Here’s What to Expect In This Episode: Your school’s administration can make all the difference in your job satisfaction as a high school counselor. The experience you have in your role might look very different depending on whether or not you feel supported by your current admin. If you’re currently
Here’s What to Expect In This Episode: Think back to your family dinner table conversations while you were growing up. Did the topic of finances come up, or was that kept private? For many of us, there was a lack of financial literacy talk and not many opportunities to practice
For many counselors, just hearing the word data makes you start to squirm. This makes sense when you consider that most of us are wired to connect with people, not numbers. If a dewy finish is forming on your brow or your stomach just finished a sick somersault, give me
Here’s What to Expect In This Episode: When you hear the word ‘research’, do you get excited or want to run the other way as fast as you can? I think many school counselors are the latter, and if you’re one of them, you’re going to learn so much in
Here’s What to Expect In This Episode: I’m going to use this episode to win you over to the side of at least CONSIDERING using data in your school counseling program. Even if you’re allergic to it. Or you consider yourself to be data averse… this one’s for you. Let’s
There are many topics to tackle surrounding data collection in high school counseling. When and where should I collect data? How should I use it? Where and with whom should I share it all when I’m done with it? Consider these topics as you’re digging for everything high school counselors
What good is the data you’re collecting as a high school counselor if you’re not sharing it with anyone? You’re running a data-driven program! It’s time to shout it from the mountaintops for all of your stakeholders to hear it! Here are 4 valuable places to share your compelling school
Perception data answers the question, “How are students different in their thoughts, attitudes, skills, behaviors, or knowledge because of what we are doing as school counselors?” Perception data may be the type of data collection that comes most naturally to us as high school counselors. We are more comfortable listening
Collecting data is the thing you want to get better at but just don’t know where to start. It’s way easier to make excuses and never make progress on this front, right? You wish you used more data to inform your school counseling program, but that’s also extremely intimidating. When
When asked why counselors aren’t using data, I found a lack of understanding about its usefulness (it makes total sense that you wouldn’t collect data if it was useless or confusing to you) and a clear list of the roadblocks that counselors face. Once you understand why using data actually
I’m your high school counseling hype girl serving other high school counselors who are burnt out, spread thin, or creatively stumped so that they can breathe new life into their school counseling program and remember why they loved this job in the first place.
