Elementary Counseling Newsletter
Our school counselors are an integral part of the educational process. They work in partnership with teachers and families to help students explore their abilities, strengths, interests, and talents to achieve school success and plan for a career. The Elementary Counselors' Connection is a tremendous source for a variety of resources and is published monthly to help navigate school and life.
National School Counseling Week, sponsored by the American School Counselor Association (ASCA), highlights the essential contribution of school counselors within U.S. school systems and the tremendous impact they have in helping students achieve school success and plan for a career.
2024
Check out the September edition of the Counselors' Connection
What's in this month's issue:
- Strategies to Teach Children Goal-Setting and Foster Their Success
- Coping with Roadblocks in Goal-Setting and in Life
- Video: How to Set Goals in 4 Easy Steps for Kids
- Did You Know?
- Counselor Spotlight: Ms. Jennifer Munch, Chestnutwold Elementary School
- Important Links and Helpful Information
Check out the August edition of the Counselors' Connection
What's in this month's issue:
- Counselor Spotlight
- Preparing Your Child for Elementary School: A Parent's Guide
- Back-to-School Anxiety: Tips for Parents
- Did you Know?
- Important Links and Helpful Information
The Counselors' Connection May/June 2024
What's in this month's issue:
- Supporting your child's transition to Middle School
- Supporting your child's transition from school to summer
- Did you Know?
- Try it at Home!
- SEL Books of the Month
SUPPORTING YOUR CHILD'S TRANSITION TO MIDDLE SCHOOL SUPPORTING YOUR CHILD’S TRANSITION FROM SCHOOL TO SUMMER DID YOU KNOW? TRY IT AT HOME! SEL BOOKS OF THE MONTH
The Counselors' Connection April 2024
What's in this month's issue:
- Helping your child tackle test anxiety
- Tips for beating test anxiety
- Did you Know?
- Try it at Home!
- SEL Books of the Month
The Counselors' Connection March 2024
What's in this month's issue:
- Mindfulness For Kids: Benefits and How To Explain It To Kids
- Mindfulness Apps: A Remote Solution for Children's Mental Well-being
- Did you Know?
- Try it at Home!
- SEL Books of the Month
The Counselors' Connection February 2024
What's in this month's issue:
- Helping Children learn the Art of Apologizing
- Did you Know
- Teaching Responsibility
- Try it at Home!
- SEL Books of the Month
The Counselors' Connection January 2024
What's in this month's issue:
- Unlocking the Power of a Growth Mindset
- Did you know?
- Positive Affirmations for Kids
- Try it at Home!
- SEL Books of the Month
2023
The Counselors' Connection December 2023
What's in this month's issue:
- Grief during the holidays
- Did you know?
- Helping kids cope with grief and loss
- Try it at home!
- SEL books of the month
The Counselors' Connection November 2023
What's in this month's issue:
- How to help kids learn to fail
- Did you know?
- Ways to practice perseverance as a family
- Try it at home!
The Counselors' Connection October 2023
What's in this month's issue:
- Promoting acceptance of diversity
- Did you know?
- Supporting Diversity & Inclusion with children
- Try it at Home!
- SEL books of the month
The Counselors' Connection September 2023
What's in this month's issue:
- Meet your Elementary School Counseling Department
- The best way to ease the back-to-school transition
- What your Child learns in Social Emotional Learning
The Counselors' Connection May/June 2023
What's in this month's issue:
- Supporting your child's experience with a mental health provider
- Guide to mental health
- May is mental health awareness month
- SEL books of the month
The Counselors' Connection April 2023
What's in this month's issue:
- Personality: We need all types
- Warning - Low Battery: How introverts and extroverts recharge their social batteries
- Take a listen!
- Book of the Month
The Counselors' Connection March 2023
What's in this month's issue:
- How to help your child be a good sport
- Try it at Home!
- National SEL Day
- Social story about Sportsmanship
The Counselors' Connection February 2023
What's in this month's issue:
- Tips for balancing your family's technology
- Try it at Home!
- SEL Book of the Month: The Technology Tail
- Did you know?
- National School Counselor Week
The Counselors' Connection January 2023
What's in this month's issue:
- The impact of positivity for students
- Positive affirmations for kids
- Try it at Home!
- SEL Book of the Month: I Can Do Hard Things
- Social story about goal setting
2022
The Counselors' Connection December 2022
What's in this month's issue:
- Children and grief: What to Expect and How to Help Them Cope
- Death of a pet
- Try it at home!
- Social Story about grief
- SEL book of the month
The Counselors' Connection November 2022
What's in this month's issue:
- 5 Tips for cultivating empathy
- How can I use media to teach my kid empathy?
- Try it at home!
- SEL book of the month
The Counselors' Connection October 2022
What's in this month's issue:
- Teasing, Bullying, Conflicts: What's the Difference
- Helping children learn how to assess and solve problems
- Try it at Home!
- Social story about teasing
The Counselors' Connection September 2022
What's in this month's issue:
- Meet your Elementary School Counseling Department
- Connect with your child's counselor
- Helping kids back into the school routine
- What your child learns in social emotional learning (SEL)
The Counselors' Connection May/June 2022
What's in this month's issue:
- Strategies for a successful summer break
- Ideas to promote SEL skills and prevent the summer SEL slide
- Try it at Home!
The Counselors' Connection April 2022
What's in this month's issue:
- Teaching children about disabilities
- SEL: Featured Topic: What is fair isn't always equal
- Try it at Home!
- Resource highlight: Medical Access
The Counselors' Connection March 2022
What's in this month's issue:
- Is my child's anger normal?
- SEL: Featured Topic
- Try it at Home!
- Resource highlight: Cool Koala
The Counselors' Connection February 2022
What's in this month's issue:
- Encouraging Healthy Tech Habits
- What students are learning in SEL: Responsible Decision making
- Try it at Home!
- Resource highlight: Smart Social
The Counselors' Connection January 2022
What's in this month's issue:
- Teaching kids how to deal with conflict
- What students are learning in SEL: Relationship Skills
- Try it at Home!
- Resource highlight: Sunshine Parenting Podcast
- SEL Books of the Month
2021
The Counselors' Connection December 2021
What's in this month's issue:
- 13 Ways to raise a caring & compassionate child
- What students are learning in SEL: Social-Awareness
- Try it at Home!
- Resource highlight: PBS Kids for Parents
- SEL Books of the Month
The Counselors' Connection November 2021
What's in this month's issue:
- How to help your child calm down
- What students are learning in SEL: Self-Management
- Try it at Home!
- Resource highlight: GoZen! Podcast
- SEL Books of the Month
The Counselors' Connection October 2021
What's in this month's issue:
- What every child needs for good mental health
- Self-Awareness
- Try it at Home!
- Resource highlight: Common sense media
- Elementary Counselor contact information
The Counselors' Connection September 2021
What's in this month's issue:
- Preparing your child for a successful year
- Same program, new name: Moving from Guidance to SEL
- Resource highlight: Peter's Place
- Elementary Counselor contact information