March Board of Ed: school counselor of the year Andrea Encarnacao

 Andrea Encarnacao, Boston Latin School 
but first there are a lot of statistics being read aloud to the Board about how students need counselors, which is right, but we can't just only hear these
Encarnacao: "education and service is in my blood"
spent time with CityYear, decided to work with the middle to high school grades
"I love being able to talk with young people about their futures"
"have worried those most about our most marginalized students"
"I've learned that we need justice in counseling"
"we owe our students more than talk"
"what lessons did the pandemic teach us?...what has changed?"
left behind teacher check in, longer lunches, time to walk outside
"bound by time on task, and with only so many hours in the day, we cannot serve our students' mental health needs as we should"
starts with having a "robust health curriculum in our middle schools"

Q on where we are with numbers
250:1 is recommendation
some data on that

Q; what has changed, what is maintained
Encarnacao: had more flexibility and more time
could have time with teachers and counselors
more time for lunch, time for lunch outside
"the slowing the pace down"
Plankey agrees that, talking to students across the state, building more flexibility into the school day
Encarnacao notes good for building relationships

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