I finally found Pinterest

I have one more week before I have to report to work.  When I went to the school this summer, the counseling suite was getting new carpets, so I wasn’t able to see my office.  I also don’t know what students I’ll be working with yet.  I haven’t been able to do all the things I wanted to do the last couple of weeks (review transcripts and schedules, create spreadsheets to keep track of graduation requirements for seniors, decorate my office, create a “where is the counselor” sign, etc.).  I’ll probably go to the school next week to look at my office. 

As a result of being bored and searching the web, I finally found PINTEREST (my new obsession).  There are a lot of great ideas there.  Some were new ideas and some were ideas I’d seen before but with a twist.  I will be using several ideas this year—modified for high school of course J. 

Some of my favorite ideas are:

·        The faculty/staff appreciation gifts.  I give beginning of the year and NSCW “gifts” to the counseling department and the entire faculty/staff. 

·        The “Where is the Counselor?” signs.  The one I used was not as creative as the ones on Pinterest and counseling blogs. 

·        The confidentially poster from (http://www.schcounselor.com/). I ordered one myself. 

·        Custom binder clips.  I love that I can make my own with Microsoft work and Modge Podge.  Made some yesterday and they turned out great!  I will be making more. 

·        Printing on post-its.  Never thought of doing that.  I am definitely going to have to try it.

·        The master teacher binder.  I always start the year off with a binder, but never finish the year with it.  Thanks to the ideas from Pinterest, I have a better idea of how to organize it so I will use it all year long. 

I’m going to try to add all the Pinterest ideas I made on another post.  Hope it works