From:	Andrea Radmilovich [aradmilovich@guhsd.net]
Sent:	Friday, March 06, 2009 5:22 PM
To:	trish@hatchingresults.com; thatch@mail.sdsu.edu
Subject:	Great News From Grossmont Union High School Distric
Attachments:	_AVG certification_.txt

Hi Trish!

Well......our superintendent is completely thrilled with all the work our 
counselors have been doing all year.  AND, because we have presented so much 
data through our SPARC reports (every school in our district wrote one - all 9 
of them) and through our work with our Post Secondary Planning Initiative, he 
is recommending to the board that NO counselor in our district gets cut.

Ironically, after attending your conference last Thursday and Friday, every 
school is still preparing a data-based presentation for me to give to the 
board along with all of our SPARC reports.  We have already done a big 
presentation for the board in December about our Post Secondary Planning 
Initiative, so this would be follow up.  At that December board meeting, each 
counselor was also recognized for all their hard work so far this year with 
our Post-Secondary Planning Initiative.  We have really worked hard to market 
what counselors do and shown the data to prove that counselors matter.

I really need to thank you for all your help and guidance; I have learned so 
much about counseling and the importance of data-driven results from you.  I 
know you and Dr. Lonnie Rowell have trained most of the counselors in this 
district, and they are amazing.  We have literally saved our own jobs through 
data-driven, research-based, hard work using the ASK model.  And, because of 
Dr. Rowell's work through USD, his graduate students have written an ARC to 
show that our on-line career program, COIN, is helping students make college 
and career choices earlier.

Today, the superintendent sent a report to everyone in the district letting us 
know that because of the counselors' hard work, "...the Board has directed us 
to offset any reduction to current counselors because of the significant 
impact it would have on the implementation of our Individual Graduation Plan 
and Post-Secondary Plan initiatives."  I just can't believe it.  Our 
superintendent is to be commended for his support of counselors, and our 
counselors are to be commended for their work all year and for getting their 
SPARC reports done, and for getting data involving the PSP initiative.  By the 
end of the year, we hope to have 100% of our seniors with a post secondary 
plan.  That is amazing. 

Thank you for everything.................now the hard work continues.  
Hopefully the board continues to agree with our superintendent.  I was just 
crying with our superintending just saying, "Thank you, thank you."  He just 
said, "Keep up the great work, Rad."  It was awesome.  I hope you know your 
impact, Trish.  We really all are a 'team' of counselors.

rad


Andrea Radmilovich
Director of Curriculum and Instruction
Grossmont Union High School District
Phone:  619-644-8037
Fax:  619-462-5721