Building Relationships with Schools

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Building Relationships with Schools

• Rene Moore
• Safe and Drug Free Schools and Communities
  Program

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Welcome to School

• The school answering machine

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Building Relationships Planning Sheet
Needs
Stressors
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Small Group Activity

• Challenges
• Strengths
• Key Personnel
• Action Plan

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Big Question

• How does your program impact and promote
  achievement?

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Era of Standardized Testing
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Evolution of Education Reform

• Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA)-
  passed in 1965 as part of Lyndon Johnsons War on
  Poverty
• ESEA has provided federal funding to the neediest
  students and schools for over 40 years. It has
  been reauthorized eight timesusually every five
  or six yearssince 1965.
• 1980-1990- no significant changes other than
  creation of Title IV- Safe and Drug Free Schools
  and Communities
• 1994-2001- Clintons Goals 2000 and Improving
  America's Schools Act (IASA)
• 2001- Bushs NCLB passed

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NCLB Focus

• NCLB requires all public schools to administer a
  state-wide standardized test(all students take
  the same test under the same conditions) annually
  to all students. The students' scores are used to
  determine whether the school has taught the
  students well.

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Adequate Yearly Progress

• Schools receiving Title I funding must make
  Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) in test scores
• Second year publicly labeled as being "in need
  of improvement
• third year forces the school to offer free
  tutoring and other supplemental education
  services to struggling students.
• fourth consecutive year school is labeled as
  requiring "corrective action
• fifth year results in planning to restructure
  the entire school
• sixth year- the restructuring plan is implemented

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The NCLB Debate

• Pros

• Cons

• Improved test scores
• Increased accountability
• Increases in quality of education
• Promotes school choice
• Attention to minority populations

• Gaming the system
• Problems with standardized testing
• Narrow curriculum- focusing on math and English
  skill development
• Punitive

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Learn the Lingo

• AYP- Adequate Yearly Progress
• Title Funds
• CEIP
• AEIS
• TEKS
• TAKS
• Curriculum Framework
• Alignment/Vertical
• Other

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Texas Education Agency-TEKS
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TEA A-Z Index
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Critical Updates

• SDFSC Program
• Health Changes
• PE Requirements

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The competition begins
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Small Group Activity

• Challenges
• Strengths
• Key Personnel
• Action Plan

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Big Question

• How will your program impact and promote
  achievement?

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Program Alignment

• Align with TEKS
• Align with Texas Counseling Strands
• Align with 40 Developmental Assets
• Supporting Research and Documentation
• Other

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TEA Counseling Strands
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TEA- Counseling Program
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Small Group Activity

• Challenges
• Strengths
• Key Personnel
• Action Plan

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Know your customer

• School Data
• Level of Readiness
• Needs
• Strengths
• Stressors

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Prevention Readiness

• Community Tolerance
• Denial /Vague Awareness
• Preplanning
• Preparation
• Initiation
• Institutionalization
• Confirmation/Expansion
• Professionalization
• Where is your school or district?

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Relationship Building Tips

• Volunteer at the school
• SHAC
• Mentor
• Help with TAKS
• Serve on SBDM
• Staff Development- be the expert

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Relationship Building Tips

• Support Special Events
• Counselor Week (February)
• Teacher Appreciation Week (May)
• Career and Field Days
• Time of Tragedy

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Thinking outside the box

• Partnering with Departments
• 21st Century Learning Center Programs
• Tobacco Controllers Grants
• Other

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Prepare your staff

• Calendars
• School
• Assessment
• School Information
• Department Information

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Small Group Activity

• Challenges
• Strengths
• Key Personnel
• Action Plan

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