School Counselors

• K-12 School Guidance Plans PDE Quality Assurance Self-Assessment Rubric

• Counselor Symposium Slidedeck - Supports Updates to the Counselor Plan

• Chapter 339 Guidance

IU12 Remote Service Delivery/Telehealth Sample Documents:

• Remote Service Delivery Informed Consent

• Remote Service Delivery Log

*Suggestion to present the above documents to your own solicitor before adopting.*

Remote Service Delivery/Telehealth Resources:

• Communication Protocols (from IU12)

  • Sample email autoreply

• Virtual Service Delivery in Response to COVID-19 Disruptions (NASP)

• Telehealth (National Association of Social Workers)

• ASCA Update: COVID-19 (American School Counselor Association)

Free or Low-Cost Telehealth Webinars:

• School Counseling Ethics for Virtual Services

• PESI

• American Psychological Association

• Apps for Behavioral Health

• National Association of Social Workers

• National Association of School Psychologists

• Updates on SAT Testing and Other College Admissions Issues

• AP Testing Updates

• Update on ACT testing dates

• College Admissions Status Update from NACAC

• Celebrate College Signing Day Online

• School Counseling in an Online World

  • Sample Lesson Plan Series

• Virtual School Counseling Lessons and Tools Community and Library on ASCA SCENE (You will need to create a free login to access these materials.)

• Collection of Articles for School Counselors

• Smore

  • free resource for newsletterss

• Sample Out-of-Office Reply

• Tips for Families and Educators

• NASP Self-Care Resource

• APA Self-Care

• Taking Care of Your Mental Health in the Face of Uncertainty

• Mindwise: Acknowledge, Care, Tell

• 1-855-284-2494 Pennsylvania Support Line

  • for people struggling with anxiety during COVID-19

  • toll free and available 24/7

Please see our Career Readiness and Work Page

Resources for multiple age groups:

Career One Stop – career videos, self-assessment (Get My Future)

• The best way to see what the Career One Stop site has to offer is to view the video that showcases the various video collections. These videos could be used in lesson planning, with the reflection piece becoming the evidence piece the student could submit electronically.

• Get My Future allows the student who is able to be self-directed to complete activities that could become pieces of evidence that, if submitted electronically, could be artifacts for collection.

Va Career View – specific activities for grade bans

• Example - From the Main Page go into the K-5 tab. There, find Career Town with 23 different games to play, Computer games to play that are All About You, Unusual Occupations and the like. This site has a separate tab for Grades 6-8, 9-12, Parents and Professionals. The user will need Adobe Flash on their device.

PA Career Zone – games for younger students, interest assessments, career exploration

• An Educator is able to create an account, and students may create free accounts too. With your account you can:manage up to 50 students, build and assign basic lesson plans, send messages and run reports to monitor student progress.

U.S. Bureau of Labor & Statistics -- Games, videos and career information

• Career Exploration and Videos begin at Grade 4 - 12. Other information such as STEM Occupations, The Economy at a Glance and Monthly Data charts and Maps begin at Grade 6-12.

WINTAC presentation - links to Online Industry tours, Work Based Learning Experiences, Transition Portfolio tool

• WIthin this presentation there are links to Industry Tours and of particular interest is the T-Folio tool: T-Folio Link. This tool has built in lessons, powerpoints - designed for upper grade students.

Elementary Career Resources: Resources that, when assigned as a lesson, could be saved in hard copy or uploaded as Artifacts into a school’s Google Drive storage.

Careers are Everywhere

Crosby School Elementary Resources

Middle Grades Resources: And most, if not all of these resources link to information on job openings for the area where the student lives, or where they hope to live and provides data on the future prospects for careers.

i Explore Manufacturing Careers -- Developed by South Central PA Manufacture’s Association, videos on manufacturing careers.

Exploring: Discovering Your Future -- Lessons specifically designed for 6 & 7 grade students.

My Plan -- short videos on over 400 careers. While also listed for HS students, the length of these videos makes them middle-grade friendly.

High School Resources: And most, if not all of these resources link to information on job openings for the area where the student lives, or where they hope to live and provides data on the future prospects for careers.

O*Net OnLine – Occupational Information

• And for a shorter version of the Interest Inventory and a more simplified version of the O NET site, search www.mynextmove.org. This Interest Inventory can be saved as a PDF or screenshot, printed and saved in a teacher’s on-line storage for their class.

i Explore Manufacturing Careers -- Developed by South Central PA Manufacture’s Association, videos

• Specifically relates to manufacturing careers.

Education Planner -- self-assessments, career and college planning

• Geared toward the college-bound student.

• My Plan -- short videos on over 400 careers

• Coronavirus Student Guide: Explanations and News Updates

• Talking to Kids About the Coronavirus

• Gratitude Journal

• Helping Children Cope with Natural Disasters

• Body Check Chart

• Helping Children Cope with Changes Resulting from COVID-19.