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 CALIFORNIA
LEADS WAY WITH ACCOUNTABILITY REPORT CARD FOR GUIDANCE PROGRAMS ...
The Support Personnel Accountability
Report Card
(SPARC)
is a continuous
improvement tool that
gives a school site an opportunity to demonstrate effective
communication and a commitment to getting student support program
results. Modeled after the School Accountability Report Card (SARC), the
SPARC was developed in 2000 by an advisory group of Los Angeles County
counselors, counselor supervisors, counselor educators, and California
Department of Education consultants. Please go to
www.sparconline.net to review more than 140 report cards from
schools in California, Texas, Wisconsin and Rhode Island. Information on
how to get a
SPARC going in your school as well as research on
SPARC
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ELEMENTARY
COUNSELING GRANT TAKES LEARNING TO NEW HEIGHTS; CAREER CHOICES TO THE
CHILDREN ...
Elementary education is about to take on a whole new character -
called
simply the "Elementary Counseling Grant" - it brings to the Territory a
guidance program that will have a career focus for students in grades
1-8.
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THE
MISSOURI COMPREHENSIVE GUIDANCE PROGRAM
An
Introduction for Administrators - Fall Courses run October 7-November 24,
2009.
Course Overview
This course
will provide practicing administrators and administrators-in-training, an
overview of the Missouri Comprehensive Guidance Program (MCGP) and the
benefits it provides to schools including its contribution to the mission
of the school and school improvement, including student success.
Participants will be introduced to the concept of program versus position
as it relates to school counseling and to the major elements and
components of the MCGP. Participants will also identify those barriers
that prevent schools from fully implementing comprehensive guidance
programs and possible solutions to removing those barriers. Finally,
participants will develop basic knowledge and understanding of the process
of guidance program evaluation. Upon completion of the course,
participants will have a greater understanding of the role and function of
a comprehensive guidance program within schools, and of the
responsibilities of the professional school counselor in planning,
designing, implementing, evaluating, and enhancing the program.
Participants will also have a greater understanding of what specifically
they can do as administrators to support the full implementation of
comprehensive guidance programs in their schools.
Participants Will:
As a final
product, participants will develop a portfolio of products throughout the
course that will help them to more fully implement the MCGP within their
school or district.
Go to
http://www.elearningmo.org/register.html
to register
click here for
printable flyer
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Senator
Bob Casey (D-PA) Introduces Bill to Add Counselors to the Nations Schools
This is an exciting time for school counselors!
Pennsylvania's Senator Bob Casey recognizes the importance of school
counselors and the role we lay in student success. Counselors around the
country need to support Senator Casey in his efforts to reduce
counselor/student ratios and to assist secondary schools to obtain funding
for additional school counselors. Please read the excerpt below to learn
more about Senate Bill 3347 from a recent press release.
July 28,
2008
WASHINGTON, DC- U.S. Senator Bob Casey (D-PA) today introduced the Put
School Counselors Where They're Needed Act which aims to put more
counselors in struggling secondary schools. The bill would create a
competitive grant program under No Child Left Behind to help reduce the
drop out rates at low performing secondary schools.
"One
of many challenges secondary school counselors face today is ensuring that
every student receives the individualized support he or she needs," said
Senator Casey. "Low-performing secondary schools need our help to make
sure they have enough counselors on staff so all students are given the
opportunity to succeed."
Currently, the average counselor-to-student ratio in America's public
schools is one to 476, which hardly allows for individual attention and
intensive support. The American School Counselor Association and the
American Counseling Association recommend one school counselor for every
250 students for all schools and an even lower ratio for counselors
working primarily with students at risk.
This
bill is supported by the National PTA, the American School Counselor
Association, the American Counseling Association and the National
Association of College Admissions Counselors. |
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AMERICAN
SCHOOL COUNSELORS ASSOCIATION (ASCA)
Reaches out to the Homeless ...
ASCA has partnered with a not for profit
the Faith Based Community Solutions, Inc. (FBCS) in reaching out to the
homeless in the West Palm Beach, Florida area. FBCS runs a project that
goes beyond feeding the poor but provides survival kits with the key items
we all need to survive. FBCS needed back or shoulder packs to use in
preparing and distributing these items and ASCA came to the rescue. ASCA
provided 150 wonder shoulder bags that were used at a previous national
convention which are perfect for the project. Thank you ASCA
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LEGISLATIVE
UPDATE!
Senate Approves Higher Education Act Legislation, 8/8/2007.
click here for info |
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MISSOURI
SCHOOL COUNSELORS BENEFIT ALL STUDENTS
by Richard Lapan, Ph.D.; Norman Gysbers, Ph.D.; and Marc Kayson,
M.A.
(click here for printable pdf report) |
"In
Our Schools" Features Dr.
Rex & Key Education Topics: SC Virtual School, Career Education, TAP
and More! March 25, 6:00-7:00 pm SCETV (public circuit ),
Repeats March 30 and April 2, 10:30-11:30 am Channel 301
(Unlimited rights)
In Our Schools is a special series designed for parents,
educators and community partners that focuses on positive
educational initiatives in our state schools. Produced by ITV, which
is part of the State Department of Education's Office of Technology,
with ETV, this month's program features an important message from
our new State Superintendent of Education. Dr. Jim Rex will outline
his five-point plan as he addresses important educational issues.
In addition, tune in to learn about the State Department of
Education's new South Carolina Virtual School. Hear from Dee Appleby
and Suzette Lee as well as students and administrators about how
taking online high school classes is now a positive and successful
reality for students throughout our state. And, find out how the
innovative South Carolina Teacher Advancement Program (TAP) that is
in place at over 40 schools in our state attracts and retains
teachers while increasing student achievement.
This special program also highlights two Charleston area middle
schools that received the 2006 "ABC's of Career Awareness and
Exploration" award from the National Consortium for State Guidance
Leadership (NCSGL). James Island Middle School and Fort Johnson
Middle School received the national honor! By talking with
administrators, teachers and guidance and career guidance
professionals, we'll see how career guidance is an integral part of
a successful middle school curriculum.
Be sure to plan to tape this program for your school administrators,
teachers and guidance and career counselors. It will also be of
great interest to your parents as well as your entire school
community.
Please share this announcement with your school counseling staff,
parents, administrators, and teachers.
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Carl
D. Perkins Career and Technical
Education
Improvement Act of 2006
A critical task for state-level
guidance leaders is leveraging federal and state funds that enable
them to carry out their important leadership roles. A major source
of funding for over 90 years has been federal legislation for career
and technical education. The current version of this legislation is
the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Improvement
Act of 2006.
What does the Carl D. Perkins Career
and Technical Education Improvement Act of 2006 say about
guidance? School counselors are mentioned over 16 times in the
Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Improvement Act of
2006. Five times school counselors are simply called
counselors. The term career guidance and academic counselors is
used 10 times while the term career guidance and academic counseling
professionals is used once. Most of these references focus on the
initial training and the professional development of counselors
along with career and technical education teachers and
administrators.
The Act also provides several
definitions of career guidance and academic counseling. The first
definition in Section 3 of the Act states that the term career
guidance and academic counseling means guidance and counseling that
provides access for students and parents to information regarding
career awareness and planning and provides information about career
options, financial aid, and post secondary options, including
baccalaureate degree programs. In Section 118 the description of
career guidance and academic counseling uses the word programs that
promote career and education decision making focusing on education
and training options and preparations for high skill, high wage, or
high demand occupations and non-traditional fields. Finally in
Section 124 of the Act career guidance and academic counseling is
described as a program that assists students in making informed
academic and career and technical education decisions including
encouraging secondary and post secondary students to graduate with a
diploma or degree, exposing students to high skill, high wage
occupations, and non-traditional fields as well as academic
financial aid counseling.
Why is the Carl D. Perkins Career
and Technical Education Improvement Act of 2006 important for
the work of state-level guidance leaders? It is important because
it can be a source of funding at the state level to assure that
adequate personnel, staff training, and the necessary equipment and
materials can be provided to local districts. It is important
because it can provide state-level guidance leaders with the
necessary support and resources to provide state-wide leadership to
strongly support school counselors and counselor educators.
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IDEAS
WANTED!!!
Missouri Career Education invites
you
to
submit strategies and tools that you use to assist students,
parents, and communities become more engaged with career planning
and educational preparation. The
attachment (click here) may be used to submit a brief
description to Missouri Center for Career Education for compilation
in a toolkit that will be distributed this summer to districts and
educators. The form is also available on the web at
http://dese.mo.gov/divcareered/guidance_digest.htm
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