1. Susan Roudebush, intoCareers Consultant April 11, 2008
Meeting the Goals of the Massachusetts Model for School Counseling with MassCIS
Susan Roudebush, intoCareers Consultant
April 11, 2008

2. Goal: Show how MassCIS can facilitate implementation of the MA Model for School Counseling by:
Providing easily implemented career planning curriculum aligned with MA CDE Benchmarks
Assisting you in evidencing mastery of professional performance standards 1-10.
Helping you measure the aspired student outcomes of the MA Model for School Counseling.

3. Agenda Warm-up activity
Review MA Model delivery system goals in the areas of:
Guidance Curriculum
Responsive Services
Individual Planning
System Support
Show how to use MassCIS to meet these goals
Show how to use MassCIS to support counselor foundations
Show how to evidence mastery of the MA Model’s CDE performance benchmarks and standards

4. Warm-up
Who am I (ten years from now)
Who am I (ten years ago)

5. “Possible Selves” Research and Career Planning
Beliefs about what you:
Might become
Might like to become
Fear becoming
Behavioral Blueprints:
Guide behavior and actions towards and against outcomes
Influence opportunity structures, stereotypes, and social Messages
-Sandra Kerka, 2003 ERIC Clearinghouse # ED481325 - - -

6. Recommendations from Possible Selves Research:
Use Imagery, role models, visualization, narrative and mapping of plans
Interventions producing more vivid vision of possible selves yield enhanced achievement motivation
Help students see relevancy of school and future goals
Actively monitor goals that regulate and direct learning
Identify and build skills needed to achieve goals
Engage students in positive social group identity, harmonized with an achievement-oriented academic identity

7. I. The MA Model
Inspired and guided by the ASCA Model and the MA Career Development Benchmarks
Calls for the development and implementation of school counseling programs that promote student success in these domains:
academic/ technical,
workplace readiness, and
personal social domains.

8. Delivery System Goals of the MA Model
GUIDANCE CURRICULUM:
Standards-based lessons and activities
RESPONSIVE SERVICES:
Services that address immediate and crisis needs of students
INDIVIDUAL PLANNING:
Advising interventions focused on planning and decision making
SYSTEM SUPPORT:
Activities to establish, maintain, and enhance the program

9. II. Using MassCIS to Meet Goals
A. Standards-based Guidance Curriculum:
Practical Learning Activities
Over 600 activities, designed to infuse career information and career development concepts into various secondary curriculum areas, use national standards, SCANS skils, and 12 Keys topics
MassCIS Portfolio
Developmentally sequenced activities in six broad career development areas, paralleling MA Career Plan Model and CDE Benchmarks

10. PLAN Learning Activities

11. My Portfolio Home Page

12. B. Responsive Services Discovery and Passage Curriculum
Over 300 activities, can be organized into a curriculum, targeting immediate and long-term student needs (ie. test anxiety, behavior management, conflict resolution and balancing stressors).
Organized for sorting in four categories, including ASCA standards.

13. MassCIS On-line Curriculum

14. C. Individual Planning My Career Plan organized into six sections.
sections include suggested activities that help student answer career planning reflective questions posed in each section.
answers to the questions create the plan.
Three levels of activities:
Getting Started: Activities for 7th & 8th –beginning plans
Looking Deeper: Activities for 9th & 10th to expand and update plans and explore dreams.
Preparing for Next Steps: Activities for 11th & 12th, focus on getting ready for next life and learning after high school.

15. My Career Plan

16. D. System Support Portfolio Administration Tools
Provide data analysis on use
allow quality consultation/collaboration re: classroom, group, and individual career development of students among:
Teachers
Counselors
Administrators
Tools to help schools monitor program outcomes and support systematic planning

17. Portfolio Administration Tools

18. III. Using MassCIS to Support School Counselor Foundations
Standard 1: Plan, organize and deliver the school counseling curriculum
Standard 2: Implement individual planning interventions in collaboration with partners (e.g., teachers, parents)􀂃
Standard 3: Provide responsive services in consultation with administrators, teachers
Standard 4: Monitor student progress on regular basis
Standard 5: Manage and use time effectively
Standard 6: Collect and analyze school counseling data
Standard 7: Encourage and provide system support
Standard 8: Communicate regularly with the school council and other school advisory committees
Standard 9: Conduct a yearly program audit
Standard 10: Act as a student advocate, leader, collaborator and systems change agent

19. Standard 1: Plan, organize and deliver the school counseling curriculum
CIS provides two powerful tools to organize and deliver this curriculum
My Career Plan Curriculum/Framework
Discovery and Passage Curriculum

20. My Career Plan Curriculum/Framework

21. Discovery and Passage Curriculum

22. Outline, 18-week Class
Paste screen

23. Standard 2: Implement individual planning interventions in collaboration with partners
CIS PLAN Activities

24. Standard 3: Provide responsive services in consultation with administrators, teachers

25. Standard 4: Monitor student progress on regular basis

26. Standard 5: Manage and use time effectively
CIS is student-directed
Puts course planning in the hands of students, thereby helping to make the planning process more meaningful
CIS is classroom and group guidance oriented, by design
CIS portfolios can be viewed at home, engaging parent support for planning

27. Standard 6: Collect and analyze school counseling data
CIS maintains career planning and proficiency records than can be retrieved and analyzed

28. Sample Counseling Group Report
Insert Sample

29. Standard 7: Encourage and provide system support Standard 8: Communicate regularly with the school council and other school advisory committees Standard 9: Conduct a yearly program audit
CIS can generate various reports/audits, useful to system support, accountability and communication

30. Sample Report
Insert sample

31. Standard 10: Act as a student advocate, leader, collaborator and system change agent
You can foster change for students and your school using CIS!

32. Sample Audit

33. continued

35. IV. Evidence Mastery of the MA Model’s Performance Standards
The CDE Benchmark Crosswalk
My Career Plan Portfolio Printout

36. In conclusion, you have seen how to use MassCIS to meet the goals of the MA Model for School Counseling to:
Assure achievement of MA’s delivery system goals in all four areas
Support counselor foundations
Evidence mastery of the MA Model’s CDE performance benchmarks

37. Questions?