1. Elementary School Counseling Essentials
OSPI Summer Institute 2017
Emily Weber

2. Outline Introduction School Counseling Essentials/ASCA Domains
Evidence-Based Elementary School Counseling
Data = Advocacy Tool

3. About Me
2007 SPU Graduate
7 years School Franklin Pierce School District
3 years HS, 4 years ES
2014 National Board Certification
Current:
School Counselor, Tumwater Hill Elementary School
WSCA Elementary Vice President
Free Spirit Publishing Company Advisory Board
OSPI Integrated Student Supports Workgroup

4. About You Who is here today? Years of Experience?
Counselors: ES, MS, HS
Administrators
Teachers
Other
Years of Experience?

5. School Counseling Essentials/ASCA Domains
Career & College Readiness
Personalized Planning for all Students
Social Emotional Support
Student Support Resources
Academic Achievement
Evidence-Based School Counseling
Academic Achievement
Social Emotional Support
Career & College Readiness

6. Career & College Readiness
Academic Achievement
Social Emotional Support
Career & College Readiness
Personalized Planning for all Students
What does it look like in elementary school?
Resources:
Career Guidance Washington (grades 6+)
ASCA Mindsets & Behaviors
Work with the end in mind (K-12)
Equity focus
Data

7. Career & College Readiness
My Programs
Apple Cup Food Drive
Classroom Lessons
Career Day
College Month
March Madness
Your Ideas?

8. Social Emotional Support
Academic Achievement
Social Emotional Support
Career & College Readiness
Student Support Resources
Resources:
Social Emotional Learning Benchmarks
Community Partnerships
Data:
Healthy Youth Survey
What else?

9. Social Emotional Support
Tumwater School District Strategic Plan
Book List
Classroom Lessons
Second Step: K-2nd
Growth Mindset: 3rd
Personal Advocacy/Anti-Bullying: 4th
Needs Assessment  Small Groups
Your Ideas?

10. Social Emotional Support Career & College Readiness
Academic Achievement
Evidence-Based School Counseling
Provides a practical process for using evidence to determine three critical issues:
What needs to be done
Which interventions should be implemented
Whether or not the interventions are effective
Academic Achievement
Social Emotional Support
Career & College Readiness

11. Academic Achievement: Evidence-Based School Counseling
As we incorporate data-driven decision-making and program planning into our work, we’ll see positive academic and personal changes in our students. We will have a way to measure the difference we are making in our students’ academic, career and social/emotional development. (Evidence-Based School Counseling: Carey Dimmitt, John Carey, Trish Hatch 2007)

12. Academic Achievement: Evidence-Based School Counseling
What does this mean for us in our daily practice?
Choose, collect & analyze data for informed planning
Build collaborative partnerships
Measure student learning & behavior change
Communicate results to stakeholders
Academic Achievement
Social Emotional Support
Career & College Readiness

13. Academic Achievement: Evidence-Based School Counseling
What does it REALLY mean for our work with students?
Identify needs of students
Prevention: School-wide
Intervention: Targeted
Implement programs
Collect data
Evaluate programs
Communicate effectiveness
Academic Achievement
Social Emotional Support
Career & College Readiness
What needs to be done?
Which response is best?
Was it effective?

14. Dr. Trish Hatch

15. Dr. Trish Hatch

16. Academic Achievement Student Intervention Team Process
Teacher Referral
Goal: Data-driven referrals
Instructional facilitator, counselor, teacher, SpEd staff, principal
Also behavioral, social/emotional concerns

17. OSPI Data Analytics Accessing Data
Step 1: Go to and click on the K-12 Data & Reports button

18. Step 2: Click on the OSPI Performance Indicators link
OSPI Data Analytics
Accessing Data
Step 2: Click on the OSPI Performance Indicators link

19. OSPI Data Analytics
Accessing Data
Step 3: Click on the link

20. OSPI Data Analytics What can we do with this information?
How can it inform our practice?
How can we communicate it to our stakeholders?

22. General Resources Blogs
Elementary Counseling Blog:
Savvy School Counselor:
Technology Rocks. Seriously:
The Counseling Geek:
Facebook Groups
Elementary School Counselor Exchange
On the Road to RAMP
Pinterest
Teachers Pay Teachers

23. Contact Me! (360) 709-7305 emily.weber@tumwater.k12.wa.us
Pinterest: Emily Ryan
My Website: