Providing Equity in Education:
A Webinar Opportunity
with Damien Sweeney
One of our roles in schools is to provide equity and access to our students. A report by The Education Trust shows that minority students in Kentucky are not given fair access to rigorous educational programs in our schools.
As school counselors, we often speak about being data-driven. This gives us another opportunity to look at our academic data to decide whether or not our practices of scheduling students into Advanced Placement, International Baccalaureate, Cambridge International or dual credit classes is equitable. What is the makeup of these classes? How do we decide who goes in versus who doesn't? How can we be intentional with our recruitment efforts of traditionally marginalized students? To answer these questions and more, join me for a webinar from 1:30 to 2:15 p.m. ET Jan. 31. Use this Google document to register.
Meade County Schools' Career Pathways: Leading the Way with Academic and Career Advising
 Meade County schools have created this incredible career pathway guidance document that helps make clear the road to completion status within a pathway for students, families and other stakeholders within the community. While Meade County still considers this document a draft with updates to come, please feel free to reach out to Associate Superintendent Marc Adams with any questions you may have.
Did You Know?
KRS 158.302 requires that cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) training be provided for high school students at every public high school as part of the health course or the physical education course that is required for graduation or the Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps course that meets the physical education requirement. The training must:
- Be based on the American Heart Association's Guidelines for CPR and Emergency Cardiovascular Care or other nationally recognized, evidence-based guidelines;
- Incorporate psycho-motor skills training to support cognitive learning; and
- Make students aware of the purpose of an automated external defibrillator and its ease and safety of use.
The training does not have to be provided by a certified instructor or result in students being certified in cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
Comprehensive School Counseling
There is often a misconception about indirect services in school counseling. The American School Counseling Association says the following about indirect services:
"Although students are the beneficiaries of indirect services, school counselors work with parents, teachers, administrators, school staff and community stakeholders to promote achievement for a specific student or to promote systemic change to address the needs of groups of students such as underachieving or underrepresented groups of students in the school."
As school counselors, we should be working to create systems that incorporate other key members of the school, district and community. Included on our teams should be Family Resource and Youth Service Center coordinators, school social workers, school psychologists and community mental health agencies. How can we pull everyone together to make data-informed decisions and what systems can we put in place when students are in crisis? These are among the many questions we must ask ourselves when organizing systems around indirect student services.
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