WVDE Update: Policy Driven
Program Change
Dr. Barb Brady
WVDE School Counseling Coordinator
Presentation Outline
 School Counseling Program Description
 Big Rock Changes to Policy
 Redefined Delivery Systems
 Personalized Learning Plans
 Student Success Standards Overview
 County Board Responsibilities
 Implications for the Role of the School Counselor
 The WV School Counseling Model
 New Definitions
 Personalized Learning Plans
WVBE Policy 2315:
Comprehensive School
Counseling Programs
Was on comment through March 17th
Will go to State Board for Approval in April
Policy 2315 Big Rock Changes
• Paradigm shift that focuses more on defining the
program and student outcomes
– NEW Student Success Standards
• REPLACE school counseling program standards
§126-67-3. Comprehensive School Counseling Program Description
POLICY Language
3.1. The CSCP is an integral part of the total school program and
is aligned with the school’s mission.
The CSCP is a proactive, systemic approach to assist students
with the acquisition of attitudes, knowledge, skills and behaviors
necessary to maximize student success and preparation for a
variety of postsecondary options.
The CSCP provides universal prevention for all students, targeted
interventions for at-risk students and intensive interventions for
the most at-risk students.
§126-67-3. Comprehensive School Counseling Program Description
POLICY Language
3.1. (continued) The CSCP is standards-based, designed to
developmentally and sequentially address the WVSSS within
each programmatic level.
The CSCP utilizes school and community data to identify student
needs in relation to the CSCP and to set annual priorities for the
WVSSS.
A certified school counselor, in collaboration with school and
community stakeholders, will develop an Annual CSCP Plan in
order to coordinate and implement a CSCP designed to address
student needs.
The CSCP contains four distinct delivery systems.
Policy 2315 Big Rock Changes
Four Delivery Systems Described – 3 Renamed
OLD
Guidance Curriculum
Individualized Student
Planning
Responsive Services
Systems Support
New
Integrated Delivery of WV Student
Success Standards
Personalized Student Planning
Responsive Services
Student Supports
Policy 2315 Big Rock Changes
Comprehensive School Counseling Programs (CSCPs) are:
• Collaboratively delivered
• Embedded into the total school program
• Data driven
• Standards focused
• Growth focused
• Guided by:
– The CSCP Program Audit (assesses program
completeness)
– Annual School Counseling Plan (establishes
annual goals/priority, drives continuous program
growth)
Policy 2315 Big Rock Changes
Includes terms not previously defined:
– Confidentiality
– Equity and Access
– Global Citizenship
– Crisis Response
– Ethical Standards
– Informed Consent
– Early Identification
– FERPA
Delivery Systems
5.1.a. Personalized Student Planning – Personalized student
planning includes providing opportunities for students to discover
their interest in emerging careers. Ongoing opportunities at all
programmatic levels are provided during the school day for career
exploration and self-discovery. Personalized planning allows student
to develop academic skills, identify interests, maximize strengths,
minimize weaknesses, set and reach personal/educational goals and
realize their career aspirations. A Personalized Education Plan
(hereinafter PEP) is developed collaboratively, involving students,
parents/guardians and school staff.
Delivery Systems
5.1.b. Integrated Delivery of WV Student Success
Standards – The WVSSS (see incorporated documents) describe
the attitudes, knowledge, skills and behaviors all students shall
develop in relation to academic and learning development; career
and life planning; personal and social development; and global
citizenship. The WVSSS are critical to the holistic development of
all students and require integration into all aspects of each
student’s educational experience utilizing a variety of delivery
modalities. The WVSSS are the foundational standards for each
CSCP. The integrated delivery of these standards is coordinated by
the school leadership team, the school counselor and teachers.
Policy 2315 Big Rock Changes
• Role of the school counselors… is now defined and
evaluated in other policies and documents developed
since the 2002 version, including:
– WVBE Policy 5100 - Approval of Educational Personnel Preparation
Programs
– WVBE Policy 5310 - Performance Evaluation of School Personnel
– WV School Counselor Performance Standards
– WV Comprehensive School Counseling Model
Delivery Systems
5.1.c. Responsive Services
– 3 core concepts
 School interventions for at-risk students
 Referral to school & community resources – targeted students
 Crisis prevention and Response plans
Delivery Systems
5.1.c. Responsive Services – (continued) The school
counselor collaborates with stakeholders to create a school-wide,
prevention-based approach to individual and school crises and has
a crisis plan in place to address the mental health component of
common school-wide crises. The school crisis team educates other
stakeholders to assist with school-wide crisis preparedness,
prevention, intervention and response, outlining responsibilities
and best practices in the school crisis planning and response.
Delivery Systems
5.4.d. Student Supports –The student support component of
the CSCP consists of a systemic, school-wide coordinated
approach of developing and implementing programs and
activities within the school and community aimed at supporting
the success of all students. High quality education programs
provide well-designed student support systems, ensuring that the
learning environment is safe and supportive and that the
academic, social and emotional, and career development needs
of students are identified and addressed.
Delivery Systems
5.4.d. Student Supports – (continued) The school counselor
collaborates with stakeholders to ensure school-wide
coordination of the CSCP and other student support programs.
Schools design and identify programs and resources that address
identified student needs and enhance the success of each child.
Additionally, students and families may seek support to address
their unique academic, career and personal-social needs.
Examples:
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Expanded School Mental Health
Academic Support Programs (tutoring, after-school programs, etc.
School-wide bully prevention programs
PBIS
Mentoring
Advisor-Advisee
Policy 2315 Big Rock Changes
NEW West Virginia Student Success Standards
• REPLACE school counseling program standards
• Everyone’s responsibility to support student success
– Course Integration
• Cross walk tools – NxtGen Standards
• E-learning course being developed in each content area
• Other professional development available upon request
– Standards-based advisory systems
• School leadership team determines priorities and delivery schedule
(who, what, when)
– Systemically embedded in early learning framework
– Student data (Middle and high school needs assessments, discipline referrals,
bullying incidences, dropout rate, culture survey, etc.)
§126-67-9. Summary of West Virginia
Student Success Standards
9.1. The WVSSS and objectives outline the
knowledge, skills and dispositions essential to
support all students being college- and careerready through an integrated, embedded process
involving all school staff at each programmatic
level.
How the Student Success Standards
were Developed
• Reviewed the current standards in Policy 2315 and the
revised version from the Model Task Force.
• Reviewed other state and national standards and
documents including:
• ASCA National Standards (same as 2001 Policy 2315)
• Policy 4373
• Utah Office of Education Comprehensive Counseling and Guidance
Program (global citizenship)
• Connecticut State Board of Education Comprehensive School
Counseling Program (programmatic levels)
• Council of Chief State School Officers (Global Competence Matrix)
• National Association of School Psychologists (School Mental
Health)
• National Association for the Education of Young Children
(developmentally appropriate practices)
• National Endowment for Financial Education
• College Board: National Office for School Counselor Advocacy
• National High School Center - College and Career
Readiness: Mapping the Landscape
Policy 2315 Timeline
January 2013
Oct. 2012 – Jan.
2013
External
Stakeholder
Group
WVDE Internal
Stakeholder
Group
Policy Review
Revisions
Policy Review/
Revisions
July 2013 –
Jan. 2014
Internal
Review
Finalize
Policy
February –
Ongoing
Professional
Development
Including
Virtual
Courses
March 12,
2014
End of
Comment
Period and
Final Board
Approval
April
2014
State
Board
Approval
July 1,
2014
Policy
Becomes
Effective
Policy 2315 Big Rock Changes
CSCP Four Student Standards areas:
– ACADEMIC/LEARNING DEVELOPMENT
– CAREER DEVELOPMENT/LIFE PLANNING
– PERSONAL/SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
– GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP
Programmatic Level Competencies (Elementary [3 levels],
Middle and High School)
– Competencies grouped by overarching Learner Outcomes
Policy 2315 Big Rock Changes
• School leadership team determines priorities and delivery
schedule (who, what, when, how)
– Student data (Middle and high school needs assessments, discipline referrals,
bullying incidences, dropout rate, culture survey, etc.)
– Community data (crime, violence, poverty rate, disasters
– Systemically embedded in early learning framework
– Programmatic level indicators designed to be purposefully within each
programmatic level
Student Success Standards (continued)
Preliminary Composite Cross-Walk
Cross-walk Integration Guide
SAMPLE – English/Language Arts
Use of Time Chart Removed
to facilitate a collaborative delivery
approach - all program components
Delivery System
Component
Elementary School
% of Time
Middle School
% of Time
High School
% of Time
Guidance
Curriculum
35%-40%
25%-35%
15%-25%
Individual Student
Planning
5%-10%
15%-25%
25%-35%
Responsive Services
30%-40%
30%-40%
25%-35%
System Support
10%-15%
10%-15%
15%-20%
2002 WVDE Policy 2315
§126-67-4. County Board Responsibilities
4.1. Each county board of education shall ensure that the CSCP:
§126-67-4. County Board Responsibilities
4.1. Each county board of education shall ensure that the CSCP:
§126-67-4. County Board Responsibilities
4.1. Each county board of education shall ensure that the CSCP:
http://wvde.state.wv.us/counselors
Program Audit – Assessing Program Completeness
Job Description Alignment
• Are county/school job descriptions aligned with the
WV School Counseling Model and WV Performance
Descriptors?
– Model Job descriptions have been created to align
with new standards.
– Appendix A in Model booklet
» Overarching job descriptions
» Programmatic level – recommendations
» Institutional Ed./ Vocational Technical Schools
• Job descriptions should support counselors being
able to be ‘accomplished’.
County boards shall….
7.3. Each county board of education shall revise and
submit for approval to the WVDE a CSCP policy for
schools aligned with requirements set forth in this
policy. The initial and subsequent revisions will be
submitted to the WVDE by