Advocating 101
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You know I am all about advocating for your role as a school counselor and I love giving you tips and advice on how to do so. We all know that a huge part of advocating for our program is showcasing how many students we are working with and how we are using our time to help these students. So today, I am talking about two things you can do that will help you advocate for your position and program.
How can we free up some time to impact more students, keep track of all the students we are working with, and use this to advocate for our program? It may be simpler than you think! In this episode, I am sharing two things you can implement right away that will help you advocate for your role. I am talking about why you should be batching your communication and how to start doing this right away, what a counseling log is and how it’s used, and how implementing these two things will help you advocate for your program.
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Some topics covered in this episode are:
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Why you should implement batching your free up more time to work with students and how you can begin doing this today
How batching your communication helps you advocate for your role and your counseling program
Why you should be using a counseling log to track what students you see and information about each session
What my counseling log looks like, column by column
How using a counseling log helps you advocate for your role and program
Resources Mentioned:
School Counseling Data Collection Spreadsheets - Caseload and Counseling Log
Episode 37: How You Can Batch Communication to Increase Your Impact and Advocate for Your Role
Episode 38: How You Can Use a Counseling Log to Increase Your Impact and Advocate for Your Role
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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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