4TH Annual School Counseling Leadership Institute

Becoming the Leaders We Have Been Waiting For: Models and Skills for Professional and Personal Transformation


Held July 17-21st, 2006
University of Massachusetts-Amherst

This Institute is sponsored by the Center for School Counseling Outcome Research and the UMASS, Amherst Division of Continuing Education. Download a brochure.

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To view information regarding previous summer institutes, choose one below

First Annual School Counseling Leadership Institute
Using Data to Help all Children Succeed

Second Annual School Counseling Leadership Institute
Implementing the ASCA National Model to Help all Children Succeed

 Third Annual School Counseling Leadership Institute
Evidence-Based Practice in School Counseling

 

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Fourth Annual School Counseling Leadership Institute

 

Program

Implementing new models of school counseling that have a documented impact on student achievement and career development (e.g. The ASCA National Model and related State Models) requires that school counselors have strong leadership skills and abilities. Leadership needs to be enacted at the building, district and state levels in order to promote systemic change.

Institute Participants will learn:

1) Models of leadership that relate directly to personal transformation and systemic reform (Super Leadership, Distributed Leadership, Transformational Leadership).

2) Leadership Skills that promote school counseling program implementation at the building, district and state levels.

3) Leadership Skills that are necessary for school counselors, guidance directors and guidance supervisors.

4) How to incorporate Leadership into their professional role and their personal self-definition.


Faculty

Charles Manz, Ph.D.

Nirenberg Professor of Business Leadership in the UMASS Isenberg School of Management and one of the most influential thinkers in modern leadership theory. Manz has developed leadership approaches that he calls self-leadership and superleadership, both of which empower an organization’s employees—with the benefit of occasional coaching—to lead themselves. He is the author of sixteen books, including Fit to Lead (St. Martin’s Press), The New SuperLeadership (Berrett-Koehler), and Emotional Discipline: The Power to Choose How You Feel (Berrett-Koehler). His awards include the Stybel Peabody National Book Prize for Best Publication of the Year and Harvard University’s Marvin Bower Fellowship for Outstanding Achievement in Business Scholarship.

Hilda Lopez, M.Ed.

Lopez has 29 years experience in the field of education as a classroom teacher, assistant principal, elementary school counselor, and special education counselor. She is currently the Guidance and Counseling Director at Socorro Independent School District in El Paso, Texas, a position she has had for four years. She is leading the district's implementation of the ASCA National Model for School Counseling Programs. Prior to that, she was the Guidance Director at Ysleta Independent School District for two years.

Matt Militello, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership in the UMASS Department of Educational Policy and Research. Militello is a former secondary public school teacher and principal. He has special expertise in educational leadership, data-based decision-making, and school reform. Currently, he is leading a national study of exemplary school counseling practices in high schools that are successful in closing the achievement gap in college placement. Millitello is also engaged in research on factors that determine the effectiveness of working relationships between principals and school counselors.

Karen DeCoster, M.Ed.

The first State Liaison to School Counselors at the Massachusetts Department of Education appointed by Commisssioner David Driscoll, newly appointed State Leader of Tech Prep, Director of the Massachusetts Career Resource Network, and a supervisor within the Career/Vocational and Technical Education unit of the Department of Education, where she has been employed since 1994.

John Carey, Ph.D.

Director of the Center for School Counseling Outcome Research, has special expertise in leadership development and school counseling program evaluation. Carey coordinates the UMASS Guidance Director program where he teaches organizational and leadership development. He is also a member of the National Panel for Evidence-Based School Counseling Practice.

Carey Dimmitt, Ph.D.

Associate Director of the Center for School Counseling Outcome Research and Assistant Professor of School Counseling at UMass Amherst; special expertise in Evidence-Based school counseling interventions that affect academic achievement. She is also a member of the National Panel for Evidence-Based School Counseling Practice.


General Information

This Fourth Annual Institute is sponsored by the University of Massachusetts Amherst School of Education’s Center for School Counseling Outcome Research and the Division of Continuing Education. Participants will receive 3 graduate credits from UMass Amherst. The cost of the Institute, including three graduate credits, materials, lunch and breakfast each day, and Wednesday dinner, is $1145. The Institute takes place July 17-21, 2006, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, and 9 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. on Wednesday (dinner included). We will have breakfast and lunch together each day and on Wednesday we will gather for a communal dinner (all included) to share ideas and get to know one another better.

The Institute is located in the 5-college region of Western Massachusetts, which includes UMass-Amherst, Amherst College, Hampshire College, Mt. Holyoke College and Smith College. Tours of the local campuses will be arranged for participants who are interested. Past participants have delighted in the rural New England beauty of the Amherst area, with its historic houses, museums and antique shops. Visit www.umass.edu and www.fivecolleges.edu for more information.

Numerous theatre, music, and arts opportunities are also available in July in Amherst, and the area is renowned for its excellent restaurants. From July 10-21, 2006, UMass will be having its 25th Annual Jazz in July. Participants are encouraged to attend the various performances and special events that will be held at the Fine Arts Center at UMass.

Institute Format

The Institute is a graduate seminar in intensive format, with all-day classes, and group work on some evenings. There will be no papers or examinations – the grade will be based on site specific action plans regarding leadership goals and objectives completed by the last day of class.  

 

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