School Counselor will

1
School Counselor will
SOARING

• Virginia Department of Education

2
Trends in Education in Virginia and Nationally

• Education Reform Movement
• SOL Movement or NCLB
• Accountability
• Standard-based Movement
• Achievement gap equity and access
• Improving School Safety
• Performance, not entitlement
• Students and educators

3
Where Are School Counselors Going Nationally
and Locally..

• A Model for Comprehensive School Counseling
  Programs that connects school counseling with the
  current educational reform movement that
  emphasizes student achievement and success.

4
What would a good sailor do when the direction of
the wind changes?
5
A Good Sailor adjusts his sails
6
For School Counselors

• The direction of the wind has changed

7
What is the Wind?

• ACCOUNTABILITY

8
Paradigm Shift

• From
• Measure what school counselors do process
  and services delivered

• To
• Focusing and measuring the results of what
  school counselors do

9
School Counseling Programs Are About Results.
10
The old question was..What do school
counselors do?The new question is.How
are students different as a result of the school
counseling program?
11
What is S.O.A.R.I.N.G.?

• An accountability system that will allow school
  counselors to show the results of their school
  counseling program on students achievement,
  behavior, and attendance.

12
Why are we S.O.A.R.I.N.G.?

• Focus on school counseling programs
• Provide consistent counseling curriculum
  throughout the Commonwealth
• Document the school counseling programs impact
  on student achievement
• Place counselors in the accountability arena
• Speak the language of superintendents and
  principals
• Data Drives Decisions

13
S.O.A.R.I.N.G. means

• S Standards
• O Objectives
• A Assessments
• R Results
• I Impact
• N Network
• G Guide

14
S Standards

• The Standards for School Counseling Programs will
  be the foundation of the guidance curriculum
• Consist of Three Domains
• Academic, Career, and Personal/Social
• Three level elementary, middle, and high

15
Standards for School Counseling Programs in
Virginia Public Schools

• Approved by Board of Education on January 7, 2004
• List competencies that students should have upon
  completing the school counseling program
• Standards provide a framework, but may not
  address all areas.
• Standards can be expanded to meet a school
  divisions needs
• Standards will not be tested

16
O Objective

• What is the goal or objective for the students,
  program, lesson, or activity
• Connect with the schools mission
• Connect with the critical needs in the school
• Where are the gaps?

17
A Assessment

• What data instrument will school counselors use
  to determine the impact of this program?
• Pre-post tests students perceptions
• Discipline referrals
• Grades
• SOL test scores
• Attendance rates
• What data can school counselors use that is
  already being collected?

18
Possible Data Elements

• Free/Reduced Lunch Students
• Gender
• Ethnicity
• Socio-Economic Status
• Participation in Support Services e.g. Tutoring,
  Mentoring
• Attendance
• Mobility
• Discipline Referrals
• English as a Second Language

• Grades
• Standardized Test Scores
• High School Graduation Rates
• Retentions
• Enrollment In Honors, AP, IB, College Level
  Courses
• Enrollment In General, Remedial Courses.
• Special Education Screening Placement
• Postsecondary Enrollment
• GPA

19
R Results

• The results obtained from the school counseling
  program assessment.
• Use descriptive terms
• Percentages
• Percentage of Change
• Data over time
• Results are displayed in reports
• Using graphs and charts to show results

20
I Impact

• Writing an impact statement that describes the
  effects of the school counselor program.
• This will show how the school counseling program
  has (or has not) positively impacted
• Students
• achievement
• attendance
• behavior
• School
• Parents

21
N Network

• Communicating the results of the school
  counseling program with stakeholders
• Superintendent
• Principals
• Parents
• Teachers
• Develop communication tools
• Brochures
• Reports
• Presentations for faculty and school board

22
G Guide

• Using the data to determine if the program caused
  students to grow or does a gap still exist?
• Was the program successful?
• What worked?
• What did not work?
• How should the program be revised?
• Use the data to drive the development of the
  program in the future

23
(No Transcript)
24
(No Transcript)
25
(No Transcript)
26
SOARING helps the school counselor to answer the
questions

• What did the school counselor do?
• What did the school counselor do this year?

27
End of Year SOARING Report

• 67 increase in kindergarten students knowledge
  of expectations at school
• 100 of the 8th graders registered for high
  school courses
• 78 increase in 8th graders knowledge of diploma
  requirements
• 50 decrease in suspension
• 87 increase in conflict mediation cases
• 80 increase in trained peer mediators

This is how students are different as a result
of the School Counseling Program
28
First Step

• Pick a domain Academic, Career, or Personal/
  Social
• List all guidance and counseling programs for the
  entire school year
• Activities
• Workshops
• guidance lessons (group and classroom)
• in-services
• parent workshops
• special activities

29
 
Curriculum Crosswalk Tool Activity
Sheet   School ______________________ Domain
__________________________  
 
30
Second Step

• Crosswalk the standards with the current school
  counseling program
• Determining which programs address the specific
  standards
• Some programs may address more than one standard
• Determining the programs strengths and
  weaknesses
• Strong program in Academic Domain
• several guidance lessons or workshops
• Weak in Career Domain
• many standards not addressed with activities or
  programs

31
VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION SCHOOL
COUNSELING CURRICULUM CROSSWALK TOOL
32
Third Step

• Revising school counseling program by aligning it
  with the Standards
• Starting with one domain Academic, Career,
  Personal/Social
• Developing teams of counselors to align the
  curriculum
• Division K-12
• Your Specific School
• Picking one activity and complete SOARING

33
Remember.

• The key to running a
• successful marathon is
• to take one
• step at a time