The Student Who Slipped Through Had Three Warning Signs I Documented Too Late I noticed them in October. The shift in attendance, the drop in engagement, the change in how he responded during sessions. I made notes — mental notes, mostly, with the intention of formalizing them into a proper case record. By the time I had the documentation in order, it was December. Six weeks of potential early intervention, lost to a backlog that I had no good system for clearing. I've been a school counselor for eight years. The documentation burden in this role is significant and consequential: case records, referral notes, parent communication logs, student action plans, coordination with teachers, reports to administration. All of it matters. All of it competes with the time I should be spending with students. I did the be10x Advanced AI Skills course with one specific intention — to close the gap between when I observe something and when it becomes documentation that can be acted on. The clinical judgment stays entirely mine. The assessment of what a student needs stays mine. What AI compresses is the time it takes to turn an observation into a structured, shareable record. Case records are now current rather than two weeks behind. Parent communication is drafted and sent the same day rather than the following week. Student action plans are structured and specific rather than informal and vague. Six weeks of early intervention matters in a student's life. Documentation that takes six weeks to produce is documentation that doesn't serve the student. That gap is closeable.
