Brenda Leggiadro, East High School

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Data in School Counseling

• Brenda Leggiadro, East High School
• Ruth E. Lohmeyer, Northeast High School
• RAMP Schools Lincoln Public Schools

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What is RAMP?

• Recognized ASCA Model Program
• How are students different based on our program?
• Can you prove it?
• Data is key!

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Who are we?
East Northeast
Total enrollment 1396 1401
Graduation rate 89.39 74.11
Average ACT Score Class of 2011 25.1 22.5
Ethnicity White 86.5 72
Students who receive Free/Reduced Lunch 16.3 52.3
Students who receive SPED services 12.89 18.6
Students identified as Gifted/Highly Gifted 502 218
Number of school counselors 5 5
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We want you to understand

• Why do counselors use data?
• What data do counselors collect and use?
• How is the data gathered?

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Counseling Program Themes

• Collaboration
• Systemic change
• Leadership
• advocacy

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School counselors work to develop skills in

• Three Domains
• Academic
• Career
• Personal-Social

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School counseling interventions impact

• students knowledge, skills, and attitudes in
  order to affect
• Attendance
• Behavior
• Achievement

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What data do counselors collect and use?

• Process
• What was done and for whom
• Perception
• What students think, know, or demonstrate
• Results
• So what?

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How does this look in practice?

• Example East High Counseling Goal - Transition
• Gather information baseline information
  surveys, test results, failures look at
  subgroups
• Design and deliver interventions based on
  research process data
• Identify performance of subgroups perception
  data
• Review results

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Gather InformationTransition to H.S. by
Subject 9th graders
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Gather Information9th Graders Said They Need
Help With
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Design and Deliver InterventionHotmath
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Design and Deliver Intervention Transcript
Activity
Of the group 78 had never seen their transcript before.
I was surprised by what was on my transcript. 50 50
Because of this activity, I plan to take a full class load each semester. 20 80


Yes! A change in attitude!
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Identify subgroups Representative Sample -
Failures
Total Transfer Students
Grades 9-10 27 9
Grade 11 21 7
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Design and Deliver Interventions Students New
to East

• New student Blue Crew
• Small group meetings
• 4-5 sessions long Meet your administrator
  Meet your counselor Library skills East Clubs
  Follow-Up
• Ambassadors trained to help new students
  transition to East

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Follow Up

• Students 9-12 from 2 counselors with 2 or more
  Fs were tracked.
• New students participating in Ambassador/New
  Student Blue Crew activities showed significantly
  fewer failures
• Dropped from 30 of failures prior to
  intervention to 15 after intervention

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Results Data

• ACT Information
• Percent of the class taking the ACT rose from 69
  to 74
• Composite ACT rose from 24.4. to 24.6
• Percent meeting Math benchmark rose from
• 69 to 75
• Percent meeting all four benchmarks rose from 45
  to 48

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LNEs Counseling Goals

1. Increase the Graduation Rate
2. Decrease Course Failures
3. Increase College-Going Rate

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Goal1 Increase Graduation Rate
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Who is not graduating in four years?Process
Data

• First Generation Upward Bound
• Low Income - Learn to Dream Scholarship
• Minority community resources
• High Mobility Social Worker
• Case Worker/Probation
• Mental Health community resources

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Counseling Goal 2 Decrease Failures

• Added labels to Student Schedules for stake
  holders to see
• N.O.T. Not On Track to graduate with their
  class
• NGR 12th grader not graduating with class
• Late Grad 12th grader needing summer school to
  graduate with class
• Our Focus 9th/10th grade students with 3 Fs
• Plan Meet with alpha administrator and student
  services personnel twice/month
• Developed list of Interventions available
• Watch List PLC

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Progress Grades Perception Data
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Interventions

• Academic Support Class
• Schedule Adjustment
• Parent Meeting
• IEP manager Check with teachers
• Mental Health
• SAT Referral
• SCIP Referral
• Social Worker Referrals
• Bird-dogging

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Results Data
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Demographics of 9th Grade Watch List

• 138 students
• 61 (84) Low Income (qualified for Free/Reduced
  Lunch)
• 33 (45) Special Education
• 36 (49) Enrolled in Academic Support class
  Pinnacle check
• 8 (11) Participated in the University of
  Nebraska Building Bridges counseling program
• 2 students Participated in regular therapy from
  Child Guidance Services during the school day

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Perception Data
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Lincoln Northeast Goal 3

• Increase college-going rate
• College Access Grant-First Generation Target
• College Field Trips
• Senior Interview college applications/transcript
  
• FAFSA filing
• ACT Compass Testing

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Southeast Community College (SCC) Learn To
Dream Scholarship Program

• Focus
• Free/Reduced eligible seniors
• Intervention
• Senior Group Interviews
• Partnered with Southeast Community College for
  Compass Testing, Application and Transcript Day
• Partnered with EducationQuest for FAFSA
• Scholarship Workshops
• Field Trips to SCC

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College Going Rate
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Demographics of Learn to Dream students

• 45 of LNE graduates
• 70 First Generation College
• 52 Free/Reduced Lunch
• 20 Minority
• Rank in lower half of class (lt2.75 GPA)
• Accounted for largest increase in our
  college-going rate

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College-and-Career Ready?

• 108 of 2012 seniors took ACT Compass Test
• Math (32) 65/108 60 college-ready
• Reading (80) 47/108 43 college-ready
• Writing (70) 48/108 44 college-ready
• 23/108 met all three 21

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How do counselors obtain data?

• Test scores
• Surveys
• Subgroup scores
• Observation tally
• Attendance numbers
• Website hits
• Discipline referrals

• Demographic Profiles
• ACT Profile
• Failures/GPA/Class Rank
• College-Going Rates
• Graduation Rate/Dropout Rate

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Survey Monkey
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How do counselors obtain data?

• Test scores
• Surveys
• Subgroup scores
• Observation tally
• Attendance numbers
• Website hits
• Discipline referrals

• Demographic Profiles
• ACT Profile
• Failures/GPA/Class Rank
• College-Going Rates
• Graduation Rate/Dropout Rate

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So, now

• Why do counselors use data?
• What data do counselors collect and use?
• How is the data gathered?

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Questions?

• Brenda Leggiadro, Counseling Team Leader, Lincoln
  East High School bleggia_at_lps.org
• Ruth E. Lohmeyer, Counseling Team Leader, Lincoln
  Northeast High School rlohm_at_lps.org