Regrettably, our Spring Symposium is being postponed

until Monday, September 16, 2024.

Registration will reopen this fall.

Those that have registered - please check your emails.

Please also cancel your hotel stay if you booked that. 

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Uplifting Student Voice Through Equity In Action   

with Derek Francis, Michelle Sircy and Marsha Rutledge

School counselors have a pivotal role in ensuring that all students feel welcomed and seen given their unique identities.  As our country becomes more integrated and diverse, school counselors should help all students feel affirmed in their identities while also teaching skills to help students build connections with those similar and different from them. In order to create a school environment that is truly inclusive for all students, educators need awareness of systemic and interpersonal barriers that impact students from BIPOC and other historically marginalized backgrounds.  This session will focus on utilizing the ASCA Model through an equity lens.

Join us on Monday, March 4, 2024 as we work together to:

1. Examine your own social identities and the impact on building relationships across the diverse identities of students, staff and families.

2. Review the ASCA model and unpack strategies for implementing tenants of ASCA Equity in Action

3. Develop skills to lead equity focused small group and classroom lessons

4. Provide strategies to hear, respond and uplift student voice, particularly those who have been historically marginalized.

5. Practice an inquiry based approach to disaggregate and review data and to apply culturally responsive interventions
   

Registration Information:  Conference Cost includes breakfast, lunch, and afternoon snack

VSCA Members $90

Non Members $110

Retirees $85

Students $75

Registration prices increase on February 21, 2024!

VSCA Members $100

Non Members $125

Retirees $95

Students $85

A limited number of rooms are reserved at the Virginia Crossing Hotel and Conference Center for Sunday night, March 3 for $125. Please call to 888-444-6553 or 804-727-1400 to reserve your room - this discount ends February 18, 2024.

This Virginia School Counselor Association event  has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6606. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. The Virginia School Counselor Association is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.