National Resources

American School Counselor Association
The ASCA provides professional development, publications and other resources, research and advocacy to more than 13,000 professional school counselors around the globe.

Association for Counselor Education and Supervision
Through the accreditation process and professional development activities, ACES strives to continue to improve the education, credentialing and supervision of counselors. Publications on current and relevant research, practices, ethical standards and related problems are available to members.

The Education Trust
The Education Trust works for the high academic achievement of all students at all levels- kindergarten through college. Specific emphasis is placed on closing the achievement gaps that separate low-income students and students of color from other youth.

Education Trust Transforming School Counseling Initiative
This site provides information on the multi-stage, multi-year initiative designed to improve school counseling by focusing on the graduate-level preparation of school counselors.

The Support Personnel Accountability Report Card (SPARC)
SPARC is a continuous improvement public document that gives a school counseling program an opportunity to demonstrate effective communication and a commitment to getting results. Find out how more than 40 schools in California define their student support services programs by reviewing their SPARC's at our website.

American Student Achievement Institute
The American Student Achievement Institute is a nonprofit organization focused on raising educational achievement for all students and closing achievement gaps between rural, minority and low-income students and their more advantaged peers.

National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES)
NCES is the primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data that are related to education in the United States and other nations.

NCES: High School Guidance Counseling
This site describes high school guidance programs, activities, and staff at U.S. public high schools during the 2001–02 school year. It provides national estimates on: the goals, plans, and features of guidance programs; the guidance activities engaged in by eleventh- and twelfth-grade students, the professional characteristics of guidance staff, and professional development of guidance counselors.

International Archive of Educational Data
The Archive acquires, processes, documents, and disseminates data collected by national, state or provincial, local, and private organizations, pertaining to all levels of education in countries for which data can be made available.

Research Methods Resources on the WWW
The site provides an abundance of research methods resources in Libraries & archives for students & working professionals world-wide.

State School Counselor Associations
This page provides links to state school counselor associations across the nation.

State Education Departments
This site provides a national listing of links to all Departments of Education websites.

Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN)
The release of the 2003 National School Climate Survey sheds new light on the experiences of LGBT students in America’s schools.

National Leadership Cadre (NLC)
The National Leadership Cadre is dedicated to Nationwide implementation of comprehensive developmental school counseling programs that are focused on promoting life career development and student achievement, through partnerships between state government agencies, state school counseling associations and institutions of higher education.

State School Counseling Research Centers

Washington
The Washington School Research Center (WSRC) is an independent research and data analysis center within Seattle Pacific University. The Center’s mission is to conduct sound and objective research on student learning in the public schools, and to make the research findings available for educators, policy makers, and the general public for use in the improvement of schools.

California
The University of San Diego Center for Student Support Systems Studies and Services strengthens the link between research and practice among school counselors, school psychologists, and other student support personnel, and strengthens the local, regional, and state databases regarding the design, implementation, administration, and evaluation of comprehensive, results-based guidance, counseling, and student support programs.

Iowa
The Iowa School Counseling Research Center is committed to the promotion of school counseling outcome research and best practices through the dissemination of information, knowledge and scientifically based research. The SCRC supports and conducts field-based research in partnership with school districts and school counseling practitioners.

Massachusetts State Links

Massachusetts School Counselor Association
The Massachusetts School Counselors Association, Inc. was founded in 1961 to work for the promotion, improvement and expansion of guidance and counseling in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Massachusetts Department of Education
This site contains news, legislation, policy, and resources for Massachusetts educators.

Massachusetts State Model Task Force
This task force includes Guidance Directors, School Counselors, School Administrators, and Counselor Educators who are working together to develop a state model for Massachusetts school counseling programs based on the American School Counselor Association's National Model and National Standards.

Massachusetts Education Watch
This document provides key educational facts and figures related to student achievement, attainment, and opportunity, from Elementary School through College. Prepared by the Education Trust.

Crosswalk Document
This document illustrates the intersection of the ASCA National Standards and the Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks.

Regional SCA Links

Connecticut
Massachusetts
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New York
Pennsylvania
Vermont

Other Resources

EZAnalyze
A free software program that makes Excel easier to use to analyze data. Designed to facilitate School Counselors use of data to implement the ASCA National Model, the "Add in" works on both Macintosh and Windows-based computers.