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Stephanie Learner

Counseling Administrator, School Counselor, Author, Bilingual Educator

About Stephanie

With over 20 years of teaching and counseling experience, Stephanie is a school counseling administrator in Central Texas. When she's not counseling, writing, or presenting, she enjoys ranch life with her husband and our menagerie of pets—all of whom practice healthy coping skills, of course!

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Expertise

Counseling Program Development
Bilingual Education
Crisis Intervention
Small Group Counseling
Individual Counseling
Adult Learning

Experience

Counselor Support Program Manager
Author
Curriculum Writer
Adjunct Instructor
School Counselor
ESL Teacher in Bolivia
Classroom Teacher
Peace Corps, Mozambique

30

years of experience


K - 12

Texas


Education

BS Elementary/Middle Education, University of Maryland
MS Counseling, Johns Hopkins University

Articles from Stephanie

Organizational skills are important to a student's success at any age. That said, it can be a bit of a ...

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Our Favorite Ways to Teach Organizational Skills

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

School counselors are pulled in lots of different directions. There is always a crisis on a Friday afternoon. How do ...

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Time Savers for School Counselors

At some point, you will have to call Child Services on a family due to abuse or neglect. This is ...

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Working With Families After Calling Child Services

Enter your text here... Sometimes group members are resistant to participating in the group sessions. It is important to address ...

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What Do You Do When Students Don’t Want To Be In Group?

What do you do for back to school night or open house at your school? Do you give a presentation, ...

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What do you do for back to school night?

We asked Stephanie of School Counselor Stephanie and Brandy of The Counseling Teacher to share how they introduce the school ...

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Ways to Introduce the School Counselor’s Role to Students and Staff

The excitement of getting your first school counseling job is immense. You jump for joy and begin to think, “now ...

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Must-Have Resources for New School Counselors

The end of the school year is approaching. Give your future self a gift by doing some prep work as ...

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Planning a Successful End of the Year

Relational aggression can quickly take up a lot of a school counselor’s time and leave young girls frustrated and hurt. ...

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How do you manage relational aggression?

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?

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?

Holidays can be a hard time for students who have experienced a loss. Following a death, divorce, or even after ...

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Conversations: Students Struggling with Grief during the Holidays

What are your tips and tricks for behavior plans?   Data Driven Behavior Plans Behavior plans should be developed with ...

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Conversations: Tips and Tricks for Behavior Plans

Bullying Awareness Month is coming up in October. It is an important month to highlight anti-bullying programs and initiatives in your ...

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Conversations: Bullying Awareness Month is Next Week

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

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School Counselor Schedules and Disruptions

We set and work on goals with our students. We should do the same for ourselves and our school counseling ...

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Conversations: Do You Set Program Goals for the Year?

  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

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