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VTSCA Conference Highlights
Carolyn Stone - Keynote Speaker
Carolyn Stone is a Professor of Counselor Education at the University of North Florida where
she teaches and researches in the area of school counselors and accountability and legal and
ethical issues.  Prior to becoming a counselor educator in 1995, Carolyn spent 22 years with the
Duval County Public Schools in Jacksonville, Florida where she served as a middle school
teacher, elementary and high school counselor and Supervisor of Guidance for 225 counselors.  
Carolyn was the 2006 President of the American School Counselor Association, and is currently
in her seventh year as ASCA’s Ethics Chair.  Carolyn is a past President of the Florida Counsel-
ing Association and the Florida Association of Counselor Educators and Supervisors.  Carolyn
has delivered over 400 workshops in 48 states and 15 countries.  She has authored three books
and dozens of journal articles.  Her professional path in elementary and high school counseling,
middle school teaching, Supervisor of Guidance for the nation’s fifteenth largest school dis-
trict, and counselor educator has prepared her with first hand experience and understanding of
the professional world of school counselors.    
 
Navigating the Legal and Ethical Landscape of Schools
The school environment poses competing interests between a student’s need for confidentiality
and the legal rights of parents as established by the U.S. Supreme Court to be the guiding
voice in their children’s lives in value-laden issues.  Participants will develop an ethical decision
making framework for analyzing and resolving ethical issues through the application of ASCA
ethical codes, case and statutory law, school board rules, and community standards. Through
small group and large group discussion of 40 case studies, participants will be given the opportu-
nity to increase their understanding of the complexities of respecting a minor’s right to confi-
dentiality, to develop a sensitivity to the need to consider their actions in context of each
situation for each individual student, and to understand the rights of parents. Topics of discus-
sion will include areas such as confidentiality and duty to warn, minors’ rights to privacy, coun-
selors’ responsibilities toward suicidal children, civil and criminal liability, sexually active minor
clients, birth control, abortion counseling, defamation, child abuse, HIV positive students, case
notes and educational records, malpractice in academic advising, sexual harassment, the Hatch
Amendment and guidance curriculum, and personal conduct.

The Vermont School Counselor's Association will be at Killington Grand
Hotel and Conference Center on Thursday, September 23, 2010.  This
year's theme is Legal and Ethical Issues for School Counselors.  This
promises to be a special day for counselors, administrators and educa-
tors to  explore, investigate and network on some critical legal and
ethical issues facing our profession. Killington Grand Resort is offer-
ing a special room rate to conference attendees and VTSCA welcomes
you to join us the night before the conference. For updates check the
VTSCA website at VTSCA.ORG. We look forward to seeing everyone
there.  
 

LIMITED SPACE IS AVAILABLE 
REGISTER EARLY TO RECEIVE A DISCOUNT AND GUAREENTEED SPACE
Join the VTSCA and Carolyn Stone on September 23, 2010 at the
 Killington Grand Hotel and Conference Center
 

Call for more information

Conference Chairperson – Sally McCarthy – 802-793-6265
sally.mccarthy@jsc.edu

Vermont School Counselor Association
PMB 301     150 Dorset Street
South Burlington, VT 05403-6275