Student Support Announcements and Deadlines

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Announcements and Deadlines

OSCA Announces Oklahoma School Counselor of the Year!

Jennifer Sack is the 2023-2024 Oklahoma School Counselor of the Year. She is the lead counselor at Booker T. Washington High School in Tulsa Public Schools where she has spent the entirety of her eleven year school counseling career.

Jennifer has led many initiatives during her time as a school counselor. Some of the most impressive achievements include collaborating with the American School Counseling Association to advocate for legislative change on SB-615 which resulted in revised language to align with ASCA ethical guidelines.

Jennifer also spearheaded College Application Week (CAW) in October of 2022 where she and her fellow counselors were able to increase the number of students applying to college by 22% in just five days!

Finally, Jennifer oversees a Student Safe Team. During the 2020-2021 school year she was able to advise this team of students as they gathered data and advocated for more comprehensive mental health services on their campus. Their hard work and advocacy resulted in the addition of a Social Services Specialist at Booker T. Washington High School.

One of Jennifer’s co-counselors describes her as a counselor who cares about each and every student in her building. She states Jennifer, “advises and supports students in every situation, from the high achieving student aiming for the Ivy League, to the struggling student who is on the brink of dropping out”.

The Oklahoma School Counselor Association is immensely proud of Mrs. Sack. We cannot imagine a better representative for our state and wish her the best of luck as she competes for American School Counselor of the Year!

School-Based Mental Health
Single Sign-On Deadline Extended

Deadline: May 23, 2023

Mental Health Protocol is now available on Single Sign-On. You can now upload your documents! Please Note: You will upload your Mental Health Protocol in the same area as your Bullying Prevention documents - but they are SEPARATE uploads. Please do not combine your information.

>> Log on to Single Sign-On

Universal Program Planning Guide

We are excited to share a Universal Program Planning Guide for schools and districts to use when planning all of their programs. This guide has been developed and is being shared based on evidence-based practices critical to the "big picture" planning schools and districts do in schools.

This guide discusses the relevance and sustainability of programming and then offers five steps when planning:

Assessment
Capacity Building
Planning using the Social-Ecological Model
Implementation of Program
Evaluation

If you have questions about how to use this document, contact Blaire Harrison at Blaire.Harrison@sde.ok.gov

>> Download Planning Guide

FY22-23 Gun-Free Schools Act and Annual School Incident Reports

FY22-23 Gun-Free Schools Act and Annual School Incident Reports will open in Single Sign-On May 19.The report is due June 24 and must be certified by the District Superintendent.

Health Education Legislation Guidance

Recent legislation called the Health Education Act (70 O.S. § 11-103.13) and Maria’s Law (70 O.S. § 11-103.9b) requires school districts to provide instruction addressing all health education subject matter standards by the 2023-24 school year including mental health instruction. Find guidance for this legislation in the Health Education Legislation in Oklahoma FAQs. If you have questions, reach out to Shana Classen, Director of Health and Physical Education

The 2023 Oklahoma MTSS Summer Conference will occur over 2 days and feature presentations aligned to the OKMTSS Framework, a "highlight reel" of district implementation, and opportunities for implementation planning support. Come learn more about the OKMTSS Framework for an integrated academic and behavioral support model

June 20-21, 2023
Wes Watkins Center - OSU Campus
Stillwater, OK 74078

>> Claim your FREE Ticket here

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