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CENTER FOR STUDENT SUPPORT SYSTEMS
Fall 2009 CS3 Newsletter Team & Contributors Center Director: Lonnie Rowell, Ph.D. Associate Director: Ian Martin, Ed.D. Co-Directors of Operations: Emily Landreneau & Katie Naszady CS3’s Center Operations Group (COG) for 2009-2010
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Newsletter Editor: Jamie Cummins, M.A., NCC Design Coordinator: Susan Allain, M.A., NCC Contributors: Dr. Ian Martin Catherine McCarthy Eva Mejia Angelina Gonzales Hilary Ivey Judith Ziment Inside this issue: Advocating for School Counseling: A Look at the Bigger Picture
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CS3 Welcomes the 2009/2010 Co-Directors of Operations
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Getting to Know your USD School Counseling Alumni
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Meet the New School Counseling Faculty at USD
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Notes from the Center Director
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11th Annual Forum on the State of Counseling and Guidance in Schools
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Action Research Team Leader Attends Mexico City Conference
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USD School Counseling Students Continue Innovations in Action Research
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CS3 Committed to Providing Professional Development to Counselors During Fiscal Crisis
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CS3 WELCOMES THE 2009/2010 CO-DIRECTORS OF OPERATIONS
Emily Landreneau and Katie Naszady are serving as the 20092 Strong relationship with Career &Technical Education 2010 Co-Directors of Operations Maintains formal and informal relationships between State DOE, School Counseling Assofor CS3. Emily graduated in 2005 3 ciation and State Counselor Educators with a B.S. in Mathematics from 4 State creates a vision and commits to working on that vision over long periods of time The University of Louisiana at La5 Caption Statedescribing defines andpicture functionsorfrom graphic. a specific role fayette, while Katie graduated from the University of California at Santa State recognizes the boundaries of their context and does not promise too much or contra6 dict itself Cruz in 2007 with a B.A. in PsyState actively communicates, reinforces and improves their role and relationship with school 7 chology. Both graduates are now in counselors State maintains a formal and/or informal network of school counselors so that communicatheir second year of USD’s school 8 tion and mobilization can be possible counseling program and will graduState communicates the functions and potential of school counselors and programs to 9 important constituencies ate in May 2010. “We are honored 10 State involves many opportunities for participation from school counselors and excited to serve as Co-Directors LEAD STORY HEADLINE of Operations,” stated Emily and 11 State creates opportunities to recognize great work and communicates accomplishments purchasing aKatie. Some of the goals and major This Storystory storycan fit 175-225 words. State pursues opportunities to formalize school counseling programs, initiatives, and/or 12 mailing list from projects that they plan to focus on standards The purpose of a newsletter is to provide specialized a company. State seeks to access a statewide perspective this year include the following: in13 information to a targeted audience. Newsletters can be a creased communication and inIf you explore great way to market your product or service, and also leaders in providing access to the Since July, I’ve fielded several evolvement among first and second the Publisher create credibility and build your organization’s identity mails from school counselor leaders bigger picture. Now that I’ve had the catalog, youyear will school counseling students, among peers, members, employees, or vendors. around the country either asking for opportunity to become acclimated to many clinical mental health counseling theofCenter for Student Supportfind Sysguidance or reporting on successes First, determine the audience the newsletter. 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Name: Lacey Nordblad – 2009 Graduate
Getting to Know Your USD School Counseling Alumni!
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By Angelina Gonzales
Job Title: Commitment Counselor at Raines High School City/State: Jacksonville, Florida What is the favorite part of your workday? “Supporting students and families who have not traditionally received help in postsecondary planning is an extremely fulfilling responsibility of my position.” What keeps you motivated in your position? “I am inspired by the mission of the program that I am working for: to significantly increase the number of students from lowincome families who are enrolling in and completing a college-prep curriculum and continue on to a post-secondary program.” Best advice for future counselors: “School counselors can make such an influential and positive impact on a student's life. Be persistent and never give up on your students and never give up on yourself!”
Name: Lawrence “Law” Ortiguerra – 2008 Graduate Job Title: Extended Services Program Coordinator, High Tech Middle Media Arts City/State: San Diego, California What is the favorite part of your workday? “It would have to be when I'm planning for a workshop and then seeing it go through. I'm usually tired by the end of the workshop, but it's great to see my students transform.” What keeps you motivated in your position? “Honestly, I see it as an opportunity to add more experiences to my resume. I love working with my staff because they're all in college or right out of college and they have lots of energy.” Best advice for future counselors: #1 - Have a plan. #2 - Make sure you have a plan "B". #3 - Be ready to do plan "C". #4 - When plan "D" becomes an opportunity, take it. #5 - Just be ready to use your counseling skills in noncounseling situations.
Name: Scott Sturdivan – 2009 Graduate Job Title: Student Assistance Counselor/Prevention Specialist, Puget Sound Educational Service District City/State: Seattle, Washington What is the favorite part of your workday? “Walking the halls and doing groups.” What keeps you motivated in your position? “The opportunity to reach such a large number of students.” Best advice for future counselors: “Be persistent, open, and creative in your job search.”
Name: Jeanette Cano – 2009 Graduate Job Title: Mental Health Rehabilitation Technician I/Imperial County Behavioral Health Services City/State: Calexico, California What is the favorite part of your workday? “After lunch when the students arrive at our socialization program for 3 hours each day. I really enjoy implementing the behavior modification techniques we use through a very structured reward based system.” What keeps you motivated in your position? “Definitely the students! They are so funny, I love working with them more than I could have imagined! Seeing the improvements students make at home and school while they attend our program keeps me completely motivated.” Best advice for future counselors: “Be open to other jobs that don't necessarily involve ‘counseling’ per se. My job title does not involve the word counselor, but it doesn't mean I don't use my counseling skills daily. Take advantage of every and any training you can go to; you never know when you'll need it!”
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MEET THE NEW SCHOOL COUNSELING FACULTY AT USD (Editor’s note: The USD School Counseling Program welcomed two new tenure-track school counseling faculty this fall. Between the two of them, they are bringing more than 10 years of school counseling experience into the USD program. Both also have joined the team of profesUpcoming sionals and graduate students who operate CS3. Ian Martin, Ed.D, will be Associate Director of CS3, and Erika Nash, Ph.D., will coordinate a new for-credit professional development program being developed by the center. Welcome to Drs. MartinEvents and Nash!)
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You can compile a mailing list from business reply cards, Next, establish customer information sheets, business cards collected at partnerships with colleagues in Mexico NOTES FROM THE CENTER DIRECTOR: how much time trade shows, or membership lists. You might consider our current work on educational issues This issue of the Center News highlights some new direcand money you
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11TH ANNUAL FORUM ON THE STATE OF COUNSELING AND GUIDANCE IN SCHOOLS By Hilary Ivey and Judith Ziment The Center for Student Support Systems (CS3) at the Uni- Professor Russell W. Rumberger serves on the editorial versity of San Diego is hosting the 11th Annual Forum on board of four journals: American EducaDec. 11, 2009 at the School of Leadership and Education tional Research Journal, Teachers College ReSciences. The topic this year is “School Counseling in cord, Economics of Education Review, and the Times of Fiscal Crisis: Dangers and Opportunities.” Sociology of Education. He conducts academic and policy research in two areas of We are pleased to announce that the keyeducation: education and work, and the note speaker will be Patricia Nailor, schooling of disadvantaged students. Ph.D., President of the American School His research in the area of education and Counselor Association (ASCA). Dr. Russell Rumberger work has focused on the economic payPatricia Nailor serves as an Adjunct InCaption describing picture or graphic. offs to schooling and on educational restructor in the Graduate Program in Counselor Education at Providence Col- quirements of work. His research on at-risk students has lege in Rhode Island. During her career, focused on several topics which include the causes, consePatricia quences, and solutions to the problem of school dropouts; Dr. Nailor has performed as an elemenNailor tary and middle school teacher, as well as the causes and consequences of student mobility; the schooling of English language learners; and the impact of a school counselor at each level. Currently she consults with school districts in the development and implementa- school segregation on student achievement. tion of school counseling programs. Dr. Nailor served on Scott Himelstein has served as chief policy advisor to the L EGoverning AD STO RY H AD LIN E the ASCA Board as Ethe Vice President of the Governor Schwarzenegger on K-12 and North Atlantic Region and currently is President of ASCA. higher education. Prior to his appointa This story fit 175-225 words. Storykeynote storycanspeaker, the governor, he acted as the In addition to our this year’s attendees will ment bypurchasing chairman and CEO of the National Even mailing list from be treated to the extensive knowledge of two outstanding The purpose of a newsletter is to provide specialized Start Association, president of the Wilresearchers and leaders in California. Additional speakers a company. information to a targeted audience. Newsletters can be a liam D. Lynch Foundation for Children, will include Bob Fellmeth, J.D., Executive Director of the If you explore great way to market your product or service, and also and chairman and CEO of San Diego Children’s Advocacy Institute and USD law professor, and the Publisher is an instructor in the createPh.D., credibility and build identity Reads. Himelstein Russell Rumberger, Director ofyour the organization’s California DropScott catalog,ofyou will among peers, members, or vendors. USD School Leadership and Education out Research Project and U.C. Santaemployees, Barbara professor. Himelstein many Sciencesfind and School of Law. He was reScott Himelstein, Director ofthe USD’s Center for Education First, determine audience of the newsletter. This could cently appointed the governor to the California Commupublicationsby that Policy and Lawbeand former Deputy State Secretary of Eduanyone who might benefit from the information it nity College of Governors. cation will also be chairing a panel of school leaders and matchBoard the style contains, for example, employees or people interested in policy makers discussing the state of counseling in Califor- In addition to the listed speakers, several breakout sessions of your nia schools. purchasing a product or requesting your service. will be available newsletter.to further enrich the professional development of attendees. Topics include helping school counselFor the past 33You years Fell- list from business reply cards, canProfessor compile a mailing Next, establish meth has been customer a tenuredinformation professorsheets, at business cards collected ors at manage the stress of large caseloads, ASCA support for how much time marketing your skills to maximize emthe University of Sanshows, Diego of lists. You might consider school counselors, trade or School membership andopportunities, money you ployment and advocacy in a time of fiscal Law where he holds the Price Chair in crisis. The forum is open to all school counselors, school Public Interest Law. In 1989, he administrators, school board members, school district leadfounded Sthe Children’s Advocacy EC ONDAR Y S T OInstiRY HEA DLINE Bob Fellmeth ership, counselor educators, graduate students, parents, and tute (CAI), an academic center on child concerned citizens. rights at the USD School offitLaw. Professor Examples of Story This story can 75-125 words. Fellmeth’s The 2009 Forum on the State of Counseling and Guidance scholarship includes 14 books and 150 articles, op eds and possible Your headline is an important part of the newsletter and in Schools will take place at Mother Rosalie Hill Hall on the columns. He has drafted and co-sponsored fifty federal and headlines should be considered carefully. To obtain more information or to register state statutes – including sunshine, special prosecutor, cam- USD campus. include for this event, please visit www.sandiego.edu/cs3. paign finance reform initiatives, et al. He serves as the In a few words, it should accurately represent the contents Product Wins Chair of the Public Citizen Foundation in Washington, of the story and draw readers into the story. Develop the Industry D.C., and as of 2009, he Chairs the Board of the National headline before you write the story. 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ACTION RESEARCH TEAM LEADER ATTENDS MEXICO CITY CONFERENCE By Eva Mejia (Editor’s note: Eva Meija, team leader of the BARC action research project, attended a national conference on educational guidance in Mexico City in early November. The conference was an official gathering of the Asociación Mexicana de Profesionales de la Orientación, or AMPO [Mexican Association of Guidance Professionals]. Eva was invited to the conference by BARC colleagues in Tijuana in conjunction with this year’s collaborative action research project. In the article below she summarizes her experience at the conference.) Caption describing picture or graphic.
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the importance of defining the role of the counselor; another presenter spoke about the importance of professionalizing the field and gaining control over the definition. I also learned that counseling in Mexico has been around for about one-hundred years with a huge growth in the 1950’s when there was a focus on vocational and guidance counseling: sounded very familiar! Another similar theme involved the impact of technology in the field. There were presentations that addressed both how technology affects the lives of students and how technology can and should be used by professionals. The theme of the conference was “Educational Guidance as the Axis for the Development of Competencies.” This theme was based on the recognition that, since youth today face more fluid career paths, we need to equip them with more general and transferable competencies. Imbedded in that idea is the impact of technology and globalization on the world. With this as the theme, there were numerous presentations that addressed the general competencies. The competencies described included the ability to adapt, work in teams,purchasing be creative, learn to learn and make decisions a among others. One presentation connected these compe-
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USD SCHOOL COUNSELING STUDENTS CONTINUE INNOVATIONS IN ACTION RESEARCH By Susan Allain, M.A. and Lonnie Rowell, Ph.D. This year, USD school counseling students have launched six projects based on a model for collaborative action research developed by center director Lonnie Rowell. The model was initially developed in 1999-2000 by Dr. Rowell and a group of his students. The USD model brings together graduate students in school counseling with school counselors in the field through the use of action research focused on some aspect of improving school counseling Caption describing picture or graphic. practice and/or student support programs. USD counseling faculty serve as consultants to the projects, with each project in operation from September through April of the school year. Projects are presented each year at CS3’s Annual Forum in the fall and at the annual action research conference (formerly the Action Research Symposium) held each spring.
Bi-national Action Research Collaborative (BARC). This unique project has evolved over the past
three years as a partnership between USD’s School of Leadership and Education Sciences (SOLES), the Universidad Iberoamericana in Tijuana, and the Migrant Education Office of Baja California’s State Education Department. For 2009-2010, the project is focused on a new support group developed in Tijuana in response to a growing phenomenon in border cities in Mexico. Over the past year, there has been an influx of students enrolling in Mexican schools who were previously living in the Unites States. These students face particular academic, psychological and social challenges related to relocating from the U.S.to Mexico. In an effort to address these challenges, the project’s practitioner partners have created For 2009-2010 the projects include single-site and multi- support groups for migrant students. E A D Sranging TORY H ETijuana A D L Iin N the E south to Es- The six person USD action research team is observing ple-siteLprojects from and collecting data on two support groups at a junior high condido in the north and from Lakeside in the east to at an elementary school in Tijuana this semester. a This story can fit 175-225 words. Story story Sherman Heights in the west. The total number of partici- and onepurchasing Next semester, the team hopes to bring the lessons mailing list from pants is the largest ever for action research: 33 The purpose of aUSD newsletter is to provide specialized learned back north and to create a support group for mia company. graduate students are working with 20 practitioners and information to a targeted audience. Newsletters can begrant a students in San Diego modeled on the work being four project consultants. Included below are brief you explore great way to market your product or service, and also done inIfTijuana. The focus of the project is twofold, to sketches of some of this year’s projects. the Publisher create credibility and build your organization’s identity gain insight about how to better serve migrant students Grossmont among Union High School District. This four and to learn catalog,how you to willconduct bi-national action repeers, members, employees, or vendors. year project is focused on the district’s implementation of search. find (See related article on the BARC team leader’s many First, Planning determine the audience of thefocused newsletter. a Post-Secondary (PSP) Initiative on This could recent experiences at a national counseling conference in publications that be anyone who students might benefit the information it better preparing GUHSD for from life after high Mexicomatch City on the page style 6). contains, for example, employees or people interested in school. The focus of the collaborative action research of your purchasing a product requesting service. project this year (year two of theorproject) is your working with Our Lady’s School. This small parochial school with newsletter. approximately 220 students in grades K through 8, school counselors and 10th grade students at ten sites You can compile a mailing list from business reply cards, reached out to USD for assistance with revitalizing its within the district. The USD action research team is utilizNext, establish customer information sheets, business cards collected at counseling program. Our Lady’s School is a unique entity ing mixed methods research to investigate the effectivehow much time trade shows, or membership lists. You might consider of the Diocese of San Diego. It is the only merged ness of the PSP Initiative. and money you school, uniting the parishes of Our Lady of Angels and Our Lady of Guadalupe. The school has been recognized San Pasqual Academy. Academy SECON D A R Y SThe T OSan R YPasqual HEAD L I N E is a as the oldest parochial elementary school in San Diego. residential facility and school campus for foster students The action research project is focused on applying the and is located in Escondido, California. The action reExamples of Storystory can fit 75-125 words. This search team is working with Mr. Juan Orozco, the school Results-Based Student Support Program published in 2006 by possible Johnson, Johnson and Downs to assist the school in counselor at the on a isproject investigating hisnewsletter use of and Yoursite, headline an important part of the headlines building a comprehensive student support system. “Social Justice 101,”a class he created, as a way to reach should be considered carefully.
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CS3 COMMITTED TO PROVIDING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT TO COUNSELORS DURING FISCAL CRISIS By Catherine McCarthy CS3 has been providing reasonably-priced, high quality professional development for counselors and other student support professionals as well as graduate students in counseling since its founding in 2003. Through the support of SOLES’ Dean Paula Cordeiro, the center is fortunate to be working with staff from Event Innovations, an event planning firm, on the design of a new School Counseling Professional Development Series for 2009-2010 and 2010-2011. Catherine McCarthy, a Caption describing picture graphic. Center Operations Groupormember and second year school counseling graduate student, is leading the planning effort. While planning is underway, the center is continuing to provide a variety of professional development events, Kimberly Reyes keeping in mind the severely reduced support for professional development now being provided L E A Ddistricts. S T O RThe Y H EAD L I N Efor 2009-2010 by local school initial training
was provided by Kimberly Reyes, Senior Admissions Officer and Director of Latino Student Recruitment at Duke University and took place on Saturday, September 26th with approximately 30 students and school counselors from San Diego County in attendance. The focus of the training was to educate counseling professionals on writing successful letters of recommendation for college admission. Attendees were advised to ensure that their letters of recommendation provid a sense of context for the school environment (what kind of school community has the applicant been a part of) and clearly note what (if any) impact the applicant has had on the school community. It was stated that it’s important to give specific anecdotes rather than just broad generalization and to also be sure that examples of the applicant’s skills are listed. The overall training was a success and attendees were able to take away valuable information in a challenging time. If you have any suggestions for future trainings or would like to be included in our mailing list, please send your contact information to crmccarthy@gmail.com.
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