Call for all Nominations for the Cynthia Gayles Human Relations Grant are due by March 1st

Please let me know if any of you are interested in nominating a counselor for the Cynthia Gayles Grant through RMACAC. This Grant will pay for the recipient to attend the RMACAC Conference in Denver Colorado in April.

Please contact me Kristi Orchard at kristi.orchard@maeserprep.org or Sari Rauscher at sarirauscher@waterfordschool.org

Helpful Links for New Resources

We want to draw your attention to the following new report from the Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University; it stresses community organizing as a missing piece in education reform puzzle.

The report is entitled: The Strengths and Challenges of Community Organizing as an Education Reform Strategy: What the Research Says. The Executive Summary can be accessed at: http://www.annenberginstitute.org/PDF/NMEF_Summary.pdf

For those interested in an intervention perspective, our Center’s focus on school-community collaboration and the operational infrastructure for such collaboration is covered in several of our reports and resource guides. See, for example:

> School-Community Partnerships: A Guide –

http://smhp.psych.ucla.edu/pdfdocs/guides/schoolcomm.pdf

> School-Community Collaboration: A Self-study Survey –

http://smhp.psych.ucla.edu/pdfdocs/toolsforpractice/schoolcommunitysurvey.pdf

> Fostering School, Family, and Community Involvement –

http://smhp.psych.ucla.edu/publications/44 guide 7 fostering school family and community involvement.pdf

> Community Schools: Working Toward Institutional Transformation –

http://smhp.psych.ucla.edu/pdfdocs/csinstitutionaltrans.pdf

Also, see the Center’s Online Clearinghouse Quick Find on

> Collaboration - School, Community, Interagency – http://smhp.psych.ucla.edu/qf/p1201_01.htm

USCA Winter Conference

USCA Winter Conference will be held on Feb. 4th from 8-4pm at the SLC Murray Center. Look forward to seeing you all there.

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.