Guidance & Placement News & Updates
Counselors Complete Five-Year Project to Develop Missouri Comprehensive Guidance Program
We greatly appreciate all the individuals who assisted in the development of the Missouri Comprehensive Guide Program. Some of the members of the curriculum writing team met in Columbia, Mo., at the conclusion of this year’s work.
Standing (from left): Jennifer Boyer, Kent Butler, Haley Arnold, Matt Boyer, Lani Gordon, Sherie Wymore, Gay Baer, Jill Krickbaum, Jill Evans, Greta Myers, Dianne Logan Parr, Catherine Simpson, Brenda McGowen, Marci Dowdy, Bethany Lueckenhoff, Linda Lueckenhoff, Christine Barnes, and Larae Watkins; Seated (from left): Jan Ward, Bragg Stanley, Suzie Williams, Ruth Ann Clark, Karen Bader, Lee Bunch, Cindy Collins, Sharon Sevier, and Jan Speck; Kneeling (from left): Carolyn Roof and Carolyn Magnuson
This group of counselors (and many more not pictured above) volunteered many weekends and evenings of personal time to work on this long-term project. Their professionalism and dedication during the years enabled the project to be successfully completed.
As a result of this project, professional school counselors throughout the state and beyond are benefiting from new and updated resources for their comprehensive guidance programs.
The completed work is available on the Guidance eLearning Center.
School Counselors as CTE Stakeholders
A brief by the National Association of State Directors of Career Technical Education Consortium and the American School Counselor Association discusses the integral role that school counselors play in successfully guiding students. Missouri's comprehensive guidance program is highlighted.
- Brief (pdf)
Study Identifies Predictors of College and Career Readiness
ACT, Inc. has released the “The Forgotten Middle: Ensuring that All Students Are on Target for College and Career Readiness before High School” report.
Students are often deemed eligible for different types of services as a result, in part, of an administration of an individual intelligence test. The position paper from the National Association for Gifted Children below gives some guidelines to be considered when using the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children, Fourth Edition (WISC-IV) for determination of eligibility.
National Association for Gifted Children Position Paper
Military Recruiting in Missouri Public Schools
- Advisory Committee Recommendations on Recruiting (pdf)
- Advisory Committee Letter on Recommendations (pdf)