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Certified School Counselors at Challenger K8. Elementary School Kimberly Eppley - K-2 Beth Mause - 3rd and 4 th Quest Carrie Wilson- 4 th Magnet and 5 th Middle School Kim Stratton- 6th (A-M) and 7th Lauren Moore – 6th (N-Z) and 8th. Counselor Responsibilities. Attendance
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Certified School Counselors at Challenger K8 Elementary School Kimberly Eppley- K-2 Beth Mause- 3rd and 4th Quest Carrie Wilson- 4th Magnet and 5th Middle School Kim Stratton- 6th (A-M) and 7th Lauren Moore – 6th (N-Z) and 8th
Counselor Responsibilities • Attendance • Managing attendance records and reports • Sending attendance letters and schedule CST meetings • Meeting with students with repeat absences and running academic advising programs. • RtI A/RtI B • Scheduling meetings for the tier progression • Helping teachers organize their data, paperwork and assisting them in making their graphs • Running academic and behavioral RtI groups • Check-In/Check-Out • Meeting with students daily or weekly • Compiling the data and making graphs to show progress • Small Group Counseling • Social skills, academic and friendship groups. • Members are selected by teachers both quest and magnet • Runs for 6 weeks, 30 minute sessions
Counselor Responsibilities • Large Group Guidance • Classroom guidance services • Frequency varies by grade level • Responsive Services • Dealing with situations that require responses immediately (students acting out in class, student dealing with sensitive home or school issues, discipline issues where counselor has knowledge of situation) • Meetings • RtImeetings, CST meetings, Parent/Teacher Conference, Individual parent conferences, SBLT meetings, PLC meetings • Scheduling and Compass Grade Recovery • Middle School master schedule, math placement, elective choice and forms, bell schedules, high school recommendations • Organizing the Compass Grade Recovery Program. • Follow-up with students on progress • Other duties as assigned
Quest • Counselors spend at least 50% of the time working with the Quest Academy students • Focus on social-emotional needs of the gifted students • We want to support the teachers in creating a positive learning climate • Mind up – Elementary • Self Science- a curriculum that was purchased when the Quest academy started • Purchase more curriculum to help infuse social-emotional skills in the classroom, which would be beneficial to the Counseling staff and Quest program as a whole.