Red Ribbon

This year during guidance lessons, my students created a class display for Red Ribbon. Here are some ideas that you might can use:

Kindergarten: Stay Sweet!  Drugs are corny!

2nd Grade: We SCARE drugs away!

2nd Grade section 2: Don't get wrapped up in DRUGS!

1st grade: We scare drugs away.

4th grade: Look WHOOOOO's pledging to just say no!

3rd grade: {chalk spiders} We would rather eat bugs, than do DRUGS!!!

High School Seniors

I am wanting to gather ideas on how High School Senior Counselors keep their parents posted on everything their Senior child needs to be doing.....

How do you share:
Application deadlines
Reminders to sign up for the ACT/SAT
Scholarships
Etc., etc., etc

Year after year I hear from parents, "that we didn't know."

What I currently do is:
Senior class email notifications
 Announcements
 Letters to parents
 School website


&&& the (but) is.... We didn't know!

How do you make sure your parents "KNOW?"

I would love to hear your ideas!

Please share.

Suicide Link

I loved this and really wanted to share with my followers.  The Middle School Counselor has a great form posted: suicidal severity rating scale.

Please check it out.

The Middle School Counselor


I think as school counselors, we can never have too many great resources.

September Checklist

September Checklist

Textbooks (funding)

At-Risk list completed

Do your teachers have:

Special Education List/Accommodations

504 List/Accommodations

Gifted and Talented List

ESL List

Renew AP Course (Audit)

STAAR updates

Senior Meeting (things to do each month)

ACT/SAT Test dates to Juniors and Seniors (mail-out)

Personal graduation plans completed and mailed home

Upload test data to Eduphoria

August Checklist

This year, I have started a checklist system for every month.  I thought I would share it with you.  It is absolutely NOTHING fancy, but I love to share ways to keep me organized, to keep me from forgetting those very important items, and from going off the deep end.

August Checklist

Eduphoria new teachers/archive records

Schedule Changes (Check Transcripts)

Modified Courses updated

Textbooks (Allotment fund/Auditor list)

At-Risk

Special Education List

504 List

Gifted and Talented

ESL

Renew AP Course (Audit)

Check new 5^th & 8^th Grade STAAR scores

STAAR Enrollment Due Sept. 1^st

Senior Meeting

ACT/SAT Test dates

Recheck Schedules/Graduation Plans Juniors and Seniors

Guidance Schedule

Recheck new student’s transcripts/records

Schedule ASVAB

Order PSAT, PLAN, EXPLORE Tests (set dates on calendar)

6th Grade Guidance

I always struggle with my preteen middle school student's guidance lessons.

Until..... I found this!

7 Habits of Happy Kids

I am not going to waste your time {okay... or mine}

posting where I found all the super cool 7 Habits handouts, videos, and lots of freebies!

Just go HERE ----- Pinterest!

I have to be honest.  I was a little worried that my 6th graders would think {blah, blah, blah} BUT they loved it.

Here is the run down:

Each lesson, we will discuss a habit of the 7 Habits of Happy kids.

For lesson 1, our topic was Be Proactive!

I asked the students what does is mean to be proactive?

Students, then had to write down things they were in charge of.  What are choices you can make for yourself? {ideas: choose my friends, choose my clothes, choose what I eat, etc.}

We also did an activity where students had to write down the things they control and those they do not. Some of the ideas I gave them were: a parent's bad day, my day, walking away from trouble, asking for help, where I was born, what other people say or do, etc.

We then watched the videos, I posted to my Pinterest boards.

There are a lot of great ideas out there for lessons geared toward being proactive!  Enjoy!

No David!

1st Grade 

Lesson 1 Guidance 

was the good ole classic books:

1st graders told me ideas for

"What Makes a Good Student?"

I wrote them on this chart.

At the end of the lesson I also used these great ideas from Pinterest!

I found some cute lesson ideas and printables from:

ayearofmanyfirsts.blogspot.com teacherytidbits.blogspot.com