There are some great Facebook HS Counselor Groups/Communities that have daily discussions and posts about topics of interest. Here is a good list with links: High School Counselor Connection Private · 15K members · 3 posts a day School Counselors Connect 🌟🎓🗣️ Public · 17K members · 10+ posts a day School for School Counselors Read More
Spring, despite the inescapable beauty and rebirth all around us, can be a hard time in public education. I’ve got some seniors that I have struggled to get through to and their graduation remains in doubt. I’m planting seeds, I hope, some of which may take years to sprout. The job requires an enormous amount Read More
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Here is a cool emotional awareness exercise that you might find helpful for your students. You can use it if you have students that struggle identifying or discussing their emotions. PDF & instructions are here: https://www.mygroupguide.com/emotionsgame/
Students think of all different ways to get off a waitlist, including delivering treats in person to admissions offices. Does anything work? Make no mistake about it: the waitlists are for the colleges’ benefit, and they can be quite long with only a small percentage receiving offers of admission. Consider these statistics from last year: Read More
The wait-list, commonly referred to as “admissions purgatory,” is that ugly and uncomfortable grey area – they didn’t like you enough to accept you, and they didn’t hate you enough to reject you. May 1st is College Decision Day, when students must decide and place a deposit at one college to which they were accepted. Read More
ZipRecruiter has posted salary estimates of school counselors by state. They use information from employer job postings and third-party data sources to come up with these estimates. Here is the list sorted from highest average salary to lowest: State Annual Salary Monthly Pay Weekly Pay Hourly Wage Washington $68,419 $5,701 $1,315 $32.89 District of Columbia Read More
Product philanthropy turns an operational liability into positive social impact Many schools in the United States are underfunded, with a significant number facing funding gaps that negatively impact student resources and outcomes. On average, American teachers spend between $500 and $900 out of their own families’ budgets to supplement the materials and supplies their students Read More
Whether it was intentional or coincidental, April features two “awareness” months that complement each other: Counseling Awareness Month and Stress Awareness Month. The former is a tool to help you cope with the latter. The way families live today is not the way people used to live. Fifty years ago, a majority of women were Read More
Most people understand college to be one particular thing: four years of instruction that prepares you for a hopefully high-paying job. This has been the traditional route. However, there are now more ways than ever to pursue higher education. As a guidance counselor, your job is to help students find the route that is most Read More
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