School Counseling Ideas

Discover effective and engaging ideas, resources, and curriculum for school counseling programs and student social and emotional learning (SEL)!
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Group Counseling Activities and Ideas
Read this blog post to get some great tips and advice your group counseling sessions! These ideas will help create better routines, build relationships amongst your students, and proactively plan what skills your reinforce within your group session! Get these tips and school counselor advice here!
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Anxiety Intervention for Kids
We've all seen a student anxious about something where their worry is the end of the world. It's a catastrophe. And while sometimes these worries are completely irrational (in which case, I recommend playing thought detective), sometimes they're not. Sometimes the worry thought is possible, it's just not super likely and/or it's not world-ending. In these situations, I use a "de-catastrophizing script."
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School Counseling Family Communication
School counseling can be a little bit misunderstood, right? And when we’re already ridiculously busy, it can be hard to allot extra time to advocacy activities. Good news: there are some quick and simple ways you can communicate with parents about your school counseling program and services. As a bonus, lots of these ways also help to reinforce your amazing work!
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School Counseling Office Tour (Round 3) - The Responsive Counselor
Elementary school counseling office tour with different zones for group counseling, individual counseling, and more! Functional school counseling decorations plus counseling office furniture recommendations, too!
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Group Counseling Activities and Ideas
Read this blog post to get some great tips and advice your group counseling sessions! These ideas will help create better routines, build relationships amongst your students, and proactively plan what skills your reinforce within your group session! Get these tips and school counselor advice here!
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No-Prep Fun Counseling Lesson Activities
Stumped on what to do your first day back from a break in school? Here are my 3 favorite no-prep, quick, easy and FUN SEL activities to use in any classroom.
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Teaching Kids Self-Control
I'm sharing 4 ways you can model and reinforce self-control with your elementary students! This includes ideas, tips, and even hands-on games for practicing self-control. Not only does teaching self-control help your students with their classroom work and performance, but it's a skill they'll need their entire life!
a group of young children standing together with the text group counseling, relationships, and reinour
Group Counseling Activities and Ideas
Read this blog post to get some great tips and advice your group counseling sessions! These ideas will help create better routines, build relationships amongst your students, and proactively plan what skills your reinforce within your group session! Get these tips and school counselor advice here!
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Teaching Kids Self-Control Through Play
Self-control is a skill that needs to be repeatedly modeled and reinforced with our elementary students, and a great way to do this is through play! Your students will love being able to practice self-control through fun and engaging hands-on activities. In this blog post, I'm sharing multiple different ideas, tips, and activities for ways you can use games to teach self-control.
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Self-Control Books for Kids
One of my favorite ways to teach kids about self-control and controlling their impulses is through the use of picture books! Children are able to connect with books in a different way, and they're a great way to teach important skills you'll be covering with your counseling students. In this post, I'm sharing a list of my favorite picture books I use for teaching self-control and a brief description of each book along with tips for how I use it with my students. Get the self-control book ideas!
Self-control is a skill that needs to be modeled and reinforced over time in order for our students to really be able to apply it! In this post, I'm sharing 4 great ways that you can teach self-control to your elementary students. This includes the basics such as teaching what self-control is all the way to practice the skill through play. Get all of the self-control tips, ideas, and fun activities right here in this blog post! Play Therapy Office, Intervention Strategies, Behavior Intervention Plan, Choices And Consequences, How To Control Emotions, Positive Behavior Support, Calm Classroom, Holistic Development
Self-Control Activities for Kids
Self-control is a skill that needs to be modeled and reinforced over time in order for our students to really be able to apply it! In this post, I'm sharing 4 great ways that you can teach self-control to your elementary students. This includes the basics such as teaching what self-control is all the way to practice the skill through play. Get all of the self-control tips, ideas, and fun activities right here in this blog post!
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Individual Counseling Tools
As a school counselor, we aren't just sitting and talking to our students, so it's important that we have tools and resources that will support our lessons and activities! Read my post to get a list of tools and resources you can use during your individual counseling sessions. Not only am I sharing my favorite tools, but I'm also sharing how I use them and what activities they pair well with!
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Self-Control for Elementary Students
I hear many teachers discuss the need for self-control in the classroom, and how it's a skill that needs to be worked on with their elementary students. In this blog post, I'm sharing 4 ways that you can work on self-control, which covers everything from learning more about what it is to modeling it and practicing. Your students will enjoy these self-control activities because many of them are hands-on and engaging!
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"But It’s Not My Fault!" Companion Lesson on Problem Solving and Taking Responsibility
Teach students how to take responsibility for their actions and become better problem solvers with this SEL lesson or guidance lesson using Julia Cook's "But It's Not My Fault!"