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Solution Focused Schools Unlimited
by Linda Metcalf M.Ed, Ph.D.
Learn about the solution focused approach as it applies to every situation in every school. From classroom management, RTI and team meetings, parent conferences, student behavior or mental health concerns, this approach and process will guide every educator and counselor into a land of possibilities. In that land, students, teachers and parents generate their own solutions as educators provide a context where those solutions are discovered.
Episodes
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Helping Teachers Show their Humanity! A Solution Focused Classroom Management Approach that Works!
Teachers often mistake control for being firm and stern and when that doesn't work, they become firmer and, more stern. Frustrated, they ask for help from administrators or counselors, who often tell them to do the exact same thing they were doing before. What's a teacher to do then? Enter the...
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Get Straight to the Solution! Two Case Studies that Helped Students Succeed
This podcast addresses how the solution focused mindset helped two school counselors to deal with complicated problems in two real case studies. Learn specific ways to ask questions and the reasons to steer away from problem talk with both elementary and secondary students. For more information…
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The Solution Focused Teacher: Get Your Power Back!
In this first podcast of a new series, "The Solution Focused Teacher," learn about a new approach that can help you get your power back in your classroom. Whether you teach kindergarten or twelfth grade, whether you are an academic coach, administrator or special education teacher, the ideas in...
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Get the Solution Focused School Counseling Mindset NOW!
The school year has started and so have the requests. This podcast introduces the solution focused approach as a mindset, not just strategies to try out. Listen to how the author recognized the importance of engaging students differently, as a teacher, and then later as a school counselor. The...
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Finding Sherlock! 3 Ways to Shrink School Violence Now
This episode takes a different approach in conceptualizing how to keep students safe in a world of uncertainties. You will learn three ways that do not cost money, do not require a change of school policy and yet, incorporate every single staff member and students into a process that anyone can...
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Bypassing Resistance and Finding Successes Everywhere!
This podcast will cover 3 constructs that contribute to the solution focused mindset. The ripple effect, the ideas that resistance can be conquered through a mindset and ways to talk to frustrated teachers are just some of the ideas covered in this podcast. Whether your job is as a school...
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Becoming Tinkerbell: Transform Resistance, Reluctance and Frustration into Possibilities
This podcast uses the comical Tinkerbell story to illustrate how the solution focused approach can help students, parents or teachers begin to realize the magic or expertise within themselves. Three basic constructs are discussed in this podcast, and illustrated through case studies. The listener...
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Need a Miracle? Create a Miracle Worker Team!
This podcast will share how to create a Miracle Worker team, (MW)composed of teachers who learn the solution focused process and work as consultants to fellow teachers and their students together to build solutions. It is ideal for school counselors and administrators who have students constantly...
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Solution Building Made Easy- How to start off the school year well and work less!
This episode explains three strategies that will empower students, find peace in overcrowded classrooms and expand solution building techniques with exceptions. For more information reach out to the Solution Focused Schools Unlimited website at https://solutionfocusedschool.com
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Engage or Disengage? What is our purpose?
This unique podcast was created after I witnessed a disturbing situation in a classroom. Recording the podcast in my car afterwards, I share ideas on how to help teachers who take actions that can disengage students who desperately need engagement. Listen as I provide ideas from the 3 solution...
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Planning for Next Year? Make it Easy! Let Your Students and Staff Lead the Way.
It’s time to review what we did and plan for next year. That goes for school counselors, teachers, administrators and…students. This podcast will share the importance of not doing it alone! Instead, by asking the right questions you may have the planning done for you.
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Inside the Mindset- a tour of basic ideas and applications to school situations
The solution focused approach is not about technique or strategies. It is much more than that. it is about how we think of people- our mindset. This podcast provides 4 mindset beliefs of the solution focused approach and describes a case of a student who is in an administrator’s office facing...
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Let’s End School Violence with a New Mindset
There were 29 school shootings in 2021. Our strategies to protect our schools is noble but not effective in putting a stop to school violence. This podcast takes on a solution focused mindset that is proactive. Listen to ideas that will give you direction to try a new strategy. We nothing to lose...
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How to Create Solutions from Exceptions
Exceptions are times when things go slightly better in our lives. In schools, exceptions are always there but are often overshadowed by a problem focused mindset. This podcast explains how noticing exceptions can change a student’s view of himself and create hope. Through a few case studies you...
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Harvesting Success with Teams and Team Players
Learn how to create a Miracle Workers’ team in your school to help carry out the solution focused approach in team meetings. Listen to a classroom guidance activity that helps students conceptualize what a team player does. Go further by incorporating teacher input so the classroom climate…
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Want Motivated, Passionate Students? Give Them a Purpose.
This podcast refers to “The Power of Purpose Driven Schools, an article by Mark Oppenheimer (WSJ 8-1-21) and explains how the questions of the solution focused approach can elicit purpose for our students. A story is included that focuses on how a student rose above a tough situation and shows…
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Give Students a Voice! Planning Academic or Behavioral Strategies Together With Students: A collaborative podcast with Cheryl Kretz
Every day, in schools around the world, educators construct strategies for student problems with the purpose of helping their students to succeed. It is an admirable task that sometimes ends with frustration, when the strategies, created in isolation from the student, fail to work. Yet, by simply...
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It’s Re-Entry Time- A Special Podcast for Going Back to School
Our students are returning this fall after seventeen months away. How we greet them will impact how they re-enter the classroom environment and settle back into school. This podcast will provide ideas for developing a plan for re-entry using the solution focused mindset. Get ready to brainstorm...
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Pack Your Bags! We Are Almost at the Finish Line
The school year is coming to a close. You have worked diligently to be at your best. How do you hope the last few weeks go, so your students recall your time with them as exceptional? This podcast will simply serve to remind you of the power you have to impact others in a great way, by being at...
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The Wonder of Wonderfullnesses
Parents often come in upset about their child/teen and have concerns and complaints that can veer you toward problem focused land. By inquiring about their child/teen’s wonderfulnesses the conversation will get you on the path to solutions and improve the parent-child relationship in the process....
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Becoming a solution focused genius
Something is changing around us- in a good way! This podcast shares two real life cases where students surprised their teachers and counselor. The opportunities to amplify changes are sometimes hidden, but becoming a solution focused genius who sees beyond how a student or teacher is labeled gets...
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Solution Focused +Narrative Therapy=More Possibilities Ahead!
This podcast gently adds some narrative therapy magic to the action oriented solution focused approach when working with school clients who seem overcome by situations. The SFNT model offers a slight detour off path, so the school client can express concerns in a way that shares their values with...
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Self Care for Everyone
Self care used to be an indulgence but now it is essential! This podcast takes the listener through an exercise to invigorate their day. Additionally, there are suggestions for externalizing issues that students bring to the school counselor. To join the author each week for live webinars...
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Engaging the Disengaged Student
Students often show their lack of understanding of academics or emotional turmoil by acting out. Those students need us more than ever. Yet too often, we grow frustrated after trying to engage them and sometimes disengage from them. This podcast shares some ways of thinking that may help…
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Special Edition! Hear details about the Virtual Solution Focused School Conference Oct 2-3-4. It's almost here!
Where else can you hear 15 Solution Focused Experts on Schools from 5 countries, and get up to 15 CEU's for the early bird price of $129? This podcast will share details of the speaker's topics and give you all the reasons to join me on Oct 2-3-4. Here is the link to explore the conference even...
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Back to school we go and...we know what to do...we've done it before!
This episode will provide specific questions and approaches for school counselors, teachers and administrators to use when starting back to school, whether virtual or, face to face. We all face uncertainty with this school year, yet probably, to most of us, uncertainty itself is not new! Learn…
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Ok, but can the solution focused approach work with this? YES!
When people learn about the solution focused approach and begin to apply it to certain situations at schools, they still get stuck at times when situations outside of their comfort zone arrive at their door. Well, its the solution focused approach to the rescue again! No matter the dilemma, no...
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Pushing the Hope Re-Set Button
This episode describes how the solution focused mindset can encourage us to watch our biases toward others and reach out to them, whether in our personal lives, our communities or at school. Learn about the Promise Program and get specifics on how to address marginalized students so that they…
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How to Talk So Parents Will Listen and How to Listen So Parents Will Talk!
This podcast gives a case from the forthcoming 2nd edition of Parenting Toward Solutions- a book written for parents that gives them the chance to use the solution focused approach in their parenting. Listeners will hear questions to ask to empower parents and facilitate conversations so that...
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Finding Relief from Grief and Loss
This episode includes ideas, developed from the article by Michael White, “Saying hullo again: The incorporation of the lost relationship in the resolution of grief (1988).” A mention of a clip from Finding Neverland, a movie, provides a nice way of explaining the act of keeping loved ones close...
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The Rise of The Resistant Student and Ways to Get Around the Resistance!
Whether you do virtual counseling or face to face, students who are not engaged are challenging. This podcast takes a look at what Maslow said about self-actualization and the incredible need that we all have, especially some of our students, to feel a part of something. Learn some new ways of...
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So, where did my life go? Creating an alternative story during challenges
This episode talks about disappointments and sad situations that intrude in students’ lives. While recorded during the Pandemic, the steps shared can be used any time. The use of narrative therapy and the idea of externalizing problems is covered with examples of questions to ask.
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The expert within you: Pushing through the pandemic
This episode describes qualities that can ultimately help us work with students, clients, teachers and parents as we are challenged by the pandemic. Listen for solution focused questions throughout that can help you recognize your expertise and the expertise of those you work with. There is…
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Getting Fit in a Time of Crisis
When crises occur, most people panic and reach out to others for assistance in adapting to change. This episode takes the solution focused approach and demonstrates how it can be adapted to working with anyone dealing with a critical situation. The ideas here can be used with individuals…
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Got Test Anxiety? Ask a Student for Help!
This episode focuses on how students can generate their own strategies for eliminating test anxiety and other challenges through the solution focused process. It also goes over typical ways schools attempt to help students succeed during test season and invites schools to carefully examine...
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Administrator Relief! How to lessen your load and improve student behavior
This episode shares some information about using the solution focused approach to decrease student suspensions and misbehaviors. Steps to take are included that honor policies but add a different strategy to dealing with students of concern. Order the book here:...
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Too many referrals and not enough time? Try this!
Counselors and staff often see the same students and teachers and hear from the same parents. Learn two steps to follow to lessen the number of referrals and increase student and teacher competency. To purchase the book, Counseling Toward Solutions, click here::...
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Watch out! Successes on the way!
This episode describes a case that led to the development of a systemic intervention that the author developed. The intervention increases the success of students, teachers and parents as they try out new strategies for success. To order the book, Counseling Toward Solutions, click below:...
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Make it Brief- 3 steps to a solution focused conversation
Learn 3 steps to use in conversations with school clients (students, teachers and parents) to help create a preferred future of where success becomes a possibility. Getting tons of forms to use in the book, Counseling Toward Solutions! Click here to see the book:...
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It Takes a Miracle
Using the miracle question takes time and patience. This episode explains how to use it with elementary and secondary students. For more questions and guides check out The book, Counseling Toward Solutions here:...
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It’s a Mindset
The solution focused approach is not about certain questions to ask or strategies to construct- its a mindset. This episode touches on how to get into that mindset by always watching out for exceptions and seeing students with a new lens. For a complete guide to the SF mindset in schools, check…
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If it works...
An introduction to thinking differently about students using a solution focused lens. Includes a true case study. For a complete overview of the solution focused approach in schools, check out the book, Counseling Toward Solutions here:...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Learn about the solution focused approach as it applies to every situation in every school. From classroom management, RTI and team meetings, parent conferences, student behavior or mental health concerns, this approach and process will guide every educator and counselor into a land of possibilities. In that land, students, teachers and parents generate their own solutions as educators provide a context where those solutions are discovered.
HOSTED BY
Linda Metcalf M.Ed, Ph.D.
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