School Counselor Blog

The topic of the the January #SCCHAT was  Promoting Your School Counseling Program. The chat was moderated by Franciene Sabens ( @FSabens ), a high school counselor from Illinois, and Chris Wood ( @ChrisWood415 ), high school counselor from Iowa. This was a fast-paced chat where school counselors shared TONS excellent ideas and resources to promote your school counseling program!We will chatted about ideas and resources for promoting your school counseling program to students, parents, and other stakeholders! You can view the transcript below or   read the full transcript here . For more information about #SCCHAT and transcripts from previous chats visit:  http://bit.ly/scchat-info . [ View the story "January #SCCHAT: Promoting Your School Counseling Program " on Storify ] #SCCHAT occurs on the first Tuesday of the month unless otherwise specified. To add the #SCCHAT schedule to your calendar  click here . We are in the process of planning a special Sc...

The next School Counselor Tweet Chat is on  Tuesday, January 7, 2014  at 8pm EST. The topic of the chat this month is  Promoting Your School Counseling Program   and will be moderated by Franciene Sabens ( @FSabens ), a high school counselor from Illinois, and Chris Wood ( @ChrisWood415 ), high school counselor from Iowa. We will be chatting about ideas and resources for promoting your school counseling program to students, parents, and other stakeholders! Franciene created an awesome Smore flyer to promote this month's chat. I strongly encourage those new to twitter to come and join us and participate! You can view a free tutorial of how to use Twitter by Dr. Erin Mason as part of the SCOPE "One Tool-At-A-Time" Series . 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! We are in the process of pl...

Does anyone else feel like 2013 just FLEW by?! I honestly can't believe it is going to be 2014! I am so thankful for all of the wonderful things that have happened in 2013. It was fun to go through previous posts I wrote and re-live 2013 a little!  Some of highlights of 2013 included: Starting a new job as a middle school counselor! Attending and presenting at the 2013 ASCA Conference. Especially hanging out and presenting with my school counselor blogger BFF Andrea Burston - ( JYJoyner Counselor )!!! Meeting blogger buddies Rebecca Lallier ( School Counseling by Heart ), Dr. Susan Fuller ( Entirely Elementary Counseling ), Marissa Rex ( Elementary School Counseling) , and Jeff Ream ( The Counseling Geek ) for the first time in person at the 2013 ASCA Conference in Philadelphia, PA. Continuing to host #SCCHAT with Dr. Erin Mason at SCOPE . (FYI SCOPE is getting a complete overhaul to better assist school counselors in learning about and utilizing technology tools!...

We all know what this time of the year is...if you've forgotten check any tv ad because it's back to school time!  Andrea from JYJ Counselor Blog and Danielle from School Counselor Blog want to celebrate and kick off the new school year with you! There are many ways that you can participate and connect with other school counselors to celebrate the new school year. Here's how: Share Your First Day of School Picture! We want to see your smiling face as you head back to another year or your first year as a school counselor! We also want to see graduate students and counselor educators heading back to graduate school!  To share your first day of school picture with other school counselors use the hashtag #scday1 on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or Vine. Share Your School Counseling Office! We want to see your school counseling office! Whether you are still preparing and decorating your office for the school year or are all done and ready for students, w...

I am so excited that I was able to participate in School Counseling On Air! Although I have done a webinar before and presented many times at local, state, and national conferences, I have never participated in anything like a live on air hangout. It was such a fun and different experience. It was so cool to connect with people and participate in week of live professional development for school counselors! It is amazing to me how easy it is right now to share information with the world. I look forward to doing more live on air hangouts in the future! I would love for you to share topic ideas for hangouts you would like to see in the comment section of this post! I am planning to do a re-cap of each of the hangouts, but for now I wanted to give you a description of all the hangouts and the link to the archived YouTube videos ! All of the videos are also available on the  School Counseling On Air YouTube channel . Marketing Monday Jeff Ream, the Counseling Geek, discusses ...

Wow! It was such an amazing experience doing my first ever live on air Google hangout! It was so much fun chatting with my blogger buddy,  +Andrea Burston  of JYJoyner Counselor blog about life as a graduate student and new school counselor. During  What I Wish I Knew Wednesday ,  we covered lots of topics, including picking a graduate school , making the most of your internship experience, networking, making connections , interviewing , and other words of wisdom for graduate students and new school counselors. We also answered questions from the audience on Google+ and Twitter. If you missed the live hangout, no worries! You can now watch the archived YouTube video  of  What I Wish I Knew Wednesday ! There are still lots of amazing  School Counseling On Air  presentations planned for this week! Check out the schedule below.  If you missed a live hangout you can view the archived presentation on the School Counseling On Air...