2017 Annual Conference

Molly Ream
Jamie Hamrick

Secondary

Do you struggle with your role as the counselor of MOWR students?  Come discuss Best Practices to get our students into MOWR programs yet keep our sanity at the same time.  We will share forms, processes, and presentations on how to better serve your MOWR students and save yourself some time.

These past few years have brought big changes to the Move on When Ready program in Georgia and not everyone is aware of them.

Some schools promote MOWR and some schools dissuade involvement.  Why the difference? 

What type of student is successful in MOWR? 

How do we, as counselors, best advise and monitor these students along with the rest of our caseload?

These are the questions we would like to address in this workshop.

• We will cover the new legislation passed during the past two years.
• We will give examples of the different types of students who have been successful in MOWR programs.
• We will discuss the pros and cons of part-time and full-time students as well as on-college campus vs high school campus classes.
• We will go through our process of meeting with potential MOWR students as well as share best practices for maintaining current MOWR student information.  We will share all of our processes and forms with you and encourage others to bring theirs to share, too.
• We will discuss different ways MOWR students are assigned to counselors in both block and traditional schools.
• We will share our Information night presentations as well as our methods of informing all necessary students in order to meet the Bridge Bill requirements.

 We hope to see those counselors who work with MOWR students the most at their school and will encourage a sharing of best practices by all.

High school counselors will be our target audience, but middle school counselors are welcome!