How School Counselors Contribute to Student Success
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Thursday January 10, 2013 8:24 Bryan Toporek |
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Thursday January 10, 2013 4:22 Gene Eakin |
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Thursday January 10, 2013 4:30 Liana Heitin |
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Thursday January 10, 2013 4:31 Gene Eakin |
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Thursday January 10, 2013 4:31 Liana Heitin |
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Thursday January 10, 2013 4:31 Gene Eakin |
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Thursday January 10, 2013 4:31 Lori DeKruyf |
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Thursday January 10, 2013 4:34 Lori DeKruyf |
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Thursday January 10, 2013 4:35 Gene Eakin |
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Thursday January 10, 2013 4:36 Gene Eakin |
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Thursday January 10, 2013 4:37 Pete Teller |
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Thursday January 10, 2013 4:38 Gene Eakin |
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Thursday January 10, 2013 4:38 Lori DeKruyf |
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Thursday January 10, 2013 4:39 Lori DeKruyf |
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Thursday January 10, 2013 4:40 Gene Eakin |
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Thursday January 10, 2013 4:41 Liana Heitin |
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Thursday January 10, 2013 4:43 Gene Eakin |
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Thursday January 10, 2013 4:43 Lori DeKruyf |
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Thursday January 10, 2013 4:46 Lori DeKruyf |
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Thursday January 10, 2013 4:47 Gene Eakin |
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Thursday January 10, 2013 4:48 Lori DeKruyf |
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Thursday January 10, 2013 4:50 Gene Eakin |
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Thursday January 10, 2013 4:52 Liana Heitin |
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Thursday January 10, 2013 4:52 Amy Gleason Carroll |
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Thursday January 10, 2013 4:53 Lori DeKruyf |
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Thursday January 10, 2013 4:54 Gene Eakin |
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Thursday January 10, 2013 4:56 Liana Heitin |
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Thursday January 10, 2013 4:57 Gene Eakin |
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Thursday January 10, 2013 4:58 Lori DeKruyf |
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Thursday January 10, 2013 5:05 Gene Eakin |
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Thursday January 10, 2013 5:12 Gene Eakin |
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Thursday January 10, 2013 5:21 Gene Eakin |
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Thursday January 10, 2013 5:23 Gene Eakin |
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Thursday January 10, 2013 5:25 Lori DeKruyf |
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Thursday January 10, 2013 5:25 Gene Eakin |
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How School Counselors Contribute to Student Success
Thursday, Jan. 10, 2013, 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. ETWith the advent of the Common Core State Standards, there's been more focus than ever on increasing students' college- and career-readiness. And while school counselors may not provide direct academic instruction, they undoubtedly play a sizeable role in ensuring students are successful both during and after their K-12 experience.
In this chat, Gene Eakin, the school counseling program lead at Oregon State University, and Lori DeKruyf, director of the school counseling program at George Fox University, discussed the many ways counselors are integral to both social-emotional and academic learning. They answered your questions on how schools can balance teaching students the three R's and "soft skills" such as grit, motivation, and self-regulation, which some experts claim are more critical to student achievement.
Dr. Gene Eakin, Ph.D. is the School Counseling Program Lead at Oregon State University and teaches classes at both the M.S. and Ph.D. levels. He is a veteran school counselor with 28 years part- or full-time experience at the high school level. He is an American School Counselor Association site-based trainer on enhancing intrinsic motivation and the advocacy chair for the Oregon School Counselor Association. He has done advocacy workshops for school counselors and school counselor educators and is involved in efforts to increase funding for school counselors.

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