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You’re Planning Your School Counseling Program Backwards

From School for School Counselors · Hosted by Steph Johnson

2026-07-13·1020

Episode summary

In this episode of School for School Counselors: Most school counselors plan their programs in the same order they were taught: start with the data, identify the need, choose the intervention, and try to make the model fit. But that's exactly why so many carefully built plans fall apart by October.

Original publisher description

Most school counselors plan their programs in the same order they were taught: start with the data, identify the need, choose the intervention, and try to make the model fit. But that's exactly why so many carefully built plans fall apart by October. In this episode, Steph explains why school counselors may be planning their programs backwards —…