Present Like a Pro: Essential Tips for School Counselors (Meet the Counselor)
***JOIN OUR FREE "BEST YEAR EVER!' EVENT!*** Check out the details at https://www.schoolforschoolcounselors.com/bestyearever Ever felt queasy at the thought of addressing a room full of people? Considered calling in sick inst...
Advocacy, Sustainability, and the Future of School Counseling
Can you believe it's been a year since the School for School Counselors podcast began? We owe our incredible success to you, our amazing school counselor colleagues. To celebrate this milestone, my right-hand and other half o...
Must-Haves Revealed: Upgrade Your School Counseling Space
Are you ready to level up your counseling room for the upcoming school year? We've got you covered with this week's episode, where we reveal the must-have items and resources recommended after polling over 8,000 members of ou...
Hate Hearing About "Self-Care?" An Alternative for School Counselors
Does this sound familiar? You've been told to practice summer self-care in order to recharge and prepare for the upcoming school year. But despite taking time off and engaging in self-care activities, you still feel burnt out...
ADHD Support Revolution: Rethinking Interventions for Success
Do you ever feel like your interventions for students with ADHD are just not working as you expected? Join me, Steph Johnson, as we unravel some of the complexities of ADHD and focus on the concept of positive and negative ur...
Unlocking Student Success: Integrating Dialectical Behavior Therapy in School Counseling
Are your students struggling with emotional dysregulation, self-harm, or impulsive behaviors? Discover the incredible benefits of integrating Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) approaches into school counseling! With mental h...
Be an Even Better School Counselor Next Year- Guaranteed
In this episode, I've got a little trick that's going to ensure that you next-level your school counseling game for next year. What would it be like to walk away at the end of the school year and not even think about school a...
School Counseling Reflections: When May Feels Like "Too Much"
What's happening in school counseling right now? Everybody's EXHAUSTED. Right? Just absolutely exhausted. In this episode, I offer my thoughts and ways to maintain perspective in this overwhelming and busy time of year. Menti...
Student Summer Safety Plans
Summer plans are something that you can help students develop to help hold off any "summer slide" of social emotional skills they've built during the school year. They can also be used to support students who may be living in...
Unpacking the Role of School Counselors: We're NOT "Adjunct Teachers"
School counselors often fall into a gray area on campus, not quite fitting into the "administrator" or "teacher" category. This can result in ambiguity around our job roles and expectations. With Teacher Appreciation Week app...
Social-Emotional Learning vs Character Education: Are You Teaching the Right One?
The debate regarding the implementation of character education versus social-emotional learning (SEL) has been reignited recently in light of Florida's new Resiliency Education Standards. Character education emphasizes the de...
WTH Just Happened to School Counseling in Florida??!!?
In this episode, I HOPE I AM WRONG about what appears to be a systematic dismantling of school counselors in Florida. Less than a month ago, the Florida First Lady announced an initiative to "reframe mental health education w...
STOP Talking About ODD! What School Counselors Can Do Instead
Oppositional Defiant Disorder is a term that we hear people toss around in schools all the time. It just seems to be the world we're living in right now: if you don't know what to do with "that kid," if they get persnickety,...
Post-Covid Kids and School Counseling
It seems we're always talking about, "Before COVID... Since COVID... Now that COVID has happened...." I wanted to bring you an episode about what REALLY happened for students and families during the height of the COVID pandem...
When Tragedy Strikes and It Feels Like Too Much
When tragedy strikes, it's hard to know what the next best steps are as school counselors. For so many people, the world feels like a disorienting mess right now. So what do we do in times like these? I'm offering some though...
Want to Feel Good About Your School Counseling Career? You Need This
Our goal at School for School Counselors is to help school counselors stay on fire, make huge impacts for students, and catalyze change for our roles through grassroots advocacy and collaboration. Listen to get to know more a...
The Surprising Truths About Color Psychology and School Counselor Interviews
We get lots of questions from our "Get the Job!" prep program each year, and one of the most popular is, "What do I wear?" In this episode of the podcast, we'll jump into color choice: how are the colors of your interview at...
The Secret Ingredient in School Counselor Success & Longevity
It's time to focus on something that is really overlooked in our field and that we should be talking more about: it could be the single most important skill that you can develop to not only survive- but thrive!- in your care...
Hot or Not? Universal Screeners & What Most School Counselors Overlook
Let's talk universal screeners. They are a huge topic of interest in school counseling right now, with lots and lots of "buzz": which are the best, which best capture particular trends on campuses, which are evidence-based......
Finding Common Ground With Administrators for School Counseling Satisfaction
So often, finding common ground with your administrator feels difficult. You can't see eye to eye. You feel like they just don't understand where you're coming from and no matter how much you talk, no matter how much you try ...
Happy National School Counseling Week 2023!
You don't need any tips or tricks, and you don't need any tools of the trade this week. You need something appropriate for National School Counseling Week. In this episode, I'm talking off the cuff: no outline, no preconceive...
National School Counseling Week: The Great Divide
The biggest source of division in the school counseling world rears its ugly head this time of year in the form of National School Counseling Week. Why is it divisive? Why should you care? Listen to discover the real culprits...
How to Rock Your School Counseling Internship
Many of you are getting started in your spring semester internships, or you may have aspiring school counselors on your campus that could use a little bit of help and- guidance. In this episode, we'll walk through what I see ...
Why Most School Counseling Interview Advice is Dead Wrong
About this time of year, you will start seeing lots of folks talking about job interview advice. It will be everywhere. There will be people popping out of the woodwork from this way and that, telling you all the best ways th...