Middle school counseling

15 clubs for school counselors to lead: get your students engaged, involved, and growing with these fun, meaningful activities!

Are you a new middle school counselor? A school counseling student thinking about what level might be best for you? Or maybe you're a seasoned vet beginning to feel a little burnt out? Read on for the top 5 reasons to fall in love with middle school counseling!

Promoting self-esteem in the classroom can be beneficial for all students, especially the period in which preteens and teens experience their most formative years. Here's what you can do in the classroom to help your middle school students feel more comfortable about who they are. #CultofPedagogyPin

Whether your district calls it PBIS, RTI-B, or MTSS-B, chances are, you are providing your students with levels of support. This is a good thing! That said,

Take the awkward out of hygiene conversations with your upper elementary and middle school students with hygiene lessons, individual counseling, family engagement, and collaboration. Read the blog post for tactical ideas and tools for helping your students practice personal hygiene.

Excellent and effective comprehensive school counseling programs aren’t a list of specific lessons or activities or celebrations, though. Great counseling programs meet the needs of their students. This means they look different. Your students can develop socially and emotionally and academically and behaviorally as a result of your work even if you don’t check off all of the boxes created by others.

In this blog post, I discuss the importance of college readiness for middle schoolers and how as school counselors we play a critical role in helping our students prepare for the future.

Having trouble getting your faculty to understand your role as a school counselor? Need some help with gaining faculty investment in your school counseling program? Check out these tips!

This is friendship activity for middle school and upper elementary counseling and relationship building. Students learn the difference between true friends and toxic friendships. There is a reading and scenarios for students to determine if the friendships are true or toxic.

Quick, fun, no-prep SEL lesson activities that are perfect for before and after breaks or any time you need an extra fun guidance lesson

School counseling newsletters can be an important communication piece that showcase all the wonderful things your doing in your counseling program and updates on important things to come. However, starting a newsletter can be somewhat daunting and seem a little overwhelming. In this article, I will give you four tips to get started and stay constant with a kick-butt school counseling newsletter!

Are you curious about using centers in your school counseling program? Check out this breakdown that'll show you exactly how to set up your centers and download a FREE guidebook with over 100 school counseling centers!

Social Emotional Learning (SEL) has been found to promote academic success and increase students' commitment to school. Generally, there are...

Looking for meaningful ways to end group counseling? Check out these 5 group counseling closing rituals to use with your students!

School Counselors for MTSS on Instagram: “More #FridayFinds from my (@bettersj ) students. In the foundational school counseling course, they create an infographic to explain and…”

Someone on Instagram recently asked me for any advice I had on setting up her very first school counseling office. This has all been super fresh in my mind as

Come see how I set up my school counseling office to best help my students!

Most middle and high school teachers like to hope that students come to them already pre-programmed with strong social skills and abilities. It would definitely make classes easier, but we know that it is not true in many cases. Sometimes, problems with lacking social skills actually manifest themse

The Good Egg Activities - use these activities to help students understand what is and is not their responsibility & practice self care for managing stress!