Counselors as Leaders

1. Florida Counselors’ Leadership Conference (CLC) Jacksonville & Ft. Lauderdale December 2007 Counselors as Leaders “The Time is NOW!” Presentation by: Pat Martin (NOSCA)

2. The Florida Partnership Started 1999— • Partnership with Florida and CB • Focused on Teaching and Learning 1. Raising Achievement for all Students 2. Increasing FCAT Performance 3. Moving from “F to A”, or lower grade to higher 4. Getting increased academic performance for underrepresented students

3. Culture/Climate for High Achievement Raising Student Achievement The School House Distributive Leadership School Climate Academic Rigor Supports

4. Teaming and Collaborating CLC Focus Students Teachers Parents Counselors Supt’s, Asst. Supt’s Central Adms Bldg Administrators

5. CLC & The Florida Partnership CLC Started April 2005 Tampa Jan. 2006 Tampa Florida Partnership Dec. 2006 Orlando Dec. 2007 Jackson-ville Dec. 2007 Lauder-dale

6. History of CLC Skill Training CLC 2005 CLC 2006/Jan. CLC 2006/Dec. • Counselor Skills • Leadership • Culture • Accelerating • Achievement • Tools for Creating • Rigorous Schedules • Counselor Skills • Equity • Culture Competency • Use of Data to Increase Achievement/Team • Counselor Skills • Data, Equity & • Accountability • Increasing AP • Teaming & • Collaborating Crea

7. Why Are We Concerned About Time? The Clock is Ticking . . . • April 13-15, 2005 Tampa 2. January 23-24, 2006 Tampa 3. December 4-5, 2006 Orlando 4. December 3-4, 2007 Jacksonville 4. December 6-7, 2007 Ft. Lauderdale

8. School Counselors Behaving As Champions for Equity and Access Beliefs Drive BehaviorWhat You Value is What You Do Personal Ability to Make Change in Status Quo I. Important Issues A. All Students Can Achieve High Standards B. Future Life Options Inextricably Connected to K-12 Preparation C. System Change, not Fix Student to Cope with System D. Equity • Ways of Working A. Leadership B. Advocacy C. Collaboration High Standards For All High Student Achievement E Q U I T Y High Standards for All Students Equity

9. Beliefs Drive BehaviorWhat You Value is What You Do School Counselors Behaving As Champions for Equity and Access Personal Ability to Make Change inStatus Quo III. Results/Accountability A. Measurable Outcomes B. Systemic/School Wide Impact C. Equitable Distribution of Progress D. Use of Technology IV. Other Factors (Personal Attributes) A. Courage B. Persistence C. Efficacy High Standards For All High Student Achievement E Q U I T Y High Standards for All Students Equity

10. Time to Apply Skills Knowledge ≠ Skills KNOWLEDGE • We know more than we do • Knowing is not action • Knowing is not necessarily a catalyst for action • Knowing does not produce results • Knowledge can be updated Moving from Knowledge to Skills requires time for experimenting, practicing SKILLS • Skills are a higher level of operation than knowledge • Skills are not necessarily a catalyst for action • Skills can be build, sharpened, broaden • Skills can be lost when not used • Skills can be natural or learned

11. What Time Is It? (Knowledge = Info/know)(Skill= Do/apply) KnowledgeSkill Knowledge = Intellectual Capital Skill = Effective Application of Knowledge [Think of this continuum as the process of making a cake. Knowledge is identifying and acquiring the right ingredients; Skill is putting ingredients together in the right amounts, sequence and procedure to get the best results.]

12. What Time Is It? 1. Time to Understand the Climate "When you feel the winds of change, build a windmill." --Mao Tse-tung

13. What Time Is It? • Leadership • Advocacy • Collaboration • Systemic Change • Use of Data • Accountability (1995) Transforming School Counseling The Education Trust 2. Time to Recognize 21st Century Changes for School Counselors

14. What Time Is It? 3. Time to Understand that DATA Rules “Make My Data” Accountability is the law of the land!

15. Important Reasons for Use of Data • To challenge existing policies • & practices • To serve as a catalyst for • focused action • To create a sense of urgency

16. What Time Is It? 4. Time to Recognize that . . . EQUITY ≠ EQUALITY

17. Definitions Equity = evenhandedness, fairness, impartiality, justice, fair play, justness. the quality, state or ideal of being just, fair, and impartial; a resort to general principles of fairness and justice whenever existing law is inadequate;

18. Equality = parity, fairness, equal opportunity, sameness, equivalence, uniformity, the quality, state of being equal Definitions

19. What Time Is It? • 5. Time to Practice Advocacy • Driven by Equity Principle • Education that starts with the goal of • access, support and success of all students • regardless of • who they are • the color of their skin • where they live • the amount of money their parents • make • the amount of political power their • parents can bring to bear

20. High Degree of Literacy Reading/ELA Mathematics Life LongLearning/Retraining Multiple Careers Changes Post Secondary College and/or Career Training What Time Is It? 6. Time to Recognize the Needs for 21st Century Economy and Citizenship Are Different

21. What will it take to be Champions for Equity, Access, and Success . . . • Advocacy for educational equity for all students • Courage to do the right thing • Thoughtful Program Planning • Effective Execution of Plans • Leadership • Collaboration & Teaming • Effective Use of Data

22. Being a school counselor champion ofEquity, Access, and Success means . . . Providing Leadership in • Identifying inequities • Using data as a tool • Creating an urgency for change • Facilitating solution-finding • Scaffolding success for all students • Making system change happen

23. What is Leadership? • Leadership is action, not position. Donald H. McGannon • Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions. Harold S. Geneen • A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better. Jim Rohn

24. Counselor Leadership • Actions—counselors aggressively acting to support students to access and success in getting a quality education. • Results– deliberate actions can be documented by "hard data" moving school counseling from the periphery edge to a position front and center in constructing student success.

25. I Am . . . A school counselor Masters-degree trained Professional Competent Committed to children Caring Smart I Am Not . . . Mild mannered nor void of vision An ancillary staffer A clerk, a record keeper, hall sweeper, substitute teacher . . . A whipping post A worker without a mission Be the Difference – Know Who You Are

26. The Urgency . . . • The clock is ticking • Time is running out • We have had a good 4 year run • We’ve come a long way • We have a long way to go • We have to accelerate the process

27. The Time is NOW! “We are the leaders that we’ve been waiting for. . .” Step up to the plate!

28. Presentation by:Pat Martin, Asst. Vice President,The College Board The National Office for School Counselor Advocacy 1233 20th Street NW Washington, DC 20036 pmartin@collegeboard.org 202-741-4714

29. The Time Is Now! How will we ever pull all these pieces together?

30. Breakout Session (4) Session D Session A Session B Session C Mining School Data to Uncover Student Needs Vivian Lee Scaffolding Academic Build a pipe- Line for Rigor Margo McCoy Collaborative Decision Making in Leadership Teams Robert Sheffield Higher Ground: Achieving the “A” Mark Matthews

31. Vivian Lee Mining School Data to Uncover Student Needs • What does your Data say about your school—students, teaching and learning, opportunities to participate in rigor • How to look at data for inequities—inclusion, gaps, discrepancies in access and success • Data guides/focuses your actions • Takes out feelings, portrait of reality

32. Robert Sheffield Leadership/Collaboration for Changing the Status Quo • Shift Happens! • Change is here, happening exponentially, in our face and we can’t stop it! • Mind-set for deliberately embracing change, managing it, making it work for your goals is necessary • School, as it is, does not work for large numbers of students • Smart Goals Needed—Who, what, when, how with metrics that actually demonstrates that we got there/did something

33. Margo McCoy Finding, Creating, Nurturing Academic Pipeline and Scaffolding Success • AP Potential—formulating the pipeline and pushing capability youth to AP’s for which they have identified capacity to succeed • SOAS—inform instruction, smart ways to identify how to make success happen through skill identification and focused skill development • Student Data on CD

34. Mark Matthews Moving to Higher Ground—Beyond FCAT • It can be done and has been done in Florida—schools with challenging issues • Leadership and vision are critical • Teaming and collaborations on multiple levels count • Climate for high student expectations, without excuses must be set by Principal and carried out by everyone

35. Middle Schools—WHY? Behave as if hormones trump brain functioning in MS Think we need to postpone stretching the intellectual capacity of MS students until they get older Offer limited numbers of sessions of rigorous courses in our school schedule Assign coaches & others with no math certification to teach math Think remediation works for closing achievement gaps High Schools—WHY? Depend so heavily on standardized test scores and/or teacher recommendations Refuse to give even strivers a chance to struggle in rigorous courses Think limited numbers of students are “smart” enough to take AP Think high numbers of failing students in some teachers’ classes is evidence of rigor, good teaching, high standards Think remediation works for closing achievement gaps Why do we do what we do?

36. Goals: Moving from 8 to 4 2 goals per session = 8 Data should determine which goals are most important GROUP ENGAGEMENT • Get to know your team members thoughts/ideas • Share knowledge/insights gained from 4 sessions attended • Compare identified goals • Critically analyze the goals you have written • Synthesize and refine goals through collaborative discussion • Decide on the 4 goals to be used for the dedicated work time later this morning