The ASCA National Model: A Framework for School Counseling Programs (2003, 2005).

One of the highlights of my career has been working with other leaders in the field to create the ASCA National Model. ASCA asked Judy Bowers and I to co-author the model with "One Vision, One Voice" for the profession.

ASCA's National Model for School Counseling Programs reflects a comprehensive approach designing a program foundation, delivery, management and accountability system. The model provides the mechanism with which school counselors and school counseling teams design, develop, coordinate, implement, manage and evaluate their programs for students' success. It provides a framework for the program components and identifies the school counselor's role in implementation. The model infused themes of the counselors role in leadership, advocacy and systemic change. When implementing a National Model-based program, school counselors switch their emphasis from service-centered for some of the students to program-centered for every student. It not only answers the question, "What do school counselors do?" but requires school counselors to respond to the question, "How are students different as a result of what we do?"

Order your copy of the book or CD today. (The co-authors receive no royalties from this publication. The ASCA National Model was written as a gift to the profession of school counseling).

The National Model Workbook: Hatching Your Results©

The National Model Workbook was created to assist school counselors in implementing the ASCA National Model. Used in my trainings side-by side with the model, this comprehensive implementation guide contains many of the samples and examples crated by Trish Hatch, Lori Holland and the school counselors in Moreno Valley Unified School District. To obtain a copy of this implementation guide, go to docuemnts and download it.  

ASCA's Free Downloads

Table of Contents - See the table of contents for the ASCA National Model.

Executive Summary - A perfect summary to share with others on the Model.

Partners in Achievement, a PowerPoint presentation about the National Model I created for ASCA which shares the history of the profession - the "where we were, where we are, and where we are going" as a profession in school counseling and why the ASCA National Model was so necessary.

Brain Storm, an article I co-authored from the September/October 2001 ASCA School Counselor magazine focusing on how the National Model development got its start.

A Block to Build On, another article I co-authored from the May/June 2002 ASCA School Counselor magazine focusing on National Model development.