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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

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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 pmartin@collegeboard.org

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