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...
Preparing for Random Acts of Kindness Week? Here's Your Plan
Let's start planning for Random Acts of Kindness Week! This year, RAK Week falls February 14th through the 20th, which is right on the heels of National School Counseling Week. I personally love both of those weeks: the combo...
Ready to Rock a New Semester of School Counseling? The New Year (re)Start is HERE!
*BONUS- Listen to the end for an exclusive sneak peek of an awesome upcoming addition to the School for School Counselors world!* So many school counselors love the start of the spring semester! It feels like a chance for gro...
The REAL Reasons School Counselors Feel Absolutely Exhausted
Feeling completely exhausted as the semester comes to an end? We often want to attribute our feelings of exhaustion or overwhelm to things such as, "It's been a long semester," or, "December is always tough- this is no except...
Working with "Difficult" Parents: How School Counselors Can Promote Positive Outcomes
Ever run across parents that you just cannot seem to figure out? Parents who are quick to blame, won't return calls, or show no follow-up at home? Parents who rarely make an appearance at school? Or how about the "helicopter"...
How School Counselors Can Work With Difficult Principal Personalities, Part II (Narcissists and Other Fun Folks)
It sometimes takes one or two different ways of approaching a difficult administrator to provide a change in perspective and develop a good working relationship with that person. Or many of you may just need to figure out how...
How School Counselors Can Work With Difficult Principal Personalities
We spend more than half our waking lives at work. When you have to spend that time working with a difficult personality, it can make the days go by so slowly! In this episode, I outline three difficult principal personality t...
What Every School Counselor Wishes They Could Say to THAT Parent
The longer you work in school counseling, the more you'll meet. Disgruntled parents that CANNOT be pleased or have completely unrealistic expectations about your job scope and time. It's frustrating when you're giving your al...