NC School Counselors
Guidance Essential Standards
2012 Regional Summer Institutes
Front-loaded Information
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Linda Brannan,
K-12 Student Support Services
Consultant
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Tara Patterson, Educator Recruitment and
Development
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Melanie Honeycutt, Instructional Technology
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Kim Simmons, NC Educator Evaluation System
Consultant
Guidance Essential Standards
Back-story (ACRE Project -2008)
Blue Ribbon
Commission Report
SBE’s Framework For
Change
Vision into Mandate
NCDPI’s Response to
Framework For Change
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Back-story
Vision into Mandate
NCDPI Response
2008 Framework for Change
SBE New Mission
“Every public school student will graduate from
high school, globally competitive for work and
postsecondary education, and prepared for life
in the 21st century.” (adopted in 2006)
These studies and dialogue were occurring in 2008,
prior to the Race to the Top Grant.
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Race to the Top Grant
• $400 million grant awarded to NC in 2010
• Underwriting the state’s Career & College: Ready,
Set, Go! initiative
• Guides our work to meet the challenges from the
2008 Framework for Change to create schools that
educators and students need today to meet our
mission
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NC K-12 Guidance Essential Standards
Our Goal:
NC public schools will produce
globally competitive students.
The Purpose of Standards:
To define and communicate the
knowledge and skills a student must
master to be globally competitive.
Mission
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New Common Core State Standards &
Essential Standards
Common Core State Standards (CCSS)
and NC Essential Standards(ES) are for all
subject areas – including Guidance
Curriculum
Based on Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy
Aligned with ASCA National Standards for
Students (National Model)
NC K-12 Guidance Essential Standards:
What are they?
• “Must Have" goals of the guidance curriculum
• Skills, understandings and learning experiences students
master at each developmental level progressing to the
next level
• Focused on higher-order knowledge and skills all
students should master - Assurance that every student
learns essential content and skills for the 21st Century
• Assessed in the classroom via formative,
benchmark/interim, and summative assessments to
inform of student learning and teaching practices.
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Key Discussion Topics
from Writing Team and Vetting Feedback
NC K-12 Guidance Essential Standards
Included: Administrators, school counselors, university educators,
& ASCA representative
• Desired a student-centered approach – What do we want
students to master from these standards in order to be career
and college ready?
• Stated that standards needed to be clear and relevant
• Suggested connections to the ASCA (American Association of
School Counselors) model through the ASCA National
Standards for Students
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Key Discussion Topics
from Writing Team and Vetting Feedback
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Based standards on ASCA National Standards for
Students, 21st Century Skills, Revised Bloom’s
Taxonomy to align with other content areas with
essential standards and common core standards
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Considered school counselors’ actual job duties as
related to their job description and the NC Professional
School Counseling Standards
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Wanted an overarching statement regarding the
purpose of the standards and school counselors role
as leaders, advocates and facilitators.
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Crosswalk of Standards
ASCA National Standards for
Students
NC K-12 Guidance Essential
Standards for Students
• Personal-Social
• Socio-Emotional
• Academic
• Cognitive
• Career
• Career
Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy Proficiency Levels
•Readiness/Exploratory/Discovery (RED)
•Early Emergent/Emergent (EEE)
•Progressing (P)
•Early Independent (EI)
•Independent (I)
Standards are not…
• Intended to be the comprehensive school
counseling program
• The same as the School Counselor evaluation
or appraisal instrument
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NC School Counselors…
Assuring each student is college and career ready!
What do students need to know, understand
and be able to do, to ensure their success in
the future, whether it be to continue progressing
through current study, post-secondary college
or a career?
Where do I find the Guidance Essential
Standards & Unpacking Documents
• NCDPI School Counseling (LiveBinders)
• NCDPI School Counseling Wikispace
“The digital tools used during the course of the
NCDPI trainings have been helpful to some
educators across the state. However, due to the
rapidly changing digital environment, NCDPI does
not represent nor endorse that these tools are the
exclusive digital tools for the purposes outlined
during the NCDPI trainings.”
Summer Institute 2
July 10-11, 2012
Maiden High School
Catawba County Schools
Summer Institute 1
June 21-22, 2012
Enka High School
Buncombe County
Summer Institute 3
July 12-13, 2012
West Stokes High School
Stokes County
Summer Institute 6
July 24-25, 2012
SanLee Middle School
Lee County
Summer Institute 5
July 19-20, 2012
JH Rose High School
Pitt County
Summer Institute 4
July 17-18, 2012
Croatan High School
Carteret County
See you at the NCDPI Regional
Summer Institute!
Bring your laptop to access information
needed for the sessions