Presented by:
Rhonda Bielawski
Shannon Connor
Diane Feliciani
Erica Zinsser
 New School Counseling Department
Chair – Bryan Kiggins
 Counseling Office Happenings
 Welcome back! Introductions
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To address the Career Education and Work Standards requires an outside/inside
approach. You must go outside of the walls of the school to effectively develop
relevance for students.
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Students need to know their opportunities and their major influences: Parents
and teachers need to know these opportunities as well. It is everybody’s
business!
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The power of connecting leads to bigger and better opportunities and resources
for students.
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Allows others to help the counselors and educators with the delivery of their
curriculum, including a student delivery approach.
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Helps our School Counseling Program set new goals and measure their impact
Academic Counseling
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The School Counselors will educate
all students and parents about the
realities of post-secondary options
linking to individual academic
achievement.
Personal Social Counseling
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The School Counselors will help each
student explore and investigate his/her
passion.
Career Counseling
 The Advisory Council will develop a
professional network to provide
shadowing opportunities and
internships for all 11th grade
students.
Career
Development!
 Why do we need a Career
Development Plan at North
Allegheny?
Been more careful about selecting a
major or chosen a different major
48%
Done more internships or worked part
time in college or before college
47%
Would have started looking for work
much sooner while still in college
38%
Would have taken more classes to
prepare for a career
27%
Would have gone to a different college
14%
Something else
9%
Would have not gone to college
4%
Through a variety of resources, North Allegheny
students explore post high school opportunities and
careers:
 Introducing the elementary career portfolio, utilizing the
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Career Standards for Career Exploration and Work
Exposing students to CHOICES Explorer and Planner
providing an interest inventory in 9th grade and the PLAN
test in grade 10, counselors and teachers guide students
through the maze of examining potential career interests.
http://www.northallegheny.org/cms/lib4/PA01001119/Cen
tricity/Domain/37/Career%20Clusters%2010-12-12.pdf
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Elementary-Awareness (K-5)
Lighting the spark in all children!
Provide experiences for student to develop an understanding of
self linked to work and resources outside of their family.
(By 5th grade ALL students should be exposed to Beattie and all other
post-secondary options-CEW standards)
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Middle School- Exploration (6-8) Continue exploring the spark in all children!
Build on earlier awareness activities to explore more specific interests
and abilities that have developed.
(By 8th grade ALL students should have begun their own career portfolio
and individualized academic and career plans-CEW standards)
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High School- Planning (9-12) Crystallizing the Spark with a plan by 12th grade!
Continue to use the development interventions to build a transition plan
for post secondary and career (By 12th grade ALL students will be able to
crystallize a vocational preference and strategy linked to their own plan-a
primary goal of the CEW Standards)
Who they are…(Aware)
Where they want to go…(Explore)
And understand the process
of…(Plan)
how they are going to get there!
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Personal/Social Counseling Goal: The School
Counselors will help each student explore and
investigate his/her passion.
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Academic Counseling Goal: The School
Counselors will educate all students and parents
about the realities of post-secondary options
linking to individual academic achievement.
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Career Counseling Goal: The Advisory Council
will develop a professional network to provide
shadowing opportunities and internships for all
11th grade students.
Group 1
Ms. Pottmeyer
Dr. Greenberg
Ms. Dimarco
Ms. Landy
Mr. Baierl
Dr. Potter
Mr. Shimko
Ms. Vadnais
Ms. Kovalchik
Dr. Herring-White
Group 2
Edye Pucciarelli
Cydnee Traversari
Madeline Badaczewski
Ethan Sansosti
Tess Wright
Aimee Woods
Ms. Earley
Ms. Bontempo
Michael Becich
Sgt. Denault
Group 3
Mr. Hyland
Dr. Kainaroi
Mr. Williams
Mr. Truesdell
Ms. Will
Ms. Biro
Ms. Liebenguth
Group 4
Mr. Sieminski
Mr. Delp
Ms. Holland
Ms. Sekelik
Ms. Zylinski
Ms. Daniels
Ms. Schmiedecke
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Review discussions from spring meeting
Assign group note taker
Determine which ideas are feasible and
decide the WHO, WHAT, WHERE, and WHEN
Discuss sharing of
internship/shadowing/interview contacts
 What is the best way for this to be organized and
implemented for junior students?
 Complete contact information forms
 Spring, 2014 - Date TBD
 Breakfast & networking
 Review ideas from small groups