Today I received a text message from the daughter of a family friend that I think deserves a wider read. To demonstrate a trend in education, sometimes anecdotal evidence can shed light on an issue in ways that thousands of pages of hard evidence can't. Although I read tons of articles on service learning, it's a conversation with a student that really gets my attention.
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If you are a school counselor and not signed up for the ASCA SCENE, you are missing out! This networking site is a professional meeting place for school counseling professionals to share and learn from each other. Get answers to your school counseling questions, share your lesson plans and best practices, become the best school counselor you can be.
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As a educator or administrator, do you ever ask yourself, “How can I take on one more task? What additional responsibilities will fall on my shoulders?” Chances are these thoughts do (or have) run through your head in a typical school year. Rightfully so. The ongoing issues with school districts slashing budgets, requiring accountability, and all the while expecting the same or additional work output, can leave one’s nerves frazzled and on edge.
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The recent case of Fox v. Traverse City Area Public Schools (2010 WL 1948203) serves as a good reminder that the speech of public school employees is not always “protected speech” as most of us have come to understand that term in the context of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
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This past semester I was able to better see the importance of university-school-community partnerships to improve the preparation of teachers. While teaching the ‘Transition Practices’ course, I was able to integrate the principles of service learning by implementing an after-school mentoring program to teach transition skills and strategies to K-12 students at Rogers High School in Wyoming Public Schools.
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A new report created by the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD), an organization created by 30 countries including the U.S. that focuses on providing data for governments, indicates that the U.S. has fallen behind most other industrialized countries in social mobility.
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It is commonly known that some professions - like those in STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) fields - have traditionally been typecast as 'masculine,' with women often being socialized away from these areas in our patriarchic, male-dominated society. Likewise, some careers - like nursing and K-12 education - have been viewed as traditonally 'female' work.
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This semester I’m teaching Adolescent Literature for the first time . . . and loving it. As a former 8th grade Language Arts teacher, I was immersed in the texts that my students were reading. We would talk about texts, share book suggestions, and laugh/cry together over the characters’ predicaments.
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Jul 30
2010
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Join the ASCA SCENEPosted by: Shawn Bultsma |
If you are a school counselor and not signed up for the ASCA SCENE, you are missing out! This networking site is a professional meeting place for school counseling professionals to share and learn from each other. Get answers to your school counseling questions, share your lesson plans and best practices, become the best school counselor you can be.
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Jun 23
2010
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Are School Counselors Really Counselors?Posted by: Shawn Bultsma Tagged in: school counselor identity , school counseling
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Apr 14
2010
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Deans instead of School Counselors?Posted by: Shawn Bultsma Tagged in: school counselor identity , school counseling
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I subscribe to a listserv for counselor educators and supervisors called CESNET and this thread came up posted by Wes Irwin:
I was surprised to learn that the school district that I recently moved into, Mounds View School District, MN has replaced school counselors with "Deans." If you are interested you can read more about this on their website via a link to their electronic newsletter http://www.moundsviewschools.org/ from the Spring of 2010. This school district is pretty highly rated. I do not yet know the background as to what brought this about. Is this a trend nationwide?
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Jan 25
2010
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If there is one thing that the recent FOX television program got right, it is the gender and age of the school counselor on Glee.
With Wednesday night class, I have seen about 15 minutes of three different episodes of this new program. As I was watching the glee club teacher and another character (Emma Pillsbury) hook up last night, my daughter informed me that she was the school counselor.
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Aug 24
2009
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School Counselor IdentityPosted by: Shawn Bultsma |
A current debate is raging in professional counseling associations surrounding the issue of professional identity of counselors.
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Apr 16
2009
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School Counseling ConferencePosted by: Shawn Bultsma |
The Association of Michigan School Counselors (AMSC) and the Michigan School Counselor Association (MSCA) are hosting a joint spring conference on April 27, 2009 at Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti, Michigan.
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Feb 11
2009
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Teaching Experience?Posted by: Shawn Bultsma |
Since the profession of school counseling has opened up to include non-teachers being trained as school counselors, there has been much debate surrounding the following question: Does one need to be trained as a teacher to be an effective professional school counselor?
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Oct 02
2008
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School Counseling - What's in a Title?Posted by: Shawn Bultsma Tagged in: school counselor identity , school counseling
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School counselor v. guidance counselor: Does it really matter? When we talk about the role of the counseling position in schools, many would argue that the title doesn't matter.
