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
From Chaos to Calm: Using DBT Skills to Help Teens Regulate & Reconnect is a 3-hour live, interactive continuing education program designed for licensed counselors and school-based mental health professionals who work with adolescents. This training provides an applied overview of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) principles and focuses on the practical implementation of DBT-informed skills Read More
Certain professions—education, healthcare, social work—have aspects of responsibility that book learning alone can’t cover. You might know everything there is to know about the human body and the illnesses that can befall it, but if you can’t withstand the pressure of an emergency room, you’re probably not going to be a good fit for a Read More
You hear a lot of discussion these days about “self-care,” being mindful of our physical, mental and emotional health with healthy eating, exercise, sleep and recreation. It’s not self-indulgence. It’s necessary for our well-being. But sometimes, that concerted effort just isn’t enough to truly achieve the goal of balance. Life happens. How do we achieve Read More
New Ratios Released! New data indicates the student-to-school-counselor ratio continues to narrow – reaching its lowest margin since ASCA began tracking ratios in 1986. The national student-to-school-counselor ratio was 372:1 in 2024–2025. Read more here: https://www.schoolcounselor.org/getmedia/efe644ea-e26c-4531-82e9-ddbab422227a/24-25-Ratios.pdf
An interactive virtual class for parents of high school juniors and seniors is being offered by Andrea Malkin Brenner of Talking College for a nominal fee. This is a three-session virtual class that will help attendees gain a complete list of the critical life skills their college-bound kids should master before leaving home and tools Read More
Selective summer programs can be powerful experiences for students who are ready for them. At their best, these programs offer intellectual depth, mentorship, and immersion; experiences that most high schools can’t replicate. Students are surrounded by peers who share their curiosity, are challenged to think at a college level, and asked to engage deeply — Read More
You hold a master’s degree. You studied crisis intervention, psychopathology, and therapeutic technique.So why is your profession still fighting to be seen as essential? It doesn’t have to stay this way- but the window is closing. In this episode, I lay out two possible futures for school counseling: one that ends in irrelevance, and one Read More
It goes without saying: you spend a lot of time working to get your students into college. For example, you counsel and strategize and sit in front of your computer for hours at a time drafting letters of recommendation. And you make lists of prospective colleges, pour over transcripts, and talk parents into having more Read More
Beyond the Books: How a Life Skills Camp Empowered Middle and High School Students at Salisbury Academy – By Allison Doby, College Counselor at Salisbury Academy HOPE: Hope, Opportunity, Perseverance, and Equity for Every Student! – By Stephanie Brazinsky, Priscilla A. Grijalva, and Candice Mackey, All Current High School Counselors How Colleges Review Applications: What Read More
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