2020-21 Monthly Edition No. 5 |
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Reboot in 2021
This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change.
— Taylor Swift
As 2020 comes to an end, we look forward to new beginnings and a fresh start in 2021. The San Diego County Office of Education has designed opportunities for school counselors to revisit their practice and review their goals once school resumes in January.
The theme of this year's virtual San Diego School Counselor Con is "Reboot," and we are carrying that through other learning opportunities with our upcoming School Counselor Chats and our second San Diego County School Counselor Convening. Now is the time to reconnect with colleagues across districts, counties, and states to reboot our practice and find new, innovative ways to lead and shape our work. Let's do this together!
Before you leave on break, please take a moment to register for these upcoming professional learning opportunities. Details for each are included below.
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Pre-Break Checklist:
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Sign up to present at the San Diego School Counselor Con. Deadline Jan. 5.
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Register for School Counselor Chats on Jan. 13.
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Register for the San Diego County School Counselor Convening on Jan. 20.
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Register for the SDCOE Equity Conference, Jan. 19 to 22.
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Register for the San Diego School Counselor Con, Feb. 3 and 4.
In closing, I just want to say thank you for all that you do for our students and families on a daily basis. The important work that school counselors have taken on over the past nine months has shifted and your innovative spirit and positive presence has not gone unnoticed. During this holiday break, I encourage you to try to unplug from work projects, connect safely with those you love, and most importantly give yourself permission to take care of you!
I look forward to growing with you in the new year and rebooting our profession to new heights. Have a wonderful and safe holiday season.
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Counseling Coordinator
San Diego County Office of Education
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School Counselor Professional Development Calendar
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Counselor Con Call for Presenters — Deadline Extended
The application to submit a workshop proposal is now available through Jan. 5: Call for Presenters — San Diego School Counselor Con 2021. Have you started a new program? Do you have a tech tool that has changed your practice? We are looking for topics that support specific grade-level school counselors (K-5, 6-8, 9-12), and the best presenters are those that are practicing school counselors.
Workshops will be provided in the following strands: Self-Care, Academic, College/Career, Personal/Social, Equity and Access, Social and Emotional Learning (SEL), and Social Justice. We also encourage the use of tech tools to engage your audience and model how they can be used when working with students.
The deadline to submit a proposal has been extended to Jan. 5 and presenters will be notified the following week. If your workshop is selected you will be entitled to free registration.
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Keynote Speaker: Tara Brown
President of Learner's Edge Consulting, award-winning educator, author, and international speaker, Tara Brown believes strongly that a major key to student and teacher success is the ability to connect and build effective relationships in the classroom and school. Known as "The Connection Coach," Tara's passion and humor drives her to better equip adults with the ability to connect with youth in order to unleash their true potential. She is committed to helping strengthen organizations "One connection at a time."
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School Counselor Chats
In partnership between the San Diego and Los Angeles county offices of education, Counselor Chats is an an organized chat room that brings together school counselors from across counties to strengthen best practices, connect with fellow grade-level colleagues, share ideas and resources, and simply chat. Registered participants create topics for discussion and facilitate breakout sessions in an un-conference format.
Date: Jan. 13
Time: 1:30 to 2:30 p.m.
Cost: Free
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San Diego County School Counselor Convening
The second countywide School Counselor Convening will be held in January. Connect with school counselors across the county in this live webinar.
Date: Jan. 20
Time: 10 to 11 a.m.
Cost: Free
Tara Brown will be our guest speaker giving you a sneak preview of what to expect in February from her keynote at the San Diego School Counselor Con. Tara will focus on helping attendees recalibrate for the new semester in her interactive presentation. This webinar will look at how best to be the chief emotional officer of our life. Attendees will leave with a renewed since of clarity/faith in both the absolute need and in their ability to practice self-care in order to fill their own tanks instead of continually running on fumes. Giving ourselves permission to carve out 'me' is indeed being a great CEO of our life!
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2021 Equity Conference
The 2021 Equity Conference on Jan. 19 to 22 has been redesigned with you in mind during this pandemic. The schedule is simplified with two to three recognized leaders in equity speaking from 12:30 to 3:30 p.m. each day and the cost is only $149 ($99 for students and parents).
The Equity Conference 2021 theme is equity is love in action. The conference will bring together hundreds of educators, parents, and community leaders to learn how to engage effective, systemic change and better respond to the linguistic, cultural, social and emotional, and mental health needs of all students.
The speaker line-up includes authors Dr. Margaret Wheatley, Elena Aguilar, and Dr. Monique Morris, Portland Public Schools Superintendent Guadalupe Guerrero, and the students behind the @BlackinPUSD Instagram account, to name a few. See all the speakers and register your team today at www.sdcoe.net/EC2021.
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Two Counselors and a Mic
Two Counselors and a Mic is a podcast dedicated to exploring the ever-changing topics related to education. Hosts Lisa Johnson Davis and Gabriela Baeza Delgado, of SDCOE, created the forum in the belief that by listening to and learning from each other’s diverse experiences, we can harness the power of our collective stories to make change in the world. Through these stories, we can expand our understanding of who we are and how we learn. Episodes of Two Counselors and a Mic are available here and find the Companion Guide created in partnership with UCSD Extension. The guide was designed to push your thinking on how your experiences and understandings of the world interconnect with those of others.
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