High School Tips: Running Your First Course Fair
…Learn how to run a successful course fair at your high school to help students plan their schedules for upcoming years that take into account balance, rigor and requirements….
Guest Post: 5 Tips to Stand Out on LinkedIn
…LinkedIn unites over 175 million professionals from a myriad of different industries. This provides a lucrative platform through which you can market yourself to these potential employers. Here are five ways in which you can cultivate a professional LinkedIn profile which will attract and engage prospective employers and business partners….
Top 5 in 2015: The Counseling Geek’s top posts in 2015
….com/2015/11/school-counselor-appointment-management.html Public Speaking: Tips for School Counselors, Chapter 1 Public speaking (and classroom guidance) is scary for a LOT of people. I view it as a spectrum of fear rather than you are afraid or you are not. In this post – I share a few tips I have found really helpful to me when I get up in front of 30 high school students, 75 parents, or 500 school counselors at a conference. Be sure to check ou…
The Counseling Geek Speaks
…ation of School Counselors Annual Conference — Breakout – “Making the Cut: Tips and Tricks for Job Seekers” San Joaquin County Counselor Summit – Breakout – “3 Presentation Tips: Telling Our Stories” California Association of School Counselors 2016 Annual Conference – Breakout – “10 Tech Tools for School Counselor Sanity” San Joaquin County Counselor Summit – Breakout – “10 Tech Tools for School Counselor Sanity” Missouri School Counselor Associat…
The Counseling Geek Interview Series: @Prof_Polzin
…my interest is what got you started, how you kept going, and what types of tips can you pass along to fellow counselors following the same path. So, without further ado – here is installment #1 of The Counseling Geek Interview Series. Many people who are involved in Twitter and #scchat will most likely recognize my interviewee. Professor @Prof_Polzin) graciously allowed me to interview her via email. She has a Master of Arts in Counseling degree f…
Streaming Your Counseling Workshops for Awesome Family Engagement
…r booty up on stage – you are now live streaming! While You Are Live A few tips while you are live. If you are broadcasting from your office to no audience – you can usually have a more advanced set up with difference scenes that let you toggle between having your video on screen or your presentation. It is helpful to be using 2 monitors or screens when doing this (again to avoid the matrix). If you only have one screen – you just want to avoid go…
8 Blogs Every School Counselor Needs to Follow
…reat 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 posts – from helping students with autism to getting to your next professional development conference. I hope you check her blog out. One of my more recent favorite posts: ASCA 2017 From My Couch Again Savvy School Counselor Vanessa is really one savvy school coun…
3 Habits of Efficient (Yet Caring) School Counselors
…u know if you did it right? All valid questions and concerns. I have a few tips and resources to get you started. Tip #1 is to start small. Pick one or two things you can track from beginning to end and are aligned to your goals. You don’t have to go from zero to sixty here. By picking just a few, targeting things to track – you are not going to be overwhelmed and can use that to guide more data tracking. You also get to practice! Tip #2 – buy the…
Make It Rain: How I Get Free College SWAG Each Year
…ve a tool like Naviance. With Naviance, I simply have it prepare and print labels for any school that a student applied to in the last 10 years. It spits out just under 200 different schools from down the road to France and lets me put them on mailing labels really easily. Now if you don’t have Naviance, like I didn’t the first year I did this, I actually sent out the letter via email. I scoured websites and created lists of admissions and outreac…
Looking Back at 2014: A School Counselor’s Blog Post Year In Review
…CASC. I picked a few answers from each that you can look through below for tips and advice. Read the whole post here: Interview and Applicant Essentials Building A Better Blog Series A major series for the year was focusing on School Counselor bloggers and helping new and seasoned bloggers improve or develop a better blog. I really enjoyed writing this series as I also went through a big blog re-vamp and re-design. This is a multiple post series i…
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