Motivational Interviewing in Tier 2 Academic Success Groups

Description: Picture this: A school counselor is having his third conversation with a student about her failing grades. Her grades are not improving, and the counselor is frustrated with the lack of academic improvement and meaningful dialogue in these conversations. In this presentation, participants will be given tools to help these conversations become student-focused and data-driven. Participants will learn about motivational interviewing (MI) and how it can be utilized in individual and group counseling. They will learn how to help students recognize and use the strengths that they already possess using MI. Finally, they will learn about simple ways to collect data from students to evaluate the success of the MI academic success groups.

Presenters: Rachel Reeves Hagelin has been in education for twenty-eight years.  Her career began as a high school English teacher before she found her true love in school counseling.  She's been a high school counselor since 2001.  She loves working with students individually, going into classrooms to do Mental Health Minutes every two weeks, and doing small student groups over stress relief, academic success, grieving, helping new students acclimate, and more. Mrs. Hagelin loves to learn and keep updated with evidence-based interventions and utilize them to help students academically and emotionally.  She attends the ASCA, MSCA, and EBSCC conferences annually to keep current in her practice. 

Dr. Gene Eakin has worked at Oregon State part-time or full-time for twenty-six years. He provided the leadership for the development and implementation of the hybrid masters in school counseling. Gene has twenty-eight years experience as a school counselor with most of that time spent as Program Lead at a high school of 1400 students in the Willamette Valley. Gene is the Advocacy Chair for the Oregon School Counselor Association. He is presented on topics like Enhancing Intrinsic Motivation to Change and Achieve at ASCA and is a site-based trainer on the topic as well.

Additional Information: Pre-registration is required and will be open through the end of the day on December 5. A Zoom meeting link will be emailed out to all registrants the day before the workshop. A CE certificate will be emailed to those in attendance after the event.

The workshop is free to OSCA members and $10 for non-members. Please note that non-members who still have an outstanding balance will not be provided with a CE certificate.