School Counselor Accountability: A MEASURE of Student Success (Merrill Counseling)

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School Counselor Accountability: A MEASURE of Student Success provides strategies for understanding, designing and implementing accountability measures as the cornerstone of a comprehensive school counseling program. This practical bookprovides school counselors, counselor educators, graduate students and school administrators with the knowledge and skills to use data informed practice to connect school counseling programs to school improvement. School counselors learn how to lead, advocate, and collaborate with colleagues for the ultimate goal of improving student achievement and student success in school. MEASURE is an action research model that serves as a supplemental text for school counseling and administration courses. The book shows how to design and implement accountable programs and how to measure and report results. MEASURE is a tool that school counselors can use to align their work with the accountability requirements of state and national standards such as No Child Left Behind. COVER CONTENTS CHAPTER 1 The Accountability Imperative for School Counselors Accountability: Every Educator’s Challenge Start with Student Outcome Data Time-on-Task Data Results-Based Accountability Needs Assessments, Surveys, Pre-and Post-Tests Student Outcome Data Accountability and School Counselors School Counselor Accountability in Context of Educational Reform The Achievement Gap Beliefs Inform Behaviors School Counselors and No Child Left Behind Respecting Tradition and Exploring the Future Today’s Children and the School Counseling Program The State of America’s Children 2009 References CHAPTER 2 Accountability: The Cornerstone of the ASCA National Model Moving to an Accountability Mindset The ASCA National Model Foundation Delivery Individual Student Planning School Counseling/Guidance Curriculum Responsive Services System Support Management Accountability References CHAPTER 3 Demystifying Data Data First Why Use Data? One Picture Is Worth a 1000 Numbers! Data Data Everywhere Asking the Right Questions Data 101 Descriptive Data Disaggregating Descriptive Data Longitudinal Data Organizing Data The Power of Data Data: Friend or Pho-bia Making Connections Keep It Simple The Next Steps From Perception to Reality Challenge or Opportunity: Carpe Diem! MEASURE and Monitor What Matters References CHAPTER 4 MEASURE: Six Steps to Improving Student Success Step One: Mission What Do I Need to Do? Step Two: Element What Do I Need to Do? Step Three: Analyze What Do I Need to Do? And the Data Said... Step Four: Stakeholders-Unite What Do I Need to Do? What Do I Need to Do? Step Five: Results What Do I Need to Do? Step Six: Educate What Do I Need to Do? Systemic Change Practice What You Have Learned References CHAPTER 5 School Counselors Demonstrating Accountability Dr. Freddie Thomas High School East Hampton Middle School Forest Park Middle School High School for Media and Communications, George Washington Educational Campus La Vergne High School Lindenhurst High School John Overton Comprehensive High School Sheffield Elementary School Sweet Apple Elementary School West Haven High School Westmoreland Elementary School Westside Middle School Springfield Public Schools: An Urban School System Rutherford County Schools, Tennessee: A Suburban School System Salem-Keizer Public Schools, Oregon: A Suburban School System Connecticut Technical High School System: A Statewide System for Career and Technical Education Rochester City School District: An Urban School System CHAPTER 6 Preparing Graduate Students to be Data-Driven Practitioners Action Research and School Counselor Accountability Counselor Educators Teaching with MEASURE References APPENDIX A: Participants in the 2001 Education Trust Accountability Meetings APPENDIX B: The National Standards for School Counseling Programs: What Students Should Know and Be Able to Do (ASCA, 1997) APPENDIX C: American School Counselor Association National Model: A Framework for School Counseling Programs APPENDIX D: Critical Data Examples