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Comprehensive School Counseling Program Update

GSD Board – February 7, 2023

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Celebrating 31 Years of Comprehensive School Counseling in GSD

A school counselor’s work is about motivating and inspiring, about placement and success, about believing and doing right by every student.

When school counseling is organized and implemented as a program, it places school counselors at the center of education, making it possible for them to contribute directly and substantially to their local school and district.

- Dr. Norm Gysbers

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Comprehensive School Counseling Framework

Foundation

Resources

  • Financial
  • Data
  • Partnerships
  • Political
  • Systemic Program Management
  • Board of Education Support
  • Accountability Tools

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FOUR COMPONENTS OF PROGRAM DELIVERY

Individual Planning

Collaborative Classroom Instruction

Responsive Services and Dropout Prevention

System Support

Assists students in monitoring and understanding their own development.

Provides curriculum and instruction in a systematic way to all students (comprehensive in scope, preventative in nature, developmental in design).

Addresses the immediate concerns and needs of students and their families.

Includes program management activities that establish the counseling program in a school and student advocacy for equity and access.

school counselors + comprehensive program

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Comprehensive School Counseling Program Indicators

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School Counselors

GSD Staffing Ratio

Actual Ratio

Total FTE

Junior High

1:389

1:285

44

High School

1:389

1:333

59

Total

1:313

103

Other

(program, hourly, volunteer)

13

Total

116

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Be Here Be You Belong

WHEN YOU ENTER

THIS OFFICE

you are

AMAZING

IMPORTANT

SAFE

loved

KIND

Smart

Special

BRAVE

STRONG

Respected

Cared for

UNDERSTOOD

You are the reason

I AM HERE!

Wonderful

Extraordinary

Good