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Carol Miller

School Counselor

About Carol

School Counselor with over 20 years experience in grades K-12. Dedicated to making a positive impact on student growth.

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Expertise

Group Counseling

Experience

School Counselor
ASCA National Presenter

31

years of experience


K - 12

New York


Education

BA Anthropology, University of Albany
MS Guidance and Counseling, Sage Graduate School

Articles from Carol

Involving parents in your school counseling program and in the school in general can often get overlooked. I remember the ...

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How do you get parents involved?

High stakes state testing can generate a lot of anxiety for students and adults alike. Counselors are uniquely prepared to ...

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Test Anxiety: Activities and Ideas That Help

We love using kindness books in classroom lessons and in counseling sessions. We asked Laura from The Pawsitive School Counselor ...

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Kindness Books We Love

Collaborating with specialists, such as speech and language pathologists, can help maximize student progress. When everyone working with a student ...

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How Do You Collaborate with Specialists?

Have you taken a school counseling intern before? An extra person to take some students for counseling sounds like a ...

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Considering Taking a School Counseling Intern?

Just like classroom teachers, it is important that we are considering and differentiating our teaching and support for students with ...

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Tips for Guidance Lessons for Special Needs Students

Small group counseling is an essential part of a school counselor's role, and boy is it tough. Facilitating useful small ...

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What’s the secret for successful small group counseling?

My guess is that it isn't one from the Yankee Candle collection in your garage. Often, the best gifts from ...

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Counselor Conversations: Best gift you ever got from a student?

Addressing Cutting BehaviorsCutting and other non-suicidal self-harm behaviors are signs of situations in need of immediate attention. School counselors are ...

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Conversations: Addressing Cutting and Self-Harm

What are your tips and tricks for behavior plans? Data Driven Behavior PlansBehavior plans should be developed with a team who ...

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Conversations: Tips and Tricks for Behavior Plans

How is your schedule setup? School counselor schedules can vary from building to building, district to district, and state to state. ...

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School Counselor Schedules and Disruptions

  We all want to say that we are great at what we do. I believe we all do our ...

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Suicide Prevention Best Practices

It's March already?! When did that happen? During this time of year, we inevitably see a rise in test anxiety for students and staff ...

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Supporting Students with Test Anxiety

What do school counselors do? As professionals, we are continually answering this question as we advocate for our profession. To ...

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School Counselor: Advocating for Your Role

Creating a Culture of KindnessI recently saw a video on Facebook about two apples. Two apples you are probably thinking? ...

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Creating a Culture of Kindness

Teaching & Encouraging Growth MindsetGrowth mindset, from Dr. Carol Dweck, is a revolutionarily simple yet often misunderstood concept. Teaching and encouraging ...

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Growth Mindset: Tips for School Counselors

Struggling with ways to get students engaged and participating in group counseling? Discussion starters are a great way to hook ...

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7 Creative Discussion Starters for School Counseling

It’s important to be organized as a testing coordinator. When I was a high school counselor, I was in charge ...

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Organization Tips for a Testing Coordinator

Let’s face it, kids are used to having worksheets and templates and preprinted note pages, but sometimes I don't have ...

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5 School Counseling Activities Using a Plain Sheet of Paper

As school counselors, it’s easy to talk to students about things that are bugging them, help with problems they are ...

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Teaching Study Skills as Part of Your Counseling Curriculum

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