Building A Better School Counseling Blog Series: Making It Happen

Building A Better School Counseling Blog Series: Making It Happen

…ave taken notes on your current blog and hopefully thought of some ways to update your new platform. Before you do anything – you need to go backup your current blog! If I could make this sentence 3D and spin – I would. Do not skip this step. In fact – do it twice and store the files in two separate locations (i.e. dropbox and your physical hard drive). In WordPress – backing up looks like an Export under the Tools menu in your Admin area and make…

Help Me – Help You!

Fundraising For You! Update (7/30): We have raised $290 (as of 7/30/12) with $2610 to go to reach my goal. Remember, that all funds go towards YOU — the counselors/educators. If we reach the goal, we fund a Pro-D workshop for a district — if we fall short, we fund registrations for ASCA 2013 in Philadelphia. Please share and consider donating if you are able. I decided I wanted to make a BHAG (Big Hairy Audacious Goal). I want to offer something…

Counseling Advisory Team: My Experience in the First Year

Counseling Advisory Team: My Experience in the First Year

…ng stages of an advisory counsel up and running was helpful. I will try to update or post a follow up at a later date with info about how the next year goes. If you have questions or have experience with an advisory council (either running or sitting on), I would love to hear it. Please share in the comments or shoot me an email at [email protected] – thanks for reading! The blog author, Jeffrey Ream M.S, PPS, writes for The Counseling…

The Road to Naviance – A One Year Review

The Road to Naviance – A One Year Review

…rney with me through the first year of Naviance implementation. This is an update to a series of posts I wrote almost a year ago about my Road to Naviance which are linked to here if you would like to read it for some context. I hope to share some of the cool things that Family Connection has allowed us to do and some things I feel could be improved or better implemented through other means. Short history – when I came to my district (a smaller, r…

Streaming Your Counseling Workshops for Awesome Family Engagement

Streaming Your Counseling Workshops for Awesome Family Engagement

…It still could be useful to watch, but I will be providing a comprehensive update here with current suggestions, tools and tips that I use in my own school counseling program livestreams. A slight warning – it can be easy to get overwhelmed and be nervous about diving down this rabbit hole – but I promise that if you take it slow, commit to try, be okay with failing and not giving up – you will be okay. One tip is to start with some stealth livest…

The Ultimate School Counseling Hack: ChatGPT For School Counselors

The Ultimate School Counseling Hack: ChatGPT For School Counselors

…aking over the world and triggering an apocalypse. We’ll see. Sidenote and Update: So…it’s been a while since my last post. I blog to learn, challenge myself and to hopefully share some of the things I have learned along the way. I don’t blog to hit a post goal, drive traffic to ads, etc. So I haven’t posted in over a year now and that is primarily because I am a busy dad to 3 boys. My youngest son was born in 2022 so the Ream household is busy an…