Facilitating Evidence-Based, Data-Driven School Counseling: A Manual for Practice

The book, while quite comprehensive, is also easy to read and provides realistic examples, clear templates, and step-by-step strategies that ease the stress of what is often seen as an overwhelming process.
This book is really like nothing I have seen before; it provides succinct and straight-forward tools to assist school counselors in marrying data-based decision-making practices with evidenced-based school counseling to create successful outcomes and achieve RAMP. This is a school counselor's dream!
Facilitating Evidence-Based, Data-Driven School Counseling provides an all-encompassing way to implement data-driven practices in school. Starting with the creation of mission and vision statements and ending with advocacy efforts, the authors outline specific ways school counselors can integrate evidence-based interventions in their programming to positively impact student outcomes.
This manual has a clear and welcome place in the professional development and training of school counselors. Complimenting other well-established texts on data usage in the practice of school counseling, it provides school counselors the specific how-to, step-by-step directions they crave in a simple, user-friendly format.
Facilitating Evidence-Based, Data-Driven School Counseling Program: A Manual for Practice provides a structure one can use when writing a school improvement plan and provides an opportunity for counselors to collaborate with administrators to develop a shared vision and plan for academic success.

Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Chapter 1. The Process
Purpose
The ASCA National Model and Evidence-Based, Data-Driven Comprehensive School Counseling
Definitions
Chapter 2. Assessing the Situation
Purpose of Assessing the Situation
Assessing the Situation
School Improvement Plan
Achievement or Achievement-Related Data: School Report Card
Needs Assessments
Combining the Assessment Pieces
Fulfilling Components of RAMP
Chapter 3. Setting Goals
Purpose of Setting Goals
Data-Driven Decision-Making
A Final Note on Data: Data Collected Annually
Using a Logic Model
Drilling Down: Global Versus Specific Data
Setting Goals: Who and What but Not How—Yet
Using SMART Goals Template
Fulfilling Components of RAMP
Chapter 4. Beliefs, Mission, and Vision
Beliefs
Mission
Vision
Fulfilling Components of RAMP
Chapter 5. Interventions
Purpose of Intentional Interventions
Why Evidence-Based Interventions?
Evidence-Based Interventions Matrix
Implement With Fidelity
Refine Goals: State Interventions as a Subparagraph to the Goal
Illustrating Goals and Interventions in Logic Model
Organizing Interventions Using Umbrellas
Fulfilling Components of RAMP
Chapter 6. Evaluation and Evolution
Purpose of Evaluation and Evolution
Designing Evaluation
About Pre- and Post-Assessments
Creating Baselines
Organizing Data: Excel Spreadsheets
Analysis
Implications
A Complete Logic Model
Fulfilling Components of RAMP
Chapter 7. Disseminating Results and Sustaining the Program
Purpose of Sustaining the Program
Advertising and Disseminating Information
Flashlights: Trish Hatch
Adding Components Into the School Improvement Plan
Fulfilling Components of RAMP
Conclusions
Appendices
References
Index

Shift to a data-driven school counselling model with visual guides and checklists, examples of successful counselling program evolution, guidance on RAMP applications, and online resources.