School Counselor Tips

This board covers school counselor organization ideas, advice for first year counselors, distance learning counseling activities, school counseling ideas, time management tips, advice for school counselor data tracking, plus resources for school counselors.
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3 Useful School Counseling Tools to Increase Productivity
You can use these school counselor tools starting immediately with your beginning of the year school counseling! This blog post discusses 3 counseling tips, starting with effective school counseling data tracking and how to share your school counselor data collection. The second area to simplify is your school counselor organization. The third area I cover is how to incorporate helpful tips to streamline your school counselor schedule. Click to read more about these school counselor strategies!
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10 Fun and Constructive Games to Use in School Counseling — Bright Futures Counseling
I find that games have a special way of drawing students in and yet providing opportunities to unlearn negative thoughts and behaviors and to learn and reinforce positive ones. Interestingly, you don’t need to be super creative to incorporate games into your sessions. Everyday objects and easily available materials around you are enough to conceptualize and facilitate counseling games, no matter what the topic or area of need. Here are 10 simple and constructive games for counseling!
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6 Effective School Counselor Strategies to Increase School Counseling Advocacy
Increasing your school counseling advocacy is an essential part of being a school counselor. From batching tasks, creating an efficient school counseling log, and what to include in your school counselor end of year report, this blog post covers it all! Click to read my tips for streamlining your school counselor schedule, how to effectively organize your elementary school counseling schedule, and how to use self assessments for students for school counselor data collection!
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School Counseling Internship + School Counselor Intern Tips
If you’re anything like me, you are probably so eager to get out of the classroom and start your school counseling internship. The skills I learned even helped me land my dream job as school counselor! This blog post covers the 7 steps to make the most of your counselor intern experience, including getting familiar with class lessons, group counseling, and individual sessions. Click to read all the details!
4 Engaging Counseling Activities
Struggling with individual counseling sessions? This post includes ideas for effective individual counseling activities, plus my "secret" school counselor organization tip will keep your student files in order. I also cover 3 collaboration strategies to improve communication with parents and teachers, plus 4 school counselor data collection strategies that help assess individual counseling goals. Gain confidence and get prepared with these individual counseling ideas!
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3 Useful School Counseling Tools to Increase Productivity
You can use these school counselor tools starting immediately with your beginning of the year school counseling! This blog post discusses 3 counseling tips, starting with effective school counseling data tracking and how to share your school counselor data collection. The second area to simplify is your school counselor organization. The third area I cover is how to incorporate helpful tips to streamline your school counselor schedule. Click to read more about these school counselor strategies!
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6 Simple School Counselor Strategies to Avoid School Counselor Burnout
I'm covering 6 school counseling tips that will help you thrive as a school counselor and avoid the dreaded school counselor burnout! These school counselor strategies cover school counselor time management and how to effectively utilize school counselor technology in order to get accurate data tracking. Click to read the post and learn how to increase the efficiency of your school counseling program by optimizing your school counselor schedule.
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5 Ways to Organize your School Counseling Schedule
Taking control of your counseling schedule can lower your stress, increase your impact, and help you get the recognition you deserve as a school counselor! I'm covering 5 ways that you can get become more organized at work. Click to read the details about how to streamline your school counseling schedule!
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10 Reason to Use Boom Cards in School Counseling Programs
If you haven’t heard of them, Boom Cards are paperless, no prep, interactive, self-grading task cards/activities hosted on the Boom Learning platform and are ideal for digital learning! Boom Learning was a life-saving discovery for me during my virtual counseling sessions. If you’re unsure of how to use them, read this blog post!
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7 Practical School Counselor Strategies to Increase Your School Counseling Advocacy
Let’s increase your school counselor advocacy now! I’m covering 7 school counselor strategies to advocate for your school counseling program, including 3 counseling tips for beginning of the year school counseling and 4 school counselor tips for when everyone isn’t on board. These counseling strategies detail ways that you can share your school counseling program goals and school counselor data collection. Click to read more about these 7 ways to increase your school counseling advocacy!
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How I Set Up My School Counselor SMART Goals
Setting up my school counselor SMART goals allows me to start the new year with a concrete, actionable plan. This year, I'm focusing on 3 goals: stepping up my school counselor collection, strengthening my counselor connections, and prioritizing school counselor self care. Click to read more about my school counselor goals and see how you can begin establishing your own goals!
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3 Practical School Counseling Tips to Help Increase Your School Counselor Advocacy
As you plan your beginning of the year school counseling lessons, be sure to focus on increasing your school counseling advocacy! Your Back to School counseling lessons should incorporate a Meet the Counselor session to explain your school counselor role. I'm also detailing specific counseling strategies to share your school counselor data collection. Click to listen and learn more about how to increase your school counseling advocacy school counseling program in your school counseling program!
the top ten games for kids to play with their family and friends, including playing cards
10 Fun and Constructive Games to Use in School Counseling — Bright Futures Counseling
I find that games have a special way of drawing students in and yet providing opportunities to unlearn negative thoughts and behaviors and to learn and reinforce positive ones. Interestingly, you don’t need to be super creative to incorporate games into your sessions. Everyday objects and easily available materials around you are enough to conceptualize and facilitate counseling games, no matter what the topic or area of need. Here are 10 simple and constructive games for counseling!
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5 School Counselor Organization Ideas + How to Organize Your Counseling Office
In this blog post, I'm sharing 5 easy counselor organization ideas that you can start implementing now. From creating a caseload spreadsheet, to streamlining your counseling calendar, I'm covering it all! Click to read the details of how you can get your counseling program more organized.
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12 Engaging Ways to Teach Self-Control in Elementary School
Learning impulse control and self-regulation is an important skill for elementary school kids to develop. These 12 engaging ways to teach self-control are fun, memorable, and easy to implement into your school counseling strategy!