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Lebanon School District
Demographic Profile
Area: 81.9 square miles
Total Population (2010 U.S. Census Bureau estimate): 25,477
Enrollment 2014-15: 5,072
Ethnic Diversity
White: 36%
Black: 6%
Hispanic: 52%
Native American: .18%
Asian: .84%
Multi-Racial: 4.13%
Lebanon School District
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Number of students in the Lebanon School District
5,.072
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Number of staff members in the Lebanon School District
317
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Number of school counselors in the Lebanon School District
12
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Average number of students served by each counselor
422
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School setting is urban,
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Lebanon City population is approximately
26,000
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Number of students identified as special education students
896
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Number of students identified as English Language Learners
640
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Number of students receiving free or reduced lunch
Harding Elementary School
Henry Houck Elementary School
Northwest Elementary School
Southeast Elementary School
Southwest Elementary School
Lebanon Middle School
Lebanon High School
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82 %
93 %
84 %
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86 %
80 %
• Landscaper Effect
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See the fruits of your labor
Decrease frustration
What’s working / what’s not working - Really!
Counteract students’ “Blank Stare Defense”
• Educate the Publics
– Administrators, Parents, Teachers, Students
• Schools / School Counselors have evolved…
• We need to educate people on the role of the modern
school counselor
• The numbers don’t lie - that ‘s a lie!
– Savvy researches can manipulate the numbers to
fit their interest
– We have to be prepared to advocate for our
programs and prove their effectiveness
• Accountability
– NCLB - education put itself in this position…
– Prove what you do - Educate
– Do it your way - before it is forced upon you
• Unification of department - on the same page
philosophically - “One Team One Goal”
• Department identity - we take charge of identifying what
counseling programs are supposed look like
• Increased Department credibility with all stakeholders
• Increased Department influence on the school
• Teachers and students see counselors in classrooms
and in action ~ teaching kids! ASCA Model
• Role clarification - people don’t have to guess what you
do - they see it!
Factor Analysis, Multivariate
ANOVA’s and You…
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You don’t need to be complicated to be effective
– You don’t have the time for complicated
– Simple, clear and consistent is better than complex
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Data do not have to cause fear!
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Think about the data report - in the beginning - before you gather
the numbers - what is your purpose? Build your intervention
around that purpose.
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ANOVA? Factor Analysis, MANOVA - none of this need apply – Pre-Post surveys, means, averages, sums, qualitative responses
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Take Dr. Sabella’s Counselor Computer Boot Camp - save yourself
months of frustration
Advocacy
• Constantly tell others about what your program is
doing for the students in your school ~ Identify an
advocacy group
• Maintain a presence and be an influence - don’t
make people guess what you do …educate
parents, students, administrators
• Meet at least twice yearly with your advocacy
group to share your results
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Paradigm Shift:
A New Professional Identity
We have the power to change how we function AND
how we are perceived…
• Support Role
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Essential Role
• Passive Control 
Active Control
• Process Oriented
Data Driven
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Speaking of Data…
 Data should measure student growth in the academic,
personal/social, and career domains
 Data may be both Quantitative and Qualitative - both are
necessary and useful
 Data should ‘tell the story’ of your counseling interventions
and represent results based on your yearly goals
 Data should be collected from all forms of intervention;
Classroom, Small Group, and Closing the Gap
 Data should direct future program goals and interventions
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Data Templates
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Counselor Time and Task Analysis
Lesson Data Master
NCAA Qualifier
Student Contact Analysis
Post-Secondary Planning - Application Tracker
Career Planning Lesson – Template
Post-Secondary Planning Template
Seniors - College Planning Template
Monthly and Year End Reports Samples
Counselor Time Analysis Template-Guide Sheet
Needs Assessment Survey - Faculty
Data Summary…
• Using data provides you with an opportunity to
examine your program through the lens of the ASCA
model.
• Data can help you conduct valid audit of your
program - what’s working?
• Be Patient - Fluid - Determined
– Time will help you build a model program.
• No two programs are the same. The ASCA model
provides the framework for programming that meets
the needs of your learning community.
When people ask what your program does…
– Can you tell them?
– Can you tell them that it is working?
–Why/why not?
–How are you adjusting?
– Can you prove it?
– How are kids different because of your programs?
Can you stand up for your program and the
needs of the kids you work for and make a
legitimate argument?
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www.ezanalyze.com
Tim Poynton School Counselor Educator at
Suffolk University in Boston, Massachusetts
ASCA National Model
Great Resource
Electronic Version
Many Templates
Dr. Russ Sabella
Data Boot Camp
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How do we get our message out to our
students amongst all the other noise?
Who are we competing with?
• Hormones
• The pre teen brain
• The teen brain
• Twitter, Facebook, instagram
• Marketing and advertising firms
• Effects of poverty
• Popular culture
We have to know what our
the word out to our students.
message is in order to get
• What are we really trying to communicate?
all
• Remember your message must be heard amongst
the other competing interests.
• Is your message really about?
• course selection
• study skills
• college selection
• career exploration
Course Selection - Freedom and Opportunity
Take control of your destiny
Your future begins now – Its Go Time
Study skills - Delayed Gratification
Pay Now – Play Later
Career exploration - You define success!
Capitalize on the rebellion of the age
Do what you love to do, never work a day in your life
College selection – What do you want?
Be competitive in this extremely competitive world?
Plan your work – Work your plan
We can not allude to our message..
We can not hint about our message…
We have to tell the messages in ways that will be heard…
• Energy
• Passion
• Humor
• Linked to emotions
• Connected to basic needs
• Fun
• Engaging
•Tell them what’s in it for them
We have to compete in a very crowded market.
Table Tents
Dollar bills with notes on them
Signs in the bathroom stalls – Don’t just sit there – start planning
Classroom lessons – engagement strategies
Sandwich boards
Blitz lessons
Hallway blitzes- Show samples
College Campaign-Pennants just before the College Fair
Contests- Scavenger Hunt
Things in your office – Rat Trap
How your office is decorated – show pictures
Individual contacts – This is our wheelhouse that most counselors are
comfortable
Humor – Kids may not remember the joke but they can recall how they
felt.
Responsibility to change the world
rests on all of us - not any one of us.
• Batman vs Superman
-We are not superheroes.
-We can not accomplish all that needs to be done alone
-This type of thinking leads to burnout
-Get everyone in the building involved to assist
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• Freshmen are challenging (crazy)
– more discipline referrals than 10-11-12
– more personal/social visits than 10-11-12
– more “drama”
– more failed classes
– more agency referrals
• They are high maintenance
– but not usually high profile – Seniors!
• Challenges
– Transition to high school
– Hormones
– Learning the delicate social cues
• Reaction to this
– Initially – not effective
– Brain Science
• Frontal Lobe, Cerebellum, Limbic System
– Under construction
Prefrontal Cortex
Regulates decision
making, problem
solving, control of
purposeful behavior,
emotions
Limbic
System
More sensitive to
stimulation “risk
taking” than in the
adult brain.
Cerebellum
Regulates initiation
and timing of
movements.
http://www.ted.com/talks/sarah_jayne_blakem
ore_the_mysterious_workings_of_the_adoles
cent_brain.html
• Needs assessment
– Created needs assessment
– Surveyed faculty and students
– Identified the most concerning issues
• LFS lessons
– A system used to organize attention
– Active, dynamic, get their attention,
commercials, snap shots, sound bites,
entertaining, social.
– Lessons………………..Show
and Tell
• Everybody’s Doing It
– District wide movement to LFS
– Part of the Team - Don’t allow marginalization
– Easier access to classes
• Less You - More Them
– The more they do the more they learn – James Brown
– Basic principles of LFS• Movement, Interaction, Deeper Understanding
• Flexibility
– LFS allows you to go to plan B, C…..D etc
• Have to teach students why having
good grades is important – before they
are taught becoming better students.
3-2-1
Did you know – video
Themes and Ideas
Cause and Effect
• Work Smarter Not Harder – Well, maybe a
little.
• use a butter knife to cut a piece of wood
3-2-1
Work Smart Article
Study Skills Guide
Study Skills – Power Point
Extended Thinking - Prompt
• S.M.A.R.T
• S.M.A.R.T Video
• They have to gain an understanding of the
importance of time – before they try to
manage it.
– 86,400 – video
– Attack Your Day - video
Students have to know how common it is
and what it looks like before they can
improve upon it.
Ellen – video
How to procrastinate like a pro
Types of procrastinators
• Students have to know how common it is and
what it looks like before they can improve upon
it.
Ellen – video
How to procrastinate like a pro
Types of procrastinators
• Discussing priorities is difficult – we often tell
them WHAT to value…not WHY it is of
value…..FREEDOM? Sneakers!
Do what you have to do
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Emotional? – video
Distracted?-video
Expectations-video
Decisions – Graphic Organizer
• Decision - Cartoons
• Things look different when you slow down –
videos
Soggy Face
Miscommunication-1
Droplet
Miscommunication-2
Things look different when you examine them more
carefully
Pic 1
Escher
Pic 2
Pic 3
• Once posted you lose control
• Think before you post
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Why Guerrilla Counseling?
• Outnumbered –
-Student to counselor ratios are huge (800/1 in AZ)
• Foe is greater than we are – toe to toe battle is not advisable
-Effects of poverty on a child’s development
-Decline of the family unit
-Dysfunction – has its function internally
-Bueractic systems - inequity in school funding, testing
-Distractions from advertising, marketing, technology
-Human nature – the teenage brain
-Experiential deficits
-Apathy,
• School Counselors know their terrain
-They know their students
-They know their community
-They know the strengths and weaknesses of their systems
• Attack like the common cold. Small, mobile, have a big effect.
Guerilla Counseling Tactics
• Actions that are orchestrated by school counselors
-Fast-moving, small-scale efforts, quick initiatives that
attacking a larger force by surprise. Stress Lesson
• Impactful with minimal resources
-It does not take a grant to greet students as they enter
school everyday. “Good Talk” SNL skit
• Linked to basic emotions/desires – just like advertisers
-Joy, humor, anger, freedom, love
Study Skills = Freedom
Career Awareness = Passion
Handshake lesson = Respect
•Tactics use the latest technology and no technology
-ipads and clothespins – Computers and Resiliency
Guerilla Counseling Tactics
• Variety
-Attack different areas at different times
Social Skills, Career, Post-Secondary
Don’t get pigeon holed – Chapter 339
-Blitz lessons
-College Fairs
-One to one interactions
-Large group/small groups
-Short Campaigns
with multiple and varied unified actions aiming to
reach one goal.
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