Our 2019 Summer Academy
By WSCA | April 2019
WSCA is very excited to offer an expanded Summer Academy on July 30 at Western Technical College in LaCrosse. WSCA members save significantly on registration fees – get full details and register online now.
Session A – Data
Data Boot Camp – Beginner: Using Data in your school counseling program/WSCPAR Introduction
Learn how completing a Wisconsin School Counseling Program Accountability Report (WSCPAR) can help with writing SLOs, SPOs, PPGs, promoting your program, and using data to show how your program is impacting students. Walk step-by-step through the data process and learn what makes an impactful graph, how to write SMART Goals (which can lead to SLOs), and more. You’ll learn tips and suggestions to approach the process and how to submit your WSCPAR application.
Session B – Data
Data Boot Camp – Advanced: RAMP Camp/WSCPAR Ready
Bring your process, perception and outcome data and comprehensive counseling program components to this session to take your school counseling program to the next level! Based on the ASCA National Model, RAMP is a recognition program for individual schools, not districts or school counselors. Applying for RAMP helps schools evaluate their school counseling program, discover areas for improvement and enhance the program’s efforts to contribute to student success. The RAMP application process should be the culmination of the implementation of a comprehensive school counseling program. Your trainer will guide you through the application requirements and process.
Session C – Academic and Career Planning
Empowering Students to Pursue their Career Goals
Gain enhanced knowledge of the full range of education and career options for students, with a specific focus on career and technical education (CTE), to empower students to pursue their career goals and expand their strategies for effective career advisement. Session outcomes include understanding the components and benefits of a high-quality CTE program of study, including work-based learning, industry-recognized credentials and dual/concurrent credit. You will also learn to locate and access information on programs in your specific state and local CTE delivery systems, how to explain the value of CTE to students and parents and how to ssist students with career exploration and development in K–12, with potential strategies to implement in their community. Following the workshop, develop an individual action plan with specific strategies to reach students, parents, administrators, other counselors and other stakeholders to communicate the value of CTE.
Session D – Academic and Career Planning
Preparing for Careers of the Future: School Counselors Lead the Way!
Did you know tech jobs in Wisconsin are growing but not enough students are prepared to fill them? And new computer science classes are being added in Wisconsin’s schools, classes that are suited to all students’ interests and aptitudes? Get up-to-date information on computing education and careers, and leave equipped with messages and resources (including posters and a virtual reality headset!) that you can use to advise about paths to stable, rewarding and flexible careers in computing. In this session, counselors become informed, motivated and equipped to support diverse participation in computing.
Session E – Mental Health
Educator Self Care: Compassion Resilience Toolkit
How are we filling and re-filling our tanks and those of our colleagues and employees as we work with youth and families who face complex challenges? The Compassion Resilience Toolkit is a flexible set of resources to build awareness of compassion fatigue, with strategies to increase compassion resilience in all staff from a system and individual perspective.
Prepare to bring the toolkit resources to your school/district. Attend as a team of two or three to take the lead in facilitating the toolkit over a two-year period. The ideal team will include one person in administrative leadership in your school or district. The day will include clarification of leadership roles, rationale for the work, a look at how to inspire culture change, and tips for implementing the toolkit resources matched to the realities of your current school commitments and goals.
Session A – Data
Data Boot Camp – Beginner: Using Data in your school counseling program/WSCPAR Introduction
Learn how completing a Wisconsin School Counseling Program Accountability Report (WSCPAR) can help with writing SLOs, SPOs, PPGs, promoting your program, and using data to show how your program is impacting students. Walk step-by-step through the data process and learn what makes an impactful graph, how to write SMART Goals (which can lead to SLOs), and more. You’ll learn tips and suggestions to approach the process and how to submit your WSCPAR application.
Session B – Data
Data Boot Camp – Advanced: RAMP Camp/WSCPAR Ready
Bring your process, perception and outcome data and comprehensive counseling program components to this session to take your school counseling program to the next level! Based on the ASCA National Model, RAMP is a recognition program for individual schools, not districts or school counselors. Applying for RAMP helps schools evaluate their school counseling program, discover areas for improvement and enhance the program’s efforts to contribute to student success. The RAMP application process should be the culmination of the implementation of a comprehensive school counseling program. Your trainer will guide you through the application requirements and process.
Session C – Academic and Career Planning
Empowering Students to Pursue their Career Goals
Gain enhanced knowledge of the full range of education and career options for students, with a specific focus on career and technical education (CTE), to empower students to pursue their career goals and expand their strategies for effective career advisement. Session outcomes include understanding the components and benefits of a high-quality CTE program of study, including work-based learning, industry-recognized credentials and dual/concurrent credit. You will also learn to locate and access information on programs in your specific state and local CTE delivery systems, how to explain the value of CTE to students and parents and how to ssist students with career exploration and development in K–12, with potential strategies to implement in their community. Following the workshop, develop an individual action plan with specific strategies to reach students, parents, administrators, other counselors and other stakeholders to communicate the value of CTE.
Session D – Academic and Career Planning
Preparing for Careers of the Future: School Counselors Lead the Way!
Did you know tech jobs in Wisconsin are growing but not enough students are prepared to fill them? And new computer science classes are being added in Wisconsin’s schools, classes that are suited to all students’ interests and aptitudes? Get up-to-date information on computing education and careers, and leave equipped with messages and resources (including posters and a virtual reality headset!) that you can use to advise about paths to stable, rewarding and flexible careers in computing. In this session, counselors become informed, motivated and equipped to support diverse participation in computing.
Session E – Mental Health
Educator Self Care: Compassion Resilience Toolkit
How are we filling and re-filling our tanks and those of our colleagues and employees as we work with youth and families who face complex challenges? The Compassion Resilience Toolkit is a flexible set of resources to build awareness of compassion fatigue, with strategies to increase compassion resilience in all staff from a system and individual perspective.
Prepare to bring the toolkit resources to your school/district. Attend as a team of two or three to take the lead in facilitating the toolkit over a two-year period. The ideal team will include one person in administrative leadership in your school or district. The day will include clarification of leadership roles, rationale for the work, a look at how to inspire culture change, and tips for implementing the toolkit resources matched to the realities of your current school commitments and goals.