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Title: The Education Trust Annual Conference School Counselors: Partners in School Reform and Student Achie


1
The Education Trust Annual ConferenceSchool
Counselors Partners in School Reform and Student
Achievement
  • American School Counselor Association
  • One Vision, One Voice

2
Session Objectives
  • Participants will
  • Understand how school counseling can connect to
    the mission of schools
  • Apply process, perception and results data to
    school counseling programs
  • Use data to change the system and improve student
    achievement

3
Understand How School Counseling Can Connect to
the Mission of Schools
Objective 1
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Where are School Counselors?
Absent from School Reform
Peripheral to the Mission and Function of Schools
School Counselor?
5
Standards-Based Reform
High Standards for All Students aligned with
Challenging Curriculum and Assessments
Ongoing Support for Teachers and Students
Increased Student Achievement
6
The old question was
What do counselors do?
The new question is
How has student achievement increased as a
result of what school counselors do?
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Implications
  • What is the purpose of the school counseling
    program?
  • What are the desired outcomes or results?
  • What is being done to achieve results?
  • What evidence is there that the objectives have
    been met?
  • Is the program making a difference?

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School Counseling Programs Are About
  • Counseling Advocacy
  • Leadership Data-Driven Decisions
  • Assessment Teaming Collaboration
  • Technology Managing Resources

9
now
  • The time for change is

The way we do business must change fundamentally
and immediately.
10
ASCA National Model
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  • Advocacy
  • Leadership
  • Collaboration
  • Systemic Change

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Foundation
  • Beliefs and Philosophy
  • Mission
  • Domains
  • Academic Development
  • Career Development
  • Personal/Social Development
  • ASCA National Standards and Competencies

13
Delivery System
  • School Guidance Curriculum
  • Individual Student Planning
  • Responsive Services
  • System Support

14
Management System
  • Management Agreements
  • Advisory Council
  • Use of Data
  • Monitoring Student Progress
  • Closing the Gap
  • Action Plans
  • Guidance Curriculum
  • Closing the Gap
  • Use of Time
  • Calendars

15
Accountability
  • Results Reports
  • Impact Over Time
  • School Counselor Performance Evaluation
  • The Program Audit

16
Apply Process, Perception, and Results Data to
School Counseling Programs
Objective 2
17
Paradigm Shift
  • From
  • To

Monitoring Only Process and Tallying Services
Delivered
Focusing on Results Tied to the Mission of the
School
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Types of Data
  • Process
  • Perception
  • Results

20
Process data
  • What you did for whom
  • Evidence that event occurred
  • How activity was conducted
  • Did the program follow the prescribed practice?

21
Process Data - Examples
  • Six counseling groups with 8 students each were
    held
  • 1,350 6-8th grade students received the Time to
    Tell guidance lesson
  • All high school students seen individually to
    prepare 4 year plan.

22
Adding Process Data
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Perception Data
  • What others think, know or demonstrate data.
  • Measures competency achieved, knowledge gained or
    attitudes beliefs of students
  • Pre-post
  • Competency achievement
  • Surveys
  • Evaluations
  • Measures what students are perceived to have
    gained in knowledge

24
Perception Data - Examples
  • Competency Achievement
  • Every student in grades 9-12 completed a 4 year
    plan
  • Every 10th grade student completed an interest
    inventory
  • Knowledge Gained
  • 89 of students demonstrate knowledge of
    promotion/ retention criteria
  • 92 can identify Early Warning Signs of violence
  • Attitudes or Beliefs
  • 74of students believe fighting is wrong
  • 29 of parents say their child feels safe at
    school
  • 58 of teachers say students behavior
    appropriately in class

25
Adding Perception Data
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Results Data
  • So WHAT data
  • How has student behavior changed
  • Proof activity has (or has not) positively
    impacted students ability to utilize the
    knowledge, attitudes and skills to effect
    behavior
  • Attendance
  • Behavior
  • Academic achievement

27
Results Data - Examples
  • 42 students on the retention list avoided
    retentions
  • Graduation rates improved 14 over three years
  • Attendance improved among 9th grade males by 49

28
Adding Results Data
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Activity
30
Use Data to Change the System and Improve
Student Achievement
Objective 3
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Data Driven Counseling Programs
Bully Proofing Program
  • 70 Attendance Rate for Low SES Students

Tutoring
Mentors
Individual Counseling
Small Group
Student Focused
Manager Of Resources
Classroom Guidance
Behavior Management
Phone Contact
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Data Driven Counseling Programs
Change Daily Schedule
  • 70 Attendance Rate for Low SES Students

Lead Advisory Training
Lead Task Force
Student Focus Groups
Disaggregate Data By Zip Code
System Focused
Change Attendance Policies
Advocate for Task Force
Team With Parents Community
Advisory Program
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School Counseling Connected to the Mission of the
School
Ask Hard Questions Participate on Improvement
Team Examine Policies and Practices Analyze
Present Data
System Focused Activities
DATA
Classroom Guidance Small Group Interventions Indiv
idual Interventions Referral
Student Focused Activities
34
Academic Achievement Student Focused
35
One Vision, One VoiceSTUDENT ACHIEVEMENT
Tucson School Counselors Making a Difference in
Student Achievement
36
How Can School Counselors Make A Difference?
  • Taking a Leadership Advocacy Role in Schools
    Helps Bring About Systemic Change and Alter
    Student Outcomes

37
CLEAR GrantCounselors Leadership for Excellence,
Achievement, and Resiliency
  • Three year Federal Elementary Demonstration Grant
  • Eight Elementary Schools
  • Worked with 2,600 students
  • Three goals
  • Improve the student/counselor ratio
  • Implement Protective schools framework
  • Fully implement the CCBG program

38
Documented Changes in Three Years
  • Counselor student ratio went from 1-650 to
    1-350.
  • At least 3,500 students were served
  • Reading Scores Improved 6.6
  • Math Scores Improved 9.0
  • Attendance Improved 2.4
  • Students are working from a strength base rather
    than a deficient base

39
Longitudinal Study Results
  • Started in third grade
  • Followed to 4th and 5th grades
  • Study included students from all project schools

40
Longitudinal Study
  • Questions
  • 1) Will the use of the Protective Schools Model
    have any impact on academic progress and
    attendance for the participating students?
  • 2) Will lowering the student to counselor ratio
    and fully implementing the CCBG program have an
  • increase on academic progress and attendance for
    the students?

41
Reading
2000-01 3rd grade, 2001-02 4th grade, 2002-03
5th grade
42
Math
2000-01 3rd grade, 2001-02 4th grade, 2002-03
5th grade
43
Attendance
2000-01 3rd grade, 2001-02 4th grade, 2002-03
5th grade
44
Counselor Intervention
  • Used data to determine students with most
    absences.
  • Selected 12 students in 4th grade.
  • Met for six weeks with the students
  • Each week students charted their attendance and
    made a final bar graph to show the difference.
  • On October 29th, all 4th grade students were in
    attendance.

45
Attendance Data After Intervention for Six Weeks
(goal 5 increase)
46
Creating Pre and Post Measures
Additional Information
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Creating Pre- Post Measures
  • Think about the specific indicator that you wish
    to measure
  • Delineate the 2-4 main concepts, ideas, or skills
    contained within the indicator
  • Create 1-2 questions for each of these

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Ways to Collect Perception Data
  • Paper/pencil measures
  • Likert scale
  • Multiple choice
  • True/False
  • Short answer
  • Fill in the blank
  • Skill demonstration measures
  • Role play
  • Demonstration
  • Presentation
  • Verbal questions

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The Education Trust Annual ConferenceSchool
Counselors Partners in School Reform and Student
Achievement
  • American School Counselor Association
  • One Vision, One Voice
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