School Counselor Summer Institute
Counselors and Changing School Climate
Kona Bear
Topics
• Student challenges
• Counselors
• Nonacademic skills
• Legislative Update
• Feedback and questions
Youth Challenges
• School
• Social
• Post school
• Societal
• Global
• Environmental
Workload
Counselors Duties
Boundary Spanner
• Work between multiple systems
• Coordinate and bring together an array of individuals and professionals
• Navigate systems to advocate for needs of students
Quarterback
“Nonacademic skills”
Group task
Sociometric Exercise
Delayed Gratification
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQvBrEEYS20
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QX_oy9614HQ
Goleman
EQ
21st Century Skills
• 4 C’s
• Critical thinking
• Collaboration
• Communication
• Creativity
Quote
• What gets us in trouble is not what we don’t know. It’s what we know that just ain’t so.
SEL
SEL Components
Making schools safe
• Physically
• Emotionally
Quote
Calls for Gender Equality:
• ‘Objectify Men Just as Often as We Objectify Women’
Chris Pratt
SEL Findings
• Increase in Pro-social behavior of 10%
• Decrease in Anti-social behavior of 10%
• Increase of achievement of 11%
Same circuits in brain “manage goals” as for “destructive behavior”
GRIT
• Cognitive Control
• Ability to identify goal and strive for it despite set backs
• Learn how to make mistakes
Quote
He who opens a school, closes a prison.
Soft Skills
Group task 2
• As a counselor, I’m afraid that…
• Write down your response and put it in the envelope
• Each person at the table will randomly pick one and read it out loud
Counselor caseloads
• ASCA recommends 1:250
• Private schools 1:106
• National average is 1:516
• 1 in 5 American high schools have none
• Washington 1:400
Legislative action
• HB 2261, HB 2776 Plan to fully funding schools
• HB 1336 Suicide prevention
• HB 1760 SEL
• HB 2214 Streamlining assessments
• ESEA: Title 2 dollars to be used to train teachers in SEL
Group task 3
• Active listening
• Non-verbal responses (facial gestures, eye contact, posture)
• Reflect back what you heard
Self Care
• What changes would you make?