Closing the Gap Action Plans
When data identifies discrepancies between students’ needs and achievement as well as inequities between student groups, closing-the-gap action plans can be used to address these discrepancies. Each plan contains answers to the following two questions: Why is this mindset/behavior being addressed? What data drives the need for the activity? These plans contain:
- Data that drives the decision to correlate with an outcome
- Domain and standard to be addressed: academic, personal/social-emotional, and career development
- Standards addressed
- Description of actual school counseling activity the school counselor or school counseling team will ensure occurs
- Title of any packaged or created curriculum that may be used
- Timeline for completion of activity
- Name of individual responsible for delivery
- Means of collecting perception data
- Expected outcome data.
ASCA Closing-the-GAP Action Plan & Results Report
