Anticipated Audience: All Counselors
Level: Beginner and Intermediate

Workshop Description

The Data Boot Camp for School Counselors is designed to advance technological literacy among counselors in a useful and practical manner. Particular attention is given to using Microsoft Excel™ to make data an important part of your comprehensive school counseling program. From data-driven decision making, to monitoring progress, to reporting the positive impact you're having on kids, this workshop will demystify how it's done. Workshop content is pre-planned although flexible enough to meet individuals’ specific technological training needs. This workshop is conducted in a computer lab or with laptops so participants can gain valuable hands-on practice.

Learning Objectives

• Basics: importing data, formatting and navigating around Microsoft Excel
• Data Snooping: sorting, filtering, advanced formatting, describing and disaggregating data.
• Analyzing: basic procedures such as percent change, pre and post analysis, correlation and differences.
• Charts/Graphs: developing custom graphs worth a thousand words
• Reporting: learning about multimedia accountability and closing the gap reports 

Presenter
Russell A. Sabella, Ph.D., is a professor of counseling in the College of Education, Florida Gulf Coast University. His concentration of research, training and publication includes counseling technology, comprehensive school counseling programs, peer helper programs and training, sexual harassment risk reduction and solution-focused brief counseling. Sabella is the author of various articles in journals, magazines and newsletters. He is co-author of two books, "Confronting Sexual Harassment: Learning Activities for Teens" (Educational Media; 1995) and "Counseling in the 21st Century: Using Technology to Improve Practice" (American Counseling Association; 2004). He is also author of the popular "SchoolCounselor.com: A Friendly and Practical Guide to the World Wide Web" (2nd edition; Educational Media; 2003). Sabella is a past president (2003-2004) of the American School Counselor Association.

Schedule: Full-day training; 0.6 CEUs available to attendees

Cost: $2,500

To bring this professional development workshop to your district, send an e-mail to Mark Kuranz at mkuranz@schoolcounselor.org

Please note, this session needs to be presented in a computer lab, with computer access for all attendees. Teaching station also required (i.e., instructor needs to be able to project from a central computer that all participants can see.)