Top 5 TED Talks for School Counselors

Top 5 TED Talks for School Counselors

School counselors have borne the brunt of much of the turbulence experienced in education over the last few years. These five TED Talks speak to some of the biggest challenges school counselors face and offer tools and insights you may find helpful moving forward....
Kindness in the Classroom: Facilitating Student-to-Student Kindness

Kindness in the Classroom: Facilitating Student-to-Student Kindness

Sixty seconds before they step into the classroom, students are gearing up to engage. How are they preparing themselves for the vulnerability required to master new skills or to make mistakes in front of their peers? To respond to challenges and critiques? To rebound...
The One Freedom that Builds Resilience Anywhere

The One Freedom that Builds Resilience Anywhere

“The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me. The last of one’s freedoms is to choose one’s attitude in any given circumstance” – Victor Frankl These words perfectly describe what it means to be resilient.  In...
Kindness in the Classroom: Modeling Self-Kindness for Students

Kindness in the Classroom: Modeling Self-Kindness for Students

It may be tougher than ever for teachers to be kind to themselves. The pressures and expectations teachers face today have only grown with the increasing needs of struggling students who’ve lost serious socioemotional and academic ground during the COVID...
Reducing Student Anxiety as a School Counselor

Reducing Student Anxiety as a School Counselor

While some students view January as an opportunity to verbalize their hopes and dreams for the coming year, many others enter the new year struggling with anxiety. Coming out of the holidays and looking at the unknowns associated with the months ahead, student anxiety...