Year: 2021
Year: 2021
How to Help When You’re Hurting: A Guide to Second Hand Trauma
As counselors our calling is to help other people through their pain and struggles. But what happens when the helper has second hand trauma? There is a level of exhaustion, fatigue, and burn out that we have never seen among educators. Post-pandemic (are we even post-pandemic yet?) all students and educators have some degree of
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Preparing a School Crisis Plan Before There’s a School Crisis
As morbid as this may sound when a tragedy happens, it’s too late to put a school crisis plan together. As school counselors we’re often the gatekeepers of the school crisis plan. This means administrators, teachers, and community members may be looking to you. We’re going to give you practical steps for preparing your school crisis plan before a crisis happens.
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5 Things to Do NOW to Feel Prepared for Your School Counseling Year
When the store aisles start to smell like pencils and crayons, we get so excited! And like Pavlov’s dog, we start planning our school counseling program. In this post (and corresponding podcast) we are sharing 5 (of many) tips that you can do now to feel prepared for your school counseling year! We use three
DetailsConnecting with Families Through the Trust Your Journey Project
Indra Owens, is well deserving of the New Jersey School Counselor of the Year title! In this episode she talks about how she connected with families and broke through the mental health stigma barrier. Indra started the Trust Your Journey project during the remote learning days of Covid in 2020. Her transparency showed other families
DetailsTips for School Counselors (Especially If It’s Your First Year!)
Heather Couch, a middle school counselor in Ohio, has written a book titled The School Counselor’s Guide to Surviving the First Year: Internship through Professional Development. In this episode she shares advice that ALL school counselors will benefit from. Check this episode out as we all prepare to go back to school. And then share
DetailsIdeas for Student Engagement with Tanya Kirschman
Tanya Kirschman shares parts of her ASCA presentation, which was full of “rubber meets the road” ideas for lessons and ways to keep your students engaged during classroom guidance lessons. This is a perfect episode as we start to think about going back to school! Make sure you download her amazing PDF she created for
DetailsEveryone Has a Story: Kevin Honeycutt
Kevin Honeycutt’s passion for students is contagious! In this episode he shares parts of his personal story of growing up in poverty and experiencing trauma and how he uses it to connect with students. Share this episode with your faculty and friends as parts of this episode will make you re-examine the way we have
DetailsThe Power of Emotionally Intelligent Educators
Listen as we speak with Megan Marcus and Kelley Munger from FuelEd about: how educators can heal student trauma through relationships, and the need for educators to first do their own healing how equipping educators with relationship-skills can make school counselors jobs easier and better how the best student SEL is actually educator SEL FuelEd
DetailsManaging Tough Behaviors with Conscious Discipline
Joy Winchester is a leader in the world of Conscious Discipline. Her story-telling ability will keep you captivated as you listen to her ideas and techniques for dealing with those tough behaviors we’ve all encountered! Listen as she explains what conscious discipline is, how to implement it, and what changes you can expect. It is
DetailsSchool Counseling Side Hustle with Dr. Russ Sabella
School counselors frequently ask what they can do for side jobs. Maybe it’s to earn extra income, maybe it’s to fill up summer months with extra activities, or maybe it’s just to monetize a hobby. Dr. Russ Sabella co-authored a book, School Counseling Side Hustle, where he lists possible ways that school counselors and other
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