Thursday, November 7th
Thursday, November 7th
7:00 AM
Registration
8:00-9:00 AM - Keynote
Karen Harrington - Assistant Director of the Fredrickson Center for School Counseling Outcome Research
& Evaluation at the University of Massachusetts Amherst
Data use in schools is often practiced as a mechanical exercise to meet accountability demands and the
process can seem disconnected from the work of the school counselor. However we can transform databased decision making by expanding what kinds of data are collected and by examining data in a more
collaborative and relational way. Learn how school counselors can combine their professional wisdom with
skilled data use to engage in a continual improvement process of translating the wealth of educational
data collected by schools into meaningful action that will help all students succeed.
9:00-10:00 AM
RAMP 101
Tracy Thompson
All
Academic
Beginner
Are you working on your Recognized ASCA Model Program (RAMP) application or thinking about applying
but not quite sure how to start? Come to this session and get valuable help and ideas about where to
begin. You will be guided through the application requirements and given a sample timeline. Additionally,
you’ll gather tips and suggestions about how to approach the process and collect data and how to submit
your school counseling program through the online submission portal.
The Power of P-20 Data
Brenda Bautsch
High School
Academic
Beginner
Thanks to inter-agency data sharing agreements between CDE, DHE, CDLE and others, Colorado can now
follow students as they progress through P-12, onto college, and into the workforce. This provides us with
vital information on concurrent enrollment, remedial education, college-going rates, postsecondary
success, and much more. Join us for a review of the abundance of data that are available, hear about the
latest research and findings on the P-20 outcomes of Colorado's students, and learn how you can put data
to work.
9:00-10:30 AM
Dads of Great Students (WATCH D.O.G.S.) Engage men, inspire children, reduce bullying
and enhance the educational environment of your school.
Eric Snow
All
Personal/Social
Advanced
WATCH D.O.G.S. ® is an innovative program focusing on education and safety in schools by using the
positive influence of fathers and father-figures to provide an unobtrusive fathering presence and a positive
and active role-model for students. Fathers, stepfathers, grandfathers and uncles are asked to spend at
least one day volunteering.
9:00-11:00 AM
Enhancing Intrinsic Motivation
Gene Eakin, PhD
All
Academic
Beginner
Counselors’ efforts to assist clients with change in any of the three domains requires counselors be able to
enhance clients’ intrinsic motivation to change and then achieve their new goals. Counselors’ efforts to
effect system change, program change, or self-care change requires they be able to enhance others’ or
self-motivation to change and achieve.
Enhancing Intrinsic Motivation to Change and Achieve provides practical strategies to use, and participants
will leave this workshop having practiced these strategies and having developed their plan to begin
utilizing the strategies in their work with their students. Participants also benefit from learning about how
people and organizations change and how they can use these strategies to motivate themselves to
accomplish personal and professional goals.
10:30-11:30 AM
Professional School Counselor Log 3.0
Rex D. Filer
All
Academic
Beginner
Professional school counselors are accountable to a variety of stakeholders. Learn how to document your
daily activities with the Professional School Counselor Log 3.0. The ASCA National Model (3rd edition)
recommends a“…use-of-time assessment [to help] school counselor determine how much time is spent in
each of the components of the ASCA National Model.” The latest version of the log allows the school
counselor to do this with a user-friendly Excel spreadsheet. Dynamic charts instantly show how your daily
activities compare with the ASCA National Model’s recommendation for use of time. Suggestions from
users of previous versions of the log have been incorporated in 3.0. Participants will receive the log via email free of charge after the conference.
11:00-12:30 PM
Improving Student Attendance from a Colorado Perspective
Cori Canty Woessner
All
Personal/Social
Intermediate
Participants will learn about Colorado specific definitions and the role of attendance in state education
policy. This session will address root causes for decreased attendance including chronic absenteeism and
school level strategies and resources to increase attendance rates. Schools who have demonstrated
improved attendance amongst their students will be highlighted.
SB-191 and How it Relates to the School Counselor
Jean Williams
All
Academic
Beginner
The Rubric for the Special Service Providers, including school counselors, is complete and being piloted
around the state. Come and take an in depth look at the rubric and find out how your practice might be
improved as a result of this new rubric.
12:30-1:30 PM
Regional Lunch
1:30-2:30 PM
Heal the Heart by Fixing the Harm
Deanna Kline
High School
Personal/Social
Intermediate
The presentation will focus on the positive effects of implementing a Restorative Justice Program as a
means of helping students change their behavior and make amends for their choices without being
suspended or expelled. The whole presentation would share a three prong approach by training peer
counselors to do RJ, developing a Culture of Care and Equity within the staff to deal with all students and
to specifically address the issues of academic performance for African American students and other
students of color. The data will show how these three things have positively affected attendance,
academic performance, discipline and school climate at Hinkley High School.
2:30-4:00 PM
Drive the data!
Andy Tucker
All
Academic
Intermediate
As school counselors, our practice must be data driven. But how to drive that data? In this interactive
presentation, you will learn how to extract data from Infinite Campus (with some instructions for other
student information systems) and how to disaggregate that data using pivot tables within Microsoft Excel.
Bring your Microsoft enabled device to learn how to find achievement gaps you didn't know existed.
Track student progress and follow trends. Make a significant impact in your school by driving the data!
A Cooperative Approach to Managing Community Crises in Schools
Cory Notestine
Middle/High
Personal/Social
Intermediate
We will explore community crises and their impact on schools and the community in rural Colorado. Levels
of intervention and support will be discussed, as well as, an overview of current Crisis Response Teams and
their functional capabilities in rural areas. Limitations of services and lack of crisis preparation in schools
will be discussed, while fostering ideas for inter-agency collaboration during community disasters in order
provide psychological first aid to students in need of services during crises.
Putting CAP4Kids Policies to Work
Gully Stanford
All
Career
Intermediate
How are the new policies working? CAP4Kids, Educator Effectiveness, Concurrent Enrollment, Remediation
and Admission Policy Updates, Graduation Guidelines, ASCENT, ASSET, Expanded Learning Opportunities.
This "omnibus" session will update you on the collaborative work of CDE, CDHE and CTE to support
students' postsecondary and workforce readiness.
2:45-3:45 PM
ICAP - Let's Hear from the Practitioners
Tracy Thompson
Middle/High
Career
Intermediate
This session focuses on all things ICAP, we’ll facilitate a dynamic conversation for sharing ICAP processes
and strategies with one another. We’ll share some data from the past years. The space will be informal yet,
strategic in hopes to ensure that those attending will walk away filled with motivation, assurance and
ideas. Audience active participation is appreciated and expected. The more you give, the more you get!
Friday, November 8th
7:00 AM
Registration
8:00-9:00 AM – Keynote
Sylinda Gilchrist Banks, Ed.D. - Secondary School Counseling Specialist at Fairfax County Public School
Be True to You: Self-Care for School Counselors
Stress and burnout are prevalent among counselors, but it does not have to be. This workshop will address
how to handle stress, refocus yourself and renew your commitment to counseling. Participants will learn
and experience self-rejuvenating activities to reduce stress and renew their mind, body and spirit.
9:00-10:00 AM
Before the Crisis: Tools of prevention
Julie Jungman, LCSW
Middle/High
Personal/Social
Beginner
In this session, attendees will gain understanding of suicide statistics and hear about Suicide Prevention
through The Jason Foundation. School counselors will hear Jason's story and walk away with tools and
tangible resources they can take to their schools to aid in suicide prevention work. Some of these tools
will include stress-reduction (that is beyond breathing exercises) and tools that are effective in the
classroom. In addition, learn to take care of yourself so you can help your students!
Honoring the Standards – How can policy support the Counseling profession?
Have you ever felt that your talents and energies are being diverted, distracted…even wasted…by the
daily demands of operational needs: the master schedule, building maintenance, cafeteria, bus duty,
proctoring endless tests? While we happily take on our fair share, do counselors wind up bearing an unfair
load? This panel – a legislator, a state board member, a local board member, a principal, a CEA
representative and a counselor – will review the laws and policies, with reference to ASCA Standards, the
Counselor Corps, CAP4Kids and Educator Effectiveness. We’ll discuss what rights and protections
counselors can enjoy and ways to ensure that we get to practice what we are trained for, the noble
profession of Guidance Counseling!
9:00-11:00 AM
High in Plain Sight: Youth Alcohol, Drug & Violence Trends
Officer Jermaine Galloway
All
Personal/Social
Intermediate
This session will test your knowledge in regards to current local Colorado and national alcohol, drug and
violence trends. The session will cover a spectrum of alcohol and drug clothing, drug logos, drug trends,
alcoholic energy drinks, alcoholic based clothing, music, drug terms, underage drinking, alcohol terms,
hidden compartments, weapon concealment, and other popular culture items.
Whether you work, live, or frequent rural areas or more densely populated Colorado areas this session will
be relevant to you. This training is unique, in that it provides over 100 visual aids that are popular in the
alcohol and drug world for attendees to hold and become familiar with, along with photos and information
on national locations who are promoting underage drinking, violence and substance abuse. Enforcement
and prevention starts here, remember You Can't Stop What You Don't Know!
10:00-11:00 AM
Show Me the Money! Grant writing basics to get your next idea off the ground!
Cassie Poncelow, School Counselor, Poudre High School
All
Academic
Beginner
Is your next best idea for helping students grounded until you can find a few dollars to get it going? This
session will provide you with some basic background on how and where to find grants and tips and
techniques for writing them. Presented by a school counselor who gets them, a grant writer who has
written hundreds of them, and a grants administrator who reads them – you will get the full picture on
how to get the funding you need for an upcoming project or program.
Evaluating our work as School Counselors
Karen Harrinton
All
Academic
Beginner
This presentation will describe an evaluation framework school counselors can use to connect their work
to important educational outcomes by identifying the links between an intervention and the ultimate
desired change. Commonly used data terms will be defined and contextualized and the importance of
evaluating our work to know how we are making a difference for students will be discussed.
10:15-11:45 AM
SB-191 and how it relates to the school counselor
Tracy Thompson
All
Academic
Beginner
The Rubric for the Special Service Providers, inclusing school counselors, is complete and being piloted
around the state. Come and take an in depth look at the rubric and find out how your practice might be
improved as a result of this new rubric.
11:00-12:00 PM
Helpful Hints for Getting To and Through College – Concurrent Enrollment & Transfer
Articulation
Misti Ruthven
Middle/High
Academic
Intermediate
The emphasis is shifting in Higher Education from student enrollment and access to student completion.
It’s true – we do need to help them get TO college, but even more so, we need to help them get THROUGH
a degree program. Help your high school students know what their options are for more easily completing
a postsecondary degree. We will review the Concurrent Enrollment/ASCENT programs with a focus on
how to choose college courses guaranteed to transfer among public institutions of higher education. This
knowledge will help your students save time and money by taking the minimum number of courses
needed to complete a college degree. In addition, learn about other guaranteed transfer options such as
the gtPathways general education curriculum, statewide transfer articulation agreements, transfer guides,
and the latest policy changes for these programs.
12:00-1:00 PM
Level Lunches
1:00-2:30 PM
An Overview of the Threat Assessment Process
Christine Harms
All
Personal/Social
Intermediate
In creating safe and secure learning environments for students and school personnel, it is vital to have a
trained Threat Assessment Team to assess students when concerns of threats arise. This session provides
a general overview of the best practice components to implement when conducting threat
assessments. Participants will come away with a better understanding of the four elements of the School
Threat Assessment Process. The eight Threat Assessment Inquiry Steps from the U.S. Secret Service will
be briefly reviewed, and participants will be provided with sample threat assessment documents that
utilize the Secret Service’s Eleven Key Questions
Improving Student Attendance from a Colorado Perspective
Cori Canty Woessner
All
Personal/Social
Intermediate
Participants will learn about Colorado specific definitions and the role of attendance in state education
policy. This session will address root causes for decreased attendance including chronic absenteeism and
school level strategies and resources to increase attendance rates. Schools who have demonstrated
improved attendance amongst their students will be highlighted.
A cooperative approach to managing community crises in schools
Cory Notestine
Middle/High
Personal/Social
Intermediate
We will explore community crises and their impact on schools and the community in rural Colorado. Levels
of intervention and support will be discussed, as well as, an overview of current Crisis Response Teams and
their functional capabilities in rural areas. Limitations of services and lack of crisis preparation in schools
will be discussed, while fostering ideas for inter-agency collaboration during community disasters in order
provide psychological first aid to students in need of services during crises.
1:15-3:15 PM
High in Plain Sight: Youth Alcohol, Drug & Violence Trends
Officer Jermaine Galloway
All
Personal/Social
Intermediate
This session will test your knowledge in regards to current local Colorado and national alcohol, drug and
violence trends. The session will cover a spectrum of alcohol and drug clothing, drug logos, drug trends,
alcoholic energy drinks, alcoholic based clothing, music, drug terms, underage drinking, alcohol terms,
hidden compartments, weapon concealment, and other popular culture items.
Whether you work, live, or frequent rural areas or more densely populated Colorado areas this session will
be relevant to you. This training is unique, in that it provides over 100 visual aids that are popular in the
alcohol and drug world for attendees to hold and become familiar with, along with photos and information
on national locations who are promoting underage drinking, violence and substance abuse. Enforcement
and prevention starts here, remember You Can't Stop What You Don't Know!
2:15-3:15 PM
"Tool Time" groups for your most troubled and troublesome students
Ray Mathis
High School
Personal/Social
Advanced
Troubled and troublesome students usually hear most about what they do wrong. They typically have built
a host of defenses against a long history or hearing and believing they haven't lived up to others
expectations. They are usually quick to raise those defenses when approached in ways they perceive as
more of the same. This approach is more educational, even though education can be very therapeutic. It's
about their future instead of their past and present. It offers them Unconditional Other Acceptance, and
encourages them to have Unconditional Self-Acceptance from the start. It promises to teach them how to
have real power in their lives, to gain more control over their lives, to feel the way they've always wanted
to, to keep people out of their heads, to have the life they've always wanted, and to be smarter than
others in some very important ways.