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A Division of the American School Counselor Association

Helpful Resources for Florida School Counselors

Link Description Date Posted
New Roles in Response to Intervention: Creating Success for Schools and Children. 4-26-2007
Facts.org for secondary school students brochure. 7-12-2006
PowerPoint overview of the Facts.org site. 7-12-2006
Florida Academic Counseling and Tracking for Students (FACTS) is the Florida Department of Education's statewide one-stop student advising web site. FACTS.org offers information and tools that enable students to plan their high school courses, track their progress toward graduation and Bright Futures scholarships, explore careers, learn about Florida's postsecondary opportunities, apply online to colleges or vocational-technical institutions, and apply for financial aid. 6-19-2006
2006 Florida Counseling for Future Education Handbook 11-7-2005
The PowerPoint presentations and competencies are all approved by Lisa Saavadra, Bureau Chief of of Student Assistance. The PowerPoint presentations were actually presented at the biannual FABES meeting in June at Sanibel. FABES stands for Florida Association of Bilingual Education Supervisors and most Florida districts are represented. Also, many college representatives were also in attendance. 8-9-2005
ESOL competencies PowerPoint pertaining to administrators, just in case you need to share with someone in your district. 8-9-2005
What Do Counselors Do? An article published in the American School Board Journal/August 2005. (PDF; 141 KB) 11-4-2005
Parents' Involvement Not Key to Student Progress, Study Finds Report on standardized testing in lower-income schools disputes conventional wisdom. By Jean Merl, Times Staff Writer October 26, 2005. 11-4-2005
Cover for the Florida's School Counseling and Guidance Framework Florida's School Counseling and Guidance Framework is a conceptual model that can be used by districts and schools as a framework to develop, restructure, or improve comprehensive counseling and guidance programs. This framework supports the career-development process of students as well as their personal and social development and academic achievement. The framework focuses on an integrated and outcome-oriented curriculum that targets all students. Schools may extract those components that best meet their individualized needs. (PDF file). Also the Administrator's Guide is here. 2-17-2006
Counseling and Guidance Lesson Plans from the Florida DOE. Other lesson plans here. 2-17-2006
College Board’s AP Report to the Nation 2-17-2006
Facing the Challenge of Child Abuse: Florida is taking new action to prevent child abuse and neglect. The Florida Interprogram Task Force is bringing resources together to cut Florida’s child abuse rate in half. The Task Force’s highest priority is ensuring that all Florida’s children are raised in healthy, safe, stable, and nurturing family environments. 2-17-2006
Ready to Work legislation brief question and answer document that the Division of Community Colleges and Workforce Education has prepared to give you some more information on this program 2-17-2006
 

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