Hayes High School Counseling Dept

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Hayes High School Counseling Dept
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Meet the School Counselors

• Mr. Brown (Last names A - D)
• Mrs. Pollard (Last names E - K)
• Miss Darcy (Last names L - R)
• Ms. Stewart (Last names S - Z)

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Our School Counseling Administrative Assistants

• Mrs. Estes Mrs. Ashworth
• What can our administrative assistants help
  students with?
• Work permit applications
• ACT/SAT registration materials
• Copies of report cards, schedules transcripts
• PowerSchool, Google email, computer login
  information
• DACC, course, college, scholarship, special
  program applications
• PE Waivers
• Scheduling appointments

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What Do School Counselors Do?

• We are YOUR advocates!
• We do
• Academic Counseling
• Career Counseling
• Personal/Social Counseling

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What Do School Counselors Do?

• Academic Counseling
• Verify credits and transcripts
• Create graduation plans
• Schedule courses
• Monitor your grades
• Standardized test interpretation
• Provide information on credit flex early
  college opportunities
• Help you advocate for yourself

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What Do School Counselors Do?

• Career Counseling
• Provide resources for career exploration
  planning
• Provide college counseling, which includes
• College admissions, financial aid, scholarship
  information
• Assist with resume writing career portfolios

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What Do School Counselors Do?

• Personal/Social Counseling
• Help you with any personal problems that you may
  be experiencing at school or home or with your
  friends.
• Arrange Peer Mediation
• Provide information for additional community
  resources when needed.

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Confidentiality

• We keep your conversations with us confidential.
  However, we are required by law to report
• Child Abuse
• Harm to Self
• Harm to Others
• Unlawful Activity

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How Can You Communicate with Us?

• Email us! If you have a quick question, it is
  easiest for us to send you a response via email.
• Leave us a voicemail.
• Visit us in the Commons during Lunches on
  Wednesdays.
• Two Counselors will be on duty during all the
  lunches each Wednesday to answer Academic or
  Career questions. Personal/Social Concerns
  conversations that are confidential should be
  discussed in our offices.

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How Can You Communicate with Us?

• Arrange an appointment with us online.
• Heres how
• Login to your school Google email.
• Go to the Hayes Website and click on Guidance.
• Click on your counselors name enter your name
  in an open appt slot (preferably during your
  lunch or study hall). Provide a brief
  description of why youre coming to see us then
  come see us during that time.

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How Can You Communicate with Us?

• If you have an urgent matter that needs to be
  discussed right away, our office is ALWAYS open!

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How Do We Communicate with You?

• Check your school Google email frequently. We
  will be sending you information (typically
  college, scholarship, or other special program
  information) often.
• Sign up for the Hayes Listserv. Biweekly
  information and announcements will be sent to you
  about upcoming events at Hayes.

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How Do We Communicate with You?

• Check the Announcements on the TVs look at the
  Guidance website.
• If we need to speak to you, we will call you
  down. However, we really try to avoid you
  missing class time. We will call you down during
  your study hall or at the end of a class period.
• Throughout the year, we will have special
  presentations to provide you with information.
  Please attend!

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What are you responsible for?

• We are the keepers of lots of information and we
  do our best to get that information to you,
  however,
• It is YOUR RESPONSIBILITY to obtain information
  through the various means in which we communicate
  it or seek the information from your counselor.

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Questions?

• Remember,
• We are YOUR advocates and
• we are here to help!
• We look forward to working with you!