Linda Brannan K-12 Student Support Services Consultant NCDPI Curriculum & Instruction Division

1. School Counselors as Leaders and Advocates: Implementing the NC Guidance Essential Standards using the ASCA National Model Linda Brannan K-12 Student Support Services Consultant NCDPI Curriculum & Instruction Division Career & College Ready Institute for School Counselors McKimmon Center, October 5, 2012

2. What do you need from today’s session? Top 2-3 items: List each on a post it note Post-It Note Graffiti

3. At the end of this session, participants will: • Learn about DPI resources and tools to support the initiatives within the RttTGrant • Understand the Guidance Essential Standards in order to meet the learning needs of all students • Understand how using the ASCA National Model will create opportunities to implement a comprehensive data-driven school counseling program. • Make Connections!

4. NC School Counseling Wiki NCDPI School Counseling WikiSpace http://schoolcounseling.ncdpi.wikispaces.net NCDPI School Counseling LiveBinder

5. Graffiti Write What does a 21st Century Counselor Do? • Brainstorm & write as many ideas as possible on chart paper • Post chart paper on the wall

6. Framework for NC School Counseling 3rd Edition

7. Foundation 2nd Edition 3rd Edition

8. 1. Program FocusFoundation

9. GUIDING MISSION “The guiding mission of the North Carolina State Board of Education is that every public school student will graduate from high school, globally competitive for work and postsecondary education and prepared for life in the 21st Century.”

10. “The demands of twenty-first century education dictate new roles for school counselors. Schools need professional school counselors who are adept at creating systems for change and at building relationships within the school community. Professional School Counselors create nurturing relationships with students that enhance academic achievement and personal success as globally productive citizens in the twenty-first century. Utilizing leadership, advocacy, and collaboration, professional school counselors promote academic achievement and personal success by implementing a comprehensive school counseling program that encompasses areas of academic, career, and personal/social development for all students.” Vision of NC School CounselorsNC State Board of Education, 2008

12. NC K-12 Guidance Essential Standards The Purpose of Standards:To define and communicate the knowledge and skills a student must master to be globally competitive. State Board of Education Goal:NC public schools will produce globally competitive students. Mission

13. Good News!2011-2012 Graduation Rate • Highest graduation rate ever in NC • 80.2 % = 89,126 students

14. Still Leaves… 21,975

15. What is the role of the SC? DuFour ?

16. NC Standard Course of Study • Common Core State Standards • English Language Arts (and Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects) • Mathematics • NC Essential Standards • Arts Education • Career and Technical Education • English Language Development* • Guidance* • Healthful Living (Health & Physical Education) • Information and Technology* • Science • Social Studies • World Languages Framework for Change lead to Retooling NC Public Education System

17. Design data-driven comprehensive school counseling programs that promote student achievement. Deliver programs that are comprehensivein scope, preventive in design and developmental in nature. Are accountable for assuring that every student has the opportunity to learn, achieve and graduate college and career ready. NC School Counselors…

18. 2. Student Competencies Foundation

19. Understanding & Implementing the NC Guidance Essential Standards

20. How I teach this standard Review of Implementing New Standards: The Big Picture Connections Differentiation Standard How this standard is reflected in student behavior/work How this standard is assessed: formative benchmark summative Connections Framework?

21. Reflection • Login into your penzu.com account, use MSWord or “ole fashion paper/pen” Answer the following questions & share • I think some of the benefits of implementing the NC Guidance Essential Standards are:_____________________ • My major concerns about implementing the Guidance Essential Standards are: ________

22. Program Focus: Student CompetenciesNC Guidance Essential StandardsAlignment with National Standards for Students ASCA Student Competencies NC Guidance Essential Standards “The ultimate goal for 21st Century students is to be informed about the knowledge and skills that prepare them to be lifelong learners in a global context” GES Preamble, 2011 “Identify and prioritize the specific attitudes, knowledge and skills students should be able to demonstrate as a result of the school counseling program” ASCA National Model, 3rd Edition Both are Student Centered

23. Organizational Alignment with ASCA National Standards for Students

24. Crosswalk of K-12 Guidance Essential Standards ASCA National Competencies for Students NC K-12 Guidance Essential Standards for Students Socio-Emotional Cognitive Career • Personal-Social • Academic • Career • Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy Proficiency Levels • Readiness/Exploratory/Discovery (RED) • Early Emergent/Emergent (EEE) • Progressing (P) • Early Independent (EI) • Independent (I)

26. Preamble - IMPORTANT • Overview, purpose & goals of the standards • Organization and Structure • Based upon the ASCA Standards for Students and Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy • Not grade level but developmentally appropriate based upon proficiency levels of students • Expectation that all school staff will be knowledgeable of the standards and ready to implement Guiding Question • What do students need to know, understand and be able to doto ensure their success in the future, whether it be the next class, post-secondary study, the military or the world of work? (CCR)

27. Understanding the Guidance Essential Standards • Preamble – Review the overview and purpose • Candy Teams – Discuss item from Preamble on your table and be ready to share with group M&M’s Reese Cups Twix 3 Musketeers Hersey Kisses Carmel Candy

28. Preamble Candy M & Ms = Philosophy Twix = Purpose 3 Musketeers = Course of Study & Organization Carmel Candy = Program Description, National Standards & Research Hersey Kisses = Features

29. NC Guidance Essential Standards

30. GES Poster by Proficiency Level Standards Proficiency Levels Clarifying Objectives by Proficiency Level Strands Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy

31. Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy

32. CreatingGenerating new ideas, products, or ways of viewing thingsDesigning, constructing, planning, producing, inventing.EvaluatingJustifying a decision or course of actionChecking, hypothesizing, critiquing, experimenting, judging AnalyzingBreaking information into parts to explore understandings and relationshipsComparing, organizing, deconstructing, interrogating, findingApplyingUsing information in another familiar situationImplementing, carrying out, using, executingUnderstandingExplaining ideas or conceptsInterpreting, summarizing, paraphrasing, classifying, explainingRememberingRecalling informationRecognizing, listing, describing, retrieving, naming, finding Dr. Lorin W. Anderson Higher-order thinking REVISED BLOOM’S TAXONOMY

33. RBT Verbs I R/E/D E/EE P EI

34. Higher Order Thinking Analyzing, Evaluating, Creating • Aligns with GES Proficiency levels • Early Independent • Independent Students must get to higher order thinking to be career and college ready!

35. Analyzing • Complete a Decision Making Matrix to help you make an important decision • Role Play • Construct a graph to illustrate selected information • Design a questionnaire to gather information • Breaking information down into its component elements

36. Evaluating Activities and Products • Write a letter to the editor • Prepare and conduct a debate • Evaluate the character’s actions in the story • Write a persuasive speech arguing for/against…

37. Creating Activities and Products • Write about your feelings in relation to… • Write a TV show, play, puppet show, or pantomime about… • Design a CD, book, or magazine cover for… • Sell an idea

38. Diving Deeper Guidance Essential Standards

39. Understanding the Structure of the Guidance Essential Standards Proficiency Levels Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy

40. Our Guiding Question? What do students need to know, understandand be able to do, to ensure their success in the future, whether it is to continue with current study from grade-to-grade level or post-secondary college or career?

41. Example: Essential Standard Readiness/Explorator/Discovery:RED.SE.1 Understand the meaning and importance of personal responsibility. Clarifying Objective: Understand the importance of self-control and responsibility. Activity: Your best friend tells a lie about you to several of your friends. • Describe how this makes you feel. • Draw a picture showing how this made you feel. • List three (3) things you can do in this situation to help you control your emotions.

42. Example: Essential Standard Early Emergent/Emergent:EEE.SE.1 Understand the meaning and importance of personal responsibility. Clarifying Objective: Contrast appropriate and inappropriate physical contact. Activity: A student keeps purposefully bumping into you each time that student sees you. This behavior is now making you uncomfortable. • List some ways you can approach this student and express how this behavior makes you feel. • Demonstrate to me what you consider to be your “personal space”. • Role Play how you can approach and talk with student.

43. Example: Essential Standard Progressing:P.SE.1 Understand the meaning and importance of personal responsibility. Clarifying Objective: Identify how to set boundaries that maintain personal rights while paying attention to the rights of others. Activity: You have been divided into groups in your class. As a group leader, you made the team assignments, but one member is not joining the group and fulfilling his duties. • List some approaches you might use to address this student? • Identify how this student’s actions are affecting others in the group. • Explain how the student is not demonstrating responsibility to the group? • Develop an action plan as a group that would help everyone get involved.

44. Example: Essential Standard Early Independent:EI.SE.1 Understand the meaning and importance of personal responsibility. Clarifying Objective: Explain the impact of personal responsibility on others. Activity: You are with two friends when a third friend asks you to steal an item off the lunch line. • How would you categorize this behavior (stealing)? • What function will your personal values play in your decision making about this request? • Analyze how your decision in this matter could affect your future.

45. Example: Essential Standard Independent:I.SE.1 Understand the meaning and importance of personal responsibility. Clarifying Objective: Understand the importance of self-control and responsibility. Activity: Your classmate who is the class representative has a reputation for not being hones and not following through on promises. He asked you to chair a committee to examine the school’s discipline code. You are undecided about how to answer because of reputation. • Explain your decision in terms of personal responsibility and leadership. • Predict (hypothesize) your classmate’s reaction. • How would you justify your decision while maintaining a positive relationship with your classmate?

46. Level Group Activity • Divide into level groups – elementary, middle, high • Complete the NCGES worksheet with school counseling and guidance activities you are already doing that meets the objectives in the standard.

48. Understanding the Standards Beach Ball Activity S – choose a strand/standard and read aloud CO/PL – read aloud a clarifying objective & proficiency level within this standard then state one PL verb for this specific CO A – describe a counseling activity using the proficiency level verb that might help a student understand this standard and clarifying objective

49. NC School Counseling Wiki NCDPI School Counseling WikiSpace http://schoolcounseling.ncdpi.wikispaces.net NCDPI School Counseling LiveBinder

50. Delivery 2nd Edition 3rd Edition