by Jeff Ream | Jun 5, 2020 | Featured, Pinterest, school counselor, School Counselor Shopping List, shopping
…o wear PPE – may as well make it fashionable. Great for school counselors, teachers, administrators, special educators, and school psychs! Available from The School Counselor Shop on Etsy. 3. Coffee will be essential – drink it from this awesome mug I run on coffee no matter if I am at home or in the office. This also has a lid because we all know that counselor coffee is always getting cold! Available from LoveInTheCityShop on Etsy. 4. Speaking o…
by Jeff Ream | Dec 5, 2018 | counseling, Featured, free, school counselor, teachers, technology, tips
…am working on a full Case Study packet that I hope to have available on my Teachers Pays Teachers store before the end of the school year (it is a LOT of work to put together three full fake Common Apps complete with transcripts, essays, and such). So check back to see any updates. Ok….so what is it? A case study takes a group (it could be all students, all parents, or a mixture) through the process that a general admissions team may use when de…
by Jeff Ream | Aug 8, 2017 | Featured, #scchat, Back to School, counseling, learning, professional development, school counselor, social networking, tips, tools
…is also my partner in the School Counselor Community Scholarship and is a Teachers Pays Teachers seller extraordinaire. One of my more recent favorite posts: How To Help Students Transition To High School For High School Counselors Blog Cindy Morton writes a great resource in For High School Counselors blog that is prime with tools, tips and information…for HS counselors (and really many other levels as well). Cindy provides a wide variety of pos…
by Jeff Ream | Feb 26, 2017
…ering – I returned to the family pursuit of educating. I am the son of two teachers and the grandson of two more teachers. I felt called into education but didn’t feel led to teach. I want to help students pursue their potential, develop young people into their future selves, and create opportunities for all students – so school counseling became my passion. I began my career at North Tahoe High School in 2012 and have had a blast watching student…
by Jeff Ream | Mar 28, 2016 | Bits & Bytes, #scchat, Featured, school counselor, teachers
…we get the opportunity to work with a very diverse group of people. Fellow teachers, students of different ages, community members, parents, etc. While working on scheduling (blah) with my principal, we were trying to solve some of the inevitable conflicts that arise. We started looking at students in an overfull course and who could be successful at a higher level so we could encourage them to take on the challenge of the AP vs non-AP physics cou…
by Jeff Ream | Jun 6, 2015 | box.com, Counseling Tech, dropbox, Featured, google docs, technology, tips, warnings
…oing the data entry myself OR delegating this task to each of the advisory teachers to track 17 students in their classes throughout the year. 330 students x several papers each x all year = a major pain in the arse so I elected the latter. I created a great (and pretty clever) tracking document that has each student listed in individual grade tabs and self-calculating formulas with conditional formatting to be able to get a sense of where student…
by Jeff Ream | Jun 21, 2012 | 21st century skills, counseling, counseling technology series, dropbox, free, geek, jeffrey ream, learning, school counselor, technology, thecounselinggeek, tutorial
…ading periods. I told her about Dropbox and how she could let the homeroom teachers do much of the processing and leg work through creating spreadsheets for each class in their own folders. All teachers would have to do is open the spreadsheet, check off whether the student had received the letter, returned it signed, and has been attending homework club. The counselor can open the spreadsheets and update or verify the info on demand. This gives t…
by Jeff Ream | Jun 8, 2013 | ASCA, ASCA 13, counseling, geek, jeffrey ream, RAMP, school counselor, support, teachers, thecounselinggeek, tips
…hem, and how it will affect them/their students. Members included parents, teachers, a student or two (by far the hardest to recruit), an administrator, a board member, and a fellow counselor colleague/parent. Step Three: Setup an Initial Meeting The next step required pulling all of these stakeholders together. One simple tool that helped me coordinate everyone’s busy schedule is ScheduleOnce – you can see my previous blog post on integrating Sch…
by Jeff Ream | Jul 30, 2013 | 21st century skills, Back to School, calendar, Counseling Tech, dropbox, google docs, Linky Party, school counseling on air, SCOA, technology, tips
…scale, but I do have an extra 15 days on top of the normal requirement of teachers (paid of course, at my daily rate). I will be heading back on August 15th to get things ready to go for our orientation for the new freshmen class on August 20th, and kicking off school on the 28th (I think)? Now only to remember what I did in August last year… I have not created my professional growth goals for this year yet, so this may be a good brainstorming se…
by Jeff Ream | Nov 4, 2013 | #scchat, ANFSCD, counseling, school counselor, thecounselinggeek
…ool sites. The MS and HS share a building in our small town school so many teachers, students and siblings are feeling the pain of this loss. I have an older sibling at our high school, but they are a younger student and I have only met with the student once for a short minute meeting and never the parents prior to the incident. Self-Reflection: While I am a pretty confident counselor in many areas, although young and always learning, I realized t…
