The Audit

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• The mission of the Henry M. Jackson High School
  Counseling Department is to provide a
  comprehensive and developmental guidance program
  encompassing personal, social, academic, and
  career goals for all students to become
  productive and content members of society in
  accordance with the American School Counseling
  Association National Model as adopted by the
  Everett School District.

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• The vision of the Henry M. Jackson High School
  Counseling Department is to empower all students
  with the knowledge, skills, and resources to
  develop and be accountable for their own
  graduation and post high school plans in order to
  enhance success in their personal and
  professional lives.

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• Goals
• Graduation Plan and credit accountability by
  every student
• Appropriate academic planning to support each
  students post-high school plan
• Provide options and support for all students to
  obtain academic success
• Students will understand a variety of post-high
  school options as related to personal goals
• Career inventory and exploration
• Social and emotional readiness for the adult
  world

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• The Audit
• a different kind of Tax Season

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Goals Based on Our Gaps

• Improve transition services
• (from M.S. to H.S., from H.S. to Post-H.S.)
• Improve Data collection
• Finalize our 1-page Calendar

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Yearly Breakdown of Duties
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Creating a Master Calendar

• Accountability check list
• Make sure all curriculum/programs are covered
• Principal buy in (counselor -administrator
  agreement)

• Use the gaps found in the audit to drive the
  calendar
• Start with what is best for kids rather than what
  fits best into our day
• List who is doing what each month

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Cascade HS Master Calendar
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Middle School Plan to Close the Gap

• 6th grade Orientation
• High School Transition booklet
• 8th grade H.S. pre-registration conferences
• Career/Ed. Planning curriculum adoption

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Tools that Focused our Work

• The ASCA Model
• September Kick-Off Meeting- ABA
• Monthly District Counselor Meetings
• Curriculum Work Grade level teams
• Data Training- (IMS2, Cognos Cube)
• EPS School Counselor Advisory Council
• Surveys
• WSCA Spring Conference

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Everett Public Schools Guidance Curriculum

• High School
• Freshman Focus
• Sophomore Summit
• Junior Post-High School Planning
• Senior Group Interviews

• Elementary
• Transition to Middle School
• Middle School
• Career and Education Planning
• 8th grade HS Transitions

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Closing the Gap Activities

• Summer Bridge Program follow- up meetings
  (included the Why Try? Curriculum)
• Building Letters sent every 3 weeks
• Student Led Freshmen Intervention Conferences
• District Letters Red, Yellow, Junior
• Graduation Intervention Plans
• Attendance Intervention Programs

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OTG Interventions

• Developed a graduation trajectory profile for all
  seniors
• Identified seniors who could access credit
  recovery and graduate in June
• Identified seniors who could access summer
  intervention and graduated in August
• Created a position in charge of
  trajectory/profile tracking at all high schools

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OTG Interventions

• Plot on-time progress of class by school
• Red/Yellow/Junior letters
• Run failure lists by school, class and teacher
  and share with staff
• Identify courses with a high failure rate and
  plan interventions
• Establish a 2nd semester credit-recovery option
  for students who failed classes during 1st
  semester

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OTG Interventions

• Created a Success Coordinator position to help
  track high school students
• Created a Summer Transition program for grade 8
  to 9
• Develop a plan to communicate with parents and
  students about progress
• Develop learning support classes in Math,
  Reading, Writing, WASL prep

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OTG Interventions

• Create a tracking system
• Provide Administrative oversight of project
• Expand summer school to include skills
  remediation and WASL preparation classes
• Provide a Success Coordinator in the area of
  attendance Elem and M.S. Focus
• Parent Nights for 8th grade families Preparing
  for the high school years!