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I can't wait to connect and share with other school counselors at the 2025 American School Counselor Association Conference in Long Beach, CA! 🌴🌊 Check out my session for   #ASCA25 : 💻  📣  Design Products to Promote Your Program  with Andrea Burston ( @jyjcounselor ) This session will provide participants with the opportunity to design materials with Canva that you can start using immediately to promote your program! I'm beyond excited! Let the countdown to  #ASCA25  begin! Who's ready to Navigate and Innovate ?  🙋🏼‍♀️🧭💻 Will you be attending virtually or in-person? What are you looking forward to about  #ASCA25 ? If you are speaking at  #ASCA25 , and are looking to make an image like the one above, I made a free template on Canva  here: https://bit.ly/asca25speaker . Drop all your info in on Canva and use it to promote your session! If you use it, tag me! I'd love to see it! ASCA Conference Details Get all the details about...

The days leading up to winter break can be stressful! To help students and staff cope with the stress of the season, the Positive Behavior Intervention and Support (PBIS) team at my school hosts a daily self-care challenge for the 12 days leading up to winter break. Each day, students and staff can take a selfie featuring them doing the daily self-care prompt. Students and staff who submit a self-care selfie, will be entered in the weekly prize drawing.  Find some examples of prizes here:  12 Days of Self-Care Prizes .   This year the challenge starts on Thursday, December 5th and continues through Friday, December 20th.  I am sharing everything you need to host this challenge at your own school! Students and staff will submit their selfies using a Google Form. I made a template of the form I am using so that you can use it too! You can access it here: TEMPLATE FOR SELF-CARE SELFIE FORM   I created a slideshow on Canva to share the daily prompt with students and...

5 Bulletin Boards You Can Keep Up All Year Long! School counselors typically have a love-hate relationship with bulletin boards. They love how they look, but thinking of an idea, putting them up and changing them throughout the year can be a challenge. I am here to help with inspiration and some relatively easy to assemble bulletin boards that you could leave up ALL YEAR LONG! Some of the bulletin boards I included below have been up for YEARS at my school  My hope is that you can get a bulletin board up and not have to think about it. You can get back to work supporting students while having welcoming and engaging bulletin boards! Click on the images or links below to access everything you need to re-create each of these 5 bulletin boards. Need more bulletin board inspiration? The School Counselor Blog search allows you to find even more FREE resources and ideas. Here are all the bulletin boards on SCB .  "We Are So Glad You Are Here!" Bulletin Board "We Are So Glad You...

Editable Friendship Bracelet Style Bulletin Board I have wanted to create a friendship bracelet style bulletin board ever since I saw them all over Instagram last year. I made this simple, customizable, and editable - "In My Middle School Era" bulletin board using my Canva educator account . To create this bulletin board for your school or office, access my  EXACT "In My Middle School Era" Friendship Bracelet Style Bulletin Board  or access the Editable Friendship Bracelet Bulletin Board template . If you use the  Editable Friendship Bracelet Bulletin Board template  you can then change the letter beads to write things like: In My Friendship Era In My "SCHOOL NAME" Era In my Kindness Era ...or whatever you want the letter beads to spell! 😉 To assemble the "In My Middle School Era" Bulletin Board follow the steps below. Friendship Bracelet Style Bulletin Board Letters & Beads I saved the whole file as a PDF and then pr...

There is nothing quite like that New School Year Energy! With the first day of school just around the corner, I made fun gift to kick-off the school year and to provide a little caffeine boost to my colleagues.⚡ I packaged up mini cans of Alani energy drink, motivational pens, and notepads. I added a gift tag I made in Canva to tie it all together. I am planning to give a gift bag to all the school counselors and school psychologists in my department as a welcome back gift on our district's Opening Day. To make the "New School Year Energy!" gift bag, I purchased: Mini cans of Alani Energy drink * - these are sugar free and come in fun flavors! You can purchase these at Target or Walmart (not-sponsored!) Small lined notepads * Motivational pens * Small cellophane bags - I found these at Target * Ribbon - These ones from Target are my favorite * Shredded paper * "New School Year Energy!" printable gift tag I filled each bag with...

Market Your School Counseling Program Did you know that when you share about your school counseling program you are engaging in professional advocacy? 📣 In my presentation Market Your School Counseling Program at the ASCA National Conference,   I shared various ways that school counselors can market their school counseling program to educational partners by sharing what they already do!   Advocating for your school counseling program is NOT bragging! Engaging in professional advocacy and marketing your program is a great way to let others know how you support the academic success, social-emotional well being and career development of ALL students! You can view my full presentation here:  bit.ly/asca24market What new things did you learn from my presentation? Connect with Danielle! If you have questions, connect with me on on  Instagram ,  Facebook ,  BlueSky ,  LinkedIn  or email me at  danielle@schcounselor.com . If you use this id...