School counseling that makes a difference―for all students!
As an elementary school counselor, you’re implementing a comprehensive program to promote academic and social-emotional development for all students. You’re planting seeds of college and career readiness, which means creating core curriculum classroom lessons, delivering engaging content to students and parents, managing classroom behaviors, providing assessments, and sharing the results.
The good news is that you don’t have to do it alone. In this guide, three experienced school counselors take you step by step through the creation and implementation of high-quality Tier 1 systems of universal supports. With a focus on proactive and prevention education through core curriculum classroom lessons and schoolwide activities, this practical text includes:
- The school counselor’s role in Multi-tiered, Multi-Domain System of Supports
- Examples to help with design, implementation, and evaluation
- Guidance for selecting curriculum and developing lesson and action plans
- Alignment with ASCA National Model and ASCA Mindsets and Behaviors
- Vignettes from practicing elementary school counselors
- Recommendations for including families in prevention activities
- Management tools, reproducible templates, and reflective activities and processing questions
You teach the academic, college and career, and social-emotional competencies students need to be successful learners. With this book’s expert guidance, you’re prepared to help them get there.
"This book accomplishes what so many school counseling graduates are often left to learn ‘on the job’: translation of theory and ideas into meaningful, evidence-based practice within a multi-tiered system of supports."
―Paul C. Harris, Assistant Professor, Counselor Education
University of Virginia
"This is the book all elementary school counselors have been waiting for! Not only can it deepen our skills as educators and collaborators, it also provides a sounding board for effective school counseling practices that are standards-based, measurable, and focused on closing the achievement gap."
―Kirsten Perry, ASCA 2018 School Counselor of the Year
Lawndale Community Academy, Chicago, IL
Trish Hatch, Ph.D. is a nationally recognized leader in school counseling, known for her work bridging research, practice, and policy. A former school counselor, administrator, and district leader, she joined the faculty at San Diego State University (SDSU), where she directed the School Counseling Program from 2004 to 2015 and was later named Professor Emeritus upon her retirement. As Founder and Board Chair of Hatching Results, Inc., she continues to provide governance leadership while the company delivers nationwide training and consultation on data-driven, evidence-based practices.
Dr. Hatch is the best-selling author of The Use of Data in School Counseling: Hatching Results for Students, Programs, and the Profession (2014) and co-author, with Julie Hartline, of the Second Edition (2023). She co-authored Evidence-Based School Counseling: Making a Difference With Data-Driven Practices (Dimmitt, Carey, & Hatch, 2007) and The ASCA National Model: A Framework for School Counseling Programs (ASCA, 2003, 2005). This seminal document redefined the role of school counselors nationwide.
Additional texts in the Hatching Results series include Hatching Results for Elementary School Counseling: Implementing Core Curriculum and Other Tier One Activities (Hatch, Duarte, & De Gregorio, 2018); Hatching Results for Secondary School Counseling: Implementing Core Curriculum, Individual Student Planning, and Other Tier One Activities (Hatch, Triplett, Duarte, & Gomez, 2019); and Hatching Tier Two and Three Interventions in Your Elementary School Counseling Program (Hatch, Kruger, Pablo Roman, & colleagues, 2019).
Known for her dynamic leadership, passionate advocacy, and unwavering commitment to the profession, Dr. Hatch served as an expert consultant on school counseling for the Obama administration at the White House and the U.S. Department of Education. She also co-led the 2014 White House Convening on School Counseling at SDSU in partnership with the Office of the First Lady’s Reach Higher Initiative.
A former ASCA Vice President and state association president, Dr. Hatch has received numerous honors, including the ASCA Administrator of the Year Award, the Mary Gehrke Lifetime Achievement Award, induction into the H.B. McDaniel Hall of Fame at Stanford University, the NACAC Excellence in Education Award, and recognition by the California Association of School Counselors (CASC) as both School Counselor Educator of the Year and recipient of its Lifetime Achievement Award.
Danielle Duarte, Ed.L.D. is passionate about supporting students’ academic success, college and career readiness, and social-emotional development while using data to demonstrate the impact of comprehensive school counseling programs. A former school counselor, counseling grant project director, and adjunct faculty member, Danielle now serves as President of Hatching Results, where she leads national efforts to strengthen data-driven school counseling systems.
She earned her doctorate in Education Leadership (Ed.L.D.) from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and her doctoral capstone focused on increasing racial equity in advanced coursework within a large, diverse school district.
Earlier in her career, Danielle successfully wrote and directed a $1.1 million Elementary and Secondary School Counseling Program Grant for her district – hiring, training, and supporting school counselors in the development of comprehensive programs. She also taught future school counselors as an adjunct professor at San Diego State University and the University of San Francisco. Over the past decade, she has trained thousands of educators nationwide and co-authored two books: Hatching Results for Elementary (2017) and Secondary (2019) School Counseling.
Danielle has served on the Board of Directors for the California Association of School Counselors, including as President, and on the Cal Aggie Alumni Association (UC Davis) Board. She is also a certified Harvard Data Wise Coach and AVID Staff Developer.
Featured in San Diego Magazine’s “17 Big Ideas for 2017: Let’s Implement More School Counseling Programs,” Danielle believes every student can succeed with the right systems of support and well-trained school counselors leading the way.
Lisa De Gregorio, M.S. is currently the Director of Operations and an Expert Trainer/Consultant for Hatching Results, LLC. A former K-8 school counselor, Lisa’s social-emotional learning (SEL) and career readiness initiatives earned her the Oppenheimer Recognition Award, which resulted in a large Illinois SEL/Mental Health grant award and her school’s selection as one of only six to become a ‘model elementary school’ in Chicago (approximately 450 elementary schools). During more than six years at the district office as a Lead K-8 Counselor for hundreds of school counselors, she received the inaugural Golden Child award from the Office of College and Career Success, developed K-12 professional learning and resources, managed staff and special projects, and conducted school visits throughout the city. An Education Pioneer Visiting Fellow, Lisa was recognized for her systemic change efforts at the District Office and Chicago Teachers′ Union and as a Board Member of the Illinois School Counselor Association (ISCA) with the School Counselor Advocate of the Year award in 2015.
