The RI Commissioner of Education has initiated a review process in which districts provide evidence of their progress in school reform. Part of the evidence must demonstrate how comprehensive school counseling is used to promote personalization and support student success. The RISCA Response Guide for School Counselors is a set of tools to help K-12 school counselors get involved in this process. The Guide identifies compelling evidence of the significant contribution counselors make to student success and the health of the school community and which RISCA Tool kits can be used to produce the evidence.

The RISCA Response Guide consists of five files which are provided in either Microsoft "Word" or “Excel” formats. Click on the links below to review the file on-line. Right-click on the links to save them to your hard drive for future use.

• Instructions
  Step-by-step instructions for using all tools in the RISCA Response Guide

• Self-Study
  List of Commissioner’s requirements, guided questions school counselors need to ask and suggested types of evidence to produce

• Response Template
  A Microsoft Word template for documenting your responses to the Commissioner’s requirements and identifying/organizing evidence to be submitted

• Compelling Evidence Template
  A Microsoft Word template for identifying evidence that needs to be produced and which RISCA tool kits can be used to produce it.

• Plan Summary Template
  A Microsoft Excel template for developing and documenting a plan for fully responding to the Commissioner’s requirements for comprehensive school counseling.

For More Information contact:

Belinda Wilkerson
Counselor-in-Residence at Providence College
Office of Graduate Studies
549 River Avenue
Providence, RI 02918

Phone: 401-865-2789
Email: bwilkers@providence.edu