Guidance Curriculum
Provides guidance content in a systematic way to all students
Purpose:
Awareness, skill development, and application of the skills needed in everyday life.
Awareness, skill development, and application of the skills needed in everyday life.
Areas Addressed:
- Self-confidence development - Motivation to achieve - Decision-making, Goal Setting, Planning, and Problem-solving skills - Interpersonal effectiveness - Communication Skills - Cross-cultural effectiveness |
Counselor Responsibilities:
-Guidance -Consultation -Program implementation and facilitation -Professional Standards |
Guidance Year at a Glance: SPRING HILL BULLDOGS
Mr. Peabody's Apples: Listening Skills Guidance Lesson
Rachel's Challenge
Rachel's Challenge is a club set up in memory of Rachel Scott (the first person killed at Columbine High School on April 20, 1999). This program creates the "want to" or desire for positive change. The students that belong to this program at Mary Lillard will be doing community service projects and coupling with other groups at times to help with fundraising, mentoring and random acts of kindness. We also, as a group, encourage and assist our fellow students on their way to following their dreams and becoming successful.
We get involved in various community service projects (hospitals, children's homes, senior communities, etc.) monthly & organize field trips to museums, cultural events, plays, etc. for underprivileged children along with offer scholarship opportunities to our seniors in the club that complete at least 25 hrs of community service with the group their senior year.
Challenges:
Look for the Best in Others
Dream Big
Choose Positive Influences
Speak with Kindness
Start your own Chain Reaction
Outcomes: Rachel’s Challenge motivates the individual to consider where they are personally in relation to the five challenges. It also prompts the listener to reflect on their relationship with and impact on the people around them. Additionally, Rachel’s Challenge renews the participants hope that their life has purpose through service to others. Rachel’s story gives participants permission to start their own chain reaction of kindness and compassion, which positively affects school climate.
Rachel's Challenge is a club set up in memory of Rachel Scott (the first person killed at Columbine High School on April 20, 1999). This program creates the "want to" or desire for positive change. The students that belong to this program at Mary Lillard will be doing community service projects and coupling with other groups at times to help with fundraising, mentoring and random acts of kindness. We also, as a group, encourage and assist our fellow students on their way to following their dreams and becoming successful.
We get involved in various community service projects (hospitals, children's homes, senior communities, etc.) monthly & organize field trips to museums, cultural events, plays, etc. for underprivileged children along with offer scholarship opportunities to our seniors in the club that complete at least 25 hrs of community service with the group their senior year.
Challenges:
Look for the Best in Others
Dream Big
Choose Positive Influences
Speak with Kindness
Start your own Chain Reaction
Outcomes: Rachel’s Challenge motivates the individual to consider where they are personally in relation to the five challenges. It also prompts the listener to reflect on their relationship with and impact on the people around them. Additionally, Rachel’s Challenge renews the participants hope that their life has purpose through service to others. Rachel’s story gives participants permission to start their own chain reaction of kindness and compassion, which positively affects school climate.
Responsive services
addresses the immediate concerns of students
Purpose:
Prevention, Intervention
Prevention, Intervention
Areas Addressed:
- Academic Concerns - School Related Concerns -Tardies - Absences & Truency -Misbehavior - School Avoidance - Drop-out Prevention - Relationship Concens - Physical/Sexual/ Emotional Abuse as described in Texas Family Code - Grief/Loss - Substance Abuse - Coping with Stress |
Counselor Responsibilities:
-Counseling -Consultation -Coordination -Referral -Professional Standards |
Multi-Culture Club
M.O.D SQUAD
(Men of Distinction)
(Men of Distinction)
Social Skills Clubhouse
Clubhouse focuses on seven goals:
- gaining perspective
-establishing impulse control
-discovering peer expectations
-developing conversation skills
-practicing anxiety management
-engaging in peer reaction planning.
Clubhouse focuses on seven goals:
- gaining perspective
-establishing impulse control
-discovering peer expectations
-developing conversation skills
-practicing anxiety management
-engaging in peer reaction planning.
SOCIAL SKILLS WITH CHARLIE BROWN
Individual Planning
Assists students in monitoring and understanding their own development
Purpose:
Student Planning and Goal Setting
Student Planning and Goal Setting
Areas Addressed:
- EDUCATIONAL - Acquisition of student skills - Awareness of educational opportunities - Appropriate course selection - Lifelong learning - Utilization of test scores - CAREER - Knowledge of potential career opportunities - Knowledge of career and technical training - Knowledge of positive work habits - Personal - Social - Development of healthy self-concepts - Development of adaptive and adjustive social behavior |
Counselor Responsibilities:
- Guidance - Consultation - Assessment - Professional Standards |
Response To Intervention (RTI)
System Support
includes program and staff support activities and services
Purpose:
Program Delivery and Support
Program Delivery and Support
Areas Addressed:
- Guidance program development - Parent Education - Teacher/Administrator Consultation - Staff Development for Educators - School Improvements Planning - Counselor's Professional Development - Research and Publishing |
Counselor Responsibilities:
-Program Management -Consultation -Professional Standards |
Leopard Launch
Intermediate school is a mixture of elementary and middle school atmospheres. Student are more on their own to complete tasks, read a schedule, open lockers, change classes, and get to know 5-8 new teachers. This can be very overwhelming for a student who comes from a setting where they have one core teacher and the only time they leave the classroom is to go to an elective class. They are going to have to meet many new students so may need to make new friends and the list goes on.
Our counselors got together to come up with a plan to help students be more comfortable the first few days of school. We asked ourselves a few questions:
- How can we relive some of the stress the new 5th graders might have coming into a new school.
- How can we show the community that our school is a very welcoming place.
- Can we help our staff with some of the activities that new students might have the first few days?
- What was it like when we were younger and changed schools.
There are many needs that these new students will need help with but we needed to focus on few they are going to run into the first few days. We felt that if we can make the first few days of school more welcoming then then the student will feel more comfortable in their setting. After much thought and coming up with many ideas, we came up with an idea from our memories of going to college for the first time. Many students go to school for a couple days before the first day of class for to get them accustomed to their surroundings.
Our counselors got together to come up with a plan to help students be more comfortable the first few days of school. We asked ourselves a few questions:
- How can we relive some of the stress the new 5th graders might have coming into a new school.
- How can we show the community that our school is a very welcoming place.
- Can we help our staff with some of the activities that new students might have the first few days?
- What was it like when we were younger and changed schools.
There are many needs that these new students will need help with but we needed to focus on few they are going to run into the first few days. We felt that if we can make the first few days of school more welcoming then then the student will feel more comfortable in their setting. After much thought and coming up with many ideas, we came up with an idea from our memories of going to college for the first time. Many students go to school for a couple days before the first day of class for to get them accustomed to their surroundings.
Last spring a survey was sent out to parents of the incoming 5th graders asking them what some of the concerns they may have for their student for the beginning of the school year. We found that making new friends was the biggest concern followed closely by changing classes and lockers. As a counseling staff we took all of the information from the survey to determine what the best way to decrease the anxiety of the students and ease them into 5th grade. What we came up with was an orientation (Leopard Launch) much like they do on college campuses to get students accustomed to their new surroundings.
Our first objective was to decide what the orientation would include and how we would present it to the students. What we came up with was that we needed to make stations for the students to rotate through. The stations were made up of concerns from parents, students, teachers, counselors and administrators.
Our first objective was to decide what the orientation would include and how we would present it to the students. What we came up with was that we needed to make stations for the students to rotate through. The stations were made up of concerns from parents, students, teachers, counselors and administrators.
We had 6 stations:
Arrival/Dismissal Procedures How to read a schedule
Lockers Cafeteria/Recess Procedures
Campus Tour Electives/PE
After determining the stations we had to determine who would help us lead Leopard Launch. We went to Administration to see if they would give staff that helped out some SDCE hours because they would not be under contract quite yet. Administration agreed to give them up to 6 hours of time outside of their contract. We contacted staff via email and within a day we had enough staff members to lead our groups and help with registration.
Arrival/Dismissal Procedures How to read a schedule
Lockers Cafeteria/Recess Procedures
Campus Tour Electives/PE
After determining the stations we had to determine who would help us lead Leopard Launch. We went to Administration to see if they would give staff that helped out some SDCE hours because they would not be under contract quite yet. Administration agreed to give them up to 6 hours of time outside of their contract. We contacted staff via email and within a day we had enough staff members to lead our groups and help with registration.