The New School Counselor: Strategies for Universal Academic Achievement includes CD-ROM [Paperback]

Rita Schellenberg (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 23, 2008

The New School Counselor provides school administrators and school counselor educators, supervisors, and practitioners with a unified understanding of the new roles and functions of the school counselor. Schellenberg introduces standards blending, a systems-focused, integrated, and student-centered approach that directly and overtly aligns school counseling programs with academic achievement missions. Each chapter includes relevant research, literature, key players, real world applications, and major developments and trends shaping contemporary school counseling in a school reform environment.

The CD that accompanies this text contains the long-awaited comprehensive electronic school counseling data reporting system that is being hailed as innovative, timely, and essential to meeting increasing accountability demands. The School Counseling Operational Plan for Effectiveness (SCOPE) and the School Counseling Operational Report of Effectiveness (SCORE) systematically walk users through accountable programming from conception to evaluation using Microsoft Office. In a click, users can access core academic and school counseling standards, data sources, and pre-formulated worksheets for instantaneous data analysis. SCOPE and SCORE include essential data reporting components for closing the achievement gap action plans and results reports of the American School Counselor Association (ASCA), the Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP), and school accountability initiatives.

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Dr. Schellenberg's approach to accountability, practical application of technology, and standards blending is useful, timely, and in line with the new vision pedagogy and CACREP standards for school counselor education and training. An excellent text for education and practice! (Dr. Agatha Parks-Savage )

The New School Counselor brings new vision school counseling to fruition with school administrator leadership and a standards-based approach that clearly attaches school counseling to academic achievement missions. Dr. Schellenberg's electronic data reporting system, SCOPE and SCORE, is groundbreaking and essential to demonstrating results and accountable practices. This book is an absolute "must read" for school administrators and "practice guide" for school counselors. (Alice Blowe )

Dr. Schellenberg's perspective on standards blending programming for school counselors comes at a most opportune time for school leaders as they pursue collaborative initiatives for improved student achievement. School counselors have always performed a crucial, often unheralded leadership role, in supporting learning outcomes for all students, not just those experiencing personal, social or emotional problems. It is refreshing to envision the integration of academic standards, beyond the core, into the school counseling curriculum. The outcome would be specific skills and strategies focused on "more powerful and precise techniques for closing achievement gaps." Standards blending ought to be considered not only by school leaders but all educators who seek unprecedented alternatives and options to long standing beliefs, values and practices. (Dr. Glenn Koonce )

The New School Counselor offers in-depth knowledge of how the new school counselor, who is deeply embedded in all aspects of the educational system, can work most efficiently and effectively in the schools. Schellenberg offers practical, hands-on strategies of how to work within the new paradigm for school counselors, the importance of planning if counselors are to be effective, how evaluation helps to show effectiveness of programs and can be used for future planning, and the importance of accountability of programs. The CD that accompanies the book offers important information about many aspects of the school counseling program, from planning to evaluation, and provides the students with a number of data-driven ways to examine the effectiveness of the school counselor. The New School Counselor is a comprehensive and hands-on text that goes beyond CACREP standards in defining the role of the school counselor and in showing how to implement specific school counselor functions. I view it as a must read. (Dr. Edward Neukrug )

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"Dr. Schellenberg's approach to accountability, practical application of technology, and standards blending is useful, timely, and in line with the new vision pedagogy and CACREP standards for school counselor education and training. An excellent text for education and practice!"

"The New School Counselor offers in-depth knowledge of how the new school counselor, who is deeply embedded in all aspects of the educational system, can work most efficiently and effectively in the schools. Schellenberg offers practical, hands-on strategies of how to work within the new paradigm for school counselors, the importance of planning if counselors are to be effective, how evaluation helps to show effectiveness of programs and can be used for future planning, and the importance of accountability of programs. The CD that accompanies the book offers important information about many aspects of the school counseling program, from planning to evaluation, and provides the students with a number of data-driven ways to examine the effectiveness of the school counselor. The New School Counselor is a comprehensive and hands-on text that goes beyond CACREP standards in defining the role of the school counselor and in showing how to implement specific school counselor functions. I view it as a must read."

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Product Details

• Paperback: 136 pages
• Publisher: R&L Education; Pap/Cdr edition (October 23, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1578868343
• ISBN-13: 978-1578868346
• Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 5.8 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #715,750 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars EXCELLENT!, April 28, 2011

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This review is from: The New School Counselor: Strategies for Universal Academic Achievement includes CD-ROM (Paperback)

This book is an important document for school counselors. We don't have many tools for documenting the many tasks that we perform daily in the schools. This book offers an excellent resource to compile data; concisely delineate the task/activity with goals, objectives, etc. and provides the standards and benchmarks for core subjects in line with those of ASCA.
As well, the author is easily accessible for any questions and other ideas. I highly recommend this book for my colleagues!

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5.0 out of 5 stars This entry is submitted by the author in an effort to personalize the text & provide critical information for purchase & review., November 9, 2008

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This review is from: The New School Counselor: Strategies for Universal Academic Achievement includes CD-ROM (Paperback)

It is an honor to present this text--a labor of love created for school counselors by a school counselor.

CHPT 1, No School Counselor Left Behind: Key players: TSCI; ACA; CACREP; NBCC; ASCA; School Administrators. CHPT 2, Meeting Stakeholder Needs: Data-Driven Program Planning; Needs Assessments; Research-Supported Curriculum. CHPT 3: The Fabric of Reform: Conceptualizing and Operationalizing School Counselor Roles: Mental Health Specialist and Educational Specialist; Standards Blending and Closing the Achievement Gap. CHPT 4: Predecessor of Accountability: Improving Practices and Demonstrating Effectiveness with Program Evaluation: Outcome and Process; Proximal and Distal; Ethical and Legal Considerations. CHPT 5: Reporting Accountable Practices: Action Planning with SCOPE; Results Reporting with SCORE. CHPT 6: Implications for School Counselor Preparation and Practice: Counselor Educator, School Counselor, School Counselor Supervisor, School Administrator. APPENDICES, National Mathematics and Language Arts Standards; ASCA National Standards.

The CD in this text contains an electronic data reporting system. The School Counseling Operational Plan for Effectiveness (SCOPE), action plan, contains links to the ASCA National Standards and national core academic standards and an exhaustive list of possible data sources. The School Counseling Operational Report of Effectiveness (SCORE), results report, contains a pre-formulated worksheet that provides means and percentages of change when pre-post program data are entered. The interactive templates walk you through accountable program planning and evaluation using fill-in boxes, check boxes and drop down menus.

Endorsements:

"Dr. Schellenberg's perspective on standards blending programming for school counselors comes at a most opportune time for school leaders as they pursue collaborative initiatives for improved student achievement. School counselors have always performed a crucial, often unheralded leadership role, in supporting learning outcomes for all students, not just those experiencing personal, social or emotional problems. It is refreshing to envision the integration of academic standards, beyond the core, into the school counseling curriculum. The outcome would be specific skills and strategies focused on "more powerful and precise techniques for closing achievement gaps." Standards blending ought to be considered not only by school leaders but all educators who seek unprecedented alternatives and options to long standing beliefs, values and practices."--Dr. Glenn Koonce, , Professor & Director, Educational Leadership Program, Regent University, and Former Principal & Assistant School Superintendent for Instructional Services

"The New School Counselor brings new vision school counseling to fruition with school administrator leadership and a standards-based approach that clearly attaches school counseling to academic achievement missions. Dr. Schellenberg's electronic data reporting system SCOPE and SCORE is groundbreaking and essential to demonstrating results and accountable practices."--Alice Blowe, M.Ed., School Administrator and Veteran Elementary and Secondary Professional School Counselor

"Dr. Schellenberg's approach to accountability, practical application of technology, and standards blending is useful, timely, and in line with the new vision pedagogy and CACREP standards for school counselor education and training. An excellent text for education and practice!"--Dr. Agatha Parks-Savage, Professor, Eastern Virginia Medical School, The College of William and Mary, Old Dominion University