Dr. Hatch's  most popular training is:

Hatching Results!  School Counselors

Using Data to Effect Change and Move the Profession FORWARD!

(also called: "Data is no longer a 4 letter word!")

This training helps school counselors and administrators to understand the changing role of the professional school counselor, learn about the ASCA National Model: A Framework for School Counseling Programs (ASCA, 2003), learn ways to use data to effect and promote professional and organizational change and finally, how to measure, share and utilize their results for program improvement.

Participants: 

  1. Understand the changing role of professional school counseling (now includes AB 1802)
  2. Review the ASCA National Model: A Framework for School Counseling Programs (ASCA, 2003)
  3. Learn how to conduct a program audit
  4. Learn different types of data school counselors can easily collect
  5. Understand difference between and need for achievement, achievement-related and standards and competency related data
  6. Understand process, perception and results data
  7. Learn how to easily use data to drive decision and effect change
  8. Design standards driven guidance curriculum action plans
  9. Design intentional guidance/closing the gap action plans
  10. Learn how to connect their programs results to an ASCA National Standards based school counseling program and the state content standards
  11. Design management agreements (i.e. calendars/use of time)
  12. Learn how to design a results-based accountability tools for their program
  13. Learn how to report and promote the results of their programs for program improvement
  14. How to report results using PowerPoint and other Advocacy tools

Other Training Topics and Areas of Consultation Include:

  • AB 1802 Legislation and implementing the ASCA National Model
  • Designing School Counseling Programs Foundation: Mission, Vision, and Philosophy
  • Designing the Local Educational Agency Plan (LEAP) in No Child Left Behind (NCLB)  and infusing the school counseling programs into all areas, especially Section IV and V
  • School Counselors: Legal and Ethical Issues
  • Creating and Implementing Student Assistance Programs (SAP)
  • Aligning School Counseling Programs with Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC) Accreditation
  • Master Schedule Analysis/Equity and Access Issues
  • Curriculum and Instruction: creating standards based programs
  • Human Resources: creating job description and evaluation tools
  • Budget Reductions: managing resources and analyzing value vs. resources
  • Pupil Personnel Services (PPS) Credentialing and Laws
  • Elementary and Secondary Federal School Counseling Demonstration Act Grant
  • Middle School Coordinators (MSC)
  • Safe and Drug-Free Schools (SDFSC) coordinated compliance review
  • Tobacco Use Prevention Education (TUPE) coordinated compliance review