Solution Focused AB 1802 Parent Conference

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Solution Focused AB 1802 Parent Conference

• Keith Fulthorp
• Arond Schönberg
• Redondo Union High School

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Welcome

• Introduction
• Agenda for Today
• Review of AB 1802 Meetings
• Academic Planning
• At Risk
• CAHSEE
• Solution Focused Brief Counseling
• Theoretical Framework
• Four Concepts you can implement now
• Activity
• Questions
• Evaluation

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Academic Planning Meeting

• At the meeting, the counselor shall
• Explain the students educational options
• Explain coursework and academic progress needed
  for satisfactory completion of high school and
  passage of the high school exit examination

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Academic Planning Meeting

• Advise of availability of career technical
  education, if such services are available to
  district students,
• The educational options discussed shall include
• college preparatory and vocational programs,
  including regional occupational centers and
  programs and any other available alternatives

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Academic Planning Meeting

• Explain academic and behavior record
• Transcripts, Standardized Test Scores, Discipline
  Record
• Review Educational options (Four-Year Plan)
• College Prep/ UC/CSU A-G requirements
• Vocational Programs including ROP
• Coursework in progress
• Graduation Requirements

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AB 1802 Meeting - CAHSEE

• Review CAHSEE Results
• Explain Consequences of not passing exam
• Explain Academic and Behavior Record
• Provide a list of coursework and experience
  necessary to assist them in their respective
  grade and to successfully transition to
  postsecondary education or employment
• Specific Deadlines for 10th and 12th grade
  students

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AB 1802 At-Risk meeting

• Review current credit status
• Explain academic and behavior record
• Educational options (Credit Recovery)
• Continuation School
• Independent Study
• Adult School/Community College
• Coursework in progress
• Plan of Action

• For students in grade 12, the list shall also
  include options for continuing their education if
  they fail to meet graduation requirements,
  including, but not limited to, the option of
  enrolling in an adult education program,
  enrolling in a community college, or continuing
  enrollment in the district.

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Solution Focused Theory

• Framework
• Theory
• Basic Mode
• More info resources
• How to Implement Across the Spectrum

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Theoretical Assumptions

• When we concentrate on successes, beneficial
  changes will happen
• Every problem has identifiable solutions and
  exceptions
• Small change can lead to large change over time
• All people have what it takes to solve their
  problems
• Goals are viewed in positive terms

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Additional Guiding Concepts

• Avoid problem analysis
• Be efficient
• Be behaviorally specific
• Focus on the present and future
• Focus on action rather than insight

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Change the viewing, change the doing

• SFBC creates a shift from
• to

impossible
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Theoretical Techniques

• Exceptions
• Positive Goals
• Scaling
• Flagging the Minefield
• Empowering
• Cheerleading

• The Miracle Question
• What Else and Instead Questions
• Rediscovering Unrecognized Solutions
• Note Compliment, Summarize Strengths

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Example of SFBC Parent Meeting

• Goal Development- What will student be doing,
  thinking, behaving differently or better as a
  result of todays meeting?
• You can ask this question to help parent/student
  brainstorm a positive goal for the meeting
• Example
• Student will attend school more often
• Student will identify credit recovery options
• Student and parent will

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Example Attendance Report

• Problem Focus
• Youve missed zero period 57 times, Whats wrong
  w/ you!
• Solution Focus
• How were you able to make it to class 68 times?

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Attendance

• Seek Exceptions
• When is student attending?
• How is student able to get to that class?
• What are they thinking, doing, differently to
  make it to those classes?

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SFBC Parent Meeting

• Academic Record
• Highlight Exceptions
• Areas student is passing?
• What was different last quarter that allowed
  success?
• What gets in the way of being successful?
  Flagging the minefield

• Identify potential solutions
• How did you do that? Goal development
• Scaling
• Where are you now, where would you like to be
• How can you get there

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Academic Failure

• Characteristics of academically at-risk students
• Attendance Issues
• Lack of Homework Completion
• Low Test Scores
• Focus in these meetings on areas of students
  success

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Academic Failure

• Obtain teachers reports of times student is
  performing well in class
• Teachers will say student does nothing in
  class but student is getting a D or C grade-
• How did they do that?
• Help teachers identify successful/exceptional
  times

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The Homework Connection

• Homework completion is highly correlated with
  course pass rates
• Help students identify homework issues
• When were they able to do more homework, even one
  assignment?
• How was that possible?
• What gets in the way of homework completion?

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The Homework Connection

• I dont understand how to do it
• When was the last time you didnt understand, but
  were able to complete the work by getting help
• Who was able to help?
• How did you get assistance?
• There are even exceptions to times when students
  think there are no exceptions!

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Behavior- Always a problem?

• Some students are at-risk academically, but
  behaving well at school. For those who are not
• What does misbehaving do for you?
• Identify times student is behaving well
• Whats different?
• How did they make that possible?

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Behavior/Deportment Records

• Exceptions to misbehavior
• How are they able to behave better during those
  exceptional times?
• Goal Development
• Scaling
• Flagging the Minefield

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Brief Group Activity

• Three Groups
• Review the Handout
• Brainstorm a Solution Focus

• Attendance/Transcript/Discipline Records
• Exceptions Noticed?
• Questions you could ask?
• Goal Development
• Scaling
• Flagging the minefield

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Post High School Plans

• SFBC Approach to College Counseling

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Utilizing the SFBC Framework

• Creates Possibilities
• Demonstrates results
• why/how are students different/better because of
  your interventions?
• Efficient, time conscious
• Solution Focused

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References
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Solution Focused Brief Counseling