Hatching Results® professional learning specialists bring decades of experience in a variety of school counseling and leadership related areas. Our expert team can offer your district anything from a one-day PD event in a specific topic area to a comprehensive multi-year customized package that includes a complete program evaluation and recommendations for professional learning aligned with the needs of your school counselors and administrators. Below is a sample of PD services we provide. Let us know how we can assist your district to improve school counseling programs for students.

School-wide & District-wide School Counseling Program Analysis

Our expert team has years of experience leading and managing district and site school counseling programs. Our site visit will include a complete and candid external evaluation and analysis of your site or district school counseling program with recommendations improving efficiency and effectiveness.

The ASCA National Model

Our professional learning specialists have years of experience training school districts in implementing the American School Counselor Association (ASCA) National Model. Whether your district is looking for comprehensive systemic change or a booster in one or more areas, our specialists can help you move your program forward!

Data Proficiency

Take the “four letter word” out of data. This customized professional learning service provides everything you want to know about the different types of data, forming and implementing Data-Based-Decision-Making (DBDM) teams, utilizing data to design interventions, and creating systemic change. Can also be taught to advanced groups for those who want to create custom data tools for evaluating school counseling programs.

ASCA RAMP

Applying for RAMP (Recognized ASCA Model Program)? Our specialists have won RAMP Awards, scored RAMP applications, mentored winning districts and participates in improving the RAMP application process. Let us provide executive coaching and supports to help you on the “Road to RAMP”.

Solution Focused School Counseling

This professional learning service teaches solution focused counseling techniques. Designed for use by school counselors and administrators, this training will help school counselors save time and improve outcomes for students.

Technology/Time Trackers

Our expert technology specialists will introduce technology in small steps or take your tech team to the next level. Whether it’s a website, Google Docs, Excel, time trackers, etc., our school counselor technology experts work with you to create a professional learning package to meet your needs.

K-8 School Counseling

Elementary and middle schools require professional learning that focuses on the developmental needs of younger students. School counselors learn how to use data to design school-wide activities and interventions focused on using data to create safe learning environments and improve student engagement, school connectivity, and successful student behaviors. Our professional learning supports school counselors implementing Response to Intervention (RtI), Positive Behavior Intervention Support (PBIS), conflict resolution programs, and parent and family education programs.

High School (Secondary School) Counseling

Whatever your high school counselor program needs, we have a professional learning specialist ready to assist. Our specialists have experience leading Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) completion improvement projects, student focused master schedule building activities, school counselors and the accreditation process, drop out prevention and alternative education, college/career readiness programs, 9th grade transition programs and summer camps, designing classroom curriculum, coordinating advisory programs, managing college access partners, parent and family education, and more.

College/Career Readiness

How do school counselors ensure comprehensive delivery of college and career readiness into their K-12 programs? This professional learning service includes dispelling the myth of students of color, students or poverty and first generation youth. How do school counselors design and implement an equitable program that promotes access and equity for all students? This training provides a comprehensive approach through use of data, research and technology.

Action Plans/Pre-Post/Results

How do I write an action plan? Design lesson plans? Create pre/post assessments? Report results? Flashlights? This hands-on professional learning work session presumes school counselors and administrators are already “on board” with implementing evidence based school counseling programs, and seek targeted assistance in completing documentation.

Equity-Centered Professional Learning

Our equity-centered professional learning is for educators and organizations committed to proactively growing their multicultural knowledge, skills, and habits to create a more inclusive school environment. The overarching outcome of this professional learning series is for educators to gain a better awareness of blind spots in their personal and cultural knowledge to better support all students, with a particular focus on those from underrepresented populations.

Grant Writing/Evaluation

This professional learning service focuses on teaching the ins-and-outs of writing federal school counseling grants. Taught by experienced grant writers who will share all their material, this training seeks to support districts and grant writers in successful writing and evaluating of grants.

Grant Implementation

Did you receive a grant to fund professional learning for your school counseling program (such as the Comprehensive Counseling Initiative for Indiana K-12 Students or the Elementary or Secondary School Counseling grant)? Need PD to implement it? Our professional learning specialists are experienced school counselors who have worked on grants that led to sustainability of funding for school counseling programs.

Human Resources

Hatching Results® professional learning specialists have administrative experience at site and central offices. We provide professional learning and/or consultation to support re-designing job descriptions, creating evaluation tools, recruiting and hiring school counselors, creating interview questions and identifying what to look for to ensure you hire the best of today's school counselors.

It’s All About Time

Managing times and talents can be a challenge for school counselors. This professional learning service helps school counselors become more efficient and effective by learning ways to utilize tools to manage time. May include discussions for redesigning programs, job descriptions, and evaluation tools, evaluating recruitment practices, and supporting efforts to hire and train cutting edge school counselors you are looking for.

Leadership, Advocacy, Systemic Change

What is the school counselor’s role in dispelling the myth of low expectations? What does it really mean to be a student advocate promoting equity, access and opportunity for all? How do school counselors become the “leaders we are waiting for?”

Pilots, Passengers, Prisoners, and Hijackers

Managing difficult people in an era of reform requires understanding our own and our colleagues’ motives, developing the skills to avoid being taken down by a hijacker. This professional learning service is designed to teach skills for recognizing others and ourselves as the difficulty people we all are at times and provides suggestions for improving relationships while moving forward!

Legal and Ethics

This professional learning service focuses on implementing the American School Counselor Association (ASCA) ethical guidelines for school counselors and provides scenarios for discussion of legal and ethical dilemmas on sensitive student and school counselor issues.

Student Assistance Program

This professional learning service focuses on creating and implementing a comprehensive Student Assistance Program (SAP). This includes understanding of roles and responsibilities for all parties, coordination of activities, use of data, CORE team meetings, and evaluating impact for students.