• CHAMP Camp Express-READY, SET, GOAL: Developing Tier 1, 2 & 3 responses

    A responsive comprehensive program means developing program activities based on your school’s data as it becomes available. Is your district using social/emotional screeners and gathering other important data? What will be your response to that data? What’s the next step? Developing a SMART goal and action plan! This presentation will share examples of responding to […]

  • Maintaining Our Mental Health in the New Year

    Maintaining Our Mental Health in the New Year: Enhancing Resiliency and Beating Burnout in the Age of COVID January 26, 2022 12noon – 1pm Flyer and Registration info.  Samaritans free January 26, 12-1 pm Zoom workshop "Maintaining Our Mental Health in the New Year, enhancing Resiliency and Beating Burnout in the Age of COVID" (link to flyer and registration […]

  • CHAMP Camp Express-YOUR PROGRAM’S BACKBONE: Principal Counselor Relationship

    School counselors need to forge a cooperative and trusting relationship with their principal How do you approach your principal to initiate regular communication ? How do you bring a need to your principal’s attention to problem solve together? We invite you to bring your principal to this program as we share strategies to establish and […]

  • How to Incorporate Social Media & CASEL Competencies into the Classroom

    "How to Incorporate Social Media & CASEL Competencies into the Classroom" for 3/10/22 at 4 pm ET Webinar Description:  We all know of CASEL, but how does social media fit into SEL? In this webinar, The Social Institute will explore the connection between social media and CASEL competencies, while also providing practical ways for counselors […]

  • Two Guys Walk into a School, One Black, One White. Field Notes from the Front Lines of Antiracist School Counseling and Education-Part 2, Strategies & Initiatives

    To register: click on this link Presentation Summary: The unlikely meeting between two educators, one Black, one White, led to a discussion on institutional racism within education. Within their capacities as a math teacher and a school counselor, a commonality was found through their efforts to mitigate and combat the negative impacts of racism in […]

  • CHAMP Camp Express-NAVIGATING ETHICAL STANDARDS in the New Climate

    School counselors must negotiate the competing interests of the overregulated school environment, students’ need for confidentiality and the legal rights of parents to be the guiding voice in their children’s lives. We will discuss updates on these competing interests through court cases and the 2016 ASCA Ethical Standards for School Counselors highlighting legal rulings and […]