<P> The National Center for Transforming School Counseling (NSTSC) at The Education Trust was founded in 2003 . Its foci included (1) changing how school counseling was taught at the graduate level in Counselor Education programs and (2) changing the practices of K - 12 school counselors in districts throughout the USA to teach school counselors prevention and intervention skills to help close achievement and opportunity gaps for all students . By 2008, NCTSC consultants had worked in over 100 districts including most major cities . </P> <P> In 2008, Rowman Littlefield Education published The New School Counselor: Strategies for Universal Academic Achievement . The text, written by Rita Schellenberg, a practicing school counselor and counselor educator, describes the new vision for school counseling and guides school counselors and pre-service school counselors through accountable, data - driven programming . Schellenberg introduces Standards Blending, a crosswalking strategy that hold the potential to be culturally sensitive and effective in enhancing academic achievement and closing the achievement gap . </P> <P> In 2002, the American School Counselor Association released the ASCA National Model framework for school counseling programs, written by Dr. Trish Hatch and Dr. Judy Bowers, comprising some of the top school counseling components in the field into one model--the work of Norm Gysbers, Curly & Sharon Johnson, Robert Myrick, Dahir & Campbell's ASCA National Standards, and the skill - based focus for closing gaps from the Education Trust's Pat Martin and Reese House into one document . ASCA also developed the RAMP (Recognized ASCA Model Programs) Awards to honor school counseling programs that have fully implemented the ASCA National Model with demonstrable evidence of success for K - 12 students (www.schoolcounselor.org). </P> <P> In 2003, the Center for School Counseling Outcome Research was developed as a clearinghouse for evidence - based practice with regular research briefs disseminated and original research projects developed and implemented with founding director Jay Carey . One of the research fellows, Tim Poynton, developed the EZAnalyze software program for all school counselors to use as free - ware to assist in using data - based interventions . </P>

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