Author: Rachel Davis

By: Rebekah Murphy There’s something special about the end of the school year. You can almost smell the freedom you’re about to experience. After a year of super early mornings and late, late nights, you deserve a restful and rejuvenating summer!  But before you check-out for the year you may notice an influx in behavior…

By: Neeti Sarkar As I write this blog post, I cannot help but feel relieved that I have only 31 working days before we go on summer break. That said, 31 days seem like too little, given all the end-of-year responsibilities counselors have and all the loose ends we’ve got to tie up. One such…

Technology can be a blessing and a curse, right? Sometimes it seems easier to do things the old-school way, but there are certain tech tools school counselors don’t want to miss out on. You can use technology to automate systems in your counseling program, allowing you to have more time to help students. And I…

By: Neeti Sarkar It’s been over three years since we first went online, yet, here we are, back in school, physically, still battling the repercussions of having been online for a year and a half. From what I’ve gathered, parents and teachers across the world are struggling to get kids off devices. From excessive screen…

By: Neeti Sarkar Do you agree that all kids worry, at some point, in varying amounts, for different reasons, and with differing intensities? Starting school. Meeting new friends and teachers. Taking tests. Competing with peers. Learning a new skill or subject. Resolving conflict. Being assertive. Responding confidently in the classroom. Graduating. Family changes. Sickness in…

By: Neeti Sarkar Let’s face it. Some classroom lessons we teach are light and airy and fun, and then some are quite the opposite. Initially, I found delivering personal safety lessons almost debilitating. Never an easy or likable topic to teach, it remains among the most important ones for us school counselors. While there are…

Teachers are stressed! We as school counselors can help maintain a collaborative school climate by encouraging and supporting teachers. So what does this look like? School counselors can support teachers through supplemental class lessons Offer “as-needed” class lessons In addition to your scheduled monthly classroom counseling lessons, teachers may need a little help tackling tough…

By: Neeti Sarkar If you’ve been reading my posts here, you will remember that like some of you, I took up my current job just before the pandemic hit. This meant I didn’t get to meet my colleagues, admin, students, and their parents, for 19 months! However, given the nature of our jobs as school…

By: Neeti Sarkar I’m not sure how it is for you but in my school, we have new admissions around the year. This means that there are some must-have Tier 1 lessons I facilitate in Semester 1 that I have to repeat or extend in Semester 2 as a refresher for the existing students and…

By: Neeti Sarkar Last month I wrote about tackling relational aggression among upper elementary girls, and as life would have it, I ended up spending a good chunk of time last week, trying to resolve issues among boys, that had suddenly, or seemingly so, made an appearance everywhere – on the playground, on the bus,…