Category: Borrowed Lessons

Borrowed Lesson–Dream Catchers

Today, I am featuring a lesson from Shannon Reynolds, a counselor at McCall school who shared this idea with us on Caught In The Middle School Counselors Facebook group.  I asked her if she would be willing to share it here and she graciously said, “YES!”   So the following

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Borrowed Lessons: Reach High Future Planning

Our newest Lesson Leader is Lori Hartman, who writes the blog, Advocate For Possibility.  If you haven’t check it out, yuo should.  Lori has a lot of great ideas and lessons that she shares.  She is sharing with us her Reach Higher Future Lesson.  It’s a great lesson to get

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Borrowed Lessons: Identity~A Lesson On Self-Esteem

Our newest Lesson Leader is Michelle Pownall, a school counselor at Gyeonggi Suwon International School, an elementary/middle school in Suwon, South Korea.  I met Michelle a little over a year ago through blogging and facebook.  While she is many, many miles away, she has become a great friend.  Michelle is sharing

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Borrowed Lessons: A Bad Case Of The Tattle Tongue

Our newest Lesson Leader is Kelly Johnson, who writes the What’s Happening in Counselor Johnson’s Office Blog.  Kelli is an elementary school counselor, but she has a great lesson to share with us about Tattling.  I find that my 5th and 6th graders still really love picture books, and a

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Borrowed Lessons: Getting To Know Yourself

I love hearing from counselors about great ideas that they use in their counseling programs.  Deborah Hardy, is my most recent Lesson Leader and has some great info for us about two different websites and how you can use them as an intro lesson on: Getting to Know Yourself  

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Borrowed Lessons: That Counselor Couple

I love finding great ideas from other counselors and then sharing with even more counselors.  Kayla Marson and her husband Andy have put together a really great resource for counselors.  The following post is a guest post by Kayla: Have you ever wished there was a YouTube source that you

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Borrowed Lesson Series. . .Transition to Middle School

Our Latest Lesson Leader is Sierra Bishop, middle school counselor.   Sierra has put together a great program for the soon-to-be sixth graders in her district. I visit the 5th graders in May with some live examples of students that survived the transition (current 6th graders)  They help me review

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Borrowed Lessons: Our Jobland: Career Cluster Lesson

Welcome to what is the first of what I hope to be many future guest posts in a new series on my blog called: Borrowed Lessons.  “Borrowed Lessons” are favorite lessons taught by other school counselors, here called our “Lesson Leaders.” It’s a great way to share resources without having

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