2024-2025

Dear Woodland Hills Families,

Welcome to the 2024-2025 school year!! Counseling services at WHE include Individual 1:1 Personalized Counseling Meetings, small group counseling, guidance lessons, parent and/or teach conferences, and outside referrals. Along with those services, we do have a therapy dog that comes to WHE!

This will be George Springer: the Comfort Dog's 7th year to be a part of the WHE Counseling Team. He is a seven year old Golden-Doodle Mix Breed and has been trained to work with counseling sessions (individual and group) as well as visiting classrooms during guidance lessons. This opportunity has been made possible by the Humble Education Foundation to fund his training through LET’S GO!! Dog Training. The grant funded was for George's extensive training to prepare for the Good Canine Citizen Certification.

George will be on campus a couple of times a week for the full school day. (There are no set scheduled days, however, staff will be made aware first thing in the morning on the days he will attend school).

We all have stressful days and hard times, and students need to feel they have a calm place for regrouping their feelings. Through the WHE Personalized Counseling Program, our goal is for students to return to the classroom ready to learn and feel successful.

If you DO NOT want your child to work with George, please contact: School Counselor, Kristin Johnson.

George and I look forward to working with your children this school year!

All students will learn the following about safety with George:

5 Things to know about me (and all pets):

1. Be gentle and calm.

   • Please don't make sudden moves and startle me. Please don't pet me too hard or pull on my ears or tail.

2. Understand that I am not a toy.

   • I'm always happy to see you, but sometimes I don't want to play.

3. There must always be an adult present when children play with me.

   • I feel safer for both you and I when there's an adult nearby. Don't you?

4. Help take care of my basic needs and respect my moods.

   • I need my owner to feed me, give me fresh water every day, give me a safe place to sleep and play, and help keep me clean.

5. Treat me with kindness and make me feel safe.

   • Please don't pinch me or pull on my tail or ears. Please don't do anything I wouldn't expect.

Counselors are essential educators and mental health professionals in the school system. We are growing graduates by teaching educational, career, personal, and social development at all ages!

In Humble ISD, we believe in a personalized approach to counseling. Each elementary student will receive one individual meeting each year with their counselor. In these meetings, students will explore their goals and aspirations, and discuss the options for their personal path in Humble ISD. Additionally, counselors will be working with students and teachers in the classroom to provide additional avenues for student success. This partnership gives Humble ISD students a unique approach to meeting their personal goals, career pathways, and setting them up for success.

A child’s approach to problem solving that involves learning from others and from their own previous experiences, using their values to guide their action, and accepting responsibility for their decisions.

Student "I can" Statements:

• Follow the example of a positive role model
• Accept responsibility for what I did
• Show good judgement
• Seek advice
• Learn from experience
• Follow the advice of a trusted adult
• Show the ability to decide between right and wrong
• Use available resources (people or objects) to solve a problem

For more information on Social and Emotional Learning at Home, visit Aperture Education Parent Portal and SEL Tips & Tools. To learn more about Decision Making and additional activities you can do at home to build this Great 8 Skill, click here.

This quarter we're inviting students and families to sign our Resolution of Respect! By signing our resolution, you are promising to be a part of our community of kindness.

Start With Hello is a program for elementary aged children that promotes social-emotional learning by helping children build empathy, healthy relationships, and social awareness.

Ms. Johnson's Contact Information:

(281) 641-1507

Kristin.Johnson@humbleisd.net

Twitter: @krislitzjohnson

@george_whe