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Lauren: Hi, my friends. If you
are listening to this, I'm

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venturing that you are either at
the end of your school year, you

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have made it across the finish
line, your students have

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graduated, or you are this close
to getting there. Like, you can

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see it, you can taste it, it's
about to happen for you. I know

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we are all barely hanging on
through the end of the school

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year, whether that is in your
work life or also add in

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personal life, just this time of
year ends up getting crazy. It's

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like the craziness without the
holidays, but all the to do

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lists, et cetera. So let's talk
about how we're going to wrap up

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the end of the year, how we're
going to check out, but the

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things that we need to do before
we officially get out for the

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end of the year.

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And then if you still have some
time left in the school year and

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If at this point, you are still
interviewing for jobs, like you

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are trying to make a transition
from elementary or middle to

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high school, you're in a high
school and you're trying to move

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to a different high school, or
maybe you're an intern and

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you're hoping to get a job, I
want to make sure that you get

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these free interview videos that
will give you tips and

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strategies for interviewing for
your jobs. I can't promise that

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you're actually going to get the
job from doing it, but a lot of

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people have. So go to
counselorclique.com/interviews

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to get those videos sent to your
email inbox to help you prep for

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your job if you are still hoping
to nail an interview and get

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that dream job.

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you are trying to get together
some end of year resources, I

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have an end of year bundle that
I've put together with some of

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my favorite resources as you're
wrapping up this school year. It

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has things like data collection
and just some things you can do

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in classrooms and individual
lessons and counseling sessions

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with students. So I'd encourage
you to check that out. I will

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link that in the show notes. If
you are still feeling like you

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need to have some counseling
tools in your back pocket, I've

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got you covered there. Let's go
ahead and get into the three

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tasks that you're going to do
before you check out for the

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year.

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You you got into this profession
to make a difference in your

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students' lives, but you're
spread thin by all of the things

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that keep getting added to your
to do list. I can't create more

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hours in the day, but I can
invite you into my counselor

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clique, where you'll finally
catch your breath. Come with me

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as we unpack creative ideas and
effective strategies that'll

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help you be the counselor who
leaves a lifelong impact on your

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students. I'm Lauren Tingle,
your high school counseling hype

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girl, here to help you energize
your school counseling program

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and remind you of how much you
love your job.

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First and foremost, I want you
to collect and write down any

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notes that you just think that
you're going to remember,

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because we all have this ideal
that we will remember everything

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we set out to. We will know that
when that student's name pops

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up, we're going to remember that
they are doing algebra two and

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credit recovery over the summer,
and if they don't complete it,

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they're going to be retained in
10th grade. Okay, I think I'm

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gonna remember that because it's
so specific, because I know that

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student so well. We sat and
talked about grades every week

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in my office, but if I don't
write down the specifics, I

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might not remember where we left
off with this conversation, or

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what my responsibility was gonna
be when that grade came back in

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or it didn't, or what their plan
was going to be when they

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actually didn't finish the
class.

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So write down all the
information that you think

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you're going to need, like, who
are your failures at the end of

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the year, and what that plan is
for each of those individual

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students. If it's credit
recovery, if it's some sort of

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summer school, if they are
trying to finish something in

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the first week of summer and
average with their grade, I

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don't know. I'm sure there is
something unique that your

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district does, that your school
does, that might be different

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depending on where you are or
what grade level you work with.

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So write those things down so
that when you get a random

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parent phone call in the middle
of the summer or the craziness

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of the school year starts, you
can quickly just trigger that

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memory with the notes that you
have.

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If you have any weird scheduling
or transcript stuff, let's also

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write down these type of notes.
So if, you know, you're in the

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middle of this master schedule,
getting everybody's schedules

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just right, but there are things
you know that are coming that

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you're going to have to make big
changes with, like a teacher is

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going to change and it's gonna
push all these, you know, the

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ones that I'm talking about,
like, where you know that this

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special ed class is gonna be
dissolved, and you're gonna have

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to find new things. Like, go
ahead and just like dog ear

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those pages. Jot your notes
down. Print out any of the

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emails from admin that say,
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marching band, and it's whatever
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graduating that need certain
transcripts sent places, or you

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have already sent those places,
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senior episode before, but get
your systems in place for your

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senior transcripts and where
they're going. If you have some

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final grades for your other
students that will be printed on

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their final transcripts at the
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if there is just something weird
about it, like that they are

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failing due to attendance, or
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grade to get this one up to
passing, and it's gonna make or

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break them being retained or
being promoted, like those kinds

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of tiny details are all very
important. They're the ones that

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you don't wanna forget what the
backstory was, but the parent

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wasn't involved, so the parent
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you have no paper trail other
than the notes that you write

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down.

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So pick where you're gonna keep
your notes written down for your

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failures and their plans, any
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weird transcript stuff.

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If you still have emails that
are like ongoing conversations

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where the loops haven't been
closed yet, I want you to either

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flag those, put them in a
special folder, print them off,

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and file them in the student's
folder that you keep the extra

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special printed stuff in. Like,
you know, the ones that are

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still continuing on into the
summer, the loops that you wish

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you could close, that you just
haven't closed yet. Go ahead and

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print those out, or jot some
notes on there so that you don't

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forget where you left off with
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A thing that I want you to
remember to write down,

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reference last week's episode if
you need help with this, write

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down some quick data points that
you'll want to track year over

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year, or you'll want to be able
to reference when the new school

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year starts. So I'm talking
about doing the things that will

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serve your future self, do those
right now. Because I know when I

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would get to the end of the
year, I don't have that readily

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available in my brain of what
the promotion or retention rate

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was at the end of last year. I
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fail their classes due to
attendance. Like the things that

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you might want to have some new
initiatives for or set some new

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smart goals off of, it is so
much easier to do it when it's

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still fresh in your mind at the
end of the year, versus going

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back and digging for that
information when August rolls

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around and you have 1,000,001
other things to do.

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If you're wondering what sorts
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collect, head back to last
week's episode, the one that

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comes right before this, and
I'll also link it in the show

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notes, but that is a great data
episode for the end of the year.

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Okay, we've already talked about
the things that you're going to

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write down, any notes that
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let's be real, you're not going
to always remember them. Now,

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let's talk about relationally. I
want you to tie up any loose

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ends you have with your
students. If you have high

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flyers and you're still
connected to them now, because

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they haven't left your school
building yet, I want you to have

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a game plan for them. Connect
with them, talk to them about

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the summer resources they might
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So whether that is summer
school, and you need to follow

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up and make sure A, they're
registered, B, they know how to

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access their account if it's
online, or where to go if it's

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in person, and C, why it's
important and get them some

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motivation going to get that
completed. I want you to touch

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base with them before they leave
for the summer. They need to

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know how important whatever the
work is that's in front of them,

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so that they follow through. If
they're your high flyers, you

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probably know that maybe they're
not the most accountable to

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actually finishing work. And so
every touch point that you can

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have all the way till you don't
see them anymore, is valuable in

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your book.

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If you have students who are
going to need some extra mental

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health resources over the
summer, don't let that slip by

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before they walk out of your
school building. Give them the

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things that they're going to
need. Do they need to follow up

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with a counselor outside of
school? Are they doing some sort

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of, okay, I'm going to say
mental health summer camp. That

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sounds maybe weird, but in our
school, our LPC used to hold.

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I'm gonna put it in air quotes,
summer camps, for her students

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on her caseload. Don't know if
this is common everywhere else,

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but it was really cool. But I
would have to remind students,

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hey, when Miss Jera calls you
over the summer to invite you to

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her summer camp, make sure you
answer. Text her back, make sure

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you go. It's gonna be really
fun. She would offer these

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activities, but then have some
coping skills and therapy mixed

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into whatever they were doing.
It was a really valuable time

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for those students, so I always
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helping facilitate that
connection point before they

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left for the summer.

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And then if you have students
who maybe have some basic needs

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that need to be met over the
summer, if you've had students

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who have been homeless
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they have the contact
information of the shelters or

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the homeless liaison. Yes, you
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over the summer, but you might
not be available whenever they

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need you. So if they can know
where they can access food banks

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or just emergency resources that
they might need, I think you

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will sleep better at night
knowing that your students are

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connected. It's so hard to go
away for the summer knowing that

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you have these high flyer
students with a lot of needs,

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and you can easily spend your
summer worrying about them or

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hoping that they have everything
that they need when they're not

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connected at school.

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Lastly, I want you to dream big
about your summer. What are your

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big hopes and dreams for this
summer? And there is no right or

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wrong answer here. I just want
you to take a second to do this

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before you completely check out
for the school year. Do you want

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to revamp a part of your
program? Jot some notes down. Do

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some daydreaming. Maybe chat
over lunch with your team about

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it just as you exit the year,
and it's all still fresh on your

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mind.

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So if you did one small group
right here as you ended the

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school year and it went well,
talk about that, remind each

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other and hype each other up
like we want to do this again

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next year. Or maybe when you see
some of those data points that

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you wrote down as you got to the
end of the year, you're dreaming

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big for next year about
something that you can see going

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really well in your school to
meet a need based on the data

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that you pulled and just some of
the things that you observed as

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you got to the end of the school
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Is reading a book on your list
this summer? Now, of course, it

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could just be, you know, the
newest fantasy novel or

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something, but maybe you want to
read a PD book this summer, and

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you challenge yourself to put
one on your to be read list, and

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you actually do it. What is that
for you? I am finally going to

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finish The Anxious Generation
here pretty soon. I've been

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listening slowly but surely on
audiobook, and I've loved every

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second of it, so that's free to
listen to on Spotify if you have

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Spotify, but I'd highly
recommend that or some other PD

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book that you've seen floating
around. Don't forget that you

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can pop in some air pods and
listen to that after you listen

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to your weekly episode of High
School Counseling Conversations.

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As you're going into the summer,
maybe have big dreams of

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onboarding a new team member, or
you've already signed up to take

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on an intern for next school
year. You're probably already

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thinking about what that's going
to look like as they come into

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your office, as they get
situated, and what you're going

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to kind of need to do to make
sure that they have a great

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experience in your school
counseling office and with your

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school counseling team. So if
there are a couple little bullet

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points that you want to jot down
for that, or just dream about

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what that might look like, now
is the time to think about that.

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And maybe your big dreams for
the summer are just relaxing,

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laying by the pool, thinking
nothing about high school

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counseling, and that is totally
fine. I am here to give you

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permission to say you can check
out at the end of this school

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year and not think about school
for the entire summer. Depending

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on the season that you find
yourself in and the level of

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stress or not stress that you
find yourself in, you might have

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different goals for the summer,
and that is okay. It's okay for

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that to change every summer, or
it's okay for every summer for

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you just to say, I want to check
out. I don't want to be

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responsible for anybody else,
and I am not going to do

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schoolwork over the summer, if I
can help it.

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I hope thinking about these
three big things that you're

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going to do before you check out
for the year is exciting and

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encouraging, because you have
either already made it, or you

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are so close to making it. So
write down any notes that you

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need to remember, tie up any
loose ends with your students,

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and dream your big dreams for
the summer, and we will talk

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more this summer.

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Remember, if you're still
interviewing and you need some

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help with those interviews,
counselorclique.com/interviews

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is going to get you those free
videos that are going to help

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you through the interview
process. And I'm going to link

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some end of year resources in
the show notes if you are still

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looking for some resources for
your high school counseling

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program that'll help you tie up
the end of the year. Enjoy.

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Thanks for listening to today's
episode of High School

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Counseling Conversations. All
the links I talked about today

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can be found in the show notes
and also at

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counselorclique.com/podcast. Be
sure to hit follow wherever you

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listen to your podcasts, so that
you never miss a new episode.

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a DM @counselorclique, that's C,
L, I, Q, U, E. I'll see you next

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week.