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School Counseling Program Management Guide

This document outlines key themes, components, and tools for an effective school counseling program. It discusses proper use of time through direct and indirect student services. It also emphasizes using data from assessments, school profiles, and program results to guide planning and action. Finally, it stresses cultivating ongoing support through an annual agreement with administrators and an advisory council to ensure the counseling program leads to student achievement, systemic change, and advocacy.

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School Counseling Program Management Guide

This document outlines key themes, components, and tools for an effective school counseling program. It discusses proper use of time through direct and indirect student services. It also emphasizes using data from assessments, school profiles, and program results to guide planning and action. Finally, it stresses cultivating ongoing support through an annual agreement with administrators and an advisory council to ensure the counseling program leads to student achievement, systemic change, and advocacy.

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Management

● Use of time
○ Direct/indirect services

Overview of
○ Time Assessment
○ Tools for Planning: Calendar,
Action Plans, Lesson Plan

Themes,
● Data
○ School Counseling Program

Components, and
Assessment
○ School Data Profile
○ Program results data: Process

Tools
data, perception data, outcome
data
● Support & Buy-in
○ Annual Agreement
○ Advisory council
Use of time
Direct/Indirect Services Time assessment
❖ Direct ❖ Appropriate Activities
➢ In-person ➢ Direct student planning
➢ Individual student planning ➢ Indirect student support
➢ Responsive services ➢ Collaborating with teachers, principal
➢ Knowledge, attitudes, skills in school ➢ Providing individual, small group counseling
counseling core curriculum ➢ Providing counseling to tardy, absent

❖ Indirect ❖ Inappropriate Activities


➢ On behalf of the students ➢ Sending students home
➢ Interactions with others ➢ Signing student forms
➢ Leadership ➢ Computing GPA
➢ Advocacy ➢ Providing therapy
➢ Collaboration ➢ Clerical records
➢ Enhance student achievement, promote
systemic change (equity, access)
DELIVERY: 80%
Use of Time: Tools for Planning Action Plans
Design, documentation, implementation
● Curriculum Action Plan
Calendar ● Small-group Action Plan
● Inform students, parents, teachers, and ● Closing-the-Gap Action Plan
administrators
Lesson Plan for Classroom
● “Complete, timely, and visually
appealing” Lessons
● ASCA Student Standards
● Annual Calendar: program priorities ● Learning Objectives
● Materials
● Weekly Calendars: flexible but includes ● Procedure
● Plan for Evaluation: Process, perception,
daily program implementation
outcome data
● Follow-up
Data
● School Data Profile: achievement
● School Counseling Program and behavioral data
Assessment: “Baseline” ○ Short term vs. Long term
● Focus of Data: Student achievement, ● Program Results
attendance, and behavior ○ Process Data
● Guides action/lesson plans ■ “What did you do for
● Disaggregating data: separating data whom?”
by groups to identify groups that may ○ Perception Data
not be performing as well as others ■ “What do people think
○ Ex. gender, race, teacher, they know, believe, or
language can do?”
○ Outcome Data
■ “So what?”
Cultivating Buy-in & Support
Annual Agreement Advisory Council

❖ Organization and Focus of CSCP ❖ Representative group of stakeholders


❖ School Counselor and Administrator ❖ Meet at least twice a year
➢ Use use-of-time assessment ➢ Advising, reviewing, recommendations,
➢ Non-school counseling duties brought up advocating
❖ In the first month of school or as early as ❖ Consider:
possible ➢ Goals and objectives
➢ Representation
➢ Size (8 to 20)
➢ Diverse group of stakeholders
On-going process to
ensure
● Use of time
○ Direct/indirect services
○ Time Assessment
○ Tools for Planning: Calendar,
Action Plans, Lesson Plan

Leadership
● Data
○ School Counseling Program
Assessment

Advocacy
○ School Data Profile
○ Program results data: Process
data, perception data, outcome

Collaboration
data
● Support & Buy-in

Systemic Change
○ Annual Agreement
○ Advisory council

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