It's almost the biggest week in school counseling!  In this episode we interviewed Angie Hickman, the director of research and marketing for ASCA.  She gives us all the inside tips about how they came up with the theme, All In for All Students.  Listen to our tips and ideas on how to have a great week, whether you're celebrating in person or virtually.  Let us be the first to tell you: Happy National School Counseling Week!  And just in case no one has told you lately, you are AMAZING.  School counselors are heroes.  We're honored to have you listen.

Make sure you download our free 11 page guide to advocating your heart out during National School Counseling Week!

Click here to visit ASCA's website: schoolcounselor.org for info, links and downloads.

This podcast episode is so important for counselors of all age groups!  After over two decades of experience as an addictions and mental health counselor, Richard Capriola wrote a book called, The Addicted Child: A Parent's Guide to Adolescent Substance Abuse.  

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Meet the man behind "The Velvet Voice!"  In this episode Matt Fleck from Inspire Success talks about his passion for providing resources and encouragement to school counselors.  You'll love the unique way he provides a weekly 5 minute boost for school counselors!  Matt talks about his website, his mission, RAMP opportunities, and so many other resources he helps school counselors with.  This was such a fun episode.  As always, lots of laughs are included!

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Find out how to use LEGO products to take your school counseling program to the next level!  We talked with Kelly Reddin, LEGO Master Trainer, about the benefits of using LEGO bricks in various school counseling scenarios.  She was talking our language as she described the benefits for 21st Century Learners using the 4 C's.  Find out how LEGO products are the "building blocks" for collaboration, career lessons, and even computer science, among other things!  

Many schools that opened in the traditional setting are facing the transition back to virtual learning.  In this episode we share some of the lessons we've learned since March.  We share some of the tips and tools that have helped us.  We talk about how to make sure these tools are in place in the event of a virtual learning transition.  Just a heads up: if you aren't in a laughing mood, fast forward to about 9 minutes into the episode.

Here is a blog post to go along with this episode.

Check out this interview with Teyanna Walker.  We mentioned it during the podcast.

This may be our pinnacle!  Jill Cook, executive director of the American School Counselor Association, spoke with us about her journey to become our executive director.  She also shared some insight on the future of school counseling and how to advocate for your program, as well as many other fun tidbits along the way.  We can't wait for you to hear how down to earth and personable our ASCA executive director is.  

Since November is National Career Development month, many school counselors use this as a chance to teach career lessons.  This episode is one of our favorite soapboxes!  We have presented this at ASCA in Boston, and we've done a webinar for ASCA on this topic!  We've presented this multiple times in our own state and others.  Can you tell we feel passionately about it?!  

In this episode we will share ways for you to teach career lessons to the 21st Century learner.  Virtual career fairs, learning through play, and using technology to connect with other regions of our world are just a few of the ideas we'll mention.

Plus we laugh a lot through this episode, as we do in most of our other episodes!

Check out this blog post that goes along with this episode.

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We had the huge honor of interviewing Dr. Russ Sabella, or as we like to call him, "The Contemporary Father of School Counseling."  His new book, Solution Focused School Counseling: The Missing Manual is a must-have for all school counselors.  In this episode he tells us what solution focused school counseling is, what it looks like in the schools, and how to implement it.  We love his phrase, "The empowerment model."  Listen as he explains that by using this technique you are empowering students to develop their own solutions.  This is something you'll want to start using immediately!

October and November are the equivalent to the Superbowl for school counselors!  These months are full of awareness dates and weeks.  Consider this your all-in-one guide for navigating through Bullying Prevention Month, Red Ribbon Week, National Stress Prevention Week, Career Development Month, World Kindness Day, Halloween, and all the other events in-between!  Oh, and we talk about ways to do these things virtually for those of you who are virtual!  We laugh a lot in this episode, so be prepared!

Virtual Career Fairs Part 1

Virtual Career Fairs Part 2

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If you've watched the movie, Walk. Ride. Rodeo, then you know how inspiring Amberley Snyder's story is.  BUT did you know she also has her school counseling degree?  Prepare to be motivated as we talk with Amberley Snyder, school counseling graduate, barrel racer, motivational speaker, and inspiration behind the movie, Walk.Ride.Rodeo.  In this interview Amberley tells us her story, how she has given a purpose to her pain, and what's up next for her. We left this interview feeling empowered by Amberley's words, and ready to tackle this school year!

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