School Counselor Blog

It may seem like a small gesture, but writing notes to students can make a big impact. This year I am making it my goal to write notes to students when they go above and beyond to applaud their effort. I am also including one of our Positive Behavior Intervention and Support (PBIS) tickets with the card. Some examples of things I have written notes to students for recently, include: Assisting with 6th grade Move Up Day Assisting with New Student Orientation Providing a tour to a new student and helping the student feel welcome Sharing experience as a previously new student to help a new student feel less alone in their experience Helping another student in class Cleaning up the cafeteria after lunch - when no one asked Below are some pictures of notes I shared on Instagram ( @sch_counselor ). I love finding fun, student-friendly, note cards to give to student. The Target Bullseye's Playground has had some great ones lately. More @target "thank you" ...

The next School Counselor Tweet Chat is on  Tuesday, September 3, 2013  at 8pm EST. The topic of the chat this month is  Making the Most of Your School Counseling Internship   moderated by Carli Segal ( @carlicounsels ) author of Carli Counsels blog . We will be chatting about tips, ideas, and resources for school counseling interns so they can make the most of their internship experience. I strongly encourage those new to twitter to come and join us and participate! Even if you just watch and read the tweets you will learn so much! I archive each chat so that even if you aren't available to participate live you can read the chat later. We look forward to tweeting with you! The October #SCCHAT will be held on October 1, 2013 at 8pmEST. The topic is  Bully Prevention Month Ideas: K-12  and will be moderated by Dr. Susan Fuller ( @EElementarySC‎ ), elementary school counselor and author of the Entirely Elementary School Counseling blog. We will be...

Tagboard , "the social media hub for hashtags," is an amazing site that allows you to search hashtags for multiple social media sites even if you do not have any of the social media accounts!  It is a great way to get inspiration and to search multiple social media sites at one time. Tagboard allows you to organize anything that has a hashtag from various social media sites. Once you search for a hashtag, you can login to one of your social media sites to save your  tagboards  so you can easily look them up again later. I first shared  Tagboard  at the Technology Smackdown at the ASCA Conference in Philadelphia . I have since created various tagboards  related to school counseling. I thought it would be super cool to create a  tagboard  for the hashtag #scoffice to see pictures that school counselors have shared of the office as part of Get Connected for Back to School . Below is a screen shot of the #scoffice Tagboard . A...