Year Round Activities:
- Caseload duties (specific alphabet)
- Jr./Sr. conferences
- 504 and SPED staffing
- ICAP Presentations
- College applications and letters of recommendation
- Consult in crisis situations
- Individual student guidance
- Newsletter editing
- Dept. Leader meetings
- PLC Meetings
- RTI (Response to Intervention) meetings
- Collaboration with outside agencies (mental health, legal, etc.)
- Schedule changes (add/drops)
August:
- Schedule changes
- Register new students
- Foreign Exchange Registration
- Update all 504 plans
- Set up Rotary/Kiwanis visitation schedule
- National Merit Scholarship coordination
- School is Cool supplies coordination
- Back to school night
- Counsel 9th grade students about “opt out process for middle school classes”
- Identify and meet with ASCENT students for following year
- Meet with Retained students (from previous year) and guardians to establish expectations/plan for current school year
- Update counseling website links
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September:
- Senior conferences
- Poudre Pals Training/Assign Poudre Pals
- PSAT prep
- Naviance teacher recommendation training
- Freshman Seminar Presentations
- Update AP database
- Letters or recommendations/College Applications
- ESL Schedule changes
- Front Range Community College meeting
- Foreign Exchange Student lunch
- Advisory Committee meeting
- STAT meeting
- Update Naviance prior to Sr. conferences
- Prepare Naviance for college application process
- District High School counseling meeting
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October:
- Senior Conferences
- Curriculum Guide Preparation/ Departments
- PSAT-test administration
- Out of State College Fair
- IB Classroom Guidance 11th College prep/Naviance
- Classroom Guidance for 9-11th ( transition, career/college prep)
- Family Financial Aid Night -CSU
- Letters of recommendations/college applications
- McKinney planning
- Senior applications/ELA
- Parent Teacher conferences
- Suicide Awareness presentation
- Peace Circles
- ELA monitoring
- D/F List – 1st quarter grade monitoring
- AVID class presentations – Naviance
- STAT Team
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November:
- Curriculum guide preparation/ print
- Coordinate middle school registrations and collect calendars from middle schools
- Develop registration process schedule
- Letters of Recommendation/College Applications
- MYP 8th grade information nights (3)
- MYP Classroom guidance: grade 9 adjustment- grade 10- stress management
- Meet with District HS counselor to determine registration process and calendar
- McKinney
- D/F list
- Front Range Community College meeting
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December:
- Print curriculum guide
- Prep. Registration materials (course program application(s), SPED sheet, course request sheet -9th,10th,11th,12th)
- Prep for registration process (middle and high schools)
- Determine registration presentations and counselors assigned
- College applications/letters of recommendation
- MYP application meeting
- Schedule changes for 2nd semester
- Angel Fund prep
- District High School counseling meeting
- HYPE meeting
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January:
- Complete and finalize all registration material
- Registration meeting with department
- Begin registration process at middle and senior high school
- Mid-year reports
- Update IB registration forms and materials
- ELA presentations
- College applications
- AP Reminders
- Front Range Community College field trip for partnership program
- FRCC meeting
- Angel Fund
- School of Choice deadline
- Review Senior D/F lists from 1st semester
- Junior conferences
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February:
- Begin Graduation march plans
- Continue registration process (presentations and collection)
- IB registration (9th grade)
- Classroom guidance ( 10th grade-college planning)
- Gather freshman Academy nominations
- IB Parent night and registration process
- Upcoming 9th grade parent information night
- AP sign up
- McKinney
- Junior conferences
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March:
- Parent teacher conferences
- Suicide awareness presentation
- Poudre Pals interviews
- End of registration process/collection
- Post preliminary graduation list
- Final registration numbers to Administration (prior to Spring Break)
- Develop preliminary graduation seating
- IB Registration (10th grade-night presentation 10th grade- classroom)
- Review course requests- fix mistakes
- Newsweek top high school application/data collection
- AP Test ordering
- District High School counseling meeting
- FRCC applications review and decisions
- 3rd quarter- 12th grader graduation check (IFOU letter)
- D/F list – Monitor 3rd quarter grades
- Update NCAA Clearinghouse Core Courses
- CSAP Testing
- FRCC meeting
- McKinney
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April:
- Develop march order and alphabetical order lists
- Post march order (late April)
- Master schedule (IB conflict resolution)
- Junior conferences (IB)
- Senior credit checks (IB)
- F/D/I conferences (IB)
- IB orientation meeting
- IB classroom guidance (9th- career exploration/Naviance and 10th RAPP Suicide Awareness Prevention)
- ACT (juniors)
- McKinney
- Course request sheets to Math, Music and World Language (DL) for approval
- Hype – Cinco De Mayo planning
- Summer staff planning
- Dream team picnic
- ELA pre-registration review/cleanup
- Prep for following year PSAT
- Advisory Counsel meeting
- Identify and meet with ASCENT students
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May:
- Refine March order (with changes)
- Graduation practice set-up
- Graduation day set-up
- Convocation day set-up
- HYPE- Cinco De Mayo
- Scholarship Breakfast Celebration
- 504 coordination with Junior High
- Naviance student survey (9th-12th)
- Master schedule conflicts resolution (each counselor’s caseload)
- Class schedule for caseloads
- End of the year check out for all grade levels
- Schedule changes (for following year)
- Graduation issues-Naviance
- McKinney Project report due
- AP testing
- Rose ceremony ELA
- IB Convocation, Convocation, Graduation
- Final transcript to colleges for seniors
- Final transcript to NCAA clearinghouse for all college bound athletes
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