January #SCCHAT: Promoting Your School Counseling Program (1/7/14)


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 planning a special School Counseling On Air (#SCOA) event for February 4, 8pmEST in honor of National School Counseling Week.  Follow #SCCHAT and #SCOA for updates on this Live Google On Air Hangout!

#SCCHAT occurs on the first Tuesday of the month unless otherwise specified. To add the #SCCHAT schedule to your calendar click here.

Join School Counselor Blog and SCOPE for #scchat the first Tuesday of the month @ 8pmEST!  For transcripts of previous #SCCHATs, schedules for future School Counselor Tweet Chats, and information on how to participate, visit #SCCHAT Info: http://bit.ly/scchat-info.

If you are interested in moderating a future School Counselor Tweet Chat, direct message me on twitter!

Dr. Erin Mason is a former Middle School Counselor, now Counselor Educator who manages SCOPE, a group blog dedicated to chronicling the positive impact of School Counseling professionals. Connect with Erin via email, follow her on Twitter, add her on LinkedIn or Google+, and become a fan of the SCOPE 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.

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