Schoolcounselingbyheart.com Website Review

My kitchen counter is heaped with kale, swiss chard, basil, blueberries, tomatoes in a variety of sizes, cilantro, radicchio, beans, and, of course, the ubiquitous zucchini after harvesting my garden and CSA fa*m share this morning. Before I get going on chopping, preserving, and cooking all that deliciousness, here’s today’s harvest of school counseling resources.  NOSCA’s Guides to the Eight Components of College and Career Readiness Counseling These elementary, middle, and high school guides from the National Office for School Counselor Advocacy “illustrate how school counselors can use the Eight Components to establish a college-going low-performing or traditionally underrepresented students and their peers.” Clear, easy to read and refer to, and FREE – you need one!   Video Featuring School Counselors Reaching Higher Erin from SCOPE put together this wonderful School Counselors #ReachHigher video of school counselors from all over the country (and at least one from Canada) showing how they’re going to #ReachHigher this year to help their students prepare to continue their education beyond high school. If you need some ideas for goals you can use, there are lots of great examples. You might even start thinking about making a video like this with your students!   Helping Traumatized Children Learn The Trauma and Learning Policy Initiative offers some great resources for schools and staff to help students who have experienced trauma feel safe and be successful at school. TraumaSensitiveSchools.org provides information, an online learning community, and FREE, do*nloadable books, Helping Traumatized Children Learn and Creating and Advocating.. read more I find great resources all the time, things I use right away or plan to soon, but often don’t have time to blog about them. So I’ve decided to go ahead and share them here in a regular series called Fresh Picks for School Counselors. (Oh how I’d love to say weekly series, but, well, you know. . .) They may turn up again in a later blog post when I’ve incorporated them into a lesson, activity, or