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Organizations such as Texas School Counselor Association (TCA) or the American School Counselor Association (ASCA) offers opportunities for school counseling programs to be recognized as outstanding, build strength in program alignment, and provide an opportunity for program evaluation.

The purpose of this assignment is to provide students with insight into the state and national requirements for building an award winning program. In this assignment, please review the websites provided below, the PowerPoint presentation, module 1 videos, read the assigned chapters, and review the attached CREST rubric.

https://www.schoolcounselor.org/Recognition/RAMP

https://tsca.txca.org/crest.php

Then respond to the following questions in an organized, paragraph format, with appropriate APA style of writing.

1. Why do you believe it is beneficial for school counselors to build award winning programs?
2. What personal characteristics, leadership skill set, and professional credentials (background and training) do you think are essential for school counselors to possess in order to build comprehensive, award winning programs?
3. In your own words, explain the six qualities that must be present in a comprehensive school counseling program.
4. What is the purpose of using standards or the common core as a basis to establishing comprehensive programs?
5. Highlight three characteristics of low performing counseling programs found in the introduction of the Texas model guide, and how you will use your responsibilities as a school counselor (e.g. responsibility domains) as a means to ensure your comprehensive program is award winning?
6. Think about a school that either you are or were formerly employed. Would you describe it as award-winning or low performing? Please justify your position and include an assigned rating of the school counseling program by establishing your own scale.
7. How does learning about these awards influence how you might approach building a comprehensive school counseling program?