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Small group counseling, classroom lessons, social emotional learning, and bulletin boards.
29 posts, newest first. Each one opens on counselorclique.com.
Blog 3 Creative Ways to Boost Social Emotional Wellness in High School Students With ever-growing caseloads, pressures from administrators, and responsibilities that feel counterproductive to our overall counseling goals (a sad, but often true…Small Groups & Lessons
Blog 6 Ways to Overcome Obstacles and Execute Effective Counselor Classroom Lessons Counselor classroom lessons often get overlooked or pushed to the side because there are a lot of obstacles to pulling them off. First, you have to get your teachers on…Small Groups & Lessons
Blog Pro Tips for Classroom Lessons: Target These 6 Teacher Types to Increase Reach Classroom lessons should be a regular part of a comprehensive counseling program. Unfortunately, there are REAL barriers and challenges to getting space for counselors…Small Groups & Lessons
Blog 3 Ways to Incorporate Social Emotional Learning Into High School Classroom Counseling Lessons You and I both know social emotional learning is important. With your high school counselor training and experience, this is right in your wheelhouse. However, with the…Small Groups & Lessons
Blog 4 Creative Mindfulness Resources to Engage Your High School Students As high school counselors, we know that mindfulness resources can help lower stress levels and increase academic engagement for our students. However, we don’t have the…Small Groups & Lessons
Blog 4 Benefits of Small Group Counseling in High Schools Even if we don’t currently run small groups in our high school, we can probably determine a few benefits of small group counseling in our school’s setting. It can be…Small Groups & Lessons
Blog 3 Ways to Successfully Introduce Small Group Counseling to Your High School Are you a school counselor at a high school that doesn’t believe in small groups? Is your administration against the facilitation of small groups? Do you get push back…Small Groups & Lessons
Blog 3 Compelling Reasons to Use Small Group Counseling to Promote Career Readiness in Your Comprehensive School Counseling Program Small group counseling often gets overlooked especially in the high school setting. Small groups take the most strategic planning of any of our initiatives and involve…Small Groups & Lessons, College & Career
Blog 4 Ideas for Getting Impressive Student Buy-In for High School Counseling Small Groups One of the biggest roadblocks to running high school counseling small groups with students (besides lack of time) is getting these students bought in. How do you find…Small Groups & Lessons, Supporting Students
Blog 3 Tips for Starting Small Groups Out on the Right Foot in Your High School Counseling Program Do you ever dream of starting small groups but then get halted in your tracks? You want to make sure you move in the right direction AND be sure you’re running something…Small Groups & Lessons, Supporting Students
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 7 Tips for Running Small Groups at the High School Level It can be really easy to ignore running small groups at the high school level altogether… you have to find out how to make it work for you and your school. Once you find…Small Groups & Lessons
Blog How We Hosted a Memorable Mindfulness Day at Our School As a school counseling department, we decided to try an every-other-year approach with two major events because they require a lot of manpower to organize, facilitate…Small Groups & Lessons
Blog 3 Quick Wins by Using a Mindfulness Bulletin Board in Your High School Mindfulness seems like a buzzword in the counseling world, but it’s because it’s something our students are truly needing help with… so we’re hearing it a lot as high…Small Groups & Lessons
Blog 4 Things I Pack in My Counselor Crisis Bucket What should you pack in a counselor crisis bucket for your school counseling program? Be able to respond on a dime to suicide, death, or other crisis with ideas for…Small Groups & Lessons
- Blog All the Steps for Hosting a Successful College Application Day After I posted a picture of my College Application Day “exit ticket,” I got numerous comments and direct messages about tips for holding such an event! We’ve done this…
Small Groups & Lessons, College & Career
- Blog Counselors on Point Bulletin Board Our lobby bulletin board needed an update, and I’m really loving Astrobrights cardstock… hence my new creation! We liked the idea of the students and parents getting to…
Small Groups & Lessons, Programs & Systems
- Blog What I Grab When Working With Grieving Students Unfortunately, I have had to deal with grief at the high school level too many times to count. I have run numerous small groups for grief, and I am so encouraged to…
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- Blog Get the Scoop On Careers: A Bulletin Board For Your Career Fair We have our first career fair (since I’ve been at my school for 6 years) for our high school students! We are giving away free ice cream to participants, thus… this…
Small Groups & Lessons, College & Career
- Blog “Oh The Places You’ll Go” Bulletin Board This was one of my very first bulletin boards in our school counseling lobby when I first started at my school. Seeing how it went pretty viral on Pinterest was the…
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- Blog How To Inspire a College Going Culture… with College Application Day Pennants I made these “college pennants” for our College Application Day! This is a school wide celebration to promote a college-going culture. Our seniors can sign up for 45…
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- Blog How To Look 2 Months Ahead with a Master Calendar: Part 2 Two years ago, we created a white board master calendar, so we could see two months out what our days as a department would look like. (See the old blog post on it…
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- 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 School Counselors Can Do It! Bulletin Board We kicked off our National School Counseling Week with a new, very visible bulletin board! It’s fun how creative you can get when your whole department sits down and…
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- Blog Looking Ahead to Summer Time has slipped away as most of you would probably agree with me. The end of the school year is a whirlwind! I have some summer goals, but are they too lofty?Some of my…
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- Blog DIY Hack: Simple Senior Bulletin Board A VERY simple and fun way to involve your seniors and their power of influence on underclassmen… A SENIOR bulletin board! When our senior counselor was visiting senior…
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- Blog How to Celebrate National School Counseling Week — Day 2 For day two of National School Counseling Week 2015, check out our decor around school. I threw together this bulletin board to put out in a main hallway this week. Easy…
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- Blog How To Look 2 Months Ahead with a Master Calendar: Part 1 Inspired by a need for a big group calendar and a desire to incorporate more washi tape into my life, our department decided an oversized, easily updated calendar would…
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- Blog DIY Hack: Rock Your Tests Bulletin Board Long time, no update. The initial shock of the school year is settling in, and we’ve hit the ground running. Counselors still work in the summer, but we somehow still…
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