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Setting Up the Office: B-Boards and Displays
It’s amazing how we, as educators, can work in our rooms all day long and feel like we’ve barely accomplished anything by the end of the day! I’ve been so excited to start seeing my school counseling Pinterest inspirations come…
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More Character Breakfast Club
I want to share examples of the flyer, invitation, and exit tickets I will be using for my Character Breakfast Club. I can’t wait to hold my first one in the fall. I’ll be sure to update everyone on how…
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Character Breakfast Club
Before I was a school counselor, I taught second grade for thirteen years. One thing I found very successful for parent involvement was hosting a Reader’s Breakfast Club. These breakfasts were held once each grading period. Parents were invited to…
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How School Counselors Can Build Student Vocabulary
Did you know building academic vocabulary increases student achievement? Of course you did! School counselors play a key role in vocabulary development. We discuss vocabulary all the time in our classroom guidance lessons, but how can we take it a…
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A Very Respectful Foldable
I have continued to spend time thinking about how to use foldables in my school counseling program. I teach students about a different character trait each month during classroom guidance at my school. My latest idea is this four flapped…
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Character Readers and CD Giveaway!
In a previous post titled Pass the Mic: Singing About Good Character, I wrote about how I really enjoy singing songs about character traits with my Kindergarten friends. I mentioned that the readers can be purchased separately but that they…