National School Counselor Training Initiative (NSCTI): Connecting School Counseling to the NEW Mission of Schools Module 4 Taking Action to Help All Students Meet High Standards

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National School Counselor Training Initiative
(NSCTI) Connecting School Counseling to the
NEW Mission of SchoolsModule 4 Taking Action
to Help All Students Meet High Standards

• National Center for Transforming School
  Counseling

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Goal Put School Counseling at the Center of
School Reform

• School counselors - Eyes and ears of the school
• School counselors Using data
• School counselors - Leaders, advocates, and
  collaborators
• School counselors - Ensuring school
  accountability

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Counselors Taking Action
Teamwork And Collaboration
STOP
Use of Data
Advocacy
EQUITY STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT SYSTEMIC CHANGE
Leadership
Counseling
Yield
DO NOT ENTER
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Activity
Share your progress on your advocacy
project What is the goal of your advocacy
project? What were your original data? With
whom did you team and collaborate? What were
the action steps that you (and your team)
decided to do? What is the result so far? What
is your current data? What are your next steps
concerning this project?

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Power Point Feedback Directions

• 1. Working in school teams, one person record
  feedback on the Power Point presentation focusing
  on
• Strengths
• Suggestions
• The rest of team listen to the presentation and
  at the end you will have one minute to add
  comments. This feedback sheet will be given to
  the presenting school team.
• 2. Additionally, one person record and keep
• Ideas or strategies you want to remember
• What you want more information about.
• Team members will have time to add comments.

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Module 4

• Taking Action to Help
• All Students Meet
• High Standards

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Module 4

• Participants will
• Learn about systemic change and how to deal with
  resistance
• Design an action plan to implement in your school

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Advocating for Change in the Larger System

• Preliminary Steps
• Identify problem Review data
• Clarify possible systemic contributions to
  problem
• Assess the risks of action and non-action

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Advocating for Change in the Larger System

• Creating the Structure for Change
• Identify allies
• Identify opportunities for teaming
  collaboration to address the problem
• Clarify source and focus of problem with allies
• Gather additional data to support the need for
  change (as needed)

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Learn About Systemic Change and How to Deal
with Resistance
Objective 1
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Systemic Change Principles

• Change is a process
• Change takes time and persistence
• Change strategies work best when designed by and
  for your school, community culture
• Change is difficult and messy

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Systemic Change Happens When There Is

• Dissatisfaction with the status quo
• Belief in yourself as a change agent
• A shared vision to guide change
• Knowledge of how to implement the change process
• Support to sustain the change

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Activity
What happens when you try to change systems?

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What Happens When You Try to Change Systems?

• Individual Responses to Change
• System Responses to Change

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Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground
to try and find oil? Youre crazy.

• Drillers who Edwin L. Drake tried to enlist in
  his project to drill for oil in 1859.

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Change, Tension And Resistance
THE UNKNOWN
How Much Tension?
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Resistance is Normal

• Resistance
• Tension
• Change

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Cognitive Resistance to Change

• Belief that by changing one would lose
• Relationships
• Turf
• Structure
• Competence
• Sense of Direction
• Security
• Power
• Influence

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Emotional Resistance to Change

• Fear
• Apathy
• Grief
• Confusion
• Anger
• Discomfort

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Where Theres Resistance
Opportunity Challenge Resistance
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Accepting the Opportunity Using Our Counseling
Skills

• LISTEN - LISTEN LISTEN
• Create two-way communication
• Establish trust
• Accept and understand where they are
• Use data to show the urgency for change
• Look at the triggers of emotional cognitive
  responses decide next steps

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Activity

How do you respond to change?
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What Happens When You Try to Change Systems?

• Individual Responses to Change
• System Responses to Change

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We dont like their sound,and guitar music is
on theway out.

• Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles,
  1962

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System Responses to Change

• Political
• Administrative, union, school board, community,
  business, state, federal
• Resources
• Financial, human, materials, buildings,
  technology
• Policy
• Discipline, attendance, course enrollment,
  placing, testing, organizational structure

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Individual and Systemic Resistance

• Sometimes individuals hide their
• personal resistance behind the
• system

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Where Theres Resistance
Opportunity Challenge Resistance
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Design an Action Plan to Implement in Your
School
Objective 2
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Advocating for Change in the Larger System

• Action Steps
• Identify realistic action and delineate an action
  plan
• Identify policies/practices which need to change
  and develop change strategies
• Enlist the support of influential people policy
  makers
• Identify sources of resistance and develop
  strategies for addressing/challenging resistance

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Advocating for Change in the Larger System

• Action Steps
• Evaluate progress and revise plan if needed
• Share results!

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Advocacy Steps
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Step 8. Action Plan

• Realistic Goal
• Not too hard
• Not too easy

• Action Plan
• Strategies
• Action steps
• By whom?
• By when?
• Measures of Success
• How will you know if your strategy worked?
• Who or what are you trying to change?
• How will you count this?

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Step 9 Identify Policies/ Practices Which Need
to Change and Develop Change Strategies

• Which system policies and practices interfere
  with the project goals and strategies?
• How will you address/challenge/change these?

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Step 10 Enlist Support of Influential People and
Policy Makers

• Who has the power and influence?
• How do you include these people in the change
  process?
• Who is going to network with them?
• By when?

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Directions for Discussion

• Sit at the table with your group .
• Discuss the four questions on the next slide.
• Record your answers on the large post- it paper
  provided.
• Select a spokesperson to report your answers.

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Sources of Resistance Strategies for
Addressing/Challenging Resistance

• Who or what groups of people resisted the change?
• What triggered this resistance?
• What strategies did you use to lessen the
  resistance?

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Activity
Work on Your Action Plan

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Putting These Ideas to Work

• Homework for Next Time
• Work with your team to create an action plan
• Implement the plan
• Turn in completed advocacy project report next
  session

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NSCTI Training OutcomeSystemic Change Advocacy
Project

• Session 1
• Principal/School Counselor job description
  discussion
• Session 2
• Review school data and share with principal
• Decide upon advocacy project

• Session 3
• Form collaboration team and meet
• Session 4
• With team, create and implement action plan
• Session 5 (Next Year)
• School Counselors and Principal share results,
  including data
• Explore future steps

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Your Challenge

• Believe That You Can
• Be Courageous
• Be Persistent

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KEYS WINDOWS
Some people see a closed door and turn
away, Others see a closed door, try the knob, if
it doesnt openthey turn away. Still others see
a closed door, try the knob, if it doesnt open,
they find a key, if the key doesnt fitthey turn
away. A rare few see a closed door, try the knob,
if it doesnt open, they find a key, if the key
doesnt fitthey make one. And, if this key
doesnt work they go through the window!
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