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Company
LOGO Counselors as Leaders
Presentation by: Pat Martin (NOSCA)
Florida Counselors’ Leadership Conference (CLC)Jacksonville & Ft. Lauderdale
December 2007
“The Time is NOW!”
The Florida Partnership
Started 1999—• Partnership with Florida and CB• Focused on Teaching and Learning
1. Raising Achievement for all Students
2. Increasing FCAT Performance
3. Moving from “F to A”, or lower grade to
higher
4. Getting increased academic performance for
underrepresented students
Culture/Climate for High Achievement
Raising Student Achievement
School Climate
AcademicRigor
DistributiveLeadership
Supports
The School House
Teaming and Collaborating
Teachers
Students
Parents
Supt’s,Asst. Supt’sCentral Adms
Bldg
Administrators
Counselors
CLC Focus
CLC & The Florida Partnership
April2005
Tampa
Jan.2006
Tampa
Dec.2006
Orlando
CLC Started
Florida Partnership
Dec.2007
Lauder-dale
Dec.2007
Jackson-ville
History of CLC Skill Training
CLC 2005CLC 2005 CLC 2006/Jan.CLC 2006/Jan. CLC 2006/Dec.CLC 2006/Dec.
Crea
Counselor Skills
• Leadership Culture
• Accelerating Achievement
•Tools for Creating Rigorous Schedules
Counselor Skills
•Data, Equity & Accountability
•Increasing AP
•Teaming & Collaborating
•
Counselor Skills
•Equity
•Culture Competency
•Use of Data to Increase Achievement/Team
Why Are We Concerned About Time?
1. April 13-15, 2005 Tampa1. April 13-15, 2005 Tampa
2. January 23-24, 2006 Tampa2. January 23-24, 2006 Tampa
3. December 4-5, 2006 Orlando3. December 4-5, 2006 Orlando
4. December 3-4, 2007 Jacksonville4. December 3-4, 2007 Jacksonville
4. December 6-7, 2007 Ft. Lauderdale4. December 6-7, 2007 Ft. Lauderdale
The Clock is Ticking . . .
Beliefs Drive BehaviorWhat You Value is What You Do
Personal Ability to Make Change in Status Quo
I. Important Issues A. All Students Can Achieve High Standards B. Future Life Options Inextricably Connected to K-12 Preparation C. System Change, not Fix Student to Cope with System D. EquityII. Ways of Working
A. LeadershipB. AdvocacyC. Collaboration Equity
EQUITY
School Counselors Behaving AsChampions for Equity and Access
Beliefs Drive BehaviorWhat You Value is What You Do
Personal Ability to Make Change in Status Quo
III. Results/AccountabilityA. Measurable OutcomesB. Systemic/School Wide ImpactC. Equitable Distribution of
ProgressD. Use of Technology
IV. Other Factors (Personal Attributes)A. CourageB. PersistenceC. Efficacy
Equity
EQUITY
School Counselors Behaving AsChampions for Equity and Access
Time to Apply Skills
KNOWLEDGE• We know more than we do• Knowing is not action• Knowing is not necessarily a catalyst for action• Knowing does not produce results• Knowledge can be updated
Moving from Knowledge to Skills requires time for experimenting, practicing
SKILLS• Skills are a higher level of operation than knowledge• Skills are not necessarily a catalyst for action• Skills can be build, sharpened, broaden• Skills can be lost when not used• Skills can be natural or learned
Knowledge ≠ Skills
What Time Is It?
(Knowledge = Info/know) (Skill= Do/apply)
Knowledge Skill
Knowledge = Intellectual CapitalSkill = Effective Application of Knowledge
[Think of this continuum as the process of making a cake. Knowledge is identifying and acquiring the right ingredients; Skill is putting ingredients together in the right amounts, sequence and procedure to get the best results.]
What Time Is It?
1. Time to Understand the Climate
"When you feel the windsof change, build a windmill."--Mao Tse-tung
What Time Is It?
• Leadership• Advocacy• Collaboration • Systemic Change• Use of Data• Accountability
(1995) Transforming School Counseling The Education Trust
2. Time to Recognize 21st Century Changes for School Counselors
What Time Is It?
3. Time to Understand that DATA Rules
“Make My Data”Accountability is the law of the land!
Important Reasons for Use of Data
• To challenge existing policies & practices
• To serve as a catalyst for focused action
• To create a sense of urgency
What Time Is It?
4. Time to Recognize that . . . EQUITY ≠ EQUALITY
Definitions
Equity =– evenhandedness, fairness, impartiality,
justice, fair play, justness.– the quality, state or ideal of being just,
fair, and impartial; a resort to general principles of fairness and justice whenever existing law is inadequate;
Equality =– parity, fairness, equal opportunity,
sameness, equivalence, uniformity, – the quality, state of being equal
Definitions
What Time Is It?
5. Time to Practice Advocacy Driven by Equity Principle
Education that starts with the goal of
access, support and success of all students regardless of
•who they are• the color of their skin•where they live •the amount of money their parents make•the amount of political power their parents can bring to bear
What Time Is It?
High Degree of Literacy
1. Reading/ELA
2. Mathematics
Life Long Learning/Retraining
1. Multiple Careers Changes
2. Post Secondary College and/or Career Training
6. Time to Recognize the Needs for 21st Century Economy and Citizenship Are Different
What will it take to be Champions for Equity, Access, and Success . . .
• Advocacy for educational equity for all students• Courage to do the right thing• Thoughtful Program Planning • Effective Execution of Plans• Leadership• Collaboration & Teaming• Effective Use of Data
Being a school counselor champion ofEquity, Access, and Success means . . .
Providing Leadership in Identifying inequitiesUsing data as a toolCreating an urgency for change Facilitating solution-findingScaffolding success for all studentsMaking system change happen
What is Leadership?
• Leadership is action, not position. Donald H. McGannon
• Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions. Harold S. Geneen
• A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better. Jim Rohn
Counselor Leadership
• Actions—counselors aggressively acting to support students to access and success in getting a quality education.
• Results– deliberate actions can be documented by "hard data" moving school counseling from the periphery edge to a position front and center in constructing student success.
Be the Difference – Know Who You Are
I Am . . .• A school counselor• Masters-degree trained• Professional• Competent• Committed to children• Caring • Smart
I Am Not . . .
• Mild mannered nor void of vision
• An ancillary staffer
• A clerk, a record keeper, hall sweeper, substitute teacher . . .
• A whipping post
• A worker without a mission
The Urgency . . .
• The clock is ticking
• Time is running out
• We have had a good 4 year run
• We’ve come a long way
• We have a long way to go
• We have to accelerate the process
The Time is NOW!
“We are the leaders that we’ve been waiting for. . .”
Step up to the plate!
The National Office for School Counselor Advocacy1233 20th Street NW
Washington, DC 20036 [email protected]
202-741-4714
Presentation by:Pat Martin, Asst. Vice President,The College Board
The Time Is Now!
How will we ever pull all these pieces together?
Breakout Session (4)
Session A
Session B
Session C
Session D
Mining School Data to Uncover Student Needs
Vivian Lee
ScaffoldingAcademic Build a pipe-Line for Rigor
MargoMcCoy
CollaborativeDecision Making in LeadershipTeams
Robert Sheffield
HigherGround:Achievingthe “A”
MarkMatthews
Vivian Lee
Mining School Data to Uncover Student Needs
• What does your Data say about your school—students, teaching and learning, opportunities to participate in rigor
• How to look at data for inequities—inclusion, gaps, discrepancies in access and success
• Data guides/focuses your actions• Takes out feelings, portrait of reality
Robert Sheffield
Leadership/Collaboration for Changing the Status Quo
• Shift Happens!• Change is here, happening exponentially, in our face and
we can’t stop it!• Mind-set for deliberately embracing change, managing it,
making it work for your goals is necessary• School, as it is, does not work for large numbers of
students• Smart Goals Needed—Who, what, when, how with
metrics that actually demonstrates that we got there/did something
Margo McCoy
Finding, Creating, Nurturing Academic Pipeline and Scaffolding Success
• AP Potential—formulating the pipeline and pushing capability youth to AP’s for which they have identified capacity to succeed
• SOAS—inform instruction, smart ways to identify how to make success happen through skill identification and focused skill development
• Student Data on CD
Mark Matthews
Moving to Higher Ground—Beyond FCAT
• It can be done and has been done in Florida—schools with challenging issues
• Leadership and vision are critical• Teaming and collaborations on multiple levels
count• Climate for high student expectations, without
excuses must be set by Principal and carried out by everyone
Why do we do what we do?
Middle Schools—WHY?• Behave as if hormones trump
brain functioning in MS• Think we need to postpone
stretching the intellectual capacity of MS students until they get older
• Offer limited numbers of sessions of rigorous courses in our school schedule
• Assign coaches & others with no math certification to teach math
• Think remediation works for closing achievement gaps
High Schools—WHY?• Depend so heavily on
standardized test scores and/or teacher recommendations
• Refuse to give even strivers a chance to struggle in rigorous courses
• Think limited numbers of students are “smart” enough to take AP
• Think high numbers of failing students in some teachers’ classes is evidence of rigor, good teaching, high standards
• Think remediation works for closing achievement gaps
Goals: Moving from 8 to 4
2 goals per session = 8Data should determine which goals are most important
GROUP ENGAGEMENT• Get to know your team members thoughts/ideas • Share knowledge/insights gained from 4 sessions
attended• Compare identified goals• Critically analyze the goals you have written• Synthesize and refine goals through collaborative
discussion• Decide on the 4 goals to be used for the dedicated work
time later this morning