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School for School Counselors Podcast
Ready to cut through the noise and get to the heart of what it really means to be a school counselor today? Welcome to The School for School Counselors Podcast! Let’s be honest: this job is rewarding, but it’s also one of the toughest, most misunderstood roles out there. That’s why I'm here, offering real talk and evidence-based insights about the everyday highs and lows of the work we love.Think of this podcast as your go-to conversation with a trusted friend who just gets it. I'm here to…
Episodes
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Why Most School Counseling Interview Advice is Dead Wrong
About this time of year, you will start seeing lots of folks talking about job interview advice. It will be everywhere. There will be people popping out of the…
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Preparing for Random Acts of Kindness Week? Here's Your Plan
Let's start planning for Random Acts of Kindness Week! This year, RAK Week falls February 14th through the 20th, which is right on the heels of National School…
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Ready to Rock a New Semester of School Counseling? The New Year (re)Start is HERE!
*BONUS- Listen to the end for an exclusive sneak peek of an awesome upcoming addition to the School for School Counselors world!*So many school counselors love…
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The REAL Reasons School Counselors Feel Absolutely Exhausted
Feeling completely exhausted as the semester comes to an end? We often want to attribute our feelings of exhaustion or overwhelm to things such as, "It's been…
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Working with "Difficult" Parents: How School Counselors Can Promote Positive Outcomes
Ever run across parents that you just cannot seem to figure out? Parents who are quick to blame, won't return calls, or show no follow-up at home? Parents who…
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How School Counselors Can Work With Difficult Principal Personalities, Part II (Narcissists and Other Fun Folks)
It sometimes takes one or two different ways of approaching a difficult administrator to provide a change in perspective and develop a good working…
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How School Counselors Can Work With Difficult Principal Personalities
We spend more than half our waking lives at work. When you have to spend that time working with a difficult personality, it can make the days go by so slowly!…
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What Every School Counselor Wishes They Could Say to THAT Parent
The longer you work in school counseling, the more you'll meet.Disgruntled parents that CANNOT be pleased or have completely unrealistic expectations about…
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4 Ways School Counselors Can Prepare to Effectively Help Students Through the Holidays
School counselors, let's talk about how to plan ahead proactively for the holiday season. So if you've been in school counseling for any amount of time, you…
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What's Your School Counselor to Student Ratio? If It's 1:250, Don't Listen to This
What's your counselor-to-student ratio? If you're like the majority of school counselors, it is nowhere near the recommended 1:250. Take a listen to this…
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Not "Comprehensive"? How to Find Joy in "Imperfect" School Counseling Programs
From the moment that you begin studying school counseling, you're told about "comprehensive school counseling" programs. They're touted as the holy grail for…
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Are You a Frenetic or Neglected School Counselor? Here's How to Tell and Why It Matters.
In this episode, I focus on the types of burnout school counselors typically experience, how to recognize them, and what to do about them even if you feel…
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Need Self-Care Ideas that Don't Stink? Learn your Burnout Type.
It seems everywhere we turn, school counselors are being reminded to engage in "self-care." But if you're anything like most school counselors, typical…
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Are You a School Counselor Headed Toward Burnout? It's Not All In Your Head
So many conversations in the school counselor world these days are about burnout, and this talk seems to really be hitting earlier in the school year than…
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Attendance Concerns? How to Address School Refusal
Do you have students on your campus currently that are having difficulty "remembering" to go to school? We've seen so many students struggling with attendance…
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What You're Doing Wrong With Separation Anxiety (And Why It's Not Your Fault!)
This week's podcast episode is for any school counselor that's been at their wit's end with a crying, screaming, perhaps running, student at the start of…
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My WTF File & How Social Media Groups Could Hurt Your School Counseling Career
So much noise! So many people battling to be seen as the "expert." Our school counseling world is drowning in noise and people who are desperate to be heard on…
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Feeling Unheard? Four Magical Ingredients for Successful School Counseling Advocacy
School counselors are constantly being instructed to advocate for our school counseling programs, but there's one big elephant in the room that no one's…
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Blast from the Past! A Different Understanding of School Counseling Data
In this episode of the School for School Counselors Podcast, we take an unusual perspective on school counseling program data: how it's collected, what we do…
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Overscheduled and Overwhelmed? Here's How to Feel In Control Again
So much of the feedback we hear from school counselors centers around feeling overwhelmed, particularly when we feel like's there's too much to do and no way…
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Needs Assessments, Minute Meetings & PPRA
If you've been a school counselor for a hot second, you know that the chatter at the beginning of the school year in August and September almost always centers…
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School Counseling Advocacy From the Inside Out (And What Everyone's Getting Wrong!)
When school counselors are encouraged to personally advocate for their programs, there is a lot of well-intentioned (yet terrible) advice tossed around! There…
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What Your Grad Program Didn't Tell You About School Counseling
Welcome back to the School for School Counselors Podcast! In this episode, we'll talk about a lot of the things that your grad program didn't tell you and how…
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Three Hidden Gems from the ASCA National Conference
I just returned from the American School Counselor Association national conference in Austin, TX, and I have some hidden gems of awesome information to share…
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4 Secrets of Successful Classroom Management
How are your classroom management skills- on point? It's no secret that any school counselor that works in classrooms would like to make sure their management…
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What to Do When You Feel Like a Terrible School Counselor
If you have big dreams and goals for your school counseling program but just aren't getting there as quickly as you'd like, this episode is for you. We'll…
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Your Data Does Not Define Your Worth as a School Counselor
We hear so much about data-driven school counseling but very little about the realities of collecting data in real-world school counseling situations. If…
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All About School Counselor Burnout
As school counselors, it's so important to have a clear understanding of what can lead us toward burnout- and how to avoid it. If you're a counselor who felt…
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The Truth About School Counseling
Welcome to the School for School Counselors Podcast! In this first episode, we'll talk about how School for School Counselors is working toward the elevation…
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Your Role Does Not Define You
School counselors are so often told what we "should" be doing and to advocate for our roles on campus, but we hear very little real talk about what to do when…
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Podcast Preview
This work is part of the School for School Counselors body of work developed by Steph Johnson, LPC, CSC, which centers role authority over role drift…