Evaluations Please complete your evaluations and turn them

Evaluations Please complete your evaluations and turn them in before we get started.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT JANUARY 31, 2014 ISIC Pupil Services

Three Words INSPIRE MOTIVATE ACHIEVE • Next Steps • Do we want to make the posters for our three words or do we want Steve and Sonia to take care of that? • How can we creatively present our three words during the filming? • Do we want to wear something that unifies us as a group (ex. certain colors, clothing)? • Does anyone want to do something similar individually at your school site with your students to supplement ISIC’s portion?

Admin Updates • • • Welligent Pilot Project Worker’s Compensation/FMLA Training Interns Survey - Everyone should complete Non-Public Schools (NPS) & SARB New Time Reporting Protocol Assignment Changes

Assignment Changes PSA Counselor From To (Diego Rivera Learning Complex) Open Sub-list Green Design Community School – 3 Days Sun Valley High School – 2 Days Sagrario Gonzales Start February 10, 2014 (Contreras Learning Complex) Business & Tourism – 2 ½ Days School of Social Justice – 2 ½ Days Vanessa Ramirez Welcome Back! Gompers MS – 5 Days Mark Trujillo City Partnership – ½ Day Gompers MS – 2 Days YES Academy – 2 Days City Partnership – ½ Day Gates ES – 2 Days YES Academy – 2 Days Canyon ES – ½ Day

Pair Share Peer Review • Goals • Identify how ESC staff can provide additional direct support to school based counselors. • Identify best practices that can be shared with our peers. • Central PSA will contact you to schedule a date and time to review. • Complete self survey prior to arrival. • Information gathered will be used to drive future trainings and/or presentations

Next Monthly Strategies Power. Point

Reflection and Goals for the New Year Copyright-2013 © Los Angeles Unified School District - All rights reserved

Facts about Reflections and Goals • • • Learning is both an active and reflective process (Burns, Dimock and Martinez, 2000) Though we learn by doing, constructing, building, talking, and writing, we also learn by thinking about events, activities and experiences (Burns, Dimock and Martinez, 2000) Opportunities for reflection should occur at the beginning, middle and the end of the school year. (Parrillo, 1994) That way students can take note of their learning starting point, assess their progress mid-year and critically evaluate their own learning at the end of the school year Reflection activities allow students a sense of intellectual ownership and a better understanding of oneself and one's own abilities (Burns, Dimock and Martinez, 2000) Students can learn to use their creative and critical thinking skills to help prepare for, succeed in, and learn from attendance improvement strategies in order to be better prepared for the future (Parrillo, 1994) Copyright-2013 © Los Angeles Unified School District - All rights reserved

Reflection and Goal Setting: Questions for Self & Students • What is something we did this year that you think you will remember for the rest of your life? • What is something you accomplished this year that you are proud of? • What have been some of the barriers for attending school this year? • Where is your favorite place in our classroom (or school)? • What is something that was hard for you at the start of the year, but is easy now? • In what area do you feel you made your biggest improvements? • What are three most important things you learned this year? • Is there anything you will do differently this year/semester? • What are two goals you have for the rest of this school year? • What are goals you have for five years from today (where would you like to be and what would you like to be doing)? • What steps will you take, today and in the future, to achieve Copyright-2013 © Los Angeles Unified School District - All rights reserved

Reflection and Goal Setting: Questions for Teachers • What are some things you accomplished this year that you are proud of? • What is something you tried in your classroom this year for the first time? How did it go? • What is something you found particularly frustrating this year? • Which student in your class do you think showed the most improvement? Why do you think this student did so well? • What is something you would change about this year if you could? • What is one way that you grew professionally this year? • Who amongst your colleagues was the most helpful to you? • What has caused you the most stress this year? • Is there anything you will do differently this year/semester? • What are two goals you have for the rest of this school year? • What are goals you have for five years from today (where would you like to be and what would you like to be doing)? Copyright-2013 © Los Angeles Unified School District - All rights reserved • What steps will you take, today and in the future, to achieve

Bulletin Board Ideas - Elementary

Bulletin Board Ideas - Secondary

Where we are: Attendance Bands through December 2013 Instructional Days = 85 Advanced Proficient Basic Below Basic Far Below Basic Perfect Attendance! -Maintain- Outstanding Attendance! 1 -3 absences -Maintain- At-Risk Attendance: 4 -6 absences -Early Intervention- At-Risk Attendance: 7 -11 absences -Early Intervention- Highly At-Risk Attendance: 12 or more absences -Early and Intensive Intervention. Copyright - 2013 © LAUSD, All Rights Reserved

Where we are going: Attendance Bands at the end of the school year Instructional Days = 180 Advanced Proficient Basic Below Basic Far Below Basic 0 ABSENCES 1 -7 ABSENCES 8 -14 ABSENCES 15 -23 ABSENCES MORE THAN 23 ABSENCES Copyright - 2013 © LAUSD, All Rights Reserved

JANUARY/FEBRUARY ELEMENTARY TIERED SUPPORT PROFICIENT/ADVANCED ATTENDANCE: • Recognize students with proficient/advanced attendance through the month of December on the Bulletin Board • Send home a recognition letter to parents. • Organize a Day without an Absence the first week of school in January. • Send home a letter home announcing the 100 th Day of School Grade Level Classroom Competition Kick-Off. BASIC ATTENDANCE: • Send home a letter home announcing the 100 th Day of School Grade Level Classroom Competition Kick-Off. • Create a New Year, New Beginning Attendance Pledge Medallion and send it home to parents to sign and return to school. Display medallion’s on school fence or bulletin board. BELOW/FAR BELOW BASIC ATTENDANCE: • Send home a letter home announcing the 100 th Day of School Grade Level Classroom Competition Kick-Off. • Create a New Year, New Beginning Attendance Pledge Medallion and send it home to parents to sign and return to school. Display medallion’s on school fence or bulletin board. • Hold COST meeting to discuss students with most severe academic and socio-emotional issues/concerns. *All students should receive an attendance progress report Copyright-2013 © Los Angeles Unified School District - All rights reserved

JANUARY/FEBRUARY SECONDARY TIERED SUPPORT PROFICIENT/ADVANCED ATTENDANCE: • Recognize students with proficient/advanced attendance through the month of December on the Bulletin Board • Issue incentives to students with proficient/advanced attendance through the month of December (e. g. A ticket student can redeem for a snack once a week in the month of January). • Create a New Year, New Beginning Attendance Pledge Poster for students to sign in each Advisory Room and display it on classroom door. BASIC ATTENDANCE: • Issue tickets to students with perfect attendance on a weekly basis which they can redeem at the end of January (e. g. snack, pass, incentive, etc). • Hold ACE (Attendance Counts for Everyone) Meeting for students with 5 or more absences. BELOW/FAR BELOW BASIC ATTENDANCE: • Hold COST meeting to discuss students with most severe academic and socio-emotional issues/concerns. *All students should receive an attendance progress report Copyright-2013 © Los Angeles Unified School District - All rights reserved

Information that can be shared with grade level team On February 3 (the 100 th day of school), some students in the Basic attendance band will have 8 absences and no longer be able to meet attendance goal at end of the year. January is an important month to provide focused support to engage students in the Basic band. • Identify number of students in each band per class School-wide attendance trends • Grade level comparison Changes in attendance percentage on milestones (25 th day, 50 th day, etc. ) • Point out increase in rates • If there is a decrease, discuss possible reasons why (i. e. extended vacation days, illness, etc. ) Copyright-2013 © Los Angeles Unified School District - All rights reserved

Upcoming Milestones 100 th Day of School! – February 3, 2014 Maximum Number of Absences at Each Tier by Instructional Day Calendar Date February 3, 2014 Instructional Day LESS THAN 87% (Far Below Basic) 87 -91% (Below Basic) 92 -95% (Basic) 96 -99% (Proficien t) 100% (Advance d) 100 14 or more 13 8 4 0 Copyright-2013 © Los Angeles Unified School District - All rights reserved

Monthly Attendance Trends • What’s affecting attendance at this point in the year? • Extending Winter Break • Not returning on Monday, January 13 th • Change in weather increases absences • Students stay home when it rains/cold • Students health affected • Illness/Cold/Flu • Asthma • President’s Day Observed Monday, February 17, 2014 Copyright-2013 © Los Angeles Unified School District - All rights reserved

Looking Ahead February 3 rd – 100 th Day of School February 12 th – Lincoln’s Birthday (not observed) February 17 th – President’s Day Copyright-2013 © Los Angeles Unified School District - All rights reserved

January Awards 100% Attendance Submittal Best Student Attendance Perfect Attendance

100% Attendance Submittal (Month of December) School PSA Counselor Coliseum ES Kendis Wilbourne Crenshaw STEMM Magnet Micquelyn Jones Jordan HS Marquez HS - HPIAM Marquez HS - LIBRA Marquez HS – Social Justice Stevenson MS Vista MS YES Academy Armond Mc Daniels Graciela Ortiz Tania Martinez Jose Diaz Mark Trujillo

Best Student Attendance (Cumulative through December, 2013) PSA Counselo r Elementar Kendis y School Wilbourne School Hillcrest ES Students at 96% (with 96% minimum submittal rate) 70. 6% Middle School Tania Stevenson Martinez MS 80. 9% High School Maureen Greeley 74. 9% Banning HS

Perfect Attendance Wall of Fame (Cumulative through December, 2013) Micquelyn Jones Armond Mc Daniels Marco Rodriguez Wanda Soo. Hoo

Operation School Bell @ GLAYS Counselor Spotlight Sandra Guevara

Newsletters (October & November)

Newsletters (December & February)

Thank You! To Everyone Who Participated in Operation School Bell on Wheels @ YES Academy

Operation School Bell on Wheels

Operation School Bell on Wheels

Operation School Bell on Wheels

Operation School Bell on Wheels

Operation School Bell on Wheels

Operation School Bell on Wheels

Operation School Bell on Wheels

Operation School Bell on Wheels

December Birthdays • Judi Hunt • December 5 th • Estella Robinson • December 8 th • Valerie Corcoran • December 29 th

January Birthdays • Richard Croucier • January 2 nd • Armond Mc. Daniels • January 22 nd • Rafael Rubalcava • January 27 th

Due Dates • Today, January 31, 2014 • Mileage Forms for December & January • Multi-Funded Time Reports for December & January • Friday, February 7, 2014 • Monthly Summary of Services for January • Fax or E-mail All Documents to Valerie, cc: Wanda • Fax # (213) 241 -2031

Next Meeting ESC East - Soto Street Day – Tuesday Date – February 18, 2014 Time – 1: 00 pm – 4: 30 pm Address – 2151 N. Soto Street City – Los Angeles, 90032

Baby 2 Baby (Crocs & Diapers)

Baby 2 Baby (Crocs & Diapers)

Donation Item Giveaway • Rules for Accepting the Donation Item: 1. The item must be used as an attendance incentive award. 2. PSA counselor needs to document the donation being used with a short write up and a picture! 3. If the winner does not want to use the donation, he or she can give it to another counselor, who would then need to adhere to Rules 1 & 2

Last Month’s Donations Ross Gift Cards How did you use it to improve attendance?

This Month’s Donation Movie Tickets And the winners are…

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