School Counselor Blog

For our February Inservice, school counselors in my district were charged with hosting a social-emotional wellness session for teachers in our school buildings. My co-counselor and I decided to do something experiential. We wanted teachers to experience various self-care activities; not just talk about them. We decided to call this event a “Self-Care Fair” since teachers would have the option of trying different activities during the event. Overview of the Self-Care Fair For our Self-Care Fair, we had a two-hour block of time where we hosted six, twenty-minute sessions. We had multiple activities to choose from for each time-slot. Teachers were able to select which activities they wanted to attend. Our goal was for teachers to have a choice about what they participated in for the day. We chose activities that would be within teachers’ comfort zones. We wanted it to bel an enjoyable, self-care opportunity, not something stressful!  Self-Care Activities We hosted the following sessio...

I am so beyond excited to be hosting an  ASCA Webinar  for the  2013 ASCA Webinar Series .  You may have noticed this in your November/December issue of the ASCA School Counselor Magazine.  I will be hosting   Blogging in Five Easy Steps  next Wednesday, January 16th at 4pmEST.  I will be sharing just how easy it is to start blogging as a professional school counselor! More more detailed information about my webinar,  Blogging in Five Easy Steps , click on the highlighted link. To register for the webinar, click here . Webinars in the  ASCA Webniar Series  are FREE for American School Counselor Association members! What information would you like to learn about blogging as a professional 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...

April's #SCCHAT was held on April 3, 2012 at 8pmEST. We chatted about Effective Professional Development for Professional School Counselors .   There was so much energy around this month's #scchat topic! We chatted over an hour! School Counselors shared information about professional development topics they find import and how to advocate for relevant professional development! Check out the full chat transcript!  Note: In the tweet chat we used PD to stand for Professional Development and PSC to stand for Professional School Counselor (this helped us save valuable characters!) To access all of the tweets with the hashtag #scchat,  click here . The next School Counselor Tweet Chat is on Tuesday, May 1, 2012 at 8pmEST. Dr. Erin Mason  ( @ecmmason ) will be moderating the chat about Basics of Legislative Advocacy ! We will also be hosting a BONUS #SCCHAT on Saturday, May 5, 2012 at 11:30amEST. We will be hosting this live chat during the Rhode Isla...

I am not sure if I mentioned this before on my blog, but I am HUGE Seth Godin fan. (Thanks to my daD!)  I am even using one of Seth Godin's books, Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?  as required reading for the Introduction to School Counseling course that I am teaching in May. The other day my dad sent me one of Seth Godin's latest manifestos. This one is about school and is titled Stop Stealing Dreams: (What is School For?) .   I am making  Stop Stealing Dreams  required reading for my Introduction to School Counseling Course too. Stop Stealing Dreams  is a must read and a must share.  Stop Stealing Dreams   is FREE to encourage sharing and discussion. I hope Stop Stealing Dreams: (What are Schools For?) s tart's a much needed national discussion about how schools need to move out of the factory mindset and prepare for the jobs of the 21st century.  This is of utmost importance because school counselors play a critical role ...