WORK PLAN

Wisconsin School Counselor Association MISSION

To advance the profession of school counseling, preschool through post-secondary education, in order to maximize the academic, career, and personal-social growth of all students.

2011-2013 WSCA Work Plan (two year plan)

ARTICLE I :   Promote professional development of school counselors and graduate students in training.
Maintenance:

• Hold WSCA LDI (President)
• Maintain Summer Academy (Professional Development & Education)
• Hold WSCA Annual Conference (Conference)
• Maintain support and training of WSCA Model/ASCA Model (Professional Development & Education)
• Maintain Fall Summit (Professional Development & Education)
• Publish CounseLink three times per year (Publications)
• Promote and increase WSCA and ASCA memberships (Membership)
• Promote professional development opportunities for graduate students (Graduate Student)

New Opportunities

1. Develop emerging leaders – add non-board member committee members  (President Elect)
2. Enhance cultural competence of all counselors  (Professional Development & Education)

ARTICLE II:  Promote partnerships and collaboration with stakeholders and educational professionals to benefit school counselors and students.
Maintenance:

• Promote website with key stakeholders (Public Relations)
• Provide scholarships to high school students for post-secondary education (Professional Recognition)

New Opportunities

1. Sponsorships/Partnerships (Public Relations)
2. Facebook/Twitter/Social Media presence (Public Relations)

ARTICLE III:  Give direction to issues of concern to school counselors as well as to promote and advocate for the profession of school counseling.
Maintenance:

• Develop promotional materials (Public Relations)
• Maintain content of website (President)
• Recognize outstanding school counselors, and individuals or professionals who positively impact the school counseling profession (Professional Recognition)
• SPARC-W to administrators/legislators (Professional Development & Education)
• Archive publications on website (Publications)
• Provide Scholarships to Grad Students (Professional Recognition)

New Opportunities

1. Communicate/highlight school counselor work being done across the state (Professional Recognition)
2. Promote use of WSCAscene (Public Relations)

ARTICLE IV Promote legislative agendas on a state and federal level that positively impact school counselors in Wisconsin
Maintenance

• Legislative updates in monthly e-newsletters (Government Relations)
• Day on the hill (Government Relations)

New Opportunities

1. Educate school counselors and graduate students on the importance of being politically active (Government Relations)
2. Research the feasibility of a Lobbyist (Government Relations)

ARTICLE V Promote the practice of on-going research and evaluation of the school counseling profession in Wisconsin and the WSCA organization
Maintenance:

• Provide research based tools to evaluate school counselor performance (Research and Evaluation)
• Promote RAMP (Recognized ASCA Model Program) for program evaluation (Research and Evaluation)
• Research page on website (Research and Evaluation)

New Opportunities:

1. Review past outcome study data, prepare summary document, and present to the Board (Research and Evaluation)
2. Promote future research related to the WCSCM (Research and Evaluation)