Building Trauma-Informed School
Presenter: Kate Boscolo
This presentation discusses the prevalence of childhood trauma and the impact it has on students, describes the components of a trauma-informed school, and provides educators with tools to support students who have experienced trauma.
Grade-level: All grade-levels
Category: Mental Health
Learning Objectives:
Understand the prevalence and impact of trauma.
Identify characteristics of a trauma-informed school.
Articulate the benefits of a school-wide approach to building a trauma-sensitive environment.
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Culturally Responsive Core Curriculum in School Counseling
Presenter: Erika Iturio
Creating an environment of inclusion begins with fostering open dialogue about how our identities shape our learning experience. When students and staff are able to recognize their self identity, biases, privileges, marginalized experiences, generational trauma, we begin the healing process that leading us towards unity.
Grade-level: All grade-levels
Category: Equity & Access, Social Justice
Learning Objectives:
Know the importance of addressing social issues
Implementing core curriculum and aligning to ASCA mindsets & behaviors
Using CHKS data to address any social- emotional barriers
Fostering connectedness/resilience/self-advocacy
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Empowering Historically Underserved Students
Presenters: Vivian Hernandez & Donnae Prather
This workshop will cover a general overview of student groups that have been marginalized within the education system. It will also cover ways we can provide early intervention and prevention for students who are underserved. Also, strategies that can be implemented to support with academic development, career development, and social/emotional development.
Grade-level: All grade-levels
Category: Equity & Access, Social Justice, Special Populations, Student Voice, Engagement, and Connection
Learning Objectives:
Participants will be able to identity underserved students.
Participants will learn about a variety of resources for underserved students
Participants will have the skillset to work with underserved students
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First of Many!: Navigating College & Life As a First Generation Student
Presenter: Denise Villa
College and adulting can be intimidating, especially if you're the first in your family to go through this process. This presentation provides educators with tips and tools to support first-generation students as they get ready to navigate their college career, and explains why it's so important to do the best we can to support this population and work towards closing opportunity gaps by providing our students with a more equitable opportunity to succeed.
Grade-level: High School
Category: Academic, College & Career Readiness, Equity & Access, Mental Health
Learning Objectives:
Learn the benefits of speaking to an advisor
Comprehend the importance of supporting first-generation students
Identify interventions of support using MTSS
Gain knowledge of resources available to support students and parents
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The Importance of Increasing Connectedness in First Generation Students
Presenter: Brenda Ocampo & Amaris Gonzalez
This workshop is intended to discuss and illustrate how school counselors and educators can support first-generation students in becoming connected to their school culture, build trusting relationships with adults on campus, themselves and identify pathways after graduation. Through facilitating small groups and implementing effective and efficient lesson plans we are able to identify potential barriers and build skill sets for students to utilize as they navigate the educational system.
Grade-level: High School
Category: College & Career Readiness, Equity & Access, Self-Care, Student Voice, Engagement, and Connection
Learning Objectives:
Identify potential barriers in connectedness among first generation students
How to support first generation students academically and socially
Guide students in finding a strong support system
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LGBTQ+ Counselor Allyship: A Crash Course
Presenters: Melody Soto & Abel Mercado
Research tells us that in order for school counselors to be allies to all students, foundational knowledge and exposure are needed. However, there is little competency training in graduate programs related to LGBTQ+ populations. In this workshop, school counselors will learn from current SDSU school counseling graduate students how to create a safe and supportive learning environment for LGBTQ+ students. This presentation can serve as a crash course in supporting LGBTQ+ youth in schools and being an ally.
Grade-level: All grade-levels
Category: Equity & Access, Mental Health, Social Justice
Learning Objectives:
Attendees will learn about relevant research and data related to LGBTQ+ students and school counselor preparedness.
Attendees will be able to define what it means to be an ally.
Attendees will be able to implement evidence-based practices in order to create safe and supportive learning environments for LGBTQ+ students
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Race Lost: An Exploration of the Mixed Experience
Presenters: Anna Black-Hogins & Tony Roulhac
Our student populations continue to grow in diversity. Have our data systems kept up? We invite you to explore the experience of our mixed race, biracial, and multiracial students and colleagues. We say each student is unique, but is that represented in our systems and practices? Join us on a journey through the developmental stages of K-12 from a lens of multiracial students. We will explore the mixed experience, examine “mixed-erasure” in our data practices, and provide practical takeaways for our counselors and systems to implement.
Grade-level: All grade-levels
Category: Equity & Access, Social Justice, Social & Emotional Learning, Special Populations, Student Voice, Engagement, and Connection
Learning Objectives:
Recognizing and supporting multicultural experiences and intersectionality
Acknowledging mixed identity erasure because of data
Promoting positive mixed identity development
Deconstructing implicit bias in current systems and counseling practices through self archaeology
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Resilience Building with Indigenous Youth: Culturally Affirming Identity and Resilience Small Groups
Presenter: Meghan Koos
Native American and Indigenous (NAI) students bring a wealth of cultural strengths to the school setting, but these are often not recognized by educators as foundational building blocks for resilience. Native students also often have significant mental health needs, and it is imperative that school counselors recognize both the needs of Native students as well as the cultural strengths they carry, so that they can help students foster resilience in the face of historical trauma and other challenges. This session will describe a small group model for building resilience with NAI youth and will include examples of how to center Indigenous values and traditions, such as storytelling, through the small group approach. While the examples in this workshop will be from the elementary level, the principles can be applied across all grade levels.
Grade-level: All grade-levels
Category: Equity & Access, Mental Health, Social Justice, Social & Emotional Learning, Special Populations, Student Voice, Engagement, and Connection
After this session, participants should be able to:
1. Explain the importance of culturally informed interventions for Native American and Indigenous youth
2. Describe examples of how to build resilience in youth while centering Indigenous values and traditions and recognizing cultural assets
3. Begin planning small group interventions for Native American and Indigenous youth
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Supporting Students Transitioning to High School
Presenter: Michael Mensalvas & Kaylee Martinez
For this workshop, we plan on providing tips for counselors to assist and support ninth grade students as they transition to high school. The transition from eighth to ninth grade is difficult and rigorous and oftentimes requires more support for their academics as well as their mental health. We want to provide a workshop to prepare counselors to assist their students on the journey to being a successful high school student.
Grade-level: Middle & High School
Category: Academic, Self-Care
Learning Objectives:
Understand the rigorous schedules and the factors that may impact the transition between eighth and ninth graders.
Provide examples on how to support ninth graders when they first arrive on campus.
Collaborate with teachers on interventions to support students that are struggling with the transition.
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Tech Tools for School Counselors
Presenter: Karla Muratalla
In a virtual world, it can be challenging to navigate through the immense amount of technological resources available to school counselors even though technology is supposed to make the work simpler. Learn about various technologies that are simple to use and easily accessible to help your school counseling program be more efficient and effective in supporting student success. At the end of this workshop, you will be more confident and ready to use various tools for creating interactive presentations, recordings and discussion boards for your students.
Grade-level: All grade-levels
Category: Student Voice, Engagement, and Connection, Technology
Learning Objectives:
Identify various tech tools that can help improve your school counseling program
Create beautiful, interactive presentations and flyers to support your various activities
Know where to seek additional support for advancing your skills in a particular tool
Find free resources to save money on projects :)
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The Under Emphasis of Technical Education and
How We Can Support the Aspirations of All Students
Presenter: Ally Altemus
In this workshop, we will be discussing the future of technical education, current and future labor statistics, the current academic approach and connotation of trade schools in comparison to the college pathway and how, as school counselors, we can talk about and prioritize the trade pathway for some of the students we serve.
Grade-level: High School
Category: College & Career Readiness
Learning Objectives:
Participants will understand the psychological impacts of the current ways technical education is discussed both directly and indirectly
Participants will be able to identify a multitude of trades and the future job outlook for individuals in those trades,
Participants will be able to locate the necessary information students need to know how to enter a specific trades,
Participants will have a new perspective about how to talk about technical education with students in a way that uplifts and celebrates students on this pathway
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