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Course Title

School Counseling leadership: Mastering Professional Boundaries and Advocating For Our Programs

Course Number

ISCA 902

Course Overview

Learn powerful organizational tools that empower school counselors to establish and maintain professional boundaries, safeguarding their programs and advocating for their crucial role within the educational ecosystem. Explore strategies to amplify your voice at the leadership table through effective, data-driven day-to-day planning. Join us in this transformative workshop to strengthen your practice, elevate your impact, and revolutionize your role as a school counselor.

This course will support you in providing strategies for your students to be able to (identify which of the ISCA Student Standards this course will cover if its content is focused on student development)

ASCA Professional Standards & Competencies (2019)

B-PF 8. Demonstrate advocacy for a school counseling program

B-PA 6. Use time appropriately according to national recommendations and student/school data

B-PF 7. Demonstrate leadership through the development and implementation of a school counseling program

B-PA 7. Establish agreement with the principal and other administrators about the school counseling program

Intended Audience

School Counselors

Essential Questions

Why is it important to set professional boundaries with school leadership, students/families and the community we serve?

How does School Counselor advocacy for protected time positively impact their program and student success?


Knowledge

Skills

Participants will have knowledge about:

Participants will be able to:

  • Types of Boundaries for School Counseling programs.
  • Organizational and digital tools School Counselors can use to set professional boundaries.
  • Ways to amplify School Counselors’ voice at the leadership table.
  • Set boundaries that will help protect School Counselors’ time.
  • Advocate for the importance of a School Counselors’ role in the school leadership decision making process.
  • Create an effective and data driven day to day planning calendar.


About the Facilitator

Ms. Jaime LaDawn Roya is Head of Counseling/DP College Counselor in South Korea. She is originally from Houston, Texas, USA where she worked for Houston Independent School District for nine years in roles such as high school English teacher, Graduation Coach, and New Teacher Professional Development Coordinator before transitioning to School Counseling.

She earned her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology with a minor in British Literature from University of North Texas, USA and her Master of Education in Counselor Education with a Licensed Professional Counselor endorsement from Houston Christian University, USA.

She started her international career in Doha, Qatar in 2017 serving as a comprehensive school counselor for various grades throughout lower and upper schools. The past five years she has worked exclusively with grades 6-12 in upper school and successfully graduated about 125 students during that time.

Jaime LaDawn enjoys helping colleagues who are new to the international sector and/or counseling profession learn how to organize themselves in a way that sets professional boundaries to advocate for the work we do as School Counselors. She also encourages School Counselors to find their voice at school leadership tables and identify a greater purpose for their program.


Dates and times of offerings

September 14, 2023 - 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM GMT

Contact hours

3-hour course

Time commitment between sessions

N/A

Required Resource(s)

Participants will be provided all electronic materials.

References

American School Counselor Association (2019). ASCA School Counselor Professional Standards & Competencies. Alexandria, VA: Author.


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