School Counselor Blog

In celebration of National School Counseling Week 2014, I am hosting the second annual National School Counseling Week Link Party! The National School Counseling Week Link Party is a way for school counselors to share their ideas, lessons, and resources to share related to National School Counseling week. What better way to celebrate and share together than a link party?! Everyone is invited to link up to celebrate National School Counseling Week! To participate in the National School Counseling Week Link Party: Create a post titled "National School Counseling Week Link Party!" Write a post about one of the following: how you plan to celebrate National School Counseling Week at Your School your favorite ideas, lessons, resources, etc. related to NSCW a collection of things you have done to celebrate NSCW in the past Place the National School Counseling Week Link Party Logo (above) in your post. Submit your blog post using the Inlinkz tool below. Make su

In my latest post on the  Free Spirit Publishing's Blog , Using Social Media to Find National School Counseling Week Ideas ,  I share various social media sites you can use to find ideas for celebrating National School Counseling Week at your school. How are you planning to celebrate National School Counseling Week at your school? Where do you find ideas for celebrating National School Counseling Week? I started writing for  Free Spirit Publishing's Blog  in April of 2012. Check out the  Counselor's Corner  for more Free Spirit Publishing Blog Posts by me! I love  Free Spirit's books  and I am so excited to contribute to  Free Spirit's Blog ,  "a springboard of ideas for teachers, counselors, and anyone who cares about kids!" Comment below,  tweet ,  contact Danielle , or share on the  School Counselor Blog Facebook Page ! Danielle is a K-12 Certified School Counselor, Nationally Certified Counselor, and blogger at  School Counselor Bl

While searching for materials related to the content of a graduate career counseling course I am teaching, I found the National Career Development Association (NCDA) Website . NCDA is a division of the American Counseling Association. The NCDA website has a wealth of information related to career development and career counseling. The resources page has links to many different online assessments, job-seeker resources, and tons of other great career resources and information. The NCDA website is definitely a resource I can see myself using during the course I am teaching as well as in my work as a school counselor! Have you ever used the NCDA website? How would you use the resources from this site in your work as a school counselor? Comment below,  tweet ,  contact Danielle , or share on the  School Counselor Blog Facebook Page ! Danielle is a K-12 Certified School Counselor, Nationally Certified Counselor, and blogger at  School Counselor Blog , a place where school coun

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 School Counselin

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 pla

I have had the pleasure of working with Dr. Erin Mason in various capacities for the past few years. She never ceases to amaze me with her brilliant ideas of how to connect school counselors! Well, Dr. Mason is at it again and she came up with a FREE "One Tool-At-A-Time" Series  on SCOPE  to teach school counselors how they could use various tech tools! So far in the  "One Tool-At-A-Time" Series  she shared how to use:    Twitter (just in time for this month's #SCCHAT !) Livebinders Google Drive and Forms Smore Remind 101 All the videos are less than 50 minutes and teach you how to use and implement the tools! Check out the Smore flyer below to watch all 5 videos! What is your favorite tech tool to use as a school counselor? What tech tools would you like to learn more about? Comment below,  tweet ,  contact Danielle , or share on the  School Counselor Blog Facebook Page ! Danielle is a K-12 Certified School Counselor, Nationally C

This is such a cool and powerful video! I can't wait to share this with students during my bullying lessons! How will you use this video in your work with students? Comment below,  tweet ,  contact Danielle , or share on the  School Counselor Blog Facebook Page ! Danielle is a K-12 Certified School Counselor, Nationally Certified Counselor, and blogger at  School Counselor Blog , a place where school counselors share innovative ideas,  creative lesson plans,  and quality resources. Connect with Danielle via  email ,  Twitter ,  Pinterest ,  LinkedIn ,  Google+ , and become a fan of the  School Counselor Blog Facebook Page .

( via ) Happy 2014 everyone! It is hard to believe it is 2014 already! I am spending the day planning and getting organized for the year ahead! How are you spending the first day of 2014? Comment below,  tweet ,  contact Danielle , or share on the  School Counselor Blog Facebook Page ! Danielle is a K-12 Certified School Counselor, Nationally Certified Counselor, and blogger at  School Counselor Blog , a place where school counselors share innovative ideas,  creative lesson plans,  and quality resources. Connect with Danielle via  email ,  Twitter ,  Pinterest ,  LinkedIn ,  Google+ , and become a fan of the  School Counselor Blog Facebook Page .