Counselor Weekly Update 10/18/24

• Oct. 18: Curriculum Team Mtg. (8a-4p)
• Oct. 18: College Night CCMA Mtg. (3-430p)
• Oct. 18 Panorama Survey Deadline
• Oct. 21-25: Digital Citizenship Week
• Oct. 22: College Connection Visit (Taft)
• Oct. 24: College Connection Visit (CA)
• Oct. 28- Nov. 1 10th grade IP conferences

Highlighting the ways we support our campus through the four components of the comprehensive guidance program through:

Classroom Guidance Lesson

We enjoyed the opportunity to provide classroom guidance to our seniors this week. We focused on life after high school whether that means college, the work force, or the military.

Lesson highlights:

• Building a brag sheet to help with resume development and interview skills
• How to obtain a transcript
• Graduation requirements recap
• Texas Reality Check (career and postsecondary certifications and degrees)

Thank you to our Taft government and economics on level and AP classes for sharing your time with us this week: M. Mulkey, C. Gowen, C. Vidaurri, D. Meade, J. Barnard and J. Davern (Comm Arts AP/D2 English 4 Teacher)

It was great to see so many of our students and staff wearing orange on Wednesday. Thank you for participating! The students had a great time with our Unity Day pop up. We asked the students to write down an example of Respect and they received a Croc charm for their contribution. The students also enjoyed working together to find words that unite us despite our differences on a gigantic word search.

• Please post the videos in your Schoology and ask students to view them during Raider Time. Consider engaging students in a follow up discussion using the guiding questions attached.
• Consider showing one of the videos to your students this week and engage in a short classroom discussion.

We as educators are human beings with real life traumas and challenging circumstances in our lives outside of work. Some of us are dealing with struggles in our mental health. Reaching out for help is a superpower not a weakness. NISD has a resource that may be beneficial to you called the Employee Assistance Program (EAP). EAP can be accessed by calling The Standard 1-888-293-6948 or visiting http://members.healthadvocate.com/.