Download or read book Memoirs of a High School Counselor written by Jim Mancke and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2018-02-02 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine beginning your thirty-six-year high school counseling career by returning to your former high school, your alma mater, still being rememberedfor better or for worseby many of your past teachers and some staff members. That is where Jim Mancke found himself in the fall of 1975. With his undergraduate degree in psychology, a three-year stint in the Military Police Corps, and a masters degree in secondary school counseling, he felt relatively well prepared for the task ahead. Little did he know how little he did know! While his heart was open to serving the adolescent community, he quickly discovered he had much yet to learn. Interestingly, it would be his students and their parents who would prove to be his teachers and he their pupil. The lessons he learned are what this book is about. His first nineteen years of service (he preferred to call this his ministry) were at Spartanburg High School in Spartanburg, South Carolina. He then answered a call to serve in a private (independent) school setting in Chattanooga, Tennessee, at the McCallie School, which offered both day and boarding options. The boarding component of McCallie added a new dimension to his counseling model. He served there for seventeen years. Both schools proved to be fertile ground for the lessons he learned. While Jim was honored to be the recipient of numerous awards and recognitions throughout his counseling ministry, two proved to be extra special. In 1991 he received the distinguished Lewis Hine Award from the National Child Labor Committee in New York, presented for unparalleled achievement in service to children and youth. In 1993 Governor Carroll Campbell of South Carolina presented Jim the states highest civilian honor, the Order of the Palmetto, for his interest in and friendship to the state of South Carolina and her people. As his memoirs attest, Jims greatest honor was that of serving his students and their parents.
Download or read book Memoirs of a Middle School Counselor written by D. Jean Lang and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author's memoirs of over twenty-five years of school counseling in rural Upstate New York. Incidents will strike a familiar chord with anyone involved in the helping professions. From embarrassing and humourous moments to the tragedes of fatal accidents and suicides, the author takes us along with her as she grows in experience and learns life lessons through interacting with her students. A great primer for beginning counselors or educators.
Download or read book To Mold the Young written by Nell M. Cobb and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The 4th Marking Period written by Jr. Wilson and published by . This book was released on 2008-09-01 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 4th Marking Period: A Memoir of an African American Male Guidance Counselor is a personal day to day diary of events, struggles, fears, temptations, and experiences of a Black man working as a guidance counselor in a predominately white middle school. The book gives you a glimpse of author's experiences in two ways: first you will experience his interactions with his students. Second, you will get a first hand account of what is called "invisibility." What is invisibility? Purchase and read the book to find out...
Download or read book Recollections Bitter and Sweet written by Dr. June M. Smith and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-07-20 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a chronicle of the author's career as a public school administrator. The book provides biographical information about the author, her early desire to become a teacher, and her bittersweet years as an assistant principal and principal. The author concentrates on the stories of the children she met and worked with during her 21-year career as a school administrator. The stories of the children (whose names have been changed to protect individual privacy) are at times funny, poignant, sad, and even tragic. The author had the responsibility of making many decisions about children, including their placement, their academic performance, consequences for their inappropriate behavior, and about delicate issues that children brought from home to school. The author considers her book to be a labor of love that she wishes to share with school administrators, teachers, counselors, parents, students, and any other groups or individuals who are interested in helping young people to reach their maximum potential.
Download or read book Memoir of a Teacher and Counselor Eastern High School Lansing Michigan 1947 1976 written by Jon L. Young and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Prosecutor Defender Counselor written by Robert B. Fiske and published by Seapoint Books and Media. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The legal biography of Robert B. Fiske, Jr.
Download or read book Two Chairs and a Box of Tissues Memoirs of a Counselor Educator written by Greg Delaney and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2020-04-29 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the many centuries of human history, each successive generation has accumulated its own collection of knowledge, experience, and wisdom to be passed on to the next. "Two Chairs and a Box of Tissues" is author Greg Delaney's vision of how the "baton of knowledge" is being passed from generation to generation in the sometimes misunderstood and mischaracterized profession of mental health and substance use disorder counseling. Delaney draws upon decades of his own training and experience as a counselor as well as over fifteen years of educating and training addiction counselors in order to tell the tale of Kathleen, just beginning her career, and Greg, nearing retirement after four decades of helping others. Kathleen is a graduate student in mental health counseling who needs help with her thesis. Clinical research related to the topic of Kathleen's dissertation is difficult to find. Frustrated, she initiates a series of interviews with Greg, an experienced counselor and educator, to examine her strongly held beliefs about the importance of the counselor's personal health and wellness to the success of the therapeutic process. Kathleen hopes that these discussions will give her examples in support of her thesis. Even though her initial expectation was simple answers to a number of interview questions, Kathleen soon realizes that Greg seems willing to share with her in depth and detailed information about his career. She senses that this is a unique opportunity to get a true "behind the scenes" learning experience from someone who has almost forty.
Download or read book The Secret Life of Teenagers written by Calvin White and published by . This book was released on 2013-04-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The teen years are the perfect storm when truth is lived more raw than at any other stage of life. Vulnerability and need combine in such a way as to allow that truth to emerge, as long as there is a trusted person to listen. In THE SECRET LIFE OF TEENAGERS, Calvin White, a high school counselor of over twenty years shares those inner, hidden lives. Accompanied by powerful artifact writings and artwork, this is a time capsule for all of us"who we were and in a deep sense who we still are. Access to these truths is both illuminating and liberating.
Download or read book Each Branch Each Needle written by H.A. Dorfman and published by Government Institutes. This book was released on 2010-04-12 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the story of Harvey Dorfman, who rose from a childhood sickbed to experience numerous successes in the world of sports. Dorfman has been a teacher, coach, counselor, and a consultant in sport psychology. This third and last volume of a trilogy closes in 2010.
Download or read book Stories from the Classroom written by John Smeby and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2017-12-18 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Whether you are new to the profession or in need of a reminder why you entered it in the first place, Stories is a collection of vivid, heartfelt, eye-opening recollections” -Tamera Cruz, educator “This book is a gift ... not just for educators, but for everyone!” -Kenyon and Taccara Martin, co-authors (Soul-Ties Personal Growth Collection) After 23 years as a teacher, coach and counselor, California educator John Smeby offers us Stories from the Classroom. Set in a city emerging from bankruptcy and still recovering from a 2015 terrorist attack. John uncovers a more human, compassionate side of San Bernardino that many might miss. In this down-to-earth, sometimes heartbreaking and often humorous collection of stories, he recounts both the struggles and victories he found inside the classrooms and hallways of Cajon High School and beyond. Whether you are (or have ever been) an educator, student or parent, Smeby’s journey will resonate with unflinching honesty. The anecdotes and stories he shares offer a unique look inside our educational system, both public and private. A teacher will often see a student seated at a desk. In Stories, John challenges us to look beyond the student, and recognize the human being within. “I would like to thank you not as a student to a teacher but as a friend to a friend. I will forget little by little my high school experience, but I promise I will never forget what you have taught me “–Juan Andrade, former student
Download or read book Counsel to the President written by Clark M. Clifford and published by Anchor. This book was released on 1992 with total page 758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clifford, the legendary advisor to America's presidents, has written a classic memoir of power, policy, and politics in Washington over the past five decades. He chronicles his ascent from a young lawyer and naval officer to a trusted presidential counselor, while revealing his intimate knowledge of the most dramatic events and important personalities of our time. 16 pages of photographs.
Download or read book The High School Counselor s Handbook written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hold Fast to Dreams written by Beth Zasloff and published by New Press, The. This book was released on 2015-03-03 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An “invaluable” memoir by a counselor who left the elite private-school world to help poor and working-class kids get into college (Washington Monthly). Winner of the Studs and Ida Terkel Award Joshua Steckel left an elite Manhattan school to serve as the first-ever college guidance counselor at a Brooklyn public high school—and has helped hundreds of disadvantaged kids gain acceptance. But getting in is only one part of the drama. This riveting work of narrative nonfiction follows the lives of ten of Josh’s students as they navigate the vast, obstacle-ridden landscape of college in America, where students for whom the stakes of education are highest find unequal access and inadequate support. Among the students we meet are Mike, who writes his essays from a homeless shelter and is torn between his longing to get away to an idyllic campus and his fear of leaving his family in desperate circumstances; Santiago, a talented, motivated, and undocumented student, who battles bureaucracy and low expectations as he seeks a life outside the low-wage world of manual labor; and Ashley, who pursues her ambition to become a doctor with almost superhuman drive—but then forges a path that challenges received wisdom about the value of an elite liberal arts education. At a time when the idea of “college for all” is hotly debated, this book uncovers, in heartrending detail, the ways the American education system fails in its promise as a ladder to opportunity—yet provides hope in its portrayal of the intelligence, resilience, and everyday heroics of young people whose potential is too often ignored. “A profound examination of the obstacles faced by low-income students . . . and the kinds of reforms needed to make higher education and the upward mobility it promises more accessible.” —Booklist
Download or read book High School Memoirs a Journey in Surrealism written by Sean C. Cusack and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2007-11-14 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Synopsis High School Memoirs: A Journey in Surrealism is a tear-jerking, hilarious ride for a less-than-ordinary High School student who battles bullies and librarians to become King of the Classroom. Set in a small Catholic High School on the north side of Chicago, author Sean Cusack takes us on a surrealistic journey through four fun-filled years of triumph and tragedy in this unique epic. The journey begins with Sean Cusack entering St. Bernadin High School in August of 1995 as a very young and innocent Freshman student. He focuses on several life changing experiences in his infant days of High School that change him forever. Innocence Lost traces the steps Sean Cusack took that ultimately lead him on a path toward frequent battles with students and the school faculty and Administration. As a Sophomore, The Ride most certainly takes us on a ride through fights, vandalism, and verbal debacles that continued to steer the vengeful ship that Sean Cusack had been building since a Freshman. He now had become the ships Captain as it set sail. The Ride takes us through many strange and mysterious encounters that add more of a surrealist element to this budding melodrama and comedic satire. Sean Cusacks roses bud Junior Year in Forever Remembered, when he becomes a charismatic hero and leader of a rebellious group of students that pillage and plunder the school and faculty in wild and zany antics. Forever Remembered embodies the humorous and more imaginative side of Sean Cusack as the journey through High School becomes more surreal. Senior Year wraps up the trials and tribulations that Sean Cusack had endured thus far in his High School experience culminating into one person after years of battling the Defunct Administration. He is molded by evil as the rebellious youth becomes totally hellbent on crippling the school. In the end, he loses friends, respect from teachers, but most of all, he loses faith in his cause, yet ends his High School experience with a fantastical and triumphant bow. Sean Cusack proves that not all High School stories are the same in this turbulent and chaotic autobiography. High School Memoirs: A Journey in Surrealism chronicles a strange and unique history that is truly a step above the rest.
Download or read book Driving for Life written by Adrianne G. Selbst and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2013-07-08 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author and stroke survivor Adrianne G. Selbst has faced and overcome many difficulties throughout her life. In Driving for Life: A Memoir and Family History of Triumph, she shares her recollections of the adversity she experienced almost from birth. Despite her family and academic problemsor perhaps because of themSelbst earned a masters degree in counseling and served as a high school counselor for over thirty years. She was able to provide firsthand help to many students and help them rise above the troubles in their lives. When she suffered a stroke, Selbst was once again faced with challengesand, as before, she rose above them. Selbsts memoir shows how it is possible to overcome the obstacles that life puts in your path and explores how the people in your life make you who you are today, influencing you and helping you to become a better personand better able and prepared to rise above any circumstance.
Download or read book Escaping the Whale written by Ruth Rotkowitz and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-10 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marcia, a guidance counselor helping pregnant teens, leads the perfect life. Her boyfriend won the approval of her Holocaust-survivor family. However, beneath the shiny surface lurks another reality.
