December 2025
December 2025

💗 Raider Counseling Department 💗
🎄 How Counselors Helped in December 🎄
📅 Important Dates 📅
January
1st-5th: Winter Break
9th: Teacher Recommendation Day
14th: Raider Expo Night 6:30-8pm
14th, 20th-23rd: Junior Course Registrations
15th-16th: 8th Grade Visits
19th: No School
26th-30th: Senior Individual Planning
February
2nd-6th: National School Counselors Week
9th-13th: Sophomore Course Registrations
16th: No School
16th-20th: Random Acts of Kindness Week
17th-23rd: Freshman Course Registrations
March
2nd-6th: Junior Classroom Guidance
9th-16th: Spring Break
23rd-27th: Sophomore Classroom Guidance
April
1st-SAT/TSIA 2 Testing
3rd-6th: No School
7th-10th: Senior Classroom Guidance
14th: English 1 EOC
15th: English 2 EOC
15th: Purple Up Day
20th: US History EOC
21st: Biology EOC
22nd: Algebra 1 EOC
24th: No School
28th: Raider Scholar Celebration
May
4th-15th: AP Testing
21st: Last Day of School
Course Registration
👀 Counselor Happenings 👀
Guidance Lessons
December 11th, counselors delivered a guidance lesson to our ALE students. We focused on coping skills students can use in school and at home.
Counselor January Preview
During the month of January, Counselors will be working on the following:
Course Registrations
Senior Potential Grad Meetings
College, Career, Military Readiness (CCMR)
The State of Texas requires every school to focus on preparing students to be college, career, and/or military ready. Students have multiple pathways to demonstrate CCMR before graduation. Click the link below for more information.
🏫 Attendance Matters 🏫
💛 Community Resources 💛
NISD Safe Line
Suicide Prevention
211 Texas
FindHelp
Find free or reduced cost resources like food, housing, financial assistance, health care, and more.
Bexar County Behavioral Health Resource Directory
https://www.bexar.org/DocumentCenter/View/29123/Behavioral-Health-Resource-Directory?bidId=
For More Information
Website: https://www.nisd.net/taft/services/counseling
Phone: (210) 397-6032
Twitter: @Taftcounselors
Instagram: taftcahscounselors