Professional Development

WSCA-Sponsored Professional Development

Asynchronous

WSCA Clock Hour Options 

School Profile Project Webinar available for clock hours

Here is the recording if you would like to watch:https://youtu.be/uVy_tnIlycs?si=Q_du2Q8DIyTvCZSM  

Here is the slide deck link: https://audience.ahaslides.com/jz2q98ggdl/review?lookback-tab=slides 

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Upcoming Professional Development Opportunities


PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT: Graduation Equity Webinar Series

Graduation Equity Webinars were designed for leadership teams to highlight best practices with strategic real practitioner examples and help growth minded education leaders and advocates to learn from Washington districts who are doing innovative work. Using OSPI data and experience from practitioners, Graduation Equity Webinars reveal the systems that drive success with an equity focus and key strategies that are getting students to graduation.

If you can't make it, we post all our videos on the OSPI YouTube Channel - Check out our playlist! Subscribe by clicking on the bell to get alerts for videos as we post them.

2025 Fall Counselor Workshops

These very popular workshops provide professional development for school counselors, career center specialist, HSBP coordinators and those in college-access work. Held in-person and virtually, we’re excited to provide current information from the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI), The State Board of Education (SBE),  State Board of Community and Technical Colleges (SBCTC), Council of Presidents (COP), Independent Colleges of Washington (ICW) and the Washington Student Achievement Council (WSAC), as well as from our public and private four-year institutions and community and technical colleges.

  • The in-person options will include access to information tables and resources, college updates, agency updates and a question and answer session. Six hours of clock hours will be offered. Includes breakfast, lunch and parking. The fee is $65.00.
  • The virtual option will include access to agency updates and a question and answer session. Four hours of clock hours will be offered. The fee is $30.00.
  • Clock hours will be provided for the workshops through Washington School Counselor Association (WSCA).

2025 Schedule – Registration Now Open

September 8th – Fall Counselor Workshop – Everett @ Everett Community College

September 9th– Fall Counselor Workshop – Bothell @ UW Bothell

September 10th – Fall Counselor Workshop – Lakewood @ Clover Park Technical College

September 11th– Fall Counselor Workshop – Pasco @ Columbia Basin College

September 13th – Fall Counselor Workshop – Cheney @ Eastern Washington University

September 16th– Fall Counselor Workshop – Virtual Option

BEST (Beginning Educator Support Team)

Mentor Foundational Opportunities are designed to build core knowledge of mentoring for equity. Mentor Academy 101 and 201 are 12-hour trainings. Nakia Academy can be taken in place of Mentor Academy 101 by participants who identify as people of color. Participation in Mentor Academy 101 or Nakia Academy is the prerequisite for participation in any other BEST event. Beginning Fall of 2025 there is a Nakia Mentor Academy specifically for School Counselors (Nakia Cohort D), a School Counselor Mentor Academy, and School Counselor Roundtables

Professional Development offered throughout the year


Professional School Counseling Journal Articles

Subscribers of "Professional School Counseling" can earn CEUs for reading journal articles and passing a short online quiz about the material. Articles are worth up to 0.1 CEUs, and an entire journal will earn you approximately 1.0 CEUs. ASCA is an IACET-Authorized Provider of CEUs. There will be a small fee for the CEUs. For more information log onto the journal section of ASCA.


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National Board for Certified School Counselors

National Certified School Counselors (NCSC) are nationally certified counselors who offer the highest standards of practice for schools and students because they have met stringent education, examination, supervision, experience, and ethical requirements in school counseling.


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Dependable Strengths

Dependable Strengths is a unique research-based process proven to increase self-esteem, motivation, and interest in learning for people of all ages.


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Free Resource

School-Based Mental Health Trainings

nti School counselors, social workers, psychologists, school-based therapists, administrators, and other professionals are invited to enroll in FREE web-based training to help address the complex mental health and developmental needs of students experiencing adoption, foster care, or kinship care.
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