I love to sharing realistic, real-life ways to make the most of your comprehensive counseling program. If you're interested in having me present to your district or state conference, please contact me!
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Rebecca Atkins is Senior Administrator of Elementary School Counseling for Wake County Public Schools. She has been a counselor since 2003 and loves working with parents, teachers, students, and other counselors. Rebecca has been district Elementary Counselor of the year, North Carolina Elementary Counselor of the year, and received National Board Certification in 2009. She has served on the executive board of NCSCA, the NCDPI Advisory Council, and has presented at the NCSCA conference, the ASCA conference, and for NCDPI. Rebecca received the RAMP award in 2008 and has served as a RAMP reviewer and a Bully Specialist Certification reviewer for ASCA. Her articles on transition and equity have appeared in the School Counselor Magazine. She authored the book Interrupting Racism: Equity and Social Justice in School Counseling with Alicia Oglesby.
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I have worked with districts and state associations across the country to bring innovative and realistic ideas for maximizing the effectiveness of every school counseling program. I love to take complex problems and break them into accessible action steps that allow for counselors to leave ready to implement change. School counseling is not an easy job and a combination of art and science allows us to create systemic change that shows results for our stakeholders and, most importantly, our students.
A brief look at my sessions:
Show Your Work
Get ready to be inspired to share the amazing work that you do in your school counseling program and to make the most of the time you have at school. Learn about ways to share your goals, results, and initiatives in an easy to read format with parents, principals, teachers, and the community. Wrap it up with a fun and engaging video that you can make with free smartphone apps. Share on School Counseling Twitter or Instagram pages to spread the word about how school counselors change the world one school at a time.
Making Groups Work and Handout
Do groups seem to fall off the list as your year goes along? Make a simple effective plan for groups that you can {actually} keep up with. Learn how implementing groups in waves can help you to stay productive organized and effective. You got this.
Interrupting Racism - Ignite Change for Equity and Inclusion
In collaboration with co-author, Alicia Oglesby
Learn practical action steps to interrupt racism and create systemic change at the school level through self-reflection, staff reflection and education activities and anti-bias student lessons. Walk away ready to ignite change for equity and inclusion of all students. After attending this session, you will be able to: 1) Identify areas of personal bias and increase cultural competency through self-reflection activities. 2) Create professional development activities for school-level staff to explore systems of the school negatively affecting students of color. 3) Create K-12 anti-bias lesson plans.
Interrupting Racism - Race and Equity in School Counseling
In collaboration with co-author, Alicia Oglesby
Reflect on your role in social justice outcomes within an ecological framework that directly aligns with ASCA mindsets. Facilitators will provide resources and effective tools that allow counselors to analyze and utilize best practices for their specific school environment. Leave ready to impact change in your building!
A brief look at my sessions:
Show Your Work
Get ready to be inspired to share the amazing work that you do in your school counseling program and to make the most of the time you have at school. Learn about ways to share your goals, results, and initiatives in an easy to read format with parents, principals, teachers, and the community. Wrap it up with a fun and engaging video that you can make with free smartphone apps. Share on School Counseling Twitter or Instagram pages to spread the word about how school counselors change the world one school at a time.
Making Groups Work and Handout
Do groups seem to fall off the list as your year goes along? Make a simple effective plan for groups that you can {actually} keep up with. Learn how implementing groups in waves can help you to stay productive organized and effective. You got this.
Interrupting Racism - Ignite Change for Equity and Inclusion
In collaboration with co-author, Alicia Oglesby
Learn practical action steps to interrupt racism and create systemic change at the school level through self-reflection, staff reflection and education activities and anti-bias student lessons. Walk away ready to ignite change for equity and inclusion of all students. After attending this session, you will be able to: 1) Identify areas of personal bias and increase cultural competency through self-reflection activities. 2) Create professional development activities for school-level staff to explore systems of the school negatively affecting students of color. 3) Create K-12 anti-bias lesson plans.
Interrupting Racism - Race and Equity in School Counseling
In collaboration with co-author, Alicia Oglesby
Reflect on your role in social justice outcomes within an ecological framework that directly aligns with ASCA mindsets. Facilitators will provide resources and effective tools that allow counselors to analyze and utilize best practices for their specific school environment. Leave ready to impact change in your building!