Every Student Every Choice: Identification, Conference Components, Results

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Every Student - Every ChoiceIdentification,
Conference Components, Results

• Kathy Rapkin
• President
• California Association of School Counselors
• October 9, 2006

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Supplemental School Counseling Program Focus
2/23/2005
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Counseling and Guidance Components May Include

• Classroom Guidance
• Group Counseling
• Individual Counseling
• Parent/Teacher Consultation
• Coordination of Resources
• Crisis Intervention
• Career/College/Academic/Personal Social Guidance
• Professional Ethics and Legal Mandates

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Two Fold Process
ALL Students
Targeted Students
Grades 7, 10, 12
Grades 7-12
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What is Included in the Process?

• Identification
• Comprehensive Guidance
• Intervention
• Feedback Loop

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At-Risk Students

• More Rigorous Requirements
• Parent/Guardian
• Timelines
• Identification Process

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Parent/Guardian

• Every effort must be made to include
  parent/guardian
• Strategy Accountable system to
• engage parents
• Example Letter home, reminder
• phone call, postcard
• reminder

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Timelines

• Grade 7 December 31st
• Grade 10 December 31st of grade 11
• Grade 12 December through February

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Identification Process

• CAHSEE (High School)
• CST (Middle School)
• District Specific

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At-Risk Students Grade 7
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Identification of At-Risk Students Grade 7

• Timeline December 31st
• CST Far below basic level in English language
  arts or mathematics as indicated on the
  California Standards Test (6th Grade Scores)
• District must identify
• Students at risk of not promoting with the rest
  of their class

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At-Risk Students Grades 10 and 12
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Identification of High-Risk Students
Grades 10 and 12

• Timeline 10th Spring-grade 10 to Fall-grade 11
• Timeline 12th December through February
• CAHSEE Have not passed one or both parts
• District must identify
• Students who are behind in credits
• Students at risk of not graduating with the rest
  of their class
• Students without training needed for chosen
  career

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Strategies Conferencing with Students

• Insuring Success Through Student Centered
  Conferences

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Conference Organizing Strategies

• Meeting AB 1802 Requirements for At-Risk and
  General Population
• Organize information
• Create guidelines (Utilize board agenda item -
  adoption of Supplemental School Counseling
  Program)
• Create forms
• Individualized parent conference form
• Graduation plan and agreement
• Checklist of points to cover
• 4/6 year plan

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Conferencing Strategies

• Nature of conference-confidential
• Kids engaging with learning
• Able to identify strengths
• Able to identify barriers to learning
• Able to develop a plan for addressing barriers to
  learning
• Goal setting/brief counseling strategies

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Conference Components For At-Risk Students
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Components of At-Risk Conference

• Review of cumulative records and transcripts
• Review and explanation of academic and deportment
  (discipline) records
• Explanation of course work and academic progress
  needed to graduate from high school
• Explanation of course work and academic progress
  needed for satisfactory completion of middle
  school

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Components of At-Risk Conference

• A copy of the list of coursework and experience
  necessary to complete requirements. A copy must
  be given to students and their parent/legal
  guardians and must be included in their
  cumulative records.
• Consequences of not passing the California High
  School Exit Examination (CAHSEE).
• Performance on standardized and diagnostic
  assessments

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Components of At-Risk Conference

• Remediation strategies
• Explanation of educational options including the
  following
• Career technical education, vocational education
  and regional occupational centers and programs,
  and other alternative programs availability to
  student
• Information on postsecondary education and
  training
• College preparatory program availability

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Grade 12 Additional Educational Opportunities

• Enrollment into adult school
• Enrollment into community college
• Continuance at current school district

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Conference Components For All Students
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All Students Individualized Conference Grades
7-12

• Academic and Deportment Records
• Promotion/Graduation Status
• Status of Passing CAHSEE, CST
• Educational Options Available
• College Preparatory Program
• Career Technical Programs
• Vocational Programs/ROP

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All Students Educational Options

• Identifiers
• UC Approved List of Courses A-G
• Inventories
• Computer Assisted Career /College Programs
• ROP Classes
• Electronic Portfolios

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Getting Started
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Getting Started

• Suggestions
• Form district level committees
• Identify high risk population
• Develop forms
• Plan to maximize resources
• Develop list of coursework/experiences for
  at-risk population
• Ask the important questions Who, What, When,
  Where, Why and How
• Track at-risk population

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Maximizing Resources

• Place a good person in a bad system
• and the system will win every time.
• - Seymour Sarason
• Options
• Extending the contract year
• Extra hours for school counselors
• Flexibility School counselors time and summer
  work
• Hiring new school counselors
• Placement of school counselors at sites
• Space, equipment, training and support
• Specific criteria for new school counselors

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Time Management Strategies

• Hiring a scheduler/data entry
• Pre-conference information
• Pre-conference briefing
• Post-conference follow-up

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Results Student Success

• Improved Academic performance
• Improved deportment record
• Graduate with a plan
• Kids passing CAHSEE

Find todays presentation and forms at
www.schoolcounselor-ca.org