Author: Rachel Davis
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The Handy Holiday Gift Guide for School Counselors
It isn’t referred to as ‘the most wonderful time of the year’ for nothing. Whether you celebrate Christmas or not, one cannot deny that there is something about this time of the year that brings cheer of some kind. While for many, the holidays are for baking, Christmas shopping, and downtime with family and friends,…
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My Go-To Holiday Activities to Use Across All Tiers of School Counseling
The final lap after Thanksgiving and before Winter Break is crazy, to say the very least. And yet, the festive season comes with a charm of its own. Instrumental carols are slowly replacing ocean sounds as calming music during circle time. Teachers are probably all excited about playing Secret Santa, and the kids won’t stop…
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Simple Strategies to Transform Your Counseling Program
Are you feeling overwhelmed? Does it seem like too much to schedule all of your lessons and groups, stay organized, and collect data…all while trying to advocate for your role and deal with pushback?! Don’t worry I have a solution for you. The good news is you can implement simple strategies to transform your counseling…
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5 Ways to Teach Gratitude Across All Tiers of School Counseling
Can you believe Thanksgiving is just around the corner already? All set for a well-deserved break? Planning your family dinner spread already? I personally love the festivity that comes with the season. It helps me reflect on the year gone by, with gratitude, and therefore, I have always tried to take this practice into school…
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Stress Free School Counseling: How this Course is a Game Changer
If I had to ask you to rate how stressed you are at/because of school, on a scale of 1-10, 10 being the highest, would I be wrong to assume that you are most likely to settle on a number closer to 10? Do you end up taking work home or not being able to…
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6 Simple Solutions to Make Classroom Lessons Effective and Enjoyable
As a first year counselor, if there was one task that made me a little queasy at school, it was having to teach classroom lessons. I felt unprepared/underprepared for them, considering I had no prior teaching experience or classroom management skills at that point. What helped me overcome this obstacle over the years was more…
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Proactive Bullying Prevention Strategies
If you’re reading this in October, it is Bullying Prevention Month! But let’s be real, our students could use bullying prevention support all year long. I usually love to share implicit bullying prevention strategies like in this blog post, but I also want to focus on preventative bullying prevention-adjace topics such as kindness, conflict resolution,…
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Aligning Your School Counseling Program to the ASCA National Model: The What and The How
Whether you’re a veteran counselor or a newbie, you want your school counseling program to eventually lead to student success. However, given your colossal caseload and all the other responsibilities that come with the job and your school, devoting time to planning a curriculum that is aligned to ASCA standards might seem overwhelming. Therefore, through…
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School Counseling Data Collection Roundup: Choosing the right tools and using them the right way
Data collection has always been my passion, not because I’ve grown up loving numbers but simply because over the years, I’ve come to see how much value statistical data holds in the success of one’s school counseling program. It might take a bit to get a hang of data collection but since a new academic…
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5 School Counseling Activities to Spruce Up Your Tier 2 & 3 Sessions
I’ve always loved small groups in comparison to individual counseling sessions. Back when I was a new counselor, it somehow seemed easier to keep a smaller bunch of kiddos engaged rather than the whole class (I had a lot to learn about classroom management!) or one student only. This was probably because I was still…