Good Monday Morning, friends! I hope you are all having an opportunity to refresh and renew before we begin planning to head back to school. I am not sure when all of you go back, I will return in 2 weeks and I must say I am excited although I will miss sleeping in past 5:30 a.m. and being with my family.
I just wanted to announce the winners from author Erainna Winnett's book giveaway. If your name is listed, please email me at: melroseacker@yahoo.com with your full name and mailing address so I can get the needed information to pass on to Erainna.Thank you again to the wonderful Ms. Winnett for sharing her inspiring story of how she began creating products and resources and for giving away books to some readers. What a great book to start off beginning of the year guidance lessons. If you missed her guest post, you can check it out HERE.
If you did not win, I don't want you to walk away empty handed, so I have posted a Feelings FREEBIE that I hope you can use in a guidance lesson on feelings (where students can fill in the blanks) or you can use it to refer to in small group or individual counseling. You can access the freebie HERE!!!
I am excited to share my next post......it will be a little different that posts in the past but it will definitely be an eye opening one! Take care!
I am so excited and grateful to have author and counselor Erainna Winnett as a guest on the blog today. Not only is she sharing a little about herself and her journey to becoming an author, but she is giving away 5 signed copies of her book Mrs. Joyce Gives the Best High Fives. Read below to be inspired by Erainna and to see how you can have a chance to win!
First, thank you so much for having me as a guest blogger, I
am honored to share my story with your readers. I’ve been in education for the
past twenty-two years. After fifteen years in the classroom I felt a calling
for something more—a deeper way to connect with and help children, which is how
I discovered school counseling.
I moved from classroom teacher to school counselor in 2011 and
absolutely fell in love. However, I soon discovered there weren’t a lot of
up-to-date resources available for school counselors. After hearing me gripe
about it for months my husband finally told me to write my own resources. Isn’t
it nice to have someone who knows what you need before you do?
And so, I began researching self-publishing and taught myself the
basics of publishing a book. To be honest, there were some costly mistakes: the
cover for Mrs. Joyce Gives the Best
High-Fives was redesigned five times—YIKES—before I found one that I felt
was ‘right’. Most students didn’t even know their school had a counselor, much
less how one could help them.
The first week of school during my second year as a counselor
I went into every classroom and read the Mrs.
Joyce book. The children loved it and I received many thank-yous from
teachers. Needless to say, the following week my office was constantly busy.
I continued listening to my students and knew that I needed to
write other books to address individual needs. This launched me into the Helping Kids Heals therapeutic activity
book set. I’m thrilled with how well all of these books have been received. Just
last week, I woke up to an email from Ireland requesting copies of my books.
Who would have ever thought a small-town Texas counselor-author could reach professionals
across the ocean?
As educators, counselors are often the least familiar to
parents, students and sometimes teachers. I hope my efforts have offered you
some tools and helped you appreciate the power of your roles in our children’s
lives. And I invite you to continue to add to our community. I wish you luck in
the giveaway and hope you are having a relaxing, restful summer. All the best
and Happy Counseling. Erainna
Thank you so much, Erainna, for being an advocate for the role of counselors and for using your creativity to provide resources for educators. You can check out a trailer for her book below and also don't forget to take a look at her other resources and books HERE.
If you would like to enter for your chance to win your own signed copy, all you have to do is comment in the post below for one entry. For an extra entry, you can share this link or the link from The Stylish School Counselor on FB and comment that you did in the comments. Good luck! Winners will be announced on the blog on Friday, July 5th!
Happy 4th of July, friends!!! I just wanted to share with you all the new office pack for this year. You can find it HERE!
I also created a quick video to give a peek at what is in the pack and how you can use it. You can view it below!
Also, don't forget that tomorrow I will have a special guest post by counselor/author Erainna Winnett and she will be giving away 5 signed copies of her book Mrs. Joyce Gives the Best High Fives. Hope you enjoyed plenty of family time on this great day!
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