You and I both know social emotional learning is important. With your high school counselor training and experience, this is right in your wheelhouse. However, with the pressures of academic classroom lessons, scholarships, post-secondary life, transitions to college and life and beyond, let’s face it… Social emotional learning is easily
Here’s What to Expect In This Episode: Advisory programs are large-scale school interventions that lead students through social emotional lessons. With this week’s guest, Leslie of Informed Decisions, we hear the dos and don’ts of starting and running an advisory program in your high school. We talk about the importance of
As high school counselors, we know that mindfulness resources can help lower stress levels and increase academic engagement for our students. However, we don’t have the time to create resources to make an impact in this area as we’re busy doing other individual counseling, small group counseling, classroom lessons, and
Here’s What to Expect In This Episode: Don’t just stop at academic lessons in the classroom. Dive deeper and bring social-emotional learning to your students… because we all know how important this is for high schoolers! Use these 3 ideas to get your brain thinking about how to bring social-emotional
As a school counseling department, we decided to try an every-other-year approach with two major events because they require a lot of manpower to organize, facilitate, and successfully pull off. One was an in-person career fair (“How to Host a Career Fair Without Losing Your Mind”), and the second was
Mindfulness seems like a buzzword in the counseling world, but it’s because it’s something our students are truly needing help with… so we’re hearing it a lot as high school counselors! A mindfulness bulletin board was our solution after our needs assessment this year showed that our high school students are majorly
What should you pack in a counselor crisis bucket for your school counseling program? Be able to respond on a dime to suicide, death, or other crisis with ideas for protocol. I hate that I even have to have a counselor crisis bucket. But when I saw Simply Imperfect Counselor’s
Unfortunately, I have had to deal with grief at the high school level too many times to count. I have run numerous small groups for grief, and I am so encouraged to watch students grow and process their emotions. Our team has set up a protocol for what to do
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.
