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Blog: Supporting Students
Ideas for the students on your caseload, from freshmen to seniors.
25 posts, newest first. Each one opens on counselorclique.com.
Blog The Ultimate College Search Hack: Why Students (and High School Counselors) Need Loper The college search brings excitement but it can also bring our students apprehension as they can feel stuck with how to even get started. I want to introduce you to…College & Career, Supporting Students
Blog Appealing Financial Aid? Use This Tool! *This post is sponsored by Going Merry. Financial aid is one of the top stressors on our students’ minds when we ask them to start thinking about their post-secondary…College & Career, Supporting Students
Blog 4 Counselor-Approved Academic Interventions that Actually Set Students Up for Success Academic interventions that aim to reach all students in a single grade level simultaneously are something counselors should be gearing up for each year, no matter their…Supporting Students
Blog Do This 1 Super Simple Activity to Celebrate Senior Students and Make a Major Impact As we prepare to launch our senior students into the next chapter, we have the privilege of making them feel ultra-celebrated and supported. One way we can celebrate…College & Career, Supporting Students
Blog When 10% of Your Students Require 90% of Your Time: 4 Ways to Better Manage Frequent Flyer Students A topic that is overwhelmingly popular among our counselor friends is the challenge of managing our frequent flyer students. “Frequent flyers” are a handful of students…Supporting Students
Blog 3 Strategies for Helping First Gen Students Find Success When we use the term “first gen students,” we are referring to high school students who are (or will be) the first in their families to attend college, excluding older…Supporting Students
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 4 Ways Going Merry is Providing Effective FAFSA Help for Your High School Students *This post is sponsored by Going Merry. As a high school counselor, you’ve probably been sending transcripts and running senior meetings since school started. We’re now…College & Career, Supporting Students
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 4 Fun Career Activities to Engage Your High School Students How many times do we skip over the “career development” aspect of our roles as high school counselors because it seems too tedious, or we feel like we don’t have the…College & Career, Supporting Students
Blog 3 Genuine Career Readiness Conversation Starters for High School Students When my high school students walked across the stage to get their diplomas, I always wanted them to have an idea of what was coming next in terms of their career…College & Career, Supporting Students
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 Fun and Engaging Ways to Celebrate Students’ Post-Secondary Plans By this point, seniors have spent so many years of their life in school, done lots of soul searching, and decided what is next for their post-secondary plans. Whether a…College & Career, Supporting Students
Blog 3 Important Things High School Counselors Can Talk About in Senior Meetings There is some uniqueness between what I talk about as a high school counselor with seniors compared to all other grades. When we get into talking about these three…College & Career, Supporting Students
Blog 5 Niche Groups of High School Students to Look Out For as a Supportive High School Counselor During my years as a high school counselor, I discovered a few groups of high school students that I especially needed to make note of, pay attention to, and reach out…Supporting Students
Blog 3 Reasons Why It’s Okay to Ask for Help During the College Application Process As your student gets closer and closer to graduation, you want them to have a post-secondary plan for their life after high school. You may be in a season of…College & Career, Supporting Students
Blog 3 Ways to Use College Application Day to Increase Student Confidence Around College Applications I am completely aware that college is not the post-secondary path for every high school student. However, hosting an event like a “College Application Day” is shown to…College & Career, Supporting Students
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 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 4 Quick Tips for Remembering Students’ Names Once you start getting to know students, school counseling referrals will flow, connections will be made, and trust will be built. Relational capital is one of your most…Supporting Students
Blog 4 Practical Ways to Incorporate Digital Activities and Check-Ins into Your School Counseling Setting School counselors often ask me how to best utilize check-ins or digital activities with their students. Digital resources are a helpful way to connect with students and…Supporting Students, Programs & Systems
Blog 3 Effective Ways to Check In With Students Even When It’s Tough Students are inundated with emails right now and have information overload. We’re living in some weird times. What can we do to check in with students and make sure…Supporting Students
- Blog How to Stay Organized and Motivated with a Scholarship Spreadsheet High school parents are living in tension. Their student is almost ready to launch into the “real world,” but they’re still under their roof. How do they push them to do…
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Blog How I Hold Productive Senior Meetings as High School Counselor I want to tell you about my first week of “Senior Meetings” as we start out the school year. My senior meetings are timed at 30 minutes each, and I try to do about six…Supporting Students, Programs & Systems