School Year 2010 Initial Plans

There is one basic overriding premise that draws me to serve as a school counselor at Adams Middle School while waiting to be placed back into an elementary school. That premise is: We have to assume some of the students at Adams have or had relatives in a California prison or jail where personal attitudes concerning race relations are being shaped to foster hatred, distrust. This makes it imperative that educators consciously work against power politics and prejudice as a means to actively provide three-dimensional interpersonal healthful modeling. I’m at Adams MS to collaborate with an educational team so we can help students to reconsider and reform essential life skills more readily simply by seeing us adult professionals working together and respecting each other. This basic idea has to operate on every level imaginable in order to see the best results in our students’ real life performance.
 

1) Counselor’s Self-Growth Commitment Statement

For school year 2009-2010 Mr. South will focus on developing secondary level Student Information System computer skills.

Strategy to fulfill target growth:

*Work with Ms. Flores, seventh grade counselor, to learn SIS codes and routines concerned with scheduling students’ classes.

2) Counselor’s Impact on Students’ Personal & Social Dimensions

Goal: Develop students who function as model leaders.

Objective: African American and Latino students will be able to actualize and recognize their high achievements.

Mr. South’s strategy to fulfill impact on students’ Personal & Social dimension:

*African American Group and Individual Counseling- Mr. South will get African American students connected to actively communicate about personal-social issues, academic, career goals, current community and world events. Basically, help them come into an awareness of their leadership potential.

*Multicultural group counseling focused on creating a greater dynamic exchange between African Americans, Spanish-speaking, and other cultures.

*Schedule space and time to perform Individual and group counseling for selected students.

*Mr. South has joined Ms. Carrillo in her Leadership class collaboration.

*Nature Art collage collaboration with teachers and other staff

3) Counselor’s Supplementary Education Focused Services

Goal: Inculcate habits that help to create academically proficient students.  

Objective: Students will be able to end the school year with improved classroom focus & standardized scores.

Strategy to fulfill target students improvement:

*Nutrition and Lunchtime dialogue with students focused on Life Skills (e.g. Why should we chew our food well?, Swine flu, earthquake preparedness, etc.).

*Class visits for observations to assist selected students identified for IEP process as well as those having gone through extensive pre-referral services with teachers, counselors, deans, and administrators prior to referral to Mr. South.  

*Parental contact focused on creating stronger positive communication ties between school and home.  

4) Counselor-student exchange for school-to-work orientation

Goal: Mediate a sustainable school culture that leads to student research and inquiry concerning future career options, connectedness to family and community, as well as post high school education.

Objective: Students will be willing and able to express goals.

Strategy to fulfill target students’ work ethic and willingness to research:

*Initiate procedures to define and drive the Clean Campus collaboration.

*Visits by professionals as well as retirees to model English expression and professionalism while playing What’s My Line of Work? During these sessions talk will ensue for purposes of career orientation, proactive life skills considerations (creating a family, travel, post high school, college/career path) coming from an experienced educated adult.

Essential Other Services

*Supervision during Nutrition and Lunch.

*Teacher collaborations focused on exposure to higher English expression.

*Nurture a network of potential community based resources that can help Adams MS maximize positive measurable growth in the areas numbered 1-4 above.