Sketch a typical week
Place lessons, groups, consultation and duties on five arcs of 15-minute blocks. The candle shows your share of direct and indirect services, computed the way ASCA's use-of-time calculator divides it.
My typical week
A planning sketch of a typical week. Pick an activity below the sky, then tap a time on a day's arc.
Direct plus indirect
73.3%
Goal: 80% or more
150 coded blocks
3.5 h a week on non-counseling tasks
The week as a list
The same week, readable and editable block by block.
Then and now
Save a snapshot each semester and compare.
Appropriate duties
Turn a duty into a fair trade
Your recurring duties
Minutes and how often. Everything stays on this device.
Your share code
Counts only: caseload band, contract days, hours in a contract day, and duty hours a year by category. No names, no school, no students.
Paste your team's codes
One code per line. The total is computed in this browser only.
Caseload and ratios
Your caseload beside the 250
ASCA recommends 250 students per school counselor. Here is where you stand next to your state and the nation, with the data year on every number.
The card shows counts only, never student names or details.
Build the one-page brief
For the annual administrator conference or any conversation about your time. Pick what goes on the page.
District ratio math
ASCA's 2024-25 ratios, every state
Research a principal or board can check
The counseling year
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Pick a star
What changed in the fifth edition
Print the year
The fifth edition has no annual calendar template, so these are ready to use as they are.
National School Counseling Week104days to Feb. 1 to 5, 2027
Plan the week once, enjoy it in February
Pick one or two ideas a day
Original, low-cost ideas for a K-6 school. Many are led by someone else, so you are not celebrating yourself.
Lessons
Teach to a standard
Find the right ASCA Student Standard for a topic, plan a lesson around one behavior standard with a short pre- and post-assessment, and write an achievement gap goal in numbers of students.
What are you teaching?
Small groups
Plan a group, keep the counts
Scripts and ethics
Say it well, every time
The 11 decision steps