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Working with Large Caseloads

Working with Large Caseloads. How to Survive as a California Counselor. Working with Large Caseloads Giving Students the Services they Deserve. Dr. Esther Hugo, Academic Coordinator UCLA College Counseling Certificate Program Guadalupe Navarrete, Head Guidance Counselor

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Working with Large Caseloads

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  1. Working with Large Caseloads How to Survive as a California Counselor

  2. Working with Large CaseloadsGiving Students the Services they Deserve Dr. Esther Hugo, Academic Coordinator UCLA College Counseling Certificate Program Guadalupe Navarrete, Head Guidance Counselor Sequoia HS, Redwood City Sequoia Union High School District

  3. Examine Your Impact as a Counselor

  4. Put Your Mission and Vision Into Action

  5. Pipeline Steps Reduces Income Gap Q: What do college preparation and college attendance look like at your school? • Creating aspiration about college and understanding the doors it opens • Taking the appropriate curriculum and staying on track • Preparing for and taking college entrance exams • Applying to college

  6. Nine Principles of the College Culture

  7. College-Going Culture: The Goal ALL Students: Are prepared for a full range of post-secondary options through structural, motivational, and experiential college preparatory opportunities

  8. Creating a College-Going Culture • Research tells us that having college plans by tenth grade increases the likelihood of attending by 21%. • Academic preparation for college is more important than socioeconomic status in college enrollment. How can counselors translate students’ aspirations into college attendance?

  9. Building the Culture Requires a Team • People • Programs • Promotions

  10. Use People to Promote the Message • College Peer Counselors help run College Center • Faculty Reinforce Activities • Administrators Speak at Meetings • Parents attend Academic Booster Club meetings • Develop Principal-Counselor relationship

  11. Relationship with Principal is Critical • Principal’s Speech • Principal Quotes • Counseling Department Action Plan linked to School Improvement Plan • Secure Administrative Support

  12. Offer Programs for Students and Parents • Programs Targeted for Every Grade Level • Getting Started – 9th and 10th Graders • Just for Juniors • Cash for College – Seniors • College Night

  13. Promoting the College Message • Overarching Principle: • Provide a balance between high-quality mass communication, and high-quality personal communication

  14. Maximize every Counseling Session Comprehensive Counseling Model View of counseling that makes all student interactions with counseling staff opportunities for college counseling

  15. Communication is Constant – and Varied • Parent Media Adviser • Cable TV • Local Media • Website • Goes to College List • PSAT in the Potty

  16. Building the Culture Requires a Team • People • Programs • Promotions • Create the College-Going Culture

  17. Results: More Effective and Sustainable Counseling

  18. Knots and Bolts • Yearly meet for a day to review the year: • What worked and did not • What you will do differently • Create a calendar of monthly activities you will put into practice • The more detail you have the better it will be for you.

  19. GUIDANCE CALENDAR 2012 - 2013

  20. GUIDANCE CALENDAR 2012 -2013

  21. A FEW WORDS OF ADVICE • We can not do it all or solve it all… • Take a lunch break every day • Relax your muscles while seating at your desk • Take a walk every hour • Support one another • Share with fellow counselors • Counseling begins with you • Be a team • Leave it at work • Its not going any where

  22. Action Plans Focused on Student Success

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