Goals Check In
It is already March and we have accomplished so much this year! You are all amazing! Below is a quick “goals” check for our program.
- Annual calendar
- Completed
- Recommendation: Update your annual calendar as the year progresses to help plan for next year.
- Completed
- Department goal based on data for your school site (use as SLGG)
- In May/June we will be sharing updates on your outcome goal with a quick flashlight presentation, we will talk about that at our April meeting!
- Life and Career Readiness
- HS & MS: Getting to Individual Student Planning for Grades 6-12
- ES: SEL Curriculum Pilots
- Updates from LCR Steering Committee coming soon! Then, we can get started on our longterm implementation process.
- Identify Tiered Interventions/Programming in ALL Domains:
- Synergy Documentation (we are working on this!)
- MTMDSS Outline (this will continue/morph as we look towards alignment at all levels…Oil Tanker!)
BLS College Information Night
Please promote with your families grades 9-11.
Families and students are invited to learn more about Oregon colleges during Bend-La Pine Schools’ College Information Night on March 14 from 6 to 7:30 pm at Bend Senior High School. Families and students in grades 9-11 are invited to attend this informational event.
To kick off the night there will be a presentation from Bend La Pine Schools (BLS) School Counseling and Oregon college representatives. Attendees will then visit a mini-college fair with representatives from all nine public universities in Oregon, Central Oregon Community College and various community partners. Representatives from BLS High School Counseling and School to Career will also be on hand to talk about key steps for families to prepare for college.
Spanish interpretation will be available.
Here are flyers to send to families in English and Spanish.
ASCA Updates
Flash on Eating Disorders
If you are an ASCA member, check out this video they put out for National Eating Disorder Awareness Week.
The School Counselor’s Role in Addressing Student Behavior
A post-pandemic increase in externalizing student behavior on school campuses has garnered media attention and community concerns. Learn how school counselors can help address student behavior concerns using a multitiered system of supports (MTSS) framework. Walk away with concrete strategies and systems to support your students.
Learning Objectives:
After viewing this webinar, you will be able to:
- Analyze your practice of addressing student behavior
- Identify Tier 1, 2 and 3 strategies to support student behavior
- Strategize ways to implement an MTSS framework for addressing student behavior
- Distinguish appropriate and inappropriate school counselor duties related to externalizing student behavior
Speaker:
Kathryn Buchan, School Counselor, George A. Buljan Middle School, Roseville, Calif.
March, 8, 2023, 4-5 p.m. Eastern, sign up on ASCA website if you are a member.
Use of Time and Student Conference Reminders
Continue “Student Conference” input and use this cheat sheet to ensure alignment in our data collection practices.
Data pull on May 1st
Use of Time for BLS K-12 Counselors
Week 1: April 3-7
Week 2: April 17-21
- Folders by school site will be created for you in the BLS Counseling Drive.
- Simply open up your spreadsheet each week to input your Use of Time.
- The Google spreadsheet automatically calculates your Time Task Analysis, simply just place an X for every 15 minutes.
Please use the cheat sheet to ensure that your definitions are in alignment with our BLS Agreements list in this document.
ICCL will work to review data and plan how to share with all shareholders
Forecasting Data Input
Erin M. at MVHS had a great idea to add their forecasting meetings into Student Conference as they forecast by class. Great data!
Here is a quick outline on how to:
Search Mass Update Student Conference
You will add in description, Staff, Comments and then on bottom you can add by section (class period) or entire grade level.