School Desk Essentials — Counselor Style

Hi friends! I share a lot of things about my job / life as a school counselor, so I figured it would be fun to share some of my school desk essentials! Keep scrolling to see all of my favorite things that I truly don’t think I could go a day without!

This is what my little desk area looks like. :)

Depending on the day, I either wear contacts or my prescription glasses. When I wear contacts, I religiously wear these blue light blocking glasses from Amazon. They come in a pack of two — my sister kept the clear pair & I bought this black pair from her. We both feel like it makes a noticeable difference & they’re really comfy to wear. These have beens super helpful for me, especially on my documentation days.

This is my personalized planner from Erin Condren! This style isn’t available anymore, but I’m linking to the teacher-style planners here, which is what this one is. It gives you space to write your lesson plans for each day which is really helpful for me to write out my classroom guidance lesson plans as well as my plans for the one class I teach as a school counselor (I teach a quarterly class for 8th graders called Leadership & Career Exploration).

I don’t know a single educator who doesn’t love flair pens?! I don’t think I even need to talk much about these. They’re just the best pens ever! I’m pretty OCD about my organization, so color-coding things is like a love language to me. Give me all the flair pens!!!

I’m going to be blunt for a second: middle schoolers are stinky. I know it, they know it, we all know it. I keep this adorable wax burner on my desk for two reasons — 1) it makes my whole room smell good, & 2) it lets off light just like a lamp! I keep all of the lights off in my room & use different forms of lighting such as lamps & string lights so this just adds to that, plus looks dang cute & makes everything smell good!

If you don’t have one of these Walmart tumblrs, you need to add one to your cart RIGHT NOW! This thing keeps my drink cold ALL DAY LONG! It’s spill-proof & is really easy to carry. I have it in this pink color as well as the green color. Almost every single staff member at my school as at least one of these! We all swear by them. & I got this darling school counselor sticker from Kara at ChamomileCreationsCo. She actually customized this sticker for me because I was wanting black & white instead of her colored option! She was wonderful to work with & has tons of other stickers on her Etsy shop! I’ll be honest, although the cup is dishwasher safe, I haven’t ran it through since putting the sticker on. I don’t want to ruin the sticker! But it’s gotten very wet when I’ve hand washed it, & it’s held up great!