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Nine Points to Consider When Working With Brand-New Students

Nine Points to Consider When Working With Brand-New Students

Every year, new students arrive to each and every school–many, at the beginning of the school year; others, arriving at different, various points as the year progresses. With this reality in mind, I wanted to take a look at several things to consider when helping new students get acclimated and comfortable in their newest educational setting. 1. Carve Out Adequate Time to Meet With the New Student(s): This may sound a bit naive, but when I was a brand-new counselor,…

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Building a Brand: A Blue-Collar Counselor’s Journey From the Beginning

Building a Brand: A Blue-Collar Counselor’s Journey From the Beginning

In this first of a two-part series on branding, I take a look at the Blue-Collar Counselor moniker, while also taking a trip down memory lane. The Blue-Collar Counselor Goes to School: It seems that I have always been interested in people and places. Maybe it goes back to elementary school, where, every year, I expeditiously leafed through my Social Studies books looking for all the colorful graphs, charts, maps, and pictures to study that could be contained within the…

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