Using ESSER Funds For School Counselor Training
/Did you know there is $176 billion in federal funding available through the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) fund? These monies are intended to “address the educational inequities that have been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, and address students’ social, emotional, mental health, and academic needs.” (FAQ by Office of Elementary and Secondary Education) Did you also know that well-trained school counselors support improved student outcomes in all these areas?!
Hatching Results’ team of experts provides comprehensive professional learning to help counseling teams design, implement, evaluate, and improve school counseling programs based on evidence-based models and data. Our services support districts and states to improve students’ academic achievement, social and emotional well-being, and college/career readiness. Districts across the country are using ESSER to help fund their work with Hatching Results.
Learn more about how well-trained school counselors address educational inequities, support students’ social-emotional needs, and improve academic achievement:
Students assigned to “effective” school counselors are more likely to graduate HS, attend a 4-year college, and persist into their second year than those assigned to less effective counselors - impacts are larger for Black, Indigenous Student of Color BIPOC (Mulhern, 2020)
Students who meet with a counselor to discuss postsecondary are 3x more likely to attend college and 7x more likely to apply for financial aid (NACAC, 2019)
Intentional efforts by school counselors can help reduce racial disproportionality in AP course enrollment (Davis, Davis, & Mobley, 2013)
School counseling interventions have shown to support improved academic achievement, such as increases in test scores (Duarte & Hatch, 2018; Brigman, Webb, & Campbell, 2007)
When school counseling programs address students’ social and personal needs, students are more likely to report greater feelings of belonging to their school and increased levels of empathy, and less likely to report that they are bullied (Dimmit & Wilkerson, 2018; Duarte & Hatch, 2018)
School counseling interventions have been shown to directly improve executive functioning and social-emotional skills for diverse populations in kindergarten (Bowers et al., 2020), to improve self-regulation skills and feelings of connectedness for inner-city African American students in Elementary school (Lemberger & Clemens, 2012), and to improve diverse populations of middle school students’ self-regulation, executive functioning, metacognition, and feelings of connectedness (Bowers et al., 2015; Lemberger et al., 2015; Lemberger et al., 2018).
We would love to begin or continue services to improve school counseling in your district, county, or state! Please reach out so we can design a customized proposal to meet your specific needs.
