Professional Artifacts

SCPE 1: Foundations of School Counseling Professional Standards

Reality Therapy goes over the concepts created by William Glasser on how the outer world goes through perceptual filters to describe our wants and behavioral output. This counseling theory can be utilized at schools by understanding students' WDEP (wants, direction, evaluation, planning) system by exploring the world through their lens. By understanding this theory, school counselors can help students find their strengths and create an action plan that aligns with their values.  

SCPE 2: Professionalism, Ethics, and Legal Mandates.

LGBTQ+ youth challenges within the school system discuss the challenges and California Educational Codes that support LGBTQ+ students in school. It articulateshow California Assembly Bill 827 (2015) and California Assembly Bill 5 (2023) support the students through requiring safe and supportive environments for students to learn. In addition, how the Department of Education has to finalize a curriculum for teachers by 2025 for LGBTQ cultural competency training. These two laws support the student's mental health function and education by having inclusive spaces in the school environment. 

SCPE 2: Professionalism, Ethics, and Legal Mandates

Ethics & School Counseling Essay covers applying an ethical decision-making process when identifying historic cases in the school counseling profession, like Tarasoff v. Regents of the University of California. By viewing past cases, one can understand and apply ethical and legal obligations to students, parents, administrators, and teachers by providing best practices in our scope of practice and understanding key local provisions in the school board policy. 

SCPE 3: Student Academic Development

 A-G Requirements powerpoint goes over the California UC and CSU requirements to enter to their four year universities. This powerpoint also goes over the high school graduation requirements by going over a 4-year plan for coursework while following the Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified School District requirements. 

SCPE 3: Student Academic Development

504 plan involves a fake student who has selective mutism and anxiety. It goes over their educational history, 504 eligibility, and what general accommodations can be done at the school to support the student. By understanding 504s, there is also an awareness and understanding of parent rights and processes associated with the Section 504 Plan accommodation program. 

SCPE 4: Student College and Career Development

The College and Career Exploration PowerPoint covers self and career assessments done through the CaliforniaColleges.edu portal. I supported them by helping the students navigate their career interests and aligning them with the Community Colleges located near the Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified School District. 

SCPE 4: Student College and Career Development

Created the Fullerton College Degree & Certificates glossary to help provide definitions that are easily accessible when applying educational transitional strategies through career development and exploration during student assessments. Each section includes a brief description of the certificate or degree type and a hyperlink to the page for that major to view the classes and timeline of courses. 

SCPE 5: Social/Emotional Development.

 The Empowering Yourself lesson plan focuses on the best practices for supporting students through a single classroom lesson on knowing what you can and cannot control when in conflict. The lesson plan focuses on what the students can do and allows them to think about how their own personal beliefs can have actions and consequences.  The lesson plan also includes a self-portrait on them writing what they can control inside of the person and what they cannot control outside of the portrait. It allows for the school counselor to see what actions the students perceive they can control. This lesson plan also was created with the CASEL 5 framework of self-management, social awareness, responsible decision-making, social skills, and relationship skills to meet the student's social and emotional learning. 

SCPE 5: Social/Emotional Development.

 Resources to support your child brochure goes over community partners/agencies the parents can reach out to in Orange County, California if a student needs additional support for behaviors observed under Depression/Anxiety, Gender Dysphoria, Eating Disorder, Substance Abuse, and/or Conduct Disorder. This brochure can be given after providing an initial assessment of a student's mental health needs, and the school counselor can then make appropriate external referral from the school site. 

SCPE 6: Educational Foundations: Growth and Development, Learning Theory, Academic Achievement

Learning Theories describe the synthesis of how learning happens through changes in behavior and the external events, and the viewpoint of classical and operant conditioning within a classroom setting. In addition, applying behavioral learning theories enables the development, presentation, and evaluation of a classroom lesson that addresses the diverse needs of learners.

SCPE 6: Educational Foundations: Growth and Development, Learning Theory, Academic Achievement

Start with Hello is a Tier 1 Universal Support for Positive Behavior Intervention Support (PBIS) to create a positive school climate that reduces bullying and social isolation. In the Anaheim Elementary School District (AESD), schools participate in this event during the first few weeks of school to ensure everyone is included. I collaborated with the school counselor to redesign the worksheet, making it more inviting for both upper and lower grade levels. 

SCPE 7: Leadership and Advocacy in Social Justice, Equity, and Access

Poster on How School Counselors Can Support Immigrant and Refugee Students. The poster covers the barriers and ability to understand and apply cultural and social justice competencies with marginalized populations. This can include Family involvement, programmatic support in schools, the Refugee Well-Being Project, and implications school counselors can do by connecting the families to resources and collaborating with stakeholders to provide a holistic school environment. 

SCPE 7: Leadership and Advocacy in Social Justice, Equity, and Access

Achievement Gap essay was completed during my practicum, where I observed the gaps in the system under chronic absenteeism that created an equity gap. This assignment laid the foundation and served as the catalyst for my transition to my capstone project at my fieldwork site, where I analyzed chronic absenteeism among Hispanic students in elementary schools. I was able to reflect on my findings and continue to collaborate with multiple stakeholders, both at my practicum site, during fieldwork, and at other schools across Orange County. As such, I was able to understand and demonstrate the school counselor’s role as a leader, advocate, and systems change agent based on leadership and change theory, leading to equitable outcomes.

SCPE 8: Program Development

Annual Calendar Development reviews the plan and development of a comprehensive school counseling program over a yearly and weekly calendar that meets the needs of diverse learners while connecting to the overall school plan. The presentation also highlights three school counseling goals for attendance, behavior, and academics through the SMART goal format that is data-driven and supports the students through the Multi-Tiered, Multi-Domain System of Support.

SCPE 8: Program Development

Bomb Threat Analysis was a project I collaborated with peers on to see how a school counselor's role supports students ' social-emotional development, while collaborating with other stakeholders to provide a safe environment. The analysis reflected on similar cases occurring at different school sites, and a plan was developed for prospective school counselors to address similar situations through program development. 

SCPE 9: Research, Program Evaluation, and Technology

AVID/UCI School of Medicine collaboration involves disaggregating data and using the statistics to support UCI's future research on how providing healthcare career information to students in Title 1 schools can change their perspective on going into healthcare. The disaggregated data involved pre- and post-data collection of the students who attended the healthcare seminar split into each grade level. 

SCPE 9: Research, Program Evaluation, and Technology

School data summary was completed during my practicum at Concordia University Irvine, when I was shadowing the school counselor at Olive Street Elementary in AESD. I researched the rates of Chronic Absenteeism and Suspension rates through DataQuest, while also reflecting on the school's improvement plan. Afterwards, I identified and prioritized data points to address through the school counselor program, such as decreasing externalizing behaviors, chronic absenteeism, and students scoring moderate scores in the Brief Externalizing and Internalizing Screener for Youth (BEISY) as outcome data for the school counseling program activities.