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Lebanon School District

Demographic ProfileArea: 81.9 square miles

Total Population (2010 U.S. Census Bureau estimate): 25,477Enrollment 2014-15: 5,072

Ethnic Diversity White: 36% Black: 6%

Hispanic: 52% Native American: .18%

Asian: .84% Multi-Racial: 4.13%


Demographic ProfileArea: 81.9 square miles

Total Population (2010 U.S. Census Bureau estimate): 25,477Enrollment 2014-15: 5,072

Ethnic Diversity White: 36% Black: 6%

Hispanic: 52% Native American: .18%

Asian: .84% Multi-Racial: 4.13%


• Number of students in the Lebanon School District 5,.072

• Number of staff members in the Lebanon School District 317

• Number of school counselors in the Lebanon School District 12

• Average number of students served by each counselor 422

• School setting is urban,

• Lebanon City population is approximately 26,000

• Number of students identified as special education students 896

• Number of students identified as English Language Learners 640

• Number of students receiving free or reduced lunch

Harding Elementary School 88 % Henry Houck Elementary School 82 % Northwest Elementary School 93 %Southeast Elementary School 84 %Southwest Elementary School 83 %Lebanon Middle School 86 %Lebanon High School 80 %


• Number of students in the Lebanon School District 5,.072

• Number of staff members in the Lebanon School District 317

• Number of school counselors in the Lebanon School District 12

• Average number of students served by each counselor 422

• School setting is urban,

• Lebanon City population is approximately 26,000

• Number of students identified as special education students 896

• Number of students identified as English Language Learners 640

• Number of students receiving free or reduced lunch

Harding Elementary School 88 % Henry Houck Elementary School 82 % Northwest Elementary School 93 %Southeast Elementary School 84 %Southwest Elementary School 83 %Lebanon Middle School 86 %Lebanon High School 80 %

• Landscaper Effect– See the fruits of your labor– Decrease frustration– What’s working / what’s not working - Really!– Counteract students’ “Blank Stare Defense”

• Educate the Publics– Administrators, Parents, Teachers, Students

• Schools / School Counselors have evolved…• We need to educate people on the role of the modern

school counselor

• The numbers don’t lie - that ‘s a lie!– Savvy researches can manipulate the numbers to

fit their interest – We have to be prepared to advocate for our

programs and prove their effectiveness

• Accountability– NCLB - education put itself in this position…

– Prove what you do - Educate – Do it your way - before it is forced upon you

• Unification of department - on the same page philosophically -

“One Team One Goal”

• Department identity - we take charge of identifying what counseling

programs are supposed look like

• Increased Department credibility with all stakeholders

• Increased Department influence on the school

• Teachers and students see counselors in classrooms and in action

~ teaching kids! ASCA Model

• Role clarification - people don’t have to guess what you do - they

see it!

Factor Analysis, Multivariate ANOVA’s and You…

• You don’t need to be complicated to be effective

– You don’t have the time for complicated

– Simple, clear and consistent is better than complex

• Data do not have to cause fear!

• Think about the data report - in the beginning - before you gather

the numbers - what is your purpose? Build your intervention

around that purpose.

• ANOVA? Factor Analysis, MANOVA - none of this need apply -

– Pre-Post surveys, means, averages, sums, qualitative responses

• Take Dr. Sabella’s Counselor Computer Boot Camp - save yourself

months of frustration

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Advocacy• Constantly tell others about what your program is doing for

the students in your school ~ Identify an advocacy group

• Maintain a presence and be an influence - don’t make people guess what you do …educate parents, students, administrators

• Meet at least twice yearly with your advocacy group to share your results

Paradigm Shift: A New Professional Identity

We have the power to change how we function AND how we are perceived…

• Support Role Essential Role

• Passive Control Active Control

• Process Oriented Data Driven

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Speaking of Data… Data should measure student growth in the academic,

personal/social, and career domains

Data may be both Quantitative and Qualitative - both are necessary and useful

Data should ‘tell the story’ of your counseling interventions and represent results based on your yearly goals

Data should be collected from all forms of intervention;

Classroom, Small Group, and Closing the Gap

Data should direct future program goals and interventions

Data Templates• Counselor Time and Task Analysis• Lesson Data Master• NCAA Qualifier• Student Contact Analysis• Post-Secondary Planning - Application Tracker• Career Planning Lesson – Template• Post-Secondary Planning Template• Seniors - College Planning Template• Monthly and Year End Reports Samples• Counselor Time Analysis Template-Guide Sheet• Needs Assessment Survey - Faculty

Data Summary…• Using data provides you with an opportunity to examine

your program through the lens of the ASCA model.

• Data can help you conduct valid audit of your program - what’s working?

• Be Patient - Fluid - Determined– Time will help you build a model program.

• No two programs are the same. The ASCA model provides the framework for programming that meets the needs of your learning community.

When people ask what your program does…– Can you tell them?– Can you tell them that it is working?

–Why/why not?–How are you adjusting?

– Can you prove it? – How are kids different because of your programs?

Can you stand up for your program and the needs of the kids you work for and make a legitimate argument?


www.ezanalyze.com

Tim Poynton School Counselor Educator at

Suffolk University in Boston, Massachusetts

ASCA National Model

Great Resource

Electronic Version

Many Templates

Dr. Russ Sabella

Data Boot Camp




How do we get our message out to our students amongst all the other noise?

Who are we competing with?• Hormones • The pre teen brain • The teen brain • Twitter, Facebook, instagram • Marketing and advertising firms• Effects of poverty• Popular culture

NO!

Course Selection - Freedom and OpportunityTake control of your destinyYour future begins now – Its Go Time

Study skills - Delayed GratificationPay Now – Play Later

Career exploration - You define success!Capitalize on the rebellion of the ageDo what you love to do, never work a day in your life

College selection – What do you want?Be competitive in this extremely competitive world?Plan your work – Work your plan

We can not allude to our message..

We can not hint about our message…

We have to tell the messages in ways that will be heard…• Energy• Passion• Humor• Linked to emotions• Connected to basic needs• Fun• Engaging•Tell them what’s in it for them

We have to compete in a very crowded market.

Table Tents

Dollar bills with notes on them

Signs in the bathroom stalls – Don’t just sit there – start planning

Classroom lessons – engagement strategies

Sandwich boards

Blitz lessons

Hallway blitzes- Show samples

College Campaign-Pennants just before the College Fair

Contests- Scavenger Hunt

Things in your office – Rat Trap

How your office is decorated – show pictures

Individual contacts – This is our wheelhouse that most counselors are comfortable

Humor – Kids may not remember the joke but they can recall how they felt.

Responsibility to change the world rests on all of us - not any one of us.

• Batman vs Superman-We are not superheroes. -We can not accomplish all that needs to be done alone-This type of thinking leads to burnout -Get everyone in the building involved to assist




• Freshmen are challenging (crazy)– more discipline referrals than 10-11-12– more personal/social visits than 10-11-12– more “drama” – more failed classes– more agency referrals

• They are high maintenance– but not usually high profile – Seniors!

• Challenges– Transition to high school– Hormones– Learning the delicate social cues

• Reaction to this– Initially – not effective– Brain Science

• Frontal Lobe, Cerebellum, Limbic System– Under construction

Prefrontal Cortex

Regulates decision making, problem solving, control of purposeful behavior, emotions

CerebellumRegulates initiation

and timing of movements.

http://www.ted.com/talks/sarah_jayne_blakemore_the_mysterious_workings_of_the_adolescent_brain.html

Limbic System

More sensitive to stimulation “risk taking” than in the adult brain.

• Needs assessment – Created needs assessment– Surveyed faculty and students– Identified the most concerning issues

• LFS lessons– A system used to organize attention– Active, dynamic, get their attention,

commercials, snap shots, sound bites, entertaining, social.

– Lessons………………..Show and Tell

• Everybody’s Doing It– District wide movement to LFS – Part of the Team - Don’t allow marginalization– Easier access to classes

• Less You - More Them– The more they do the more they learn – James Brown– Basic principles of LFS-

• Movement, Interaction, Deeper Understanding

• Flexibility – LFS allows you to go to plan B, C…..D etc

• Have to teach students why having good grades is important – before they are taught becoming better students.

3-2-1

Did you know – video

Themes and Ideas

Cause and Effect

3-2-1Work Smart ArticleStudy Skills GuideStudy Skills – Power PointExtended Thinking - Prompt

• Work Smarter Not Harder – Well, maybe a little.

• use a butter knife to cut a piece of wood

• S.M.A.R.T

• S.M.A.R.T Video

• They have to gain an understanding of the importance of time – before they try to manage it.

– 86,400 – video– Attack Your Day - video

Students have to know how common it is and what it looks like before they can improve upon it.

Ellen – video

How to procrastinate like a pro

Types of procrastinators

• Students have to know how common it is and what it looks like before they can improve upon it.Ellen – videoHow to procrastinate like a proTypes of procrastinators

• Discussing priorities is difficult – we often tell them WHAT to value…not WHY it is of value…..FREEDOM? Sneakers! Do what you have to do

• Emotional? – video

• Distracted?-video

• Expectations-video

• Decisions – Graphic Organizer

• Decision - Cartoons

• Things look different when you slow down – videosSoggy FaceMiscommunication-1DropletMiscommunication-2

Things look different when you examine them more carefullyPic 1 EscherPic 2Pic 3

• Once posted you lose control

• Think before you post





Why Guerrilla Counseling?

• Outnumbered – -Student to counselor ratios are huge (800/1 in AZ)

• Foe is greater than we are – toe to toe battle is not advisable -Effects of poverty on a child’s development-Decline of the family unit-Dysfunction – has its function internally-Bueractic systems - inequity in school funding, testing-Distractions from advertising, marketing, technology-Human nature – the teenage brain-Experiential deficits-Apathy,

• School Counselors know their terrain-They know their students-They know their community-They know the strengths and weaknesses of their systems

• Attack like the common cold. Small, mobile, have a big effect.

Guerilla Counseling Tactics

• Actions that are orchestrated by school counselors -Fast-moving, small-scale efforts, quick initiatives that attacking a larger force by surprise. Stress Lesson

• Impactful with minimal resources -It does not take a grant to greet students as they enter school everyday. “Good Talk” SNL skit

• Linked to basic emotions/desires – just like advertisers-Joy, humor, anger, freedom, love Study Skills = Freedom Career Awareness = Passion Handshake lesson = Respect

•Tactics use the latest technology and no technology-ipads and clothespins – Computers and Resiliency

Guerilla Counseling Tactics

• Variety -Attack different areas at different times

Social Skills, Career, Post-SecondaryDon’t get pigeon holed – Chapter 339

-Blitz lessons

-College Fairs

-One to one interactions

-Large group/small groups

-Short Campaigns with multiple and varied unified actions aiming

to reach one goal.

`• A town in Pennsylvania has been on fire for over 50 years. In 1962, a mine fire started beneath

the coal-mining town of Centralia. 7 people still live there.• Jimmy Stewart was born in Indiana, PA. Arnold Palmer-Latrobe, PA• Hershey Chocolate• Declaration of Independence was signed in Philadelphia in 1776.• Martin guitars are made in Nazareth, PA.• Punxsutawney Phil – 40%• 33rd largest state• Pennsylvania has the most covered bridges in the country• Cameron and Pottery county have more deer than people.• Home of Three Mile Island – first nuclear power plant accident• 63,200 farms in PA – 7.8 million acres• Rank #1 in producing mushrooms• Lots of cows –16th in the country 1,530,000. Milk production is the leading segment of the

agricultural industry• PA Dutch words – red up, schtengles, smoltzy, rutchie,

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