1. Nevada Counselor / Psychologist Survey Data Prepared for the Legislative Committee on Education July, 15 2014 By Marina McHatton CTE Counseling and Assessments, Education Programs Professional

2. School Counselor & Psychologist Participation: State Survey Results

3. Survey Includes All School Levels: Elementary School Middle School High School

4. Counselors Respondents by School Level

5. Elementary School Counselor Survey Results

6. Elementary School Respondents by Districts Out of 111 Respondents

7. Elementary Counselor: Student Caseloads Out of 134 Respondents

8. Middle School Counselor: Survey Results

9. Middle School Respondents by District Out of 81 Respondents 18

10. Middle School Counselor: Student Caseloads Out of 112 Respondents

11. High School Counselor: Survey Results

12. High School Respondents by District Out of 130 Respondents 94 20

13. High School Counselor: Student Caseloads Out of 222 Respondents

14. Psychologist Respondents by District Out of 130 Respondents

15. School Psychologists: Student Caseloads Out of 138 Respondents

16. The American School Counselor Association (ASCA)recommends a student-to-school-counselor ratio of 250-to-1.

17. Elementary School Counselors Spend Most of Their Time: Personal / Social Development Domain: Help students acquire knowledge, attitudes and interpersonal skills to help them understand and respect self and others. Academic Development Domain: Help students complete school with the academic preparation essential to choose from a wide range of substantial post-secondary options, including college. Career Development Domain: Help students employ strategies to achieve future career goals Most Elementary School Counselors have a student caseload of 500 to 1000+ students. Other duties in priority order: 1.Student Scheduling 2.Bullying Prevention 3.Testing Coordination 4.Parent Conferences 5.Drop Out Prevention / Attendance

18. Middle School Counselors Spend Most of Their Time: Personal / Social Development Domain: Help students acquire knowledge, attitudes and interpersonal skills to help them understand and respect self and others. Academic Development Domain: Help students complete school with the academic preparation essential to choose from a wide range of substantial post-secondary options, including college. Career Development Domain: Help students employ strategies to achieve future career goal. Most middle school counselors have a student caseload of 400 – 500 student, partly because of school size. Other duties in priority order: 1.Student Scheduling 2.Parent Conferences 3.Bullying Prevention 4.Drop Out Prevention 5.Coordination of School Events

19. High School Counselors Spend Most of Their Time: Personal & Social Domain: Help students acquire the knowledge, attitudes and interpersonal skills to help them understand and respect self and others. Academic Development Domain: Help students complete school with the academic preparation essential to choose from a wide range of substantial post-secondary options. Career Domain: Help students understand the relationships between personal qualities, education, training, and the world of work. Most high school counselors have a student caseload 300 – 500 students. Other duties in priority order: 1.Student Scheduling 2.Parent Conferences 3.Drop Out Prevention 4.Coordination of School Events 5.Testing Coordination

20. Caseload refers to the number of students who are provided direct services. School psychologists typically define their caseload by the number of students assigned to them and/or the number of assessments they complete in an academic year. This is different than the ratio of enrolled students per school psychologist, which could be viewed as a school psychologist’s potential caseload The National Association of School Psychologist's Guidelines for the Provision of School Psychological Services recommends a ratio of no more than 1,000 enrolled students per school psychologist. School Psychologists

21. Psychologists Spend Most of Their Time: Most school psychologists have a student caseload of 1000 – 2000 students. 1.Documentation 2.Testing & evaluation 3.Consultation with parents, teachers, and other school personnel 4.Behavior Interventions 5.Support in Multi-Tiered Systems and Support

22. Elementary: Personal & Social Domain Standards Helping students acquire the knowledge, attitudes and interpersonal skills to help them understand and respect self and others. 03319102 Helping students make decision, set goals and take necessary action to achieve goals 14114269 Helping students understand safety and survival skills. 27323452 Standard: A Standard: B Standard: C Priorities with 1 being the least and 5 being the most time spent on task 1 2 3 4 5 Out if 127 Respondents

23. Elementary: Academic Domain Standards Priorities with 1 being the least and 5 being the most time spent on task 1 2 3 4 5 Standard: A Standard: B Standard: C Helping students acquire the attitudes, knowledge ad skills that contribute to effective learning in school and across the life span 1130584630 Helping students complete school with the academic preparation essential to choose from a wide range of substantial post- secondary options, including college. 68365669 Helping students understand the relationship of academics to the world or work, to life at home, and in the community. 716576431 Out of 127 Respondents

24. Elementary: Career Domain Standards Helping students acquire the attitudes, knowledge ad skills that contribute to effective learning in school and across the life span. 1130584630 Helping students complete school with the academic preparation essential to choose from a wide range of substantial post-secondary options, including college. 68365669 Helping students understand the relationship of academics to the world or work, to life at home, and in the community. 716576431 Priorities with 1 being the least and 5 being the most time spent on task 1 2 3 4 5 Standard: A Standard: B Standard: C Out if 127 Respondents

25. Elementary: Other Duties and Responsibilities Bullying prevention 04113280 Drop out prevention / Attendance 383924188 Coordination of school events 1119403225 Professional development 1231482313 Testing coordination 542623168 Student scheduling 92201221 Parent conferences 528393520 Priorities with 1 being the least and 5 being the most time spent on task 1 2 3 4 5

26. Middle School Counselor: Personal & Social Domain Standards Helping students acquire the knowledge, attitudes and interpersonal skills to help them understand and respect self and others. 04163646 Helping students make decision, set goals and take necessary action to achieve goals 06154338 Helping students understand safety and survival skills. 412363317 Standard: A Standard: B Standard: C Priorities with 1 being the least and 5 being the most time spent on task 1 2 3 4 5 Out of 102 Respondents

27. Middle School Counselor: Academic Domain Standards Helping students acquire the attitudes, knowledge ad skills that contribute to effective learning in school and across the life span. 36303825 Helping students complete school with the academic preparation essential to choose from a wide range of substantial post-secondary options, including college. 317432514 Helping students understand the relationship of academics to the world or work, to life at home, and in the community. 511294116 Standard: A Standard: B Standard: C Priorities with 1 being the least and 5 being the most time spent on task 1 2 3 4 5 Out of 102 Respondents

28. Middle School Counselor: Career Domain Standards Help students acquire the skills to investigate the world of work in relation to knowledge of self and to make informed career decisions. 52839246 Help students employ strategies to achieve future career goals with success and satisfaction. 71939307 Help students understand the relationship between personal qualities, education, training and the world of work. 21834 14 Priorities with 1 being the least and 5 being the most time spent on task 1 2 3 4 5 Standard: A Standard: B Standard: C Out of 102 Respondents

29. Middle School Counselor: Other Duties Bullying Prevention 23233836 Drop out prevention 519313314 Coordination of school events 315293124 Individual professional development 132741156 Testing coordination 212733147 Student scheduling 23133054 Parent conferences 16173741 Priorities with 1 being the least and 5 being the most time spent on task Out of 102 Respondents 1 2 3 4 5

30. High School Counselor: Personal & Social Domain Helping students acquire the knowledge, attitudes and interpersonal skills to help them understand and respect self and others. 725476234 Helping students make decision, set goals and take necessary action to achieve goals 620356945 Helping students understand safety and survival skills. 2342524018 1 2 3 4 5 Standard: A Standard: B Standard: C Out of 175 Respondents Priorities with 1 being the least and 5 being the most time spent on task

31. High School Counselor: Academic Domain Standards Helping students acquire the attitudes, knowledge ad skills that contribute to effective learning in school and across the life span. 1130584630 Help students complete school with the academic preparation essential to choose from a wide range of substantial post-secondary options, including college. 68365669 Help students understand the relationship of academics to the world or work, to life at home, and in the community. 716576431 1 2 3 4 5 Standard: A Standard: B Standard: C Out of 175 Respondents Priorities with 1 being the least and 5 being the most time spent on task

32. Help students acquire the skills to investigate the world of work in relation to knowledge of self and to make informed career decisions. 935635216 Helping students employ strategies to achieve future career goals with success and satisfaction. 733605223 Help students understand the relationship between personal qualities, education, training and the world of work. 1029466228 1 2 3 4 5 Standard: A Standard: B Standard: C Out of 175 Respondents High School Counselor: Career Domain Priorities with 1 being the least and 5 being the most time spent on task

33. High School Counselor: Other Duties Out of 175 Respondents Bullying Prevention 2448 3916 Drop out prevention 8232261 Coordination of school events 1144604218 Individual Professional Development 2449454314 Testing Coordination 1629603634 Student Scheduling 051238120 Parent Conferences 617315863 1 2 3 4 5 Priorities with 1 being the least and 5 being the most time spent on task

34. School Psychologist’s Time Spent on Tasks Time spent on each with 1 being the least and 5 being the most time spent on task 1 2345 Testing and Evaluation of students 27244765 Documentation 33213979 One-on-one conference with students 435927124 Support in multi-tiered systems and support 1429454017 Social and emotional development 354936205 Student support 164846287 Safety assessments 743621104 Behavior interventions 134350276 Consultation with parents, teachers, and other school personal 110295346 Out of 130 Respondents

35. Psychologist Task Descriptions Safety Assessments: To determine the credibility and seriousness of a threat and the likelihood that it will be carried out. Multi-Tiered System and Support Keeps the focus on meeting student needs within the right settings right services, and with the best qualified personnel. Framework encompasses prevention and wellness promotion, universal screening for academic and behavioral barriers to learning, implementing evidence-based interventions that increase in intensity as needed, monitoring the ongoing progress of students in response to implemented interventions, and engaging in systematic decision making about programming and services needed for students based upon specific student outcome data.