Personal Action Plan

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Personal Action Plan

• Third Summer Leadership Institute
• Amherst, MA
• Center for School Counseling Outcome Research

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Personal Action Plans Making a Difference in
Your School

• Key Components of the SCLI Action Plan
• Personal Vision
• Personal Mission
• What is your focus for this Action Plan?
• Personal and systemic assets
• Skills you need to learn

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Personal Action Plans Making a Difference in
Your School

• Key Components of the SCLI Action Plan
• 6. Requirements for the work What you need to
  understand, to be able to do, and to produce to
  make your mission happen
• 7. Sharing your mission and vision
• 8. Final test for discernment
• 9. Learning Plan outline

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Action Plan Your Vision

• What are your dreams for making a difference?
• What would things look like if what matters to
  you actually occurred?
• Examples All students feel safe and can learn
  to their full potential in my school, or can
  make informed post-secondary choices, or know
  how to learn and how to connect with others
  effectively, or are excited about coming to
  school every day.

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Action Plan Your Mission

• What will you do and why?
• Examples My mission is to develop a safe school
  community (the what) so that all students can
  learn effectively (the why), or My mission is
  to help every student make informed
  post-secondary choices (the what) in order to
  live healthy and fulfilled lives (the why).

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What is Your Focus?

• Possible foci for your Action Plan
• Closing achievement gaps
• Improving grades, achievement test scores, or
  attendance rates
• Successful post-secondary transitions
• Cultural respect/appreciation of diversity
• Ensuring safety for all students

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What is Your Focus?

• Possible foci for your Action Plan
• Ensuring safety for all students
• Enrollment in more challenging courses
• Student engagement
• Improved school climate
• Transitions from elementary to middle or middle
  to high school
• Addressing substance use and abuse

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Personal and Systemic Assets

• Advocating
• Assessing needs and resources
• Building relationships
• Having a clear vision and mission
• Collaborating and working as a team
• Following through on commitments
• Communicating
• Identifying and/or developing interventions

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Personal and Systemic Assets

• Facilitating groups
• Leading others
• Listening
• Motivating others
• Negotiating and resolving conflicts
• Organizing people
• Persuading people
• Writing grants and proposals

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Personal and Systemic Assets

• Planning
• Passion
• Conducting research and/or evaluation
• Supporting and caring for others
• Training and teaching
• Understanding peoples needs
• Respect for and appreciation of difference
• Computer and technology skills
• Other

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What Skills Would You Like to Learn?

• Creating partnerships
• Assessing needs and resources
• Analyzing problems and goals
• Developing a model for change
• Developing action plans
• Building leadership
• Developing and identifying interventions
• Increasing participation and buy in

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What Skills Would You Like to Learn?

• Enhancing cultural competence
• Advocating for change
• Influencing policy development
• Evaluating programs and interventions
• Sustaining the work
• Time management
• Reading research
• Other

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Requirements for the Work

• What do you need to understand in order to make
  your mission happen?
• What do you need to be able to do?
• What do you need to produce?

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Communicating Your Vision and Mission

• Who needs to know about your mission and vision?
• Among your family and friends
• In your school
• Right now
• Explain to someone you dont know
• Why this?
• Why me?
• Why now?

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Final Test for Discernment

• How well does your personal mission fit with your
  interests and opportunities?
• Does the proposed work/plan feel right to you?
  How?
• Does it seem right to others who know and care
  about you? How?
• Do you have the opportunity to make this work?
  How?

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Learning Plan Outline

• What will you learn to understand, to do, to
  produce?
• How will you learn it? By when?
• How will you apply your learning to make a
  contribution?
• What will be the evidence of successful
  application (e.g. specific change, improvement,
  product)? By when?

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• Action Plan derived from the work of Stephen
  Fawcett, Christina Holt, and Jessica St. Clair,
  University of Kansas, http//ctb.ku.edu/wg/

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Activity Making Choices

• List 5-10 interventions you are currently doing
  in your school (curriculum content areas, groups,
  1-1 counseling, consulting, academic advising,
  peer mediation, etc.)
• Why are you doing each activity?
• How did you make the decision to do each one?
• What outcomes do you expect from each
  intervention?

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National Center for School Counseling Outcome
Research

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