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Stress Contagion and School Counselors
Stress contagion may be a new term to you, but it refers to the phenomenon where individuals within a group or social network can “catch” or be influenced by the stress levels of others around them. And whether it’s your first or your fifty-first year in a school, please let us remind you that ’tis
Details5+ Ways to Celebrate National School Counseling Week
It’s that time of year again: National School Counseling Week! It’s a week where you get to humble brag about everything you’re doing for your students, school, and community. Keep reading (or listen) to find out why we say it’s the best week of real estate for school counselors! In this post we’re giving you
Details5 Ways to Help Student Behavior Management
If you have been listening to our podcast for the past 6 months, you know that we’ve added, “We’re in the trenches with you” to our opening phrase. We believe that’s important because if someone has been out of this role for more than 6 months, it’s impossible for them to truly grasp what it’s
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Wolfpack School Counseling
One of the scariest phrases is, “We’ve always done it this way,” so things continue to be done that way. This post is all about taking the ways things have always been done, shattering that mindset, and applying the new rule of school counseling to achieve wolfpack school counseling. We are huge fans of attending
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School Counseling Goals
Why does it seem like setting goals for school counseling is always relevant? This blog post is based on this podcast episode where we discussed school counseling goals with a twist. We recently read the book, The Deepest Well by Dr. Nadine Burke Harris. We realize that the rest of the world read this book
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School Counseling Hacks
This summer we presented to a full house at the ASCA Summer Conference in Austin, TX. We shared some of our own school counseling hacks, along with some we crowdsourced from our Instagram page. The topic was so successful, we were asked to record a podcast on the same topic. We believed a blog post
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5 Tips for Getting Along with Difficult People
Do these folks sound familiar to you? The names may be different but you are probably able to put a face with each of these names. These people are in every school building across America, and how you deal with them says a lot about your character and patience. Is it just me or does
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Easy Ways to Celebrate National School Counseling Week
Going right along with this year’s theme, “Better Together,” we recently sat down with Olivia Carter, 2021 National School Counselor of the year, and discussed plans for this year’s National School Counseling Week coming up Feb. 7 – 11. (Otherwise dubbed, by us, as the Golden Globes for school counselors). Here are some exciting, fresh
DetailsTransforming Your Advisory Council
We recently recorded a 15 minute school counseling podcast episode that we called a “from the trenches” episode. In this episode we shared 4 tips that helped us as we conducted our first semester advisory council meeting. We’ve put these in a guide that you can download and use to create your ideal advisory council.
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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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