Dr. Julie Hartline to Win Georgia School Counselor Association Lifetime Achievement Award
We’re thrilled to announce that our very own Dr. Julie Hartline will receive a lifetime achievement award from the Georgia School Counselor Association (GSCA).
For this award, GSCA recognizes an individual who has:
Made outstanding contributions through a body of work that has made a profound impact on the school counseling profession.
Been a partner/ally of the GSCA and has supported its initiatives.
Changed school counseling through their contributions to the profession, leadership in the profession, and/or mentoring of others in the profession.
Represented the values, ideals, and ethics of the profession.
Current employment, affiliation, and professional or personal activities that benefit the Georgia School Counselor Association and the profession.
Dr. Hartline has worked in education for more than 30 years, including as a school counselor, counseling department chair, district counseling consultant, clinical assistant professor of school counseling, and director for Hatching Results. She has shared her passion, enthusiasm, and knowledge regarding the profession with school counselors and decision-makers across the country from coast to coast.
As the chair of the Campbell High School counseling department, she led her team in becoming the first high school in Georgia to receive the Recognized ASCA Model Program® (RAMP) award from the American School Counselor Association (ASCA) in 2008, and she was named the ASCA School Counselor of the Year in 2009.
In 2010, Dr. Hartline became the GSCA Advocacy Chair and held this position until 2013. During that time, she worked in collaboration with others to develop a statewide advocacy campaign for school counseling, convince elected officials to lower the school counselor/student ratios in Georgia state law, and gain the support of the Georgia Department of Education Superintendent for a statewide school counselor performance evaluation in alignment with the appropriate role of a counselor.
Dr. Julie Hartline Pictured with co-Author Dr. Trish Hatch
Building upon her work as advocacy chair, she served in the presidential track within GSCA from 2013 to 2016 as the GSCA President-Elect, President, and Past President. During these years, her accomplishments were numerous.
Chaired the committee that developed the statewide school counselor performance evaluation in collaboration with the GA Superintendent
Represented Georgia in four White House Reach Higher convenings
Presented regularly about the role of the school counselor to superintendents and administrators at conferences across the state
Served on the Georgia Professional Standards Commission School Counseling Task Force to update school counselor certification requirements in Georgia
Participated in the development of the Collaborative Counselor Training Initiative for the Southern Regional Education Board
Worked to change the structure of the GSCA Executive Board and Counselor of the Year award to include greater representation of school counselors from across the state.
In addition, Dr. Hartline is a co-author of our best-selling text, The Use of Data in School Counseling, Second Edition: Hatching Results (and So Much More) for Students, Programs, and the Profession, and a Senior Director of Professional Learning for Hatching Results. We can’t wait for her to be recognized at the GSCA Annual Conference on November 8th! Congratulations, Julie!
