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.