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Slate Sessions: 106, "9 Tips for Parents of Students, Grades 9th-12th, on Attending College Debt-Free", with Candace Chambers, CEO and Chief Academic Coach of Educational Writing Services, LLC and author of "Write Your Way to a Successful Scholarship Essay.""Slate Sessions" are Chalkboard Ch@t bonus episodes where educators from across the U.S. offer tools, tips and beneficial practices. If you or anyone you know is a teacher, professor or childcare provider and would like to be featured on a future “Slate Sessions” episode, email the show host at germaine.flood@mpbonline.org.

Listen in as I chat with School Counselors from across the state of Mississippi to discuss their passion for the profession, related to counseling students and their own professional development. We chat about the current state of the profession related to protecting the school counselor’s role, their response to COVID-19 and the importance of school counselor demographics and DEI. Counselors include: Crystal Brewer, Simpson County School District; Tabatha Kenney, Jackson Public Schools; Lori W. Taylor, M.Ed., Prentiss County School District; Maria Fields, MS Achievement School District; Deanna Rush, Union Public School District; Deon Harrington & Crystal Carter-Harrington, North Panola School District. More information can be found by visiting education.mpbonline.org.

Download a new episode this Friday as I chat with School Counselors from across the state of Mississippi to discuss their passion for the profession, related to counseling students and their own professional development. We also chat about the current state of the profession related to protecting the school counselor’s role, their response to COVID-19 and the importance of school counselor demographics and DEI. More information can be found by visiting education.mpbonline.org.