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Denver Public Schools. Blueprint for District-Wide School Counseling Support. Ancient History (until 2007). How did DPS get to this point? Advisory Committee vs. Leadership Team Difference in Philosophy Amount of Empowerment. Recent History (2007-2011).
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Denver Public Schools Blueprint for District-Wide School Counseling Support
Ancient History (until 2007) • How did DPS get to this point? • Advisory Committee vs. Leadership Team • Difference in Philosophy • Amount of Empowerment
Recent History (2007-2011) • How do we define ourselves and our work? • Professional School Counselors are… • How do we want to be known as in three years? What is our ideal state? (start of the SCLT) • How will we get there? • Three-year Strategic Plan was developed with yearly milestones
Structures to Support SCLT Implementation • Retreat • Monthly Meetings • PDU • Homework • Email Asks • Open Team • Targeted recruitment (ie – begging) to ensure representation
Current Work (2011- present) • Revisiting Mission, Beliefs and Philosophy • Developing Vision • Data Elements • Plan to impact Data Elements through PD
Leadership Development Collaboration Shared Vision & Mission Team Decision-Making SCHOOL COUNSELING LEADERSHIP TEAM
School Counseling Leadership Team • What DATA ELEMENTS do we, as DPS School Counselors, OWN?
Q: How do we PRIORITIZE this huge list of elements?A: HOW WELL do School Counselors currently know or are able to do the priority elements? • Department Reviews • Individual Counselor Surveys
Counseling PD Blueprint • Using data from: • Counseling Department Reviews • Individual Counseling Knowledge and Skills Survey • Other Data Sources (Time Task Analyses) • Anecdotal Data • Results in Universal PD • Results in Targeted PD • Results in REALLY TargetedPD
Department and Counselor Performance • Sharing of Best Practices & Resources • Wiki • PD • Highlighting Best Practices with each other • Next Survey • Looking for improvement • Next Department Review • Looking for improvement
Wiki • Include District Counseling Plan page • Include Data Elements power point page • Include ASCA Elements page