The
Evidence-Based
School Counseling
Conference
The Evidence-based School Counseling Conference provides school counselors and educational stakeholders with professional development in effective cutting-edge school counseling program components and interventions that can create dynamic and powerful school counseling programs. In addition, the EBSCC provides a venue for school counselor educators to share effective strategies especially related to evidence-based practices and other innovations in school counselor training.
The Evidence-based School Counseling Conference highlights emerging interventions created by innovative school counselors and leading edge research produced by school counselor educators from around the country.
Conference Focus
Identifying Effective School Counseling Program Components and Interventions
  • Developing student academic success
  • Closing opportunity gaps
  • Supporting students' social and emotional well-being
  • Promoting mental health and wellness
  • Using efficacious college and career counseling models and methods
  • Advocating for the needs of all students
  • Creating positive school cultures
  • Improving coordination of services
  • Serving as a change agent
  • Documenting RAMP components
    • Using Evidence-Based Practices
  • Making data-based decisions
  • Choosing evidence-based interventions that meet student needs
  • Implementing interventions with fidelity
  • Evaluating outcomes
  • Identifying measures, instruments, and methods for documenting school counseling program impact and outcomes
  • Using applicable research methods and statistical analysis
  • Employing relevant program evaluation approaches and models
  • Writing grant proposals and other funding requests
    • Innovations in School Counseling
  • Generating new methods and models for working effectively with all students
  • Conducting and identifying cutting edge research related to evidence-based school counseling
  • Developing evidence-based practices
  • Creating documented school improvement
  • School counseling program components, interventions, or activities designed to address systemic injustice and inequities
    • Pre-Conference
    Research Day
    In addition to the two regular conference days, The Evidence-Based School Counseling Conference is pleased to present a pre-conference Research Day focused on equipping school counselor educators, school counseling practitioners, and other educational stakeholders with the methodological, evaluation and writing skills to successfully implement school counseling research agendas.