Thank you to the Atlanta Public School Counselors for welcoming me to your conference. What an awesome group of professionals you are. And thank you for the positive feedback from our session together. You all should be receiving a copy of my PowerPoint from NASCA next week, and that will contain much of the information Read More …
Most of you have a “go to” way to set up appointments, but since I’ve seen/heard this question recently…. here is the best way I have come up with to see individual referrals. So, for any newbies to the elementary world, or if you want to refresh some of your forms…. enjoy! During my intro Read More …
This blog post will address 2 things: Having a NEW STUDENT lunch bunch for students who are new to your school at the start of your year. Having a WELCOME TEAM to welcome new students all year long. NEW STUDENT lunch bunch At the start of the year, I email teachers to see who is new Read More …
Have you thought about doing a Open House for teachers at your school? Last year my counseling partner and I started a new tradition that we’ll definitely be continuing this year. It’s actually brilliantly simple and I hope you can take some of these attachments and duplicate this type of activity at your school. Here Read More …
Here are some forms to download (or at least know that they live on this page to come back to!) Click on the blue words for those forms: Icebreaker for staff for start of the year: step into the circle Confidentiality Poster: what we say in here (I post this in my office on color Read More …
New to being a counselor? New to your county/district? New to your level? Do you just need fresh new ideas? This week I assisted with a new counselor training (Welcome to CCSD all of you!!). Isn’t it incredible that we are starting now!? Yes…. getting ready for the new school year in July seems a Read More …
If you got a link of this post, it means that you attended my session at the Atlanta Summit. (http://www.innovativecounselors.com) If you didn’t attend and you are just checking out my site, WELCOME! For anyone reading this… hola and bonjour to this site which is brand spanking new. I am branching out and it is Read More …
Voila. I have started it. Don’t know how I did it! Shout out to my webmaster friend Amy Budow for the help and encouragement in stepping out into the world.
