Facilitating Evidence-Based, Data-Driven School Counseling: A Manual for Practice

Counselors make a difference—and now you can prove it. As students’ needs change, dedicated school counselors have been evolving their practice. You see the results every day, on the faces of the at-risk students you serve. To meet accountability standards, though, you need more than faces: You need data the number-crunchers can understand. With this user-friendly manual, make the shift to evidence-based practices and interventions in a data-driven, comprehensive school counseling program based on ASCA’s national model—while keeping the personal nature of your work intact. The book includes Visual guides and checklists for every step of the process Examples of successful counseling program evolution Guidance on developing and submitting a successful Recognized ASCA Model Program (RAMP) application Supporting documents in an online resource center Ensure that school counseling is recognized as an essential part of school improvement and students’ academic success by using this unique and innovative model. "Provides realistic examples, clear templates, and step-by-step strategies that ease the stress of what is often seen as an overwhelming process." Judith Bookhamer, Executive Director Pennsylvania School Counselors Association "Provides succinct and straight-forward tools to assist school counselors in marrying data-based decision-making practices with evidence-based counseling to create successful outcomes. This is a school counselor′s dream!" Franciene Sabens, Professional School Counselor Chester High School, Chester, IL "Starting with creating mission and vision statements and ending with advocacy efforts, the authors outline specific ways school counselors can integrate evidence-based interventions in their programming to positively impact student outcomes." Jennifer Betters-Bubon, Assistant Professor University of Wisconsin-Whitewater

Table of Contents:
Preface Acknowledgments About the Authors Chapter 1. The Process Purpose The ASCA National Model and Evidence-Based, Data-Driven Comprehensive School Counseling Definitions Chapter 2. Assessing the Situation Purpose of Assessing the Situation Assessing the Situation School Improvement Plan Achievement or Achievement-Related Data: School Report Card Needs Assessments Combining the Assessment Pieces Fulfilling Components of RAMP Chapter 3. Setting Goals Purpose of Setting Goals Data-Driven Decision-Making A Final Note on Data: Data Collected Annually Using a Logic Model Drilling Down: Global Versus Specific Data Setting Goals: Who and What but Not How—Yet Using SMART Goals Template Fulfilling Components of RAMP Chapter 4. Beliefs, Mission, and Vision Beliefs Mission Vision Fulfilling Components of RAMP Chapter 5. Interventions Purpose of Intentional Interventions Why Evidence-Based Interventions? Evidence-Based Interventions Matrix Implement With Fidelity Refine Goals: State Interventions as a Subparagraph to the Goal Illustrating Goals and Interventions in Logic Model Organizing Interventions Using Umbrellas Fulfilling Components of RAMP Chapter 6. Evaluation and Evolution Purpose of Evaluation and Evolution Designing Evaluation About Pre- and Post-Assessments Creating Baselines Organizing Data: Excel Spreadsheets Analysis Implications A Complete Logic Model Fulfilling Components of RAMP Chapter 7. Disseminating Results and Sustaining the Program Purpose of Sustaining the Program Advertising and Disseminating Information Flashlights: Trish Hatch Adding Components Into the School Improvement Plan Fulfilling Components of RAMP Conclusions Appendices References Index

About the Author :
Brett Zyromski is Assistant Professor in the Department of Educational Studies at The Ohio State University. His scholarship focuses on the impact of evidence-based interventions in school counseling, evidence-based school counselor education, and evaluation in school counseling. Dr. Zyromski is co-founder and co-chair of the national Evidence-Based School Counseling Conference. He is also involved with the American School Counselor Association (ASCA) as a Lead Recognized-ASCA-Model-Program Reviewers (LRR’s) and has served as a trainer of the ASCA National Model for the ASCA. Dr. Zyromski has served as project manager for $5,541,223 worth of federal and state grants. Dr. Zyromski has published over twenty articles related to school counseling issues, delivered over 65 international, national, regional, and local presentations and served as state conference keynote multiple times. Dr. Zyromski has served as a reviewer for the Journal of Counseling and Development and the Professional School Counseling Journal and has been recognized for numerous awards and recognitions, including the 2015 Kentucky School Counselor Association Outstanding Post-Secondary Counselor, the 2014 Illinois School Counselor Association Friend of ISCA, the 2010 North Central Association for Counselor Education and Supervision Professional Leadership Award, the 2010 Illinois School Counseling Association Presidential Award, and the 2008 North Central Association for Counselor Education and Supervision Outstanding Professional Teaching Award.

Review :
The book, while quite comprehensive, is also easy to read and provides realistic examples, clear templates, and step-by-step strategies that ease the stress of what is often seen as an overwhelming process. This book is really like nothing I have seen before; it provides succinct and straight-forward tools to assist school counselors in marrying data-based decision-making practices with evidenced-based school counseling to create successful outcomes and achieve RAMP. This is a school counselor′s dream! Facilitating Evidence-Based, Data-Driven School Counseling provides an all-encompassing way to implement data-driven practices in school. Starting with the creation of mission and vision statements and ending with advocacy efforts, the authors outline specific ways school counselors can integrate evidence-based interventions in their programming to positively impact student outcomes. This manual has a clear and welcome place in the professional development and training of school counselors. Complimenting other well-established texts on data usage in the practice of school counseling, it provides school counselors the specific how-to, step-by-step directions they crave in a simple, user-friendly format. Facilitating Evidence-Based, Data-Driven School Counseling Program: A Manual for Practice provides a structure one can use when writing a school improvement plan and provides an opportunity for counselors to collaborate with administrators to develop a shared vision and plan for academic success. Facilitating Evidence-Based, Data-Driven School Counseling provides an all-encompassing way to implement data driven practices in school. Starting with the creation and mission and vision statements and ending with advocacy efforts, the authors outline specific ways school counselors can integrate evidence based interventions in their programming to positively impact student outcomes.