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UGA honored by the Education Trust as a pioneer in school counseling reform
Michael Childs, 706/542-5889, mchilds@coe.uga.edu
Richard Hayes, 706/542-4118, rlhayes@arches.uga.edu
Jan 14, 2003, 16:16
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ATHENS, Ga. - The University of Georgia was one of six universities in the nation recently honored by the Education Trust for its work transforming school counseling programs both in higher education and in K-12 schools.
Richard Hayes, a professor of counseling and human development in UGA's College of Education, said it is more critical than ever to include school counselors in the effort to raise achievement for all students while closing the gap between groups of students with the passage of the new No Child Left Behind education law.
UGA, along with California State University, Northridge, Indiana State University, Ohio State University, State University of West Georgia, and the University of North Florida, has been part of the six-year Transforming School Counseling Initiative with the Education Trust, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit educational organization created to promote high academic achievement.
The ultimate goal of the project, funded by a $425,000 grant to each school from the DeWitt Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund, is to improve the educational experiences and outcomes for all children, especially poor and minority children, by influencing the actions of school counselors, said Pam Paisley, professor of counseling and codirector of the project at UGA.
For the past three years, the two UGA professors have built partnerships with local schools, communities and state agencies, as they worked to make substantial revisions in UGA's preservice curriculum for the master's program in counseling. They also provided new, innovative professional development activities for practicing counselors and counselor educators.
"We have sponsored monthly meetings, counselor academies, community caucuses and best practices conferences at which our faculty and students meet with local school counselors and other members of the community to discuss topics and issues facing children and adolescents today," said Paisley.
These meetings were an outgrowth of the Clarke County Counselors Collaborative (CCCC), which was founded in 1991 to provide mutual support and professional development opportunities for counselors in the county's schools. The meetings provided a venue for the development of ongoing research projects and grant-related activities. Counselors in the collaborative regularly serve as supervisors for practicums and internships, guest lecturers and adjunct faculty.
The newly transformed preparation programs are now producing counselors who are knowledgeable about schools and schooling; equipped to assist students in meeting their educational and personal goals and proactive advocates for system change; and working to remove barriers that impede the academic success of poor and minority students.
"These six universities have proven to be pioneers in the field by fundamentally changing the way counselors are prepared to work in today's schools, and in doing so are directly impacting the lives of students in their communities," said Reese House, program specialist for the Education Trust.
"School counselors are ideally positioned to create opportunities for all students to reach high academic goals, but have all too often been left out of education reform efforts," he said. "The ongoing work of these universities ensures that future school counselors will be an integral part of closing the achievement gap that separates low-income and minority students from other students."
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