I always get
excited to see if my favorite school counselor blogs have new posts so I figure
I finally write one. As mentioned
before, I teach one period of a class called "College Seminar." I have spent all year trying to catch up with
lesson plans and grading. I slightly
forgot about how much time goes into planning.
Next year, I am not going to teach because I want to focus on obtaining
LPCC hours. I mention this because it has consumed me no matter how much I plan ahead.
There’s a couple
of topics that I did not get to write about such as Coffee with the Counselor,
Red Ribbon Week and how the first College Spotlight went. Plus, my planning
system completely changed as I am now using a $10 planner from Target. I still use some of the original planner sections to keep track of individual counseling and parent meetings, but that
is about all for now. I am still debating
on the Erin Condren planner.
I want to share
the Cyberbullying bulletin board that I have been working on for a couple of
weeks. I vowed to do more bulletin boards and before this only had one up. One of
my administrators approached the counselors to create information regarding
Cyberbullying. One counselor created a
brochure, another parent workshops and I created a bulletin board. The bulletin board is filled with statistics,
pictures, and information regarding Cyberbullying. Also, Pintrest inspired me for the “Before
You” and “Is It” sections of the bulletin board. I work in a high school where students are
very savvy at social media. However, the
adults on campus are becoming even savvier at catching inappropriate posts
online and stopping something potentially serious. Actually, in January the principal wanted
monthly themes and a focus for each Monday.
I came up with the name “Monday Matters” because I always dread Mondays
and feel the most sluggish, but I also try to put a positive on this day
because I am so grateful to come to work.
March’s theme is “Honor & Integrity.” I provide teachers a topic for Monday and a
quick activity to do with their Advisory class.
One of these Mondays students will discuss safety in technology.
I see a lot of
students stop and read the bulletin that I created at the beginning the school
year so I hope students take the time to stop and read the Cyberbullying
bulletin board. I found something
interesting online that says “Stop, Block and Tell.” This is easy for students to do. We’re lucky at our campus because students
will go to an adult to ask for help.
Like always I
hope to post a lot more. Have a good
one!
I love your bulletin board! Thanks for sharing!
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