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School Guidance Programs
How effective are school counseling programs? What does a model program look like? What do school counselors do? How does their work benefit students? This ReadySearchTM provides information to answer these questions as well as resources on principals and counselors working together, guidance programs in various states, college preparation counseling, and elementary programs.
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Research on School Counseling Effectiveness
A brochure from the American Counseling Association provides a list of sources that examine the effectiveness of school counseling. Brief summaries of each source's findings are included. 2008. http://www.counseling.org/Files/FD.ashx?guid=c051cc74-f3cc-4a59-9d81-770b5a4ab073 |
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The ASCA National Model: A Framework For School Counseling Programs
A lack of consensus on what school counseling programs do has led to their being marginalized. This model framework attempts to legitimize counseling programs by answering questions about what counselors do and how they help students. This executive summary includes the model's four components (program foundation, delivery system, management system, accountability), ASCA National Standards for Student Academic, Career and Personal/Social Development, and appropriate and inappropriate responsibilities for the school counselor. http://www.schoolcounselor.org/files/execsumm.pdf |
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State Comprehensive School Counseling Programs
This Web site from the American School Counselors Association provides links to information from states that have implemented school guidance programs. Various types of documents are available at the state sites including: models, frameworks, guides and standards. http://www.schoolcounselor.org/content.asp?contentid=280 |
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A Model for Evidence-Based Elementary School Counseling: Using School Data, Research, and Evaluation to Enhance Practice
This article from the Elementary School Journal describes a school counseling model at the elementary level. 2008. http://www.edreadysearch.org/search/item_preview.cfm?assetid=28238 |
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Who Are School Counselors?
This brochure, a joint effort of the American Counseling Association, the American School Counselor Association, and the National Education Association, provides an overview of the school counselor qualifications, the work of school counselors, and how they impact student achievement. 2008. http://www.counseling.org/Files/FD.ashx?guid=8e6cc642-7f51-40b7-843b-621d4b162918 |
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Principals and Counselors Partnering for Student Succes
This book provides a roadmap principals and counselors can follow to enhance the skills and knowledge each of them brings to their partnership to better support their schools and students. 2009. http://www.ers.org/CATALOG/description.phtml?II=WS-0770&hl=counselors |
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Balancing the Load: How to Engage Counselors in School Improvement
This article from Principal Leadership argues that, when their skills are used appropriately, school counselors fulfill a key role in comprehensive school reform. 2007. http://www.edreadysearch.org/search/item_preview.cfm?assetid=27431 |
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Guiding the School Counselor: An Overview of Roles and Responsibilities
Using a real-life challenge encountered by a school counselor, this multimedia, interactive, instructional module introduces the roles and responsibilities of counselors working with students with disabilities and how to manage all of one's counseling responsibilities. http://iris.peabody.vanderbilt.edu/cou/chalcycle.htm |
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Resources for Counselors
This Web page from the American Counseling Assocation provides a list of valuable resources for school counselors. Some of the topics addressed include the effectiveness of school counseling, counselor roles, student privacy, student safety, student-to-counselor ratios, bullying, and student mental health services. http://www.counseling.org/PublicPolicy/TP/ResourcesForSchoolCounselors/CT2.aspx |
