Use this list of free resources to use as social emotional learning activities to help you work with kids and young adults. As a special educator for 10 years, I can say without a doubt that we need more social emotional learning supports for kids and young adults. Some of my best days in the classr

Helping Kids Deal with Anger This post is the first in a series of eight, that help kids cope with issues that can become problematic i...

Use this list of free resources to use as social emotional learning activities to help you work with kids and young adults. As a special educator for 10 years, I can say without a doubt that we need more social emotional learning supports for kids and young adults. Some of my best days in the classr

What is the difference between Counselling and Psychotherapy? Counselling is a short term process whereas psychotherapy is a long term process. Counselor ..

Pijesz kawę przez cały dzień? O 14.00 możesz nie być w stanie podejmować racjonalnie decyzji. Dlaczego tak się dzieje, jak dieta wpływa na nasz mózg i jak to wszystko przekłada się potem na pracę i...

Descarga gratis este Vector de Ilustración de concepto de consejería matrimonial y descubre más de 15 Millones de recursos gráficos en Freepik

I have added and changed some of the following forms. Please visit my TpT store to see the new and revised forms. There are days/weeks that I feel like I am juggling a million things as a school counselor. I have been looking for a system that will help me balance all of the facets of the job. Below are some things I am currently using to help with this task. I am constantly tweaking the organizational things that I use, but these things have helped me tremendously. I just started using a Counseling Notebook to help me keep everything handy and organized. Inside: Lesson Plans: I wanted to have a place where I could see my whole week's worth of lessons for Group Counseling, Individual Counseling, and Classroom Guidance. This is what I have come up with. This has been one of the best things I have done! I type on mine and print it after I have planned for the week. Scroll to the bottom of this post for the documents. This is an ongoing list of students I see throughout the day. I jot them down because I get very busy but then can go back and make more detailed notes if needed. This is the log that I currently use. I keep track of any communication I have with Parents/Guardians. I have ABC tabs that I keep these sheets in for quick and easy access. This is the form from my district that I am currently using but will probably tweak it. I am also planning on adding a more detailed notes page for students who I see more frequently or need more notes on. I am working on this and will post it when I am finished with it. If you are interested in copies of any or all of my forms (some have been updated), please visit my TpT store. Do you have a Counseling Notebook? If so, how do you organize it?

Creating doodle-style mental health infographics & worksheets

Many years ago, when I first started as a "Guidance Counselor" (that's what we were called back then), I had a wonderful, forward thinking, district level "Guidance" Coordinator. She saw the yearly budget battles that each Spring found state legislators discussing cuts to School Counselor, Media, Music, and Art positions and decided to do something about it. As a proactive individual, she believed in the power of data and was determined to protect the jobs of her Counselors. She had us start collecting data long before collecting data was in everyone's consciousness. Our "guidance" logs tracked how our time was spent daily and was then compiled into monthly reports to indicate the amount of time we spent performing direct and indirect services to students. This data collection helped secure School Counselor positions in every elementary school in our county at a time when many other positions were being cut. Today logging how we spend our time is more important (and easier) than ever as School Counselors around the country advocate for their positions and the ability to determine how their services are utilized in their schools. As a member of the Facebook group The Elementary School Counselor Exchange, I have read numerous posts about record keeping, accountability, paperless forms and surveys, and a general feeling of distress at the misuse of our specialized education, abilities, and skills. In many schools we are the most expensive lunchroom hostess, hall monitor, or registrar to be found. We are being asked to perform jobs that do not require a Masters degree in School Counseling, and in so doing are being prevented or severely limited in performing the student-centered services that do. When you think about it, this makes school districts and administrators very poor stewards of the human resources they have in their School Counselor. Rather than investing their School Counselor resource in services and programs that can close the achievement gap, administrators are requiring School Counselors to perform tasks that could easily be performed by any number of reasonably intelligent and responsible adults on campus. The ASCA National Model clearly outlines the role of the School Counselor and gives examples of what is and is not appropriate usage of a School Counselor's time. ASCA recommends 80% of a school counselors time be spent in direct and indirect services to students. In situations where the skills and services of the School Counselor are being misused or under utilized, it is even more compelling to provide the data that gives an accounting of how we spend our day. Because many of the things we do are not visible to the eyes of our administrators or colleagues, there is a great deal of misunderstanding and misinformation about what our job entails. There is also the confidential nature of some of our services that are not readily apparent to those who evaluate us or have the final say in our programming. Therefore, we are often called upon to do jobs that actually impair or interfere with the job of being a School Counselor. This is where Google Forms can help a School Counselor provide the process data needed in documenting how their day is spent. There is so much more that can be done with Google Forms in terms of perception data too, but for now let's start with how a School Counselor's day is spent. The Google Form here is a compilation of duties and responsibilities shared with me by my School Counselor colleagues from the Facebook group The Elementary School Counselor Exchange. The variety of unrelated duties represented in this form have been assigned to School Counselors leaving them, in many cases, without the time or support to pursue relevant school and student needs. It is my hope that School Counselors can use this form to demonstrate, with data and visual representations of graphs, how their time is being spent, both in an effort to create change and to show progress towards that change. The link for the Counselor Activity Log above allows you to make a copy so you can make any additions or deletions you want in order for this form to be more representative of your specific situation. To make your own copy, first open the above link. You should see the form in the gray version. Don't edit yet. Once opened, go to File in upper left corner. Click on File and you will see Make a copy. Click on Make a copy, then you will be asked to rename the form and click ok. Next, close my form you just used to make your copy. Now go to your Google Drive and look for the form you just renamed. Also be sure, the word shared is not beside your form. Shared means your information is not private. Next click on the name of your form and you should see the gray version ready for you to make your edits. Now you are ready to make edits and personalize my form for your usage! A WORD OF WARNING! Remember, I made the link to this form public so I could share it with you all. That means the responses (if anyone is thinking of just using the link to this form) are public too. Anyone on the web can see it. So please, do not put student information in the form above before making your own private copy. Usage of this specific link without copying to your Google drive first will result in your data being recorded in a shared file and anyone on the internet can see your confidential student information. As you begin making entries to your form, data will be recorded in a spread sheet like this one. Your Google Drive will have a document titled with the name of your form and the word responses in parentheses. If you want to sort your data, open the responses document, go to Data, click on the column you want to sort and choose sort from A-Z or sort from Z-A. When you are ready to view your data in graphs, open your form, click on Responses and then Summary of Responses to view your graphs and data. Many thanks to the School Counselors who shared their unrelated duties with me for the creation of this form. It is my hope you will find it useful as you document your daily activities and strive to gain the support you need to bring your program in line with the ASCA National Model. Do you have a method for recording how you deliver services to students? What have you found most effective for collecting process data and giving administrators an understanding of your job role? If you are interested in more information about Goolge forms, or how you can quickly and easily create your own, follow this link to my post with step by step instructions, with pictures!

Do you ruminate about awful scenarios? or fixate on angry or anxious negative thoughts? Fixating on negative thoughts or dwelling on awful scenarios can cannibalize your brainpower, ramp up your anxiety, drain your energy, and distort how you see yourself and the world and people around you. Learning the technique

A blog about school counseling and school counseling resources

Trying to stand out from the other 500 therapists in your area can be a difficult (and frustrating) process. With so many therapists and private practices around, how is that some get lots of clients and others, well, don't?In this guide, I'm sharing 54 specific ways that you can attract the right clients to your […]

School counselor in the specials rotation? Use units, themed days, interactive notebooks, & centers for great counseling specials rotation activities!

Looking for something? Here are some tools to help you find what you are looking for. Older Blog Items Counsellors Counsellors Accepting Clients Now

Example Stressors: Prosocial Domain A domain where teachers can experience a lot of stress. We worrying about our students' stress levels, our colleagues stress levels & the stress of our students' families. More resources: https://t.co/dhoZFSMBdE #SelfReg #ChildHonouring