Closing-the-Gap Action Plan/Results Report

School Name Panther Middle School

Annual Student Reduce the rate of chronic absenteeism from 21% to 13%.
Outcome Goal
Mindsets & Behaviors (Limit of three)
1. M 3. Sense of belonging in the school environment
2. B-LS 10. Participate in enrichment and extracurricular activities
3. B-SMS 6. Demonstrate ability to overcome barriers to learning
Mindsets & Behaviors Survey Items
1. I struggle to find transportation to school
2. I need help getting involved in more school activities
3. I feel comfortable going to my counselor about school or personal concerns
4. I need help making friends at school
Interventions
Direct Student Services Indirect Student Services
1. Life Skills lesson on self-confidence to help 1.Collaboration: community partnerships for
students learn about tools and personal skills they guest speakers and career day participants
need to come to school everyday ready to learn 2. Referrals: use referrals to seek outside services
and grow. for students whose needs extend beyond the
2. Concept mapping activity to learn about scope of school counselor’s practice
actions and consequences; promotes 3. Consultation: school counselors will hold
responsibility and autonomy biannual trainings for staff, as well as open office
3. Check-in, Check-out (CI/CO) to help students hours for teachers to seek consultation
learn skills to manage, transition and assert
responsibility.
Data Collection Plan Results Data
Participation Data Plan Participation Results Data
Anticipated Actual
15-25 students will participate in six 45-50 minute TBD
lessons
Mindsets & Behaviors Data Plan Mindsets & Behaviors Data Results
Pre-Intervention Data Average: Post-Intervention Data Average:
1. Pre-test perception data 1. Post-test perception data
2. needs assessment data 2. 13% chronic absenteeism
3. 21% chronic absenteeism 3.
4. 21.9% low SES chronic absenteeism 4.
Outcome Data Plan Outcome Data Results
 Closing-the-Gap Action Plan/Results Report
Baseline Data: 21% of students are chronically Final Data: 13%
absent
Percent Change: 8%

Implications
Analyze your data. How with data inform future practice?
Collecting and disaggregating data to identify students at-risk of falling into an opportunity gap will
help inform the school counseling programs’ activities, lesson plans, and indirect services. Analyzing
absentee rates by ethnic group, socioeconomic status, and other variables affecting achievement will
help us to recognize which students may benefit from higher tiered academic, social-emotional, and
college-career support. Additionally, we can also hone into student populations by grade level to
create plans that best address their needs for continued achievement as they rise through middle
school, high school, all the way to higher education.