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October 23-25, 2008
Pre-Convention Workshops Thursday,
October 23
Post-Convention Workshops Saturday,
October 25
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Empowering Professional School Counselors with
Knowledge and Resources to Promote Student Success in the School and
Around the World
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Student Academic Advancement |
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Management Systems |
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Social & Personal Development
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Counselor Education & Development |
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Career & Vocational Awareness
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Technical Resources |
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Counseling Delivery Systems
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Assessment and Accountability
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New Generation School |
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Response to Intervention |
The most focused program in school counseling in Florida, the 2008
FSCA Convention will be delivered by thoughtful leaders from Florida and
throughout the United States. The hottest and most relevant topics will
be explored by leading industry advocates, state officials, counselor
educators and, most importantly, professional school counselors!
Friday, October 24th, 2008 11am
Keynote Speaker
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Salvaging Sisterhood
Julia V. TaylorIncidents involving
relational aggression, such as gossip, exclusion, taunting,
cyber-bullying, and rejecting other girls frequently pass under
the radar of educators. Relational aggression causes enormous
amounts of distress and creates havoc in the schools. This
interactive and solution-focused revolves around the notion
“raising awareness to provoke change.” You will learn how to
engage faculty, staff, parents, and students in the process to
recognize, understand, and reduce relational aggression.
Participants will be provided with plenty of easy to implement
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Pre-Convention
Workshops ($40 each):
Thursday, October 23, 2008
9:00-12:00
Data Selection for
Accountability Measures
Dr. Madelyn Isaacs
Counselors are asked to use data in
an number of ways in their jobs: planning and developing one's
program and annual activities, identifying and serving targeted
populations or to solve targeted problems, advocating for
individual students or systemic change, producing accountability
measures and results for program evaluation or continuous
improvement, and for communicating school counseling
effectiveness to families, teachers, administrators or other
local and state stakeholders. In this workshop counselors will
be introduced to thoughtful and simple principles and practices
to select, analyze and present data using action research and
other practical approaches.
Strategies that Work for Immigrant and LEP Students
Dr. Mercedes ter Maat
Culturally diverse schools demand
creative solutions. School counselors are paramount in assessing
the needs and providing opportunities for the emotional growth
and academic success of immigrant and LEP students. This
presentation is geared toward professional school counselors
working with immigrant, Limited English Proficiency (LEP)
children and adolescents in school settings. By using PowerPoint
slides and handouts, samples of student art and written work, a
pre- and post-evaluation, and detailed group sessions
descriptions, participants will (1) understand the emotional,
physical, and environmental stressors faced by immigrant
students and their families; (2) learn concrete, step-by-step
art tasks to be used in a group that assists immigrant students
in the process of acculturating to the school environment; and
(3) utilize a simple evaluation tool to assess the effectiveness
of group work when working with immigrant and LEP students.
1:00-4:00
Current Legal and
Ethical Issues in School Counseling
Dr. Carolyn Stone
The school environment poses
competing interests between a student's need for confidentiality
and the legal rights of parents as established by the U.S.
Supreme Court to be the guiding voice in their children lives in
value-laden issues. Participants will develop an ethical
decision making framework for analyzing and resolving ethical
issues through the application of ASCA ethical codes, case and
statutory law, school board rules, and community standards.
Through small group and large group discussion of 40 case
studies, participants will be given the opportunity to increase
their understanding of the complexities of respecting a minor's
right to confidentiality, to develop a sensitivity to the need
to consider their actions in context of each situation for each
individual student, and to understand the rights of parents.
Topics of discussion will include areas such as confidentiality
and duty to warn, minors' rights to privacy, counselors'
responsibilities toward suicidal children, civil and criminal
liability, sexually active minor clients, birth control,
abortion counseling, defamation, child abuse, HIV positive
students, case notes and educational records, malpractice in
academic advising, sexual harassment, the Hatch Amendment and
guidance curriculum, and personal conduct.
Games
and Play to Enhance Counseling Sessions
Ms. Grace Wilhelm
Counselors will receive an overview of
self-assessments, stress reduction, anger control and
management, communication skills, passive, aggressive, assertive
behaviors, and behavior modification techniques to use with
students in the areas of academics and personal social skills.
In this workshop counselors will receive hands-on practice using
games to encourage students to talk about their goals, ideas,
and frustrations and to facilitate discussion, goal setting, and
create strategies. Games are used to enhance the counseling
sessions so counselors receive more insight and students are
better able to express their feelings, make sense of what is
happening, and then create workable plans and goals to move
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Post-Convention
Workshops
Saturday, October 25, 2008
1:00-4:00
Student Mental
Health Issues School Counselors Face
Dr. Miles Cooley
The number of students in regular
classes who exhibit mental health and behavioral disorders is
increasing. Teachers have received little or no training about
how to respond to these students and frequently request
consultations from school counselors. The workshop will
describe behaviors of students with mood and anxiety disorders,
AD(H)D, and Asperger's Syndrome. Effective accommodations and
strategies for dealing with these students will be presented in
order to enable counselors to be more helpful to teachers.
Cyberbullying: Beyond the Internet and Name-Calling
Dr. Carlos Zalaquett
The purpose of this workshop is to
provide school counselors with valuable information about
cyberbullying and to increase awareness of this growing problem
among today’s youth. The Internet has become another channel for
kids and teens to socialize and interact. However, youth and
adults should be aware of the potential risks that come with
accessing the Internet - one of them being cyberbullying.
Assistance in developing plans for individual schools will be
provided.
Growing up Girl in Today’s Crazy World
Julia V. Taylor
Relational aggression,
body image issues, and general self-loathing among today’s
generation of girls is widespread, contagious, and toxic.
Typical girlhood issues are multifaceted and must involve
parents, students, and educators to help navigate girls through
these turbulent times.
This solution focused
workshop will provide participants with the opportunity to
learn:
The dynamics of
body image
The dynamics of relational aggression
How to initiate and conduct “Girl Groups”
How to use icebreaker activities to initiate comfortable
communication
How to involve administration, teachers, and parents
How to work with aggressive or disinterested parents,
(“not my daughter”)
Solution focused and innovative strategies to deal with
common girl issues
Prevention/intervention techniques, and
How to run detailed and insightful parent workshops
Come prepared to
participate, self-disclose, interact with one another, and have
fun while learning how to successfully embrace and empower our
girls!
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Convention Fees
All membership must be current to receive discounted rates.
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Membership Status |
Early Bird
(by 9/1/08) |
Regular
(Before 10/3/08) |
Onsite |
| Member |
$100 |
$115 |
$135 |
| Student Member* |
$75 |
$75 |
$75 |
| Non-Member** |
$135 |
$150 |
$170 |
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*The first
10 students to volunteer 8 hours at the convention will receive a
discounted convention rate of $50.00.
** If you are a non member, you will be given the option to add a
membership when registering online. If you choose this option, the
convention fees will automatically switch to discounted member rates.
Call for Proposals
It's not too late to contribute your
expertise at the c0nvention ... The Florida School Counselor Association is
soliciting proposals for presentations promoting evidence-based programs
in the domains of academic, career, and personal/social development or
highlighting the latest techniques and practices in school counseling.
Presentations showcase proven programs, current research, or skills of
value to counselors pre-K to postsecondary as well as district
personnel, graduate students and counselor educators.
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Questions?
Contact:
President Elect
Susan Gertel
convention2008@fla-schoolcounselor.org
Exhibitors/Sponsorships
This is a
prospectus for exhibiting and sponsorship opportunities at the FSCA
annual convention. Also, you can download the exhibitor agreement
here.
If you have an interest in working with FSCA to help your organization
reach its marketing objectives within the Florida school counseling
community, please contact Mike ter Maat, FSCA Convention Coordinator, at
mtermaat@comcast.net or (954)
547-8996. |