Counseling Overview

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Counseling Overview

• Menoosh Zaeri
• Lisa Saviñón

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Where and When Can You Find Us?

• Lisa (3-5)
• Room 402 ext 2233
• Monday through Friday
• Menoosh (K-2)
• Room 413 ext 2260
• Tuesday/Thursday/Every other Friday
• Non-Menoosh day emergencies can be sent to Lisa

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Your Counseling Department

• Services for Students
• Services for Teachers
• Classroom Guidance
• Parent Education
• Building Character
• Monthly Counseling Calendar (first one in
  September)
• - guidance and groups
• parent education
• special events
• mentor days
• new student meeting

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Students

• Individual Counseling
• Group Counseling
• Student Services

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Services for Students

• Beginning of Year
• FAN Club
• New comers to Rockbrook meet once per month
• Will begin in September
• Individuals will be seen as needed
• Referral by student, teacher, parent, or
  administrator
• If we are not in our office please place referral
  in our box (be sure to fold in half to protect
  confidentiality)
• Ongoing groups throughout the year
• Need assessment will be emailed to teachers
  periodically

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Services for Students

• Possible Reasons for Referrals
• Immediate Referral
• Suspected abuse
• Childs behavior reflects desire to die (writing,
  drawing, or verbal)
• Sudden Death in Family
• Family Crisis (child is told about accident,
  terminal illness, death, divorce)

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Services for Students

• Possible Reasons for Referral
• Individual or Group
• Classroom behavior issues
• Isolation from others
• Anxiety/Worrying
• Aggression
• Sad or tearful
• Divorce/grief/death/loss issues
• New student transition issues
• Social Skills
• Friendship Issues
• Adoption

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Services for Students

• Student Support Services
• Clothing
• Clothes closet on campus (clothes, shoes, coats)
• Contact Lisa if your student needs clothing
• Provide teacher and student name, as well as a
  description of the need (eg., coat, shoes,
  clothes)
• Behavior Modeling and Reinforcement (level 2)
• Food 4 Kids (form in mailbox area)
• Angel Tree at Christmas

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New Student Program

• New student tour
• - student council tour guides
• - new student tour guide booklet
• Classroom Buddy
• - teacher selected buddy
• (2 boys and 2 girls per class)

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High School Mentoring Program

• LHS mentors start the second week of school
• They are screened and provided with training
• Mentors and Mentees are interviewed and matched
  based on interests and personalities
• Counselors provide activities to reinforce
  monthly theme
• Available 1230-145 Wednesday
• Parent permission is required

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Paws for Pride

• A program to enhance Character Education at
  Rockbrook
• Honor exceptional students on the last Friday of
  each month
• 1 student from each grade level chosen each month
  
• Recognized with certificate on morning
  announcements the last week of each month
• Bulletin Board Display
• Team leader monthly reminder email

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Services for Teachers

• Teacher/Classroom
• Observations/collaborations
• Behavior Plans
• Consultation
• Conferencing
• Specific Crisis Issues
• Guidance Lessons

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Classroom Guidance

• Once a month
• - Please send your grade level counselor a copy
  of your classroom schedule to assist with
  scheduling with your needs in mind.
• 30 Minutes in Length
• Focus on grade level priorities based on needs
  assessment

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Building Character

• Monthly Themes
• - Reinforces guidance themes
• - Based on school needs
• Announcements
• Building Integration

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Announcements

• Monday
• Introduce word of the week
• Tuesday
• Quotes to go along with word
• Wednesday
• Character book spotlight
• Thursday
• Thought or idea about the word
• Friday
• Student spotted exemplifying the word

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Building Integration

• Counseling Department
• Bulletin Board Display
• Classroom
• Use word of week as spelling challenge word,
  vocabulary word, journal prompts
• Create pictures, diagrams, stories, and/or
  sentences using the word of the week
• Library
• Provide the associated books to word of the week

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• Thank you