School Counselor Blog

Join us Andrea Burston ( @jyjcounselor ) and me ( @sch_counselor Sunday, April 18th at 7:00pm EST for Fabulous School Counselor Finds on Google Meet! We will share our favorite school counselor finds with other school counselors. We can't wait to hear about your favorite school counselor finds! To sign up & view a list of future meet ups visit: http://bit.ly/meetup4sc .  Use the Hashtag #FABSCFINDS on Instagram and Twitter. If you are attending and want to let others know, you can download the image below to display on social media!  I love connecting with other school counselors! Connect with me on  Instagram ,  Twitter , or Facebook .

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...

If you are new to Twitter and looking to create meaningful connections with others and gain more followers, this post is for you! Below I will share some tips to take your Twitter profile to the next level! 1. Come Out of Your Shell One of the first things you may notice when creating a Twitter account is that your profile picture is the image of an egg. If you are a new user you may not understand the importance of changing your profile picture. Missing this very important step will limit your ability to connect and communicate with others on Twitter. Your profile is your first impression to other Twitter users. If you are an egg, people do not know who you are - and they may even think that you are a spammer. On Twitter, there's no such thing as a " good egg ." Let's try to put it in real life terms...being an egg on Twitter is like walking around with a brown paper grocery bag over your head. No one can see your face or who you are. People really d...