Community Colleges and the process of enrollment. While I know many of you are from outside of CA – you can easily adjust this for your s…
…p 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 able to award 4 full scholarships this year. To learn more about…
…ievement Gap: A Social Justice Framework for Success $29 Positive Behavior Support in Secondary Schools: A Practical Guide (Guilford Practical Intervention in the Schools) – $30 Restorative Justice Pocketbook – $12 Dear Bully: Seventy Authors Tell Their Stories – $7 Masterminds and Wingmen: Helping Our Boys Cope with Schoolyard Power, Locker-Room Tests, Girlfriends, and the New Rules of Boy World – $10 Owning Up Curriculum: Empowering Adolescents…
…nks for in the hall. It is super easy to do and I think goes a long way to supporting students. Ask your student information system person if this type of report can be run for your school. I downloaded some good, school appropriate, printable cards from GreetingIsland.com and simply print them on regular paper. The cards are free and savable in PDF format. Could not be simpler. There are even belated birthday cards in case you miss dates occasion…
…e world of the school counselor to those in the world of technology. I can support your design, development, coders and usability teams with your product development from the unique perspective of a school counselor. Rates for this type of consulting depends on the medium (email, phone, in-person, Skype, etc.), frequency and length of the project, and what your needs are. Please contact me directly so I can provide you with the best possible consu…
…was a bit constricting and did not provide the customization, traffic, and support that I was looking for. So thus…the new site and look. I am still in the process of tweaking it to my liking and updating for readability and user friendliness. If you are having any trouble viewing anything, commenting, reading, etc. — please email me. An update – I also just launched a Google Plus page (I still refuse to use Facebook…which I will talk about soon)…
…d offer my assistance should you have any problems or questions (free tech support?). Beginners Guide to LastPass [Lifehacker] Intermediate Guide to LastPass [Lifehacker] If you do decide to make the switch over, you should change your major passwords to randomly generated passwords and store them with LastPass to enhance your security. Keep yourself safe — it’s a dangerous world out there in cyberspace. Comment below if you have any questions or…
…l Link Dropbox.com (Without the Referral Link) There are lots of other sites to help you if you don’t get exactly what you are looking for in this post and Dropbox provides very user-friendly how-to support pages. If you have ways you use Dropbox that you think are innovative or exciting, please share them with me in the comments, Twitter, or Google+. Until next time……
…ent buy a new game and master it by the end of the day? Valve and teachers supporting the initiative are optimistic that the Teach With Portals project will have the same results – creating a fun learning environment that increases student interest in the STEM fields. What is this Portal 2? When Valve created Portal and its successor, Portal 2 — they stepped away from their successful, albeit typical, genre of shooter style games (which are signif…
…ther stakeholders been to the technology you have used? Are administrators supportive, parents open to using things like Twitter, and students utilizing the tools you share? @Prof_Polzin: To be honest, I have gotten no feedback regarding the use of technology in the classroom from my administration. The university does their best to maintain the equipment that helps make it possible, so I see that as supportive. TCG: What speed bumps have you had…
