School Counselor Summer Institute

Counselors and Changing School Climate

Kona Bear

Topics

• Student challenges

• Counselors

• Nonacademic skills

• Legislative Update

• Feedback and questions

Youth Challenges

• School

• Social

• Post school

• Societal

• Global

• Environmental

Workload

Counselors Duties

Boundary Spanner

• Work between multiple systems

• Coordinate and bring together an array of individuals and professionals

• Navigate systems to advocate for needs of students

Quarterback

“Nonacademic skills”

Group task

Sociometric Exercise

Delayed Gratification

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQvBrEEYS20

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QX_oy9614HQ

Goleman

EQ

21st Century Skills

• 4 C’s

• Critical thinking

• Collaboration

• Communication

• Creativity

Quote

• What gets us in trouble is not what we don’t know. It’s what we know that just ain’t so.

SEL

SEL Components

Making schools safe

• Physically

• Emotionally

Quote

Calls for Gender Equality:

• ‘Objectify Men Just as Often as We Objectify Women’

Chris Pratt

SEL Findings

• Increase in Pro-social behavior of 10%

• Decrease in Anti-social behavior of 10%

• Increase of achievement of 11%

Same circuits in brain “manage goals” as for “destructive behavior”

GRIT

• Cognitive Control

• Ability to identify goal and strive for it despite set backs

• Learn how to make mistakes

Quote

He who opens a school, closes a prison.

Soft Skills

Group task 2

• As a counselor, I’m afraid that…

• Write down your response and put it in the envelope

• Each person at the table will randomly pick one and read it out loud

Counselor caseloads

• ASCA recommends 1:250

• Private schools 1:106

• National average is 1:516

• 1 in 5 American high schools have none

•  Washington 1:400

Legislative action

• HB 2261, HB 2776 Plan to fully funding schools

• HB 1336 Suicide prevention

• HB 1760 SEL

• HB 2214 Streamlining assessments

• ESEA: Title 2 dollars to be used to train teachers in SEL

Group task 3

• Active listening

• Non-verbal responses (facial gestures, eye contact, posture)

• Reflect back what you heard

Self Care

• What changes would you make?