Needs assessment school counseling

Conducting a school counseling needs assessment is a great way to collect data to inform your comprehensive school counseling program. This post shares ideas and tips to make the most of it!

Download a free school counseling needs assessment to get the ball rolling on your curriculum map for classroom guidance lessons!

When attending a conference like ASCA 2013, there is a lot to learn - including learning about a whole bunch of things that I "should" be doing that I'm not. I welcome the growth opportunities....but at times I felt myself saying "where have I been?" Completing a needs assessment is one of those things that I "should be doing". I found myself asking why I never did one of these. Maybe it was because I felt like I was so involved in the school community that I had a handle on the needs of my…

Needs Assessments can be a pain for School Counselors. I have created a way to make the painless and easy-peasy! Check out how I do Needs Assessments!

Needs Assessment - Counselor Keri.pdf

Starting from scratch with school counseling needs assessments? Read on to see what I do to create a needs assessment format for my students!

Being a new school counselor is exciting and overwhelming. In the first month, make connections, spend time lisenting, and stay visible.

School Counseling End of Year Needs Assessment using Google Forms

Heading into my 19th year as an urban elementary school counselor, I was thinking the other day about what it would be like to be a novice school counselor again. Back then, when I began, I remember feeling on my own - we didn't have a written K-12 curriculum, we didn't have suicide or threat risk assessment documents and we didn't have many guidelines. I was forced to use what I learned in graduate school and from ASCA to do what I thought was best for the students and staff. I remember…