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School Counselors: Partners in Student Achievement

School Counselors: Partners in Student Achievement. Overview. The American School Counselor Association (ASCA) has collaborated to create a National Model for School Counseling Programs to connect school counseling with current educational reform movements

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School Counselors: Partners in Student Achievement

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  1. School Counselors:Partners in Student Achievement

  2. Overview The American School Counselor Association (ASCA) has collaborated to create a National Model for School Counseling Programs to connect school counseling with current educational reform movements that emphasize student achievement and success.

  3. “We need to be the change we want to see happen. We are the leaders we have been waiting for.” – Gandhi

  4. People have wondered… What do school counselors DO?

  5. The old question was… “What do counselors do?” The new question is… “How are students different because of the school counseling program?

  6. From a program that: Focuses generally on the number of activities Measures the amount of effort Attends to the process of doing work Works to maintain the existing system To a program that: Focuses on outcomes and improved results Measures impact related to goals Attends to goals, objectives, and outcomes Changes and adapts to be more responsive From Entitlement… to Performance Source: McGowen, P. & Miller, J., “Changing the Entitlement Culture,” The American School Board Journal, August 1999, p.43

  7. From counselors who: Focus on good intentions Talk about how hard they work Generally feel little need to change their behavior or approach To counselors who: Focus on accomplishments Talk about effectiveness Know their future rests on accomplishments Communicate goals and objective From Entitlement… to Performance Source: McGowen, P. & Miller, J., “Changing the Entitlement Culture,” The American School Board Journal, August 1999, p.43

  8. 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?

  9. School Counseling Programs Are About RESULTS. How are students different as a result of the school counseling program?

  10. Knowledge Skills Positive Attitude Attendance Behavior Academic Achievement We Exist To Effect Change In Students:AcquireImprove

  11. Paradigm Shift From: To: Not only monitoring process and measuring services delivered Focusing also on and measuring the results of our programs and services

  12. Academic Development • Guidance Curriculum (HS) • Developing Academic 4/6 year Plans • Promotion/Retention Criteria • Organization, Study and Testing Taking Skills • Registration, College and High School Graduation Requirements • Post High School Options • Transition into the Real World

  13. Academic Results Goal Setting (K-5) • After classroom guidance lessons pre-post tests indicated… • student knowledge of goal settingincreased from 10% to 98% • 90% achieved their identified goal

  14. Personal/Social ResultsConflict Resolution (K-5) • Number of students who could • peacefully resolve a conflictincreased • from55% to 88% • Following implementation of a Conflict Manager program the number of suspended students was reduced from13%in 97/98 to3%in 01/02.

  15. Academic Results Interventions (6-8) • After Academic Counseling Groups: • 37% of 6th graders (64) • 24% of 7th graders (47) • 72% of 8th graders (46) • Demonstrated GPA improvement

  16. Academic Results Interventions (6-8) Pre:Post: • Students on retention list: • 6th - 81 • 7th - 73 • 8th - 103 • Students who came off retention list: • 6th - 27 • 7th - 22 • 8th - 23 72 students avoided retention

  17. Personal/Social ResultsConflict Resolution (6-8) • At one site the number of students resolving conflicts with the help of peer mediators increased from 0 to 346 • At another site, the number who took advantage of peer mediationincreased from 47 to 149

  18. Career DevelopmentCanyon Springs High School • In the last three years the number of students visiting the career center has increased from 30 to over 200 students per day. • Parent attendance at evening guidance events has increased from 150 to 500 parents • Scholarship dollars for students increased from $750,000 to $825, 000 • Finally, graduation rates have improved from • 84 % to 89%

  19. All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first thousand days, nor in the life of this administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. – John F. Kennedy But let us begin.

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