by Jeff Ream | Dec 22, 2015 | Counseling Tech, Featured, free, school counselor, technology, tips, tools
Using your time wisely.
A major component and influential piece of advocating effectively for your school counseling program and kids is showing how and where your time is spent. There are a few different ways that I know people track there time – from Google Drive Forms, School Counselor Central, and SCUTA Pro to old school pen and paper – I use a free and, what I see as, user-friendly tool called EzAnalyze TimeTracker.
by Jeff Ream | Nov 30, 2015 | #scchat, Counseling Tech, Featured, free, professional development, RAMP, scheduling, school counselor, technology, tools
7 Tips for Managing Your School Counseling Appointments Check out this video blog for 7 tips all school counselors can use to go from the emergency room to the general practitioners office for FREE! 7 Easy Tips for School Counselor Scheduling Step 1:...
by Jeff Ream | Nov 7, 2015 | Building A Better Blog Series, Featured, school counselor
Building a Better Blog Series: Setting Up an RSS-Feed Driven Email List with MailChimp If you have a blog - most likely you want people to read it. By setting up an RSS-feed driven email list - you can make reading your blog easy. Using MailChimp makes it even easier!...
by Jeff Ream | Nov 1, 2015 | activity, classroom tools, Featured, school counselor, tips, tools
After several requests – I decided to post a curriculum I patched together to the blog. At the beginning of the school year, following ASCA 2015, I made a personal goal to run some groups this year. One of our major school wide goals was to decrease the D and F list (and thereby helping to improve the number of students meeting the CSU/UC A-G Requirements) so my group is designed to be a short term, academically focused intervention. I chose the time frame of four weeks because it fits within our progress report window. Using data from our D/F list for the first progress report – I just completed the first group last week, as of the date of this post.
by Jeff Ream | Sep 19, 2015 | counseling, Featured, free, school counselor, teachers, tools
One of the number one skills I see high school students struggle with is the great mystery of studying. A constant comment I get is “…but I am done with my homework!”. In high school – some students can get by with minimal studying efforts – I was one of these students myself. However, I also know from firsthand experience that the collegiate expectations are completely different. I was smacked in the face with the expectation that I study between 25-35 hours per week. This is where the “1 to 2” campaign comes in. I hope you read through and download some of the materials below!
by Jeff Ream | Mar 29, 2015 | Counseling Tech, Featured, Naviance, school counselor, technology, tools
A three year review of Naviance Family Connection – from a high school counselor perspective.
by Jeff Ream | Feb 26, 2015 | Counseling Tech, Featured, school counselor, technology, tips, video blog
If your day is anything like my day in the school counseling office – you answer tons of emails. Many emails sound oddly similar too. I get many emails each day requesting meetings and appointments, a schedule change, a transcript, etc. I am sure you do too. Typing out each reply is a waste of time and finger stamina. Thank goodness someone at Google had that thought too and created a super simple but mega-powerful Gmail Labs tool – Canned Responses.
I created a 5 minute screen share video to quickly go from zero to canned response guru and taking minutes of your day back with each email.
by Jeff Ream | Feb 14, 2015 | books, buy, counseling, Featured, library, school counselor, School Counselor Shopping List, shopping
Save time and get some great books from my list! Books on social and restorative justice, mental health, and girls/boys curriculum for school counselors (part 2 of 2).
by Jeff Ream | Feb 8, 2015 | #scchat, counseling, Featured, jeffrey ream, Presentation, pro-d, professional development, school counselor, thecounselinggeek
On February 8th – I was honored to be able to speak to a room full of (fellow) Nevada school counselors. In the first presentation, a keynote address, we talked about key aspects of “followship”. In the breakout session focused on school counselor technology, we took a look at about 8 tech tools that help school counselors save time and be more efficient. Below are the slides from each presentation.
by Jeff Ream | Feb 6, 2015 | books, counseling, Featured, library, school counselor, School Counselor Shopping List, shopping
Save time and get some great books from my list! Books on social and restorative justice, mental health, and girls/boys curriculum for school counselors (part 1 of 2).
