It is my great pleasure to introduce Erainna Winnett, author of Mrs. Joyce Gives the Best High-Fives, as my guest blogger. However, for many School Counselors, Erainna needs no introduction. Not only has she written this popular book used by School Counselors across our country, but she has written numerous other books including a therapeutic series of activity books and one of my personal favorites, Frenemy Jungle.
In today's post you will find out how Erainna came to write Mrs. Joyce Gives the Best High-Fives, a link for awesome FREE lesson activities she designed to go with her book, and instructions on how to enter our giveaway for a chance to win one of five FREE autographed copies of Mrs. Joyce Gives the Best High-Fives!
Welcome Erainna!
First, thank you so much for having me as a guest blogger, I am honored to share my story with your readers. I’ve been in education for the past twenty-two years. After fifteen years in the classroom I felt a calling for something more—a deeper way to connect with and help children, which is how I discovered school counseling.
I moved from classroom teacher to school counselor in 2011 and
absolutely fell in love. However, I soon discovered there weren’t a lot of
up-to-date resources available for school counselors. After hearing me gripe
about it for months, my husband finally told me to write my own resources. Isn’t
it nice to have someone who knows what you need before you do?
And so, I began researching self-publishing and taught myself the
basics of publishing a book. To be honest, there were some costly mistakes: the
cover for Mrs. Joyce Gives the Best
High-Fives was redesigned five times—YIKES—before I found one that I felt
was ‘right’. Most students didn’t even know their school had a counselor, much
less how one could help them.
The first week of school during my second year as a counselor
I went into every classroom and read the Mrs.
Joyce book. The children loved it and I received many thank-yous from
teachers. Needless to say, the following week my office was constantly busy.
I continued listening to my students and knew that I needed to
write other books to address individual needs. This launched me into the Helping Kids Heal therapeutic activity
book set. I’m thrilled with how well all of these books have been received. Just
last week, I woke up to an email from Ireland requesting copies of my books.
Who would have ever thought a small-town Texas counselor-author could reach professionals
across the ocean?
As educators, counselors are often the least familiar to
parents, students and sometimes teachers. I hope my efforts have offered you
some tools and helped you appreciate the power of your roles in our children’s
lives. And I invite you to continue to add to our community. I wish you luck in
the giveaway and hope you are having a relaxing, restful summer.
All the best
and Happy Counseling.
Erainna
Thank you Erainna for sharing your story and your amazing FREE resources to go along with your book Mrs. Joyce Gives the Best High- Fives!
How To Win Your FREE copy of Mrs. Joyce Gives the Best High-Fives
There are 3 easy ways to enter!
- Follow my blog by email and post a comment below about why you should win a copy of Mrs. Joyce Gives the Best High-Fives.
- Like this post on the Exploring School Counseling Facebook page and leave a comment about why you should win,
- Like this post on the School Counselor Store Facebook page and comment on why you should win.
Winners will be selected using Rafflecopter and announced at the close of the giveaway.
Thanks for participating! Good Luck!
I would love to win this book for my back to school lessons and then blog about it.
ReplyDeleteI'd love to win this to use at the beginning of the year so I could explain my role to my kiddos!
ReplyDeletewould love to have this as a resource at my new school!
ReplyDeleteI would love to use this to help the kids at my school understand what I do better. Unfortunately, kindergarten tends to think of me as the bus lady because I have bus duty!!
ReplyDeleteI would love to own a copy of this book to use at the beginning of the school year to introduce myself as the school counselor at Lemira Elementary School. The book will allow me to better explain the purpose of a school counselor and some of their services that a counselor provides to elementary students.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations to Mel, Erin Hockenberry, Brooke Scherer, Kerri Johnson Cox, and Laura Filtness! You have each won an autographed copy of Mrs. Joyce Gives the Best High-Fives! Please PM me with your home address so we can get your book in the mail! Thank you to everyone for participating. Look for more give aways when school starts back.
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