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 This Institute was sponsored by the Center for School Counseling Outcome Research and the UMASS, Amherst Division of Continuing Education. If you are having trouble downloading the brochure, click HERE to get Acrobat Reader (free) To view information regarding previous summer institutes, click on the following links: First Annual School Counseling Leadership Institute Third Annual School Counseling Leadership Institute
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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 learned: 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. 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. 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. |
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