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Technology and the ‘Next Generation’ – Preparing Students for College and Beyond

Technology and the ‘Next Generation’ – Preparing Students for College and Beyond

As a college educator, the topic of technology is of extreme interest to me. At least one of the courses that I teach each semester is online, while I have also dabbled in so-called “hybrid” courses [...]

Students with Disabilities Making Huge Strides Thanks to Digital Educational Tools

Students with Disabilities Making Huge Strides Thanks to Digital Educational Tools

When most adults were in grades K-12, students with any sort of disability were often forced into separate special education classes designed to help them “keep up” with mainstream education as best they could. Though the [...]

Focus on EQ: Optimism, Gratitude, and Technology

Focus on EQ: Optimism, Gratitude, and Technology

Focus on EQ: Gratitude, Optimism, and Technology. In this holiday season, thoughts naturally turn to expressions of gratitude.  Gratitude, it turns out, is one idea that’s also part of a larger movement called Positive Psychology, whose [...]

Bloom’s Taxonomy: Has Knowledge Become Outdated?

Bloom’s Taxonomy: Has Knowledge Become Outdated?

During the middle of the twentieth century a psychologist name Benjamin Bloom created a classification system to identify levels of thinking.  This arrangement is known as Bloom’s Taxonomy.  Intellectual processes are ordered from the most basic, [...]

The School Counseling Department Website

The School Counseling Department Website

  As school counselors, we are typically among the minority when it comes to our professional roles as staff members within our school.  Due to this, it can be quite difficult to effectively communicate and demonstrate [...]