Evaluation Reports
Report on First Year Experiences
Transforming School Counseling - A Report
on First Year Experiences
Other Reports
Effective Training for School Counselors,
Advocates of Academic Achievement for All
(2005) Michael Michlin and Judy Meath
The efforts of the six Wallace Foundation-funded universities
(and to a lesser degree an additional 25 schools that implemented
the TSCI without grant funding) provide a picture of what transforming
a school counseling program actually looks like and what sorts
of resources it requires.
Attracting a New Breed of School Counselors into
the Profession (2002) Patricia Seppanen and Margot Laird
In this paper, we present data regarding the recruitment
and selection processes in use at the six school counseling
preparation program sites as of spring 2001 when they were in
their second implementation year.
Implementing a Vision for Change in Schools:
Creating a Cadre of Advocates for Student Success (September
2002) Heidi Barajas, Karen Seashore Louis, and Daniel Pepper
This paper is a progress report on the second programmatic activity-enactment
of new vision policies and practices-and complements others
that focus on the first two activities of the Transforming School
Counseling Initiative (TSCI).
State Policy Context for Transforming School
Counseling: A Five State Review (2002) Angela M. Eilers
The state policy context of the TSCI is essentially a story
of political process; it is a process of gaining support and
then institutionalizing a newly-formed vision for the role and
function of a profession within the institution of education.
As such, the framework for analysis of this paper on state policy
context draws from macropolitical processes as a way of examining
practices and actions of key state stakeholders.
Cross-Sector Partnering for Co-Reform of School
Counselor Preparation and Practice (2002) Patricia S.Seppanen
and Jane L. Schleisman
Using the work to date of six sites that received grant funds
from the WRDF, in this report we analyze the common types of
university-school district relationships used to stimulate and
shape the co-reform of school counselor preparation programs,
the practice of school counseling in public schools, and state
policies that support the transformed role of a school counselor.
Resources for Change Year Two: Maintaining
Change (2002) Leonard S. Goldfine and James C. Hearn
This paper is an addendum to last year's study on resource usage
titled Resources for Change: Understanding the Costs of the
Transforming School Counseling Initiative (TSCI) (Goldfine
& Hearn, 2001). That study identified how resources, both monetary
and non-monetary, were utilized by the six funded sites during
the first year of funding.
Changing Curriculum Paradigms in University
Professional Schools (2002) Lisa M. Jones, Molly Gordon
and Karen R. Seashore
This paper describes the story of the six sites, their understanding
of the university contexts in which they attempted to create
institutionalized change, and the five different strategies
used by the TSCI project directors to establish a reformed school-counseling
program.
The Content of Program Syllabi as a Measure
of Curriculum Transformation (2002) Katie S. Saije, Patricia
S. Seppanen, and John L. Romano
Using the work to date of five of the six sites that received
funding from the WRDF, this paper presents an analysis of the
content of course syllabi in use during 2000-01 as one measure
of the extent to which these sites have transformed the focus
and content of their curricula.
Partnerships as a Vehicle for Change
(2001) Patricia S. Seppanen, Jane L. Schleisman and Vanessa J.
McKendall
The primary purpose of this paper is to document and analyze
the range of promising partnership relationships established
at each of the six TSCI sites to date. Pat Seppanen, Jane Schleisman,
and Vanessa McKendall summarize and discuss the overall characteristics
of partnering relationships and the issues that appear to mediate
their effectiveness.
Resources for Change: Understanding the Costs
of the Transforming School Counseling Initiative (2001)
Leonard Goldfine and James C. Hearn
Leonard Goldfine & James Hearn present an examination of resource
usage patterns associated with TSCI. Four patterns will be explored.
First, the cost analysis literature is examined as it relates
to reform of school counseling programs. Second, a model of
resource use in this kind of initiative is presented. Next,
the data collected across the six TSCI sites are interpreted
in light of the model. The paper concludes with an examination
of implications of the model and findings for practice and research.
Changes in Counseling Preparation Programs'
Early Findings (2001) Mera Kachgal, John L. Romano and
Jamie Peterson
According to The Education Trust the implementation of a reformed
model requires extensive changes in existing university preparation
programs for school counselors. The heart of the TSCI concerns
changing university curricula for school counseling students,
many of whom have traditionally been trained within departments
that are focused more heavily on community counseling and remedial
interventions. Mera Kachgal, John Romano, & Jamie Peterson provide
a cross-site examination of curricular change.
Districts and Schools as a Context for Transformed
Counseling Roles (2001) Karen Seashore, Lisa M. Jones,
and Heidi Barajas
This paper presents the preliminary implementation stories from
a set of six school districts that are cooperating with partner
universities in efforts to "transform" the role of school counselors.
The stories are relatively unique because the voice of school
counselors has rarely been examined in the burgeoning research
on school effectiveness and improvement.
Intradepartmental Political Dynamics: Faculty
Leadership During Curricular Reform (2001) Leonard S.
Goldfine
School districts and university faculty must find common ground
to build strong partnerships and construct a new curriculum
for a reformed counselor role. Each group has its own unique
dynamic. This paper examines the interpersonal dynamic of the
university faculty within the scope of this curricular reform.
Changes in School Counseling Graduate Students:
Recruitment and Selection (2001) Mera M. Kachgal and John
L. Romano
The Education Trust believes that "change is in the air" for
the school counseling profession although it is not clearly
articulated. To capitalize on and catalyze the energy for change,
the Education Trust includes a substantive focus on active recruitment
by graduate training programs of students committed to a transformed
school counseling role. This paper examines the recruitment
efforts of the six sites.
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