In the foreword to School Counseling to Close Opportunity Gaps, bestselling author Ibram X. Kendi describes the need for school counselors to be antiracist in order to provide ALL students with the opportunity to succeed.
"School counselors, by and large, report that they are concerned about education disparities and believe that they are doing everything they can to close gaps in opportunities." In this Chapter, author Cheryl Holcomb-McCoy shares the root causes of racial injustices in education.
Use this digital notebook as you read 50+ Tech Tools for School Counselors to deepen your learning and organize the tools you can use with your students.
Use this toolkit as you read 50+ Tech Tools for School Counselors. Inside, you'll find activities, tools, and suggested assignments to use with your students.
In this introduction from The Use of Data in School Counseling (2nd Edition), the authors preview the content for the following chapters and discuss their hope that the content, stories, and strategies in the book will assist, support, and motivate school counselors to take action.
In this video, author Rosalind Wiseman discusses the new features in the 3rd edition of Owning Up: Empowering Adolescents to Create Cultures of Dignity and Confront Social Cruelty and Injustice, including timely inclusions to address key shifts in technology and social movements.
Hear firsthand from Trish Hatch, PhD, nationally renowned school counseling expert and author of multiple bestselling texts, including: The Use of Data in School Counseling; Hatching Results for Elementary School Counseling; Hatching Results for Secondary School Counseling; and Hatching Tier Two and Three Interventions in Your Elementary School Counseling Program; all which describe the school counselor's role in a multi-tiered system of supports aligned with the ASCA National Model.
The authors of 50+ Tech Tools for School Counselors recommend three apps (available for iOS & Android) that promote mindfulness and meditation.
This excerpt from 50+ Tech Tools for School Counselors describes organization tool Google Keep, which educators can use to create task lists for projects, work collaboratively to check off items as completed, and see what else needs to be done.
In this excerpt from 50+ Tech Tools for School Counselors, the authors recommend Flipgrid, a video discussion tool where prompts are provided by the educator for each discussion topic and then participants respond via video responses, allowing for more in-depth responses than surveys and text allow.