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Empowering Students: Results-Oriented School Counseling Programs

Learn how school counseling programs can improve student outcomes and enhance career guidance. Discover key questions, program goals, and data analysis methods for effective implementation towards achieving measurable results.

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Empowering Students: Results-Oriented School Counseling Programs

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  1. School Counseling Programs are about: • RESULTS! How are students better off as a result of the school counseling program?

  2. Career Guidance • Should be equitable • Should reflect school improvement goals and objectives • Should be continuous and systemic • Should involve all stakeholders

  3. Key Questions • Does your program have targeted courses of action to improve student achievement? • Are the career activities” value added” for students? • Is career guidance an integral part of a guidance curriculum?

  4. PROGRAM GOAL • What the program must achieve to be successful • How the customer or community will be changed or benefit

  5. RESULTS BASED GUIDANCE • Focus on Results Aligned to the Mission of the School • Use Data Already Available • Analyze and Interpret Data • Use Appropriate Data for Achievable Results • Design Guidance Action Plan (Research)

  6. BASIC DATA ANALYSIS • Simple Statistics- (Averages) • Disaggregate Data • Longitudinal Study

  7. HOW TO FIND DATA • School Report Card • School Improvement Plan • Surveys • Assessments • Attendance • Discipline Referrals • Race, Ethnicity, and Gender

  8. Projected Shifts in School Age Population (5-17) Source: US Census Bureau, Population Projections, in Education Week, September 27, 2000.

  9. Highest Educational Attainment for Every 100 Kindergartners (Age 25-29) Source: US Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census. March Current Population Survey, 1971-2001, In The Condition of Education 2002

  10. RESULTS MEASURES • Are we doing the right thing? • Provide definition for a program goal. • Make the conceptual “picture” of a goal more concrete.

  11. RESULTS MEASURES =ALL DIMENSIONS OF THE GOAL • Break the goal down into parts • Goal: Discipline referrals will decrease and student conduct will improve.

  12. PERFORMANCE MEASURES • Manage a program. • Plan for program needs. • Identify inefficiencies. • Help put results into context.

  13. PROGRAMS, GOALS, RESULTS, AND PERFORMANCE MEASURES • Clear about where we need to go. • Gives us tools to guide our achievement • Shows us how well we are progressing towards our destination.

  14. Results Based Career Guidance Model

  15. PROGRAM GOALS AND RESULTS • Both address a desired change in customer or community. • Both are customer focused. • Both are results based.

  16. RESULTS MEASURES GIVE DEFINITION TO THE GOAL BY SPECIFICITY • Goal: The number of students who participate in systemic career activities will increase.

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