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Cornwall Central presents comprehensive counseling plan, credits DBT for attendance gains and expands AP/CTE pathways
Summary
Director of Guidance Joe DeBolt told the Cornwall Central School District board that a third-year rollout of DBT-based social-emotional lessons, new clinical support and expanded AP, dual-enrollment and Project Lead The Way offerings are helping raise engagement and reduce chronic absenteeism.
Joe DeBolt, the district's director of guidance, presented the Cornwall Central School District's comprehensive school counseling plan at a board meeting, describing a K'12 program that combines academic advising, college-and-career guidance and social-emotional learning.
DeBolt said the district has completed three years of dialectical behavior techniques (DBT) lessons delivered across grades and attributed recent attendance improvements to that multi-tiered support. "We're basically in year 3 of this," DeBolt said, and cited quarter-to-quarter reductions in the number of students with five or more absences: "CCHS had 151 students in the first quarter with five or more absences; that is down to 123," he said, and offered similar figures for the middle and elementary schools.
The plan organizes services by level and tier, DeBolt…
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