Pease MS Counselors Corner

As October begins, Pease Middle School students are fully settling into their daily routines, stepping up their focus and classroom engagement. With the first quarter ending, they are working hard to complete assignments, review key concepts, and finish the term on a high note.

• Oct 2 Decision of Respect Day for NISD

• Oct 5 Blue Up! World Day of Bullying Prevention

• Oct 5 - 8 Bully Prevention Week

• Oct 9-13 No School

• Oct 23 - 31 Red Ribbon Week

Counselors are available to all students! 💙

Students can reach their counselor by:

1. Completing the paper request form, which can be found in the counseling office, library and the front office.

2. Emailing their counselor directly.

3. Completing the https://forms.gle/wox6MEMee5TVspgQ8 in their Schoology tile.

*Parents can also call or email their child's counselor to set up an appointment.

October is National Bullying Prevention Month, a nationwide campaign dedicated to educating the public, raising awareness, and promoting solutions to end childhood bullying and cyberbullying.

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• the purpose of the responsive services component is to intervene with or on behalf of those students whose personal circumstances, concerns, or problems threatening to interfere with or are interfering with their healthy personal, social, career and/or educational development. Responsive services at Pease Middle School include individual and group counseling sessions.

• Information that needs to be told to parents, other helping-professionals and/or school officials include situations involving:

  • Harm to self
  • Harm to others
  • Pregnancy
  • Threats to school safety
  • Information requested by a valid subpoena (Court System)

• The Individual Planning component is where students are guided in planning, monitoring, and managing their own educational, career, personal and social development. Each student is provided with necessary steps toward his/her established goals.

  Individual Planning can be seen at Pease Middle School through student/parent conferences, individual meetings with the counselor, small group meetings with the counselor, and parent/staff consultation that focus on the student's personal education, career, and personal-social goals.

• The Guidance Curriculum component includes skill-based lessons and units designed to help all students in kindergarten through 12th grade develop competence in essential life skills. There are a variety of skills addressed under the four main skill goals of:

  • Intrapersonal Effectiveness
  • Interpersonal Effectiveness
  • Post-Secondary College/Career Planning and Readiness
  • Personal Health, Safety, and Wellness

The System Support component describes management activities which assure the delivery of a high-quality guidance program and services which indirectly benefit students by supporting other programs.

System Support at Pease Middle School can be seen through parent meetings, consultation with teachers, participation in campus-based school goals, and counselor professional development.

NISD Threads supports NISD students and families by providing clothing in an effort to reduce barriers and increase attendance. Clothing is free to families and the student/family must have a counselor referral to access services. Five tops, bottoms, pairs of brand new socks, and brand new bottoms are given to every enrolled NISD student in the referred family. If you are in need of assistance, please contact one of us to receive a referral.

Find free or reduced-cost resources like food, housing, financial assistance, health care, and more! Search for the nearest resource based on your zip code. Use the link below!

The Bexar County Behavioral Health Resource Directory provides a list of behavioral health resources and services that may be helpful to the public. Use the link below to search through the directory for resources!

#BeThe1To is the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline’s message for National Suicide Prevention Month and beyond, which helps spread the word about actions we can all take to prevent suicide. The Lifeline network and its partners are working to change the conversation from suicide to suicide prevention, to actions that can promote healing, help and give hope.

We are honored to have earned The Purple Star Campus Designation and to have been recognized for being committed to meeting the unique needs of military-connected students and their families.