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Advocating for your role, and putting your data to work.
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Blog The Class PBS Docuseries: A Must-Watch for High School Counselors *This post is sponsored by The Class Documentary. High school counselors are almost exclusively portrayed in a negative light in the media… often the old-fashioned…Advocacy & Data
Blog 4 Ways to Make the Most of Your High School Counseling Budget Whether you’ve just been given a pool of funds or you’re brainstorming ways to advocate for more dollars in your high school counseling budget, let’s talk about how to…Advocacy & Data, Counselor Growth
Blog Advance Your High School Counseling Program with Social Media: 4 Best Practices (For All Levels) Most of you probably have some sort of interaction with social media on a personal level, but have you considered the benefits of using various platforms to give your…Advocacy & Data
Blog Remember These 3 Fundamentals When Engaging Failing Students With huge caseloads of students, outsiders may be surprised by the amount of time high school counselors spend with our failing students. Whether we’re calling their…Advocacy & Data, Supporting Students
Blog Your Cheat-Sheet for Navigating Parent Relationships: 4 Pro Tips When you graduated with your degree in school counseling, it’s probably safe to assume that the tall task of building and maintaining parent relationships was not at the…Advocacy & Data
Blog 3 Simple Ways to Use Data as a High School Counselor For many counselors, just hearing the word data makes you start to squirm. This makes sense when you consider that most of us are wired to connect with people, not…Advocacy & Data
Blog A Break Down of 4 Counselor Caseload Models: What I Like and Don’t Like About Them When it comes to settling on a counselor caseload model that is best for your school, there are a lot of things to consider. I’ll be the first to admit, there is no…Advocacy & Data
Blog Our Role as an IEP Team Member: 3 Things High School Counselors Want Teachers and Families to Know When it comes to putting together an effective IEP team, many hands make light work. Teachers, parents, and counselors all have indispensable roles to play as IEP team…Advocacy & Data
Blog 4 Ways Time Management Can Be a Powerful High School Counseling Advocacy Tool One of the great plights of being a school counselor: no one really knows what you do. When others don’t adequately value your time, you have to be your own time…Advocacy & Data, Counselor Growth
Blog The High School Counselor-Administrator Relationship: 3 Effective, Healthy Habits The counselor-administrator relationship can be an absolute force for good when leveraged correctly. As with any relationship, this partnership requires some intentional…Advocacy & Data
Blog School Counseling Services: 3 Ways a High School Counselor Can Provide Meaningful Services As a high school counselor, I sat around more IEP tables than I could count as a part of the school counseling services that are offered by high school counselors…Advocacy & Data, Supporting Students
Blog All Things Data: Everything High School Counselors Need to Know About Data There are many topics to tackle surrounding data collection in high school counseling. When and where should I collect data? How should I use it? Where and with whom…Advocacy & Data
Blog 4 Valuable Places to Share Your Compelling School Counseling Data What good is the data you’re collecting as a high school counselor if you’re not sharing it with anyone? You’re running a data-driven program! It’s time to shout it from…Advocacy & Data
Blog 3 Unassuming Ways to Incorporate Perception Data Into Your High School Counseling Program Perception data answers the question, “How are students different in their thoughts, attitudes, skills, behaviors, or knowledge because of what we are doing as school…Advocacy & Data
Blog 4 Misconceptions About Collecting Data in Your High School Counseling Program Collecting data is the thing you want to get better at but just don’t know where to start. It’s way easier to make excuses and never make progress on this front, right?…Advocacy & Data
Blog 3 Reasons Why Using Data Matters in Your High School Counseling Program When asked why counselors aren’t using data, I found a lack of understanding about its usefulness (it makes total sense that you wouldn’t collect data if it was useless…Advocacy & Data
Blog 4 Ways to Find Money for Your Professional Development Opportunities Ever wonder how you’re going to fund your professional development or professional learning opportunities? I’ve been in your shoes. I’ve been given the full amount, I’ve…Advocacy & Data, Counselor Growth
Blog 3 Ways to Make a More Profound Impact on Students by Changing Your Mindset As high school counselors, we are always looking to make a bigger and more profound impact on students while still balancing all of the tasks throughout our day-to-day…Advocacy & Data, Supporting Students, Counselor Growth
Blog 3 Unassuming Ways to Invest in Your School Counseling Program So That Your Students Will Grow As school counselors, we all want to see students succeed, so how can we reach all students and help them grow to their fullest potential? Just like every student will…Advocacy & Data
Blog 4 Tips for Gaining Guaranteed Teacher Buy-In to Your School Counseling Program How do you rally teachers to get on your team and move in the direction you’re headed? Teacher buy-in is so important for moving your school counseling program forward!…Advocacy & Data
Blog 4 Places to Seek Worthwhile Stakeholder Buy-In from Your Local Community Community partnerships can be such a valuable asset to your school counseling program. Your community stakeholders are another piece of your stakeholder puzzle in…Advocacy & Data
Blog How to Confidently Communicate with 3 Main Stakeholders While Planning High School Counseling Small Groups It’s important for students, teachers, admin, and parents to be on the same page about the high school counseling small groups you’re running. If you want your small…Small Groups & Lessons, Advocacy & Data
Blog Taking Back Your Calendar: 3 Helpful Tips to Prioritize Your Job and Advocate for Your Role We all know that our days are (and, therefore, our calendar is) absolutely crazy. No two are ever the same as school counselors. (It’s honestly one of my favorite things…Advocacy & Data, Counselor Growth
Blog 2 Ideas for Impactful Tier 1 Academic Interventions with High School Students I am convinced a big part of my school’s student success is because of the effort put towards tier 1 academic interventions with our students. We have always had a…Advocacy & Data, Supporting Students
Blog Master Open Communication With Your Administrators Using These 3 Tips As school counselors, we know how valuable a strong relationship with an administrator can be. This relationship can benefit a student, a caseload, or even an entire…Advocacy & Data
Blog 3 Simple Ways to Decide Who Does What in Your School Counseling Program Are you hoping I’m just going to tell you to play “Rock, Paper, Scissors” to decide who gets what responsibilities for the year in your school counseling program?…Advocacy & Data, Programs & Systems
Blog 7 Helpful Questions For and Answers From a High School Counselor: Part 1 I recently opened up a Q&A on my Instagram stories where followers asked questions about a “day in the life of a high school counselor.” I figured I’d do a round up of…Advocacy & Data, Programs & Systems
Blog 6 Questions For and Answers From a High School Counselor: Part 2 Here is round 2 of my Questions and Answers for a High School Counselor Round-Up! Here is a compilation of questions and answers to/from a high school counselor from…Advocacy & Data, Programs & Systems
Blog Counselor Self-Care: The 5 Myths You’re Believing About Work Email Causing You to Fail at It Let’s address the elephant in the room. School counselors are natural helpers. Not checking email at home is actually counselor self-care! My biggest argument for not…Advocacy & Data, Counselor Growth
- Blog A High School Counselor’s Year in Review I blinked and this year flew by! I took a minute to exhale as I was reviewing what we accomplished this year in order to present it at our end-of-the-year School…
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Blog 5 Promising Characteristics of a Principal Who Supports School Counselors If you DO already have a good working relationship with your principal, you already know how valuable this is. If you don’t, maybe it’s something you wish you had. Maybe…Advocacy & Data
Blog Why I Love “Coffee with the Counselors” Partnering with stakeholders is important. We know this to be true. As high school counselors, we are connectors in our school buildings and in our community. It’s a…Advocacy & Data
Blog 3 Reasons You Need to Start a Devoted School Counseling Advisory Council Each year, our 3 school counseling advisory councils prove to be one of my favorite parts of our comprehensive school counseling program. It’s definitely easier to make…Advocacy & Data
Blog Counselor Fly-Ins: 7 Insider Things You Need to Know About Them Counselor Fly-Ins are the hidden treasures of school counselor professional development! You get to explore and travel, learn about a college, and bring home information…College & Career, Advocacy & Data
Blog 3 Easy Ways To Advocate for Your Time Without Rocking the Boat How should we best advocate for our roles as school counselors? How should we protect our time to ensure we best serve students and families? How do you let…Advocacy & Data
- Blog How to Use Quick Perception Data for Effective Career Programming: A Pre/Post Test I created a pre/post test that could be used for a variety of career lessons: career small groups classroom lessons: regular ed, special ed, freshman success, etc…
College & Career, Advocacy & Data
Blog Before Applying to RAMP: 5 Things You Need to Know to Kickstart the Process Our school is officially a RAMP (Recognized ASCA Model Program) school, and it feels SO good! This is such an important designation and something you can advocate for in…Advocacy & Data
- Blog 4 Tactics for Collecting Classroom Data I really dove into the importance of collecting meaningful data in new, creative ways as our department endeavored applying for RAMP this past year. This semester, I’ve…
Advocacy & Data, Programs & Systems
- Blog How to Advocate for Your School Counseling Department Using a Data Wall Some feedback from our end-of-the-year Advisory Council meeting came in the form of “I didn’t know all of the great things you were doing!” especially from parents and…
Small Groups & Lessons, Advocacy & Data
- Blog What No One Tells You About Digitalizing Your Sign In System We were kickin’ it old school with a paper notebook sign in to our school counseling office until October of this past school year. We thought… what an easy opportunity…
Advocacy & Data, Programs & Systems
- Blog What No One Tells You About the Big, Bad Data Monster We are feverishly validating our skills and services as school counselors with data, data, data. As I’ve moved past the initial that’s super scary and I want nothing to…
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- Blog Practical Ways to Incorporate Career Assessments into Your School Counseling Curriculum Did you know November is NATIONAL CAREER DEVELOPMENT MONTH? There’s no way you wouldn’t around our high school. I am a huge advocate of career education and career…
College & Career, Advocacy & Data