Lessons Learned, Lessons Created
I’ll admit it – I bought The Bad Seed after seeing it on a few education instagrams, just crossing my fingers that it would live up to the hype. Spoiler alert: It does! It’s amazing. This. Book. Rocks. In the first month I owned it, I used it with two different individual students and read it as part of a…
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After a few years of obsessively listening to all sorts of podcasts (true crime, home DIY, TED talks, etc.), I had the honor of being the first guest on a brand new school counseling podcast. Alaina of Cutting Edge School Counseling took on the challenge of hosting and I’m really excited to add it to my weekly listening list. Click…
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I’ve been meaning to do a post about my office for five years. I procrastinated because my office was either “too messy” or, when it was clean, I realized it looked crazy blue due to the filters I put on my fluorescent lights (#excuses). So then when it got closer to time for me to pack up and move to…
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This post contains affiliate links. A couple years ago I wrote about my love for Julia Cook’s The Kid Trapper. My love for it stays true! This year, I finally made a complete lesson plan to go with it, pushing beyond just the content and message of the story. The school counselors at the middle school many of my students…
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This is my final year at my school – I accepted a new position for next year. To say that I am filled with feelings about it all is an understatement. A month from now I will be saying goodbye to a major chapter in my life. This change was entirely by choice, and I wanted to take the time…
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This post contains affiliate links. Many moons ago (4 years and 3 months to be exact), I wrote a blog post about teaching empathy with the book Stand in My Shoes and a bunch of old shoe boxes. I used it a couple more times in the classroom and then a few more times in small groups. And then…it became time…
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