Utah Futures Transfer of Students Manually

Go to Utah futures:

http://www.utahfutures.org/materials/transferguide.pdf

If it has you put in a password the password is transfer.
Once you open this document you will see names of all the schools in Utah and what their log in number is.

You now have two choices to transfer students.
#1. You can log in as your individual student. Go to My Personal Information and change the school by typing in the students past school number and then putting in your own.

#2. Or you can log in as the other school and and say that you want to transfer students out of their school into your school. (I usually prefer to do it this way when I know I have a lot of students from this one school)

I hope that this is of use to all of you. Please let me know if you have any questions or if there is any other info you would like me to post about this. It was so great seeing all of you!

USOE- Link to Charter School Direcoty

Here is the link that was requested at the CCGP

CCGP- A message from Lillian

Greetings,

If you are receiving this email your school currently has a CCG program or you have filed a letter of intent to come on board with a CCG program this year. As the USOE CCGP specialist my role is to support you in your efforts to run your CCG program. As the USOE CCGP specialist, I like to meet with counselors from charter schools with a CCG program once per year. I have scheduled November 16^th for our annual meeting. This meeting will be here at USOE from 1:00 pm to 3:30 pm in room 241. I will address questions you may have and give you updates on the latest materials regarding Comprehensive Counseling and Guidance Programs. There are some news items for FY11 that you need to be aware for your program and funding.

I invite one school counselor or representative per school to attend this meeting. Please make sure you have a representative attend this meeting. Again this meeting is for charter school that already have an excising CCG program or filed a letter of intent last year.

I look forward to see you on November 16^th.

Lillian Tsosie-Jensen

Secondary Comprehensive Counseling and Guidance Program Specialist

Utah State Office of Education

250 East 500 South

P.O. Box 144200

Salt Lake City, Utah 84114-4200

(801)538-7962

(801)538-7868 Fax

lillian.tsosie-jensen@schools.utah.gov

RMACAC College Fair

The College Fair put on by RMACAC will be held at Jaun Diego Private School in SLC on Saturday October 23rd. For those students who are interested and who will NOT be taking the ACT that morning, they are welcome to come to workshops put on by the different universities. There is also a workshop put on by Bruce Hunter and Bruce Brewer to help students better understand how they can be more prepared and organized when it comes to College Application. This will be an all day event so students are more than welcome to come up after the ACT and look around and meet College Reps. Please pass this word around.

ACT

The ACT Conferences are right around the corner once again! There will be one held up in SLC and also one held down in Cedar City. The one in SLC is October 20th at Westminster College and the conference in Cedar City will be held on October 21st at SUU.
****Special Reminder that the ACT will be given Nationally October23rd (Sat)

Breakfast @ th Hilton

Sign up to be treated to breakfast at the Hilton. This breakfast is put on by three schools from the East who would like to go over the admission process with School Counselors in the state of Utah. The date is October 18th at 8am at the SLC Hitlon.

Aspen Grove BYU Conference

The BYU Conference this year for School Counselors and Administrators will be held at Aspen Grove in Provo Utah. This Conference will go over Credit Articulation.

Counseling Day at University of Utah

FYI,

There is a counselor day at the University of Utah this Friday. The registration link is: http://web.utah.edu/newstudents/counselorConference.htm

Utah Future Training

Please go to a local school to make sure that you are keeping up to date on your skills for Utah Futures.

BIG THANKS

Just wanted to thank all of you for coming to the break outs sessions for Charter School Counselors during the USCA Conference at Westminster. It was so nice to see new faces and learn how we can all support each other.
If you were unable to make it and would like copies of the crisis handouts please let us know by putting your name and contact info in the Q&A section.

2010 Annual ASCA Conference

July 3-6, 2010 Boston, Mass. Celebrate School Counseling.
www.schoolcounselor.org/boston
Make your reservations now before it fills up!

USOE Summer Conference

June 16-17, 2010 Westminster College, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Please remember to bring your Crisis Plans or at least be familiar with them enough to be able to share with other School Counselors in your region. This sharing will take place during the Charter School Break out Session. Also, all those who will be having an on-site review in 2011 will have the opportunity to set up a group of counselors to review them who live within their region.

We are excited about starting to network with each other and hope that this is helpful for all of you. If you have any suggestions, concerns or comments please use this site to voice them.

Utah Charter Conference

The Utah Charter School Conference, coming June 15 & 16 at the Provo Marriott, promises to be our best conference yet! The complete list of workshops is attached to this email. Please peruse the list of workshops and presenters for both days. Use the tabs in the bottom-left corner of the spreadsheet to view both days. For those who prefer to read it in the email, I have pasted the complete list of all 74 workshops below. I have also attached the conference agenda to this email.

REMEMBER that you have only FOUR WEEKS left to register online for this conference. You can still get a discount if you register 6 or more people at one time but act soon! You will need to email Prasad if you want this group discount. His email is: ram@utahcharters.org

2010 CONFERENCE FEES:

$ 165 Regular Registration – Member schools (from March 1 to May 31)

$ 185 Regular Registration – Non-Members (from March 1 to May 31)

$ 200 Day-of Registration – Everyone (all those who register in June)

Link for Members: https://www.123signup.com/register?id=jnvrt

Link for Non-Members: https://www.123signup.com/register?id=jnkmt

RESEARCH

Hi all,
I am conducting some research about the effectiveness of Charter Schools. Please be on the look out for any emails I may be sending. You should receive 3. One that states info about the survey. The next one will be the actual survey and then the last one will inform you if I received your completed survey and how you can access the results.
Thank you for your help.
Kristi Orchard

Call for Recognition

Hi everyone. I am looking for newspaper articles, awards, new news, broadcasts etc. Anythings that brings recognition and honor to your school. If you could email me that stuff or send me a hard copy I would appreciate it. I am making a short "Utah Charter Schools in Action" music video. I would love to include each of your schools. I will be showing it at the USCA/UACTE Conference in June at Westminster. Thank you.

Kristi Orchard
Email: kristi.orchard@maeserprep.org
Address: 531 North State Street Lindon Utah 84042
Fax: 801-785-2562

Anouncement

Greeting CCGP Charter School Counselors,

Some of you are new CCGP schools while others of you are veterans counselors and/or your school has been a part of the CCG program for several years. Never the less, I would like to meet with the CCGP Charter school counselors at least once per year to address your site reviews and data projects. This meeting will be March 19th at 1:00 PM at USOE. Please RSVP.

Lillian Tsosie-Jensen
Secondary Comprehensive Counseling and Guidance Program Specialist
Utah State Office of Education
250 East 500 South
P.O. Box 144200
Salt Lake City, Utah 84114-4200
(801)538-7962

lillian.tsosie-jensen@schools.utah.gov

“The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.”
Anais Nin

Need Your Ideas

Thanks Kristi for getting this organized. This should be a great forum to assist guidance counselors working at Charter Schools. Please feel free to send Kristi and Bruce ideas to make this a great blog site.

Advice for Counselors

Headline: When good kids get bad advice on college
Byline: Teresa Mendez Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
Date: 05/31/2005

Kimberly Cummins made headlines last October when she was told by her
New York City high school that she could not apply to Harvard
University.

Confused and indignant, she pressed for an explanation. Boys and Girls
High School in Brooklyn, she says she was told by her college
counselor, allows only its top five students to apply to the Ivy
League. With an 86.6 GPA, Kimberly was ranked 11th.

But Harvard was her dream - even though she knew admission was far from
a sure thing.

Kimberly's story is a dramatic example of a scenario that's played out
in public and private high schools across the country: College
counselors, often with the best of intentions, advise their students to
aim low.

The reason may be unofficial school policy, as Kimberly says was her
case. (Or a misunderstanding, as her school described it.)

By other accounts, some counselors simply aren't accustomed to sending
students out of state for college. Or else they may hope, through
careful vetting, to boost the number of graduates they place in elite
schools.

Most of the time, it's an honest attempt to insulate students from
exaggerated expectations and crushing disappointment.

Yet in trying to quantify an increasingly unpredictable process, some
counselors are turning to numbers, at times placing undue weight on
factors like GPA and SAT scores, when recommending where kids should
apply.

That may shortchange some students.

"There are so many subtleties and unmeasurables" that a student brings
to the table, says Lloyd Thacker, executive director of the Education
Conservancy in Portland, Ore., and author of "College Unranked:
Affirming Educational Values in College Admissions." The intangible set
of qualities he calls "studenthood," for example: curiosity,
imagination, hard work, passion for learning. "You can't quantify them
simply and you can't rank them," he says.

But some of the instances in which student aspiration is discouraged
may also reflect a larger issue: overextended college counselors.

In 2003, the US Department of Education reported one counselor for
every 478 public high school students. The ratio is even worse in urban
schools and low-income schools. At one Los Angeles public school,
researchers found a student-to- counselor ratio of 5,000:1.

It's these very schools, though, where a college counselor is most
important - and influential - and where even muted or unintentional
discouragement can have a deep impact.

When Kimberly was told that she couldn't apply to Harvard, her mother,
an immigrant from Barbados, and her older sister, a law student at New
York University, immediately stepped in. They negotiated with school
and district officials and contacted a newspaper and nonprofit advocacy
group.

But many students lack such a backstop. "What you're faced with in
urban districts like Boston or New York City is a situation where
students don't have someone else to advocate for them," says Greg
Johnson, executive director of Bottom Line, a nonprofit in Boston that
helps get low-income and first-generation students into college.

Still, students of all types could be at risk of getting discouraging
messages from their guidance counselors.

A father from Albany, N.Y., recently posted a message labeled "Your GC
[guidance counselor] may be steering you wrong" on the discussion board
of collegeconfidential.com, a website with admissions advice. It drew
over 100 responses.

In his sophomore year, this man's son was told that his 83 average and
1200 SAT scores left him no chance of admission to a four-year college.
His counselor advised him to look into a community college or technical
school.

"The GC was not totally wrong," his father wrote on the discussion
board. "Our kid applied to 19 colleges and our son knew as well as we
that he stood almost no chance of getting into 15 of them."

In the end, however, the young man was admitted to five schools -
including highly ranked Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, N.Y.,
which he plans to attend.

Sometimes counselors simply don't understand student ambitions.

At Derby High School, a 2,400-student suburban school in Kansas, Logan
Runyon faced skepticism and resistance when he expressed interest in
out-of-state colleges.

Logan's transcript was packed with challenging college prep courses. He
graduated with a 3.98 GPA, and had earned a 1460 on the SAT. He wanted
to go to the kind of prestigious school where such numbers would be the
norm.

But for his counselors, "a postsecondary education, whether it's gotten
at Butler Community College or at Duke, is the same," says Logan's
mother, Karen.

Undeterred by his counselors' lack of enthusiasm, Logan aimed at some
of the country's most selective schools and was accepted at several,
including his dream school, Duke University in Durham, N.C., where he
ended up enrolling.

But for every counselor who offers unfortunate advice, there are many
more who do their best at a very difficult job. Even under the best of
circumstances, point out those familiar with the process, college
advising is a balancing act.

Counselors must be pragmatic about students' chances without becoming
pessimistic. They must nudge them to be realistic while remaining
encouraging.

Hard as they try, there are always students and parents who feel
they've been ill advised. Often, says Harvard admissions director
Marlyn McGrath Lewis, what these families mean is "the counselor didn't
have a crystal ball."

Every year there are success stories, students who made it into their
dream schools, despite middling numbers and incredulous counselors.

Yet counselors maintain that the admissions process isn't a complete
mystery. "Just having the numbers and scores isn't enough" to guarantee
admission to an Ivy-caliber school, says Michele Hernandez, a former
assistant director of admissions at Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H.,
and currently a private consultant in Portland, Ore. "But not having
the numbers and scores, you don't have much of a chance, either."

In Kimberly's case, her early-decision application to Harvard was
deferred and then she was rejected in the regular decision pool. At
Yale she landed on the wait list. Finally she settled on the University
of Michigan - sometimes called a "public Ivy" - where she was offered a
generous scholarship. It would seem that the Ivy League had been a
realistic goal for her.

Kimberly says there is no ill will between her and the staff at Boys
and Girls High School. (Her counselor asked not to be a part of this
story.)

She says she understands that counselors and schools "have opinions and
they have experience." But the way she sees it, "you just have to apply
where you feel comfortable and go from there."