How Collecting Calendar Data Can Actually Advocate For Your Role With Lauren Tingle

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Are you currently using a calendar to keep track of what students you are seeing, what you are seeing them for, and what tasks you are spending your time on? Let me tell you, if you are not, hearing from our guest, Lauren Tingle, is going to make you realize how helpful collecting data using a calendar truly is!

Lauren is a former high school counselor turned content creator and curriculum writer. She is the high school counseling hype girl behind Counselor Clique helping other high school counselors energize and breathe life into their programs through creative and engaging counseling resources. She’s also the host of the podcast “High School Counseling Conversations” and also runs a membership for high school counselors called the Clique Collaborative where she brings value and fun into high school counseling.

In this episode, Lauren is walking through how she shifted her team’s services from responsive to proactive by looking at data they collected from their calendars. She shares how they utilized a simple check in system, what to do when you feel like you’re losing control of your calendar, and how you can use data to advocate for your role to your administrators.

Some topics covered in this episode are:

• How Lauren set up a simple check in system for her team’s services and what data they were able to gather from it

• Tips for what to do when you feel like you’ve lost control over your calendar

• How she used the data collected from her new systems to advocate for her role as a school counselor so she could provide more proactive services to her students

Resources Mentioned:

• Episode 86. Mock Interview Questions with Lauren Tingle from Counselor Clique

• High School Counseling Conversations Episode 71. An Administrator’s Perception of School Counselors and the Roles They Play

• High School Counseling Conversations Episode 44. Owning Your Time Management by Using Your Calendar

• Taking Back Your Calendar: 3 Helpful Tips to Prioritize Your Job and Advocate for Your Role

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• Enroll in the Stress Free School Counseling Course

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• Website

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More About School Counseling Simplified:

School Counseling Simplified is a podcast offering easy to implement strategies for busy school counselors. The host, Rachel Davis from Bright Futures Counseling, shares tips and tricks she has learned from her years of experience as a school counselor both in the US and at an international school in Costa Rica.

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