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The ASCA Student Standards: Mindsets & Behaviors for Student Success describe the knowledge, skills and attitudes students need to achieve academic success, college and career readiness and …

The ASCA-Certified School Counselor ® (ACSC ®) certification demonstrates school counselor knowledge in designing, implementing and assessing a school counseling program.

The 36 ASCA Student Standards are broad standards that identify and describe the knowledge, attitudes and skills students should be able to demonstrate as a result of a school counseling program.

The American School Counselor Association (ASCA) is a profes-sional organization supporting school counselors, school coun-seling students/interns, school counseling program directors/ supervisors …

As the role of the school counselor became clarified further, ASCA adopted 250:1 as the optimal ratio, which reflects the goal that school counselors spend 80% of their time in direct and indirect student …

Use the ASCA Student Standards to guide the focus of strat-egies in classroom, large-group, small-group and individual settings to improve life-readiness and achievement for each and every student

Effective state school counselor credentialing/licensing laws and regulations align with the ASCA School Counselor Professional Standards & Competencies (2019b) to ensure highly qualified and trained …

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“The ASCA National Model: A Framework for School Counseling Programs” outlines the components of a school counseling program and brings school counselors together with one vision and one voice, …