Bethel School District

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School Counseling PBIS

• Bethel School District
• Oregon State PBIS Conference
• March 11, 2008

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Acknowledgements

• Bethel School District Carl Cole, Ginger
  Kowalko, Tim Keeley
• Bethel School Counselors (K-8) Brigid Drobac,
  Terry Foytek, Sharon Jacobson, Jon Kline,
  Margaret Lathrop, Sonja Maul, Marilyn Perry, John
  Pinney, Carrie Tilson, Mark Wolfe

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Purpose of Todays Session

• Understand how PBIS Developmental Counseling
  Programs work together
• Present information on the Elementary School
  Counseling Grant
• Provide information on Counseling PBIS in two
  Bethel Schools
• Share outcomes from the Elementary School
  Counseling Grant in Bethel

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How do PBIS School Counseling Work Together?
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Responsibility of aProfessional School Counselor

• Implementation of a comprehensive school
  counseling program that promotes and enhances
  student achievement
• American School Counselor Association

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Comprehensive School Counseling Programs

• School Guidance Curriculum
• Responsive Services
• System Support

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National State Counseling Standards

• Student Developmental Domains Learning to Learn,
  Learning to Work, Learning to Live, Learning to
  Contribute
• Content Framework Guidance Curriculum,
  Individual Planning, Responsive Services, System
  Support Integration, Student Advocacy
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Suggested Distribution of Counselor Time
(Gysbers)
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School Counselors PBS

• Systems approach for the entire school
• Team approach to working with students
• Looking at whole child
• Specific plans for school-wide, classroom,
  non-classroom and individual students

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Counseling Programs
Individual Counseling, Individual Behavior Plans,
Wraparound Services
1-5 Individual Student Interventions
5-15 Targeted Group Interventions
Counseling Groups, Check In Check Out, Social
Skills, Lunch Buddies, Recess Club, etc.
80-85 School-wide Interventions
School-wide Programs Classroom Guidance
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Elementary School Counseling Grant

• Enhancement of Elementary School Counseling in
  the Context of an Integrated Academic
  Behavioral Services Network
• Office of Safe Drug Free Schools
• Bethel School District
• 2005-2008

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Grant Goals

• Increase the ratio of elementary counselors to
  students
• Decrease discipline referrals school-wide
• Decrease discipline referrals in students
  receiving counseling services
• Increase District State Reading scores
• Increase the role of the school counselor in PBS

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Fairfield Elementary School

• Counseling Program

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Fairfield Demographics

• Grades K-5
• 350 Students, Staff
• 75 of Students are on Free/Reduced Lunch
• Ethnicity White-62Hispanic-29Native
  American-4 African American-3Asian/Pac.
  Islander-.5 Decline-1.5

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Green Zone Interventions

• Recess Interventions
• Behavior Log to Monitor Patterns-Entered into
  SWIS and analyzed at IPBS Meetings
• Recess Remedy and Classroom Only Recess Card
• Classroom Guidance Lessons

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Yellow Zone Interventions

• Check in Check Out
• Point Card System Leading to Fade Out
• HUG (Hello, Update, Goodbye)for
  Attendance/At-Risk Students
• Earned Friendship Group
• Student-Parent Notification of Minor Behavior
  Incidents

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Red Zone Interventions

• Simple Recess Level System with Accountability
  (Used for Green-Yellow-Red Zone Students
• BSP Intervention- The Traveling Thumbs Up Card

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Prairie Mountain School

• Counseling Program

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Prairie Mountain Demographics

• Grades K-8
• 797 Students, Staff
• 51 of Students are on Free/Reduced Lunch
• Ethnicity White-71Hispanic-18Native
  American-2 African American-2Asian/Pac.
  Islander-4 Decline-3

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Counseling Grant Data
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Goal 1 Increase Counselor Student ratio

• Prior to the Grant, Bethel had 4.4 Counselor FTE
  Grant provided funds to increase the Counselor
  FTE to 10

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Elementary Counselors
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Goal 2 Decrease Discipline Referrals
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Goal 3 Decrease Discipline Referrals in
Students Receiving Counseling Services
(Counseling Groups, Check In Check Out)
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Goal 4 Increase District State Reading Scores
in Students receiving counseling services
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Goal 5 Increase the role of the Counselor in PBS

• All Counselors are on the School-wide PBS Team
• Many Counselors are Team Facilitators
• All involved in Universal, Targeted and
  Individual Student Systems
• Average time involved in PBS has increased
  through the time of the grant
• 2005-06 25 hrs per month
• 2006-07 37 hrs per month
• 2007-08 (Preliminary reports 44 hrs per month)

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Anecdotal Data

• Principals and Staff comments
• Parent comments
• Counseling Program Future in Bethel

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Questions???

• Contact Information
• Sharon Jacobson, Counselor, Fairfield Elementary
  
• sjacobso_at_bethel.k12.or.us
• Carrie Tilson, Counselor, Prairie Mountain School
• ctilson_at_bethel.k12.or.us
• Celeste Rossetto Dickey, University of Oregon
• cdickey_at_uoregon.edu