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

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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!

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