Counselor Keri

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Keri Powers

School Counselor, Mental Health Counselor, Author, Presenter

About Keri

Keri is a mental health counselor turned school counselor and curriculum writer hoping to reach every single student and spark social, emotional, and academic growth!

Chatting confidently about

Expertise

Group Counseling
Classroom Lessons

Experience

years of experience


PreK - 8

Hawaii


Education

MA in EDHD
MEd
NCC

Articles from Keri

We’ve all been thrown into a world of distance learning, and while the tech world can be an overwhelming new ...

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7 Tips to Make Distance Learning Easier for Counselors

Being a school counselor is a difficult job. It takes it up ten notches when you have to cover multiple ...

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How do you balance working at multiple schools?

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

Classroom guidance lessons can be tricky. You are not in each classroom frequently enough to develop consistent routines, every classroom ...

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Spice Up Your Classroom Guidance Lessons

How do you introduce and explore careers with students? Do you have some favorite career development resources you use every ...

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Favorite Career Development Resources

Self regulation is a key skill for students (and adults). As school counselors, we have a great opportunity to target ...

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Self Regulation Counseling Activities

Student clubs can be an excellent way to connect with students, expand your school counseling program, and address a school ...

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School Counselors, Do You Lead Student Clubs?

When school counselors start the year, a lot of misconceptions can exist about their role. Teachers and parents come with ...

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How do you introduce the school counselor role?

Summer is the perfect time to get in the reading you have been meaning to do all year. What's on ...

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School Counselor Summer Reading

Are you looking forward to being a first year counselor? Or maybe you’re reflecting on what your beautiful, chaotic first ...

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7 Tips for New School Counselors: Lessons We Learned During Our First Year

What's on your summer to do list? I always have to take a step back when my list gets to ...

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School Counselor Summer To-Do List

What is your favorite school counseling anxiety resource? Testing season aside, students are experiencing record rates of anxiety. School counselors ...

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Favorite School Counseling Anxiety Resource

Finding school counselor professional development can be incredibly challenging. Often our districts are thinking about teachers primarily, and we are ...

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What do you do for school counselor professional development?

Incorporating technology in school counseling can really engage students, but sometimes it can be hard to figure out how to ...

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How do you use technology in school counseling?

You know you should be incorporating self-care. You know you can’t pour from an empty cup. Sometimes it just takes ...

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What is Your Go To Self Care Activity?

How Do You Handle a Phone Call from an Angry Parent? It may be one of the worst parts of ...

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Conversations: Phone Calls from an Angry Parent

Teacher Counselor Relationships Have you had a relationship with a teacher that did not get off on the right foot? ...

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Conversations: Improving Relationships with Teachers

Do you have something in your office you can’t live without? I don’t mean the drawer of candy. I mean ...

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What Can’t You Live Without in Your School Counseling Office?

Summer is finally here and we all have time to breathe and decompress from another whirlwind year of advocating and ...

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10 Ways to Prepare During the Summer

  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

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