Whether through her thoughtful ideas, her ability to listen, or the way she has always made people feel seen and valued, Nenah stands up. She is dedicated, compassionate, and unafraid to speak up for what matters. I have no doubt that Nina will bring fresh and amazing energy to this role. Best of luck. Um, and last, but certainly not least, I would truly like to thank every member of this board table. I have had such an incredible year and have grown thanks to your support, love, and guidance, and I will miss you very much next year. Um, I am very thankful to have had the opportunity to be a student representative this year and to have been able to attend all of these amazing meetings. So, thank you. Thank you, Lucia. And I know you have AP tests, so if you have to leave early tonight. Oh, that's I would have missed my last meeting. I know. Just wanted to make the offer. Yeah, just wanted to make the offer. Thank you. Um, okay. Thank you. I'll turn it over now to Dr. P for the counseling program update. All right. Good evening. Thanks for having us at the board table today. Um, tonight's presentation will be led by myself, Dr. Cameron P. To my left we have Miss Jenny Todd who serves as our elementary counselor at Glen Ridge Elementary and then Jason Thompson who serves as our curriculum coordinator for counseling um as well as a counselor at WA Middle School. There we go.

To my left we have Miss Jenny Todd who serves as our elementary counselor at Glen Ridge Elementary and then Jason Thompson who serves as our curriculum coordinator for counseling um as well as a counselor at WA Middle School. There we go. So tonight's uh presentation is twofold. Um, our goal tonight is to give you a snapshot of what counseling looks like K through eight. Um, earlier this fall, we came with our uh, high school team and they gave you a deep dive into the college and career process 9 through 12. Uh, so we wanted to make sure that we also touched on K through8 just to show kind of the vertical alignment um, of our counseling program. Um, and I'm excited to have us finish uh, you know, the back part of these presentations as well because I think it sets the stage well for our two-year program study uh, that we will be launching into into our counseling program to look at exactly um, as times change, as our children change, uh, do our services and do our personnel match the needs of our students which are changing every day. Um, and we hope to get answers for that in terms of counseling programming and personnel moving forward in the future. All right. Well, first of all, I want to thank you all again for allowing us to come to this table. Um, I think I came last year to do a curriculum report and I did bring candy, so I'm bringing it again.

Well, first of all, I want to thank you all again for allowing us to come to this table. Um, I think I came last year to do a curriculum report and I did bring candy, so I'm bringing it again. And it's symbolic. So, as you know, educators and counselors fill our buckets so we can fill yours. So, please take a piece and then don't ask any crazy questions and stroke it. All right? So, enjoy that. So, basically, um, I'm excited because we are doing our two-year program um, review. As you all know, last year we did a curriculum review for two years. And you may you may have remembered back then there were four areas of school counseling and curriculum is one of them. So we're excited this year to actually begin looking at all four of our components. And we're going to use something called the Missouri Comprehensive School Program Evaluation. Say that fast. So Mosby for short. And that was created by DESIE along with the Missouri School Counselor Association. It's a way for school counselors in in the state and actually in the in the country actually. Some other states have adopted this particular evaluation tool to let people know, let programs know how well they're doing in those four areas, identify strengths and areas for growth and really just to help our make our best better. And so with that with the MOSI once again, we're going to look at that as each building to look at those four areas.

Some other states have adopted this particular evaluation tool to let people know, let programs know how well they're doing in those four areas, identify strengths and areas for growth and really just to help our make our best better. And so with that with the MOSI once again, we're going to look at that as each building to look at those four areas. Desi has put out some evaluation tools for that to let us know what areas we should be working on and what percentage of our time should be dedicated to certain areas. So starting in August, we're going to look at each building and use this tool to see what areas we're doing well in and then areas for improvement and then that will set our smart goals in our two-year plan and hopefully with that you all will be able to approve our two-year plan. So you think about four areas again we learned about some of this last year. So, I'll kind of do a quick review. So, our first area is school counseling curriculum. And this is where we're teaching lessons, co-f facilitating classes, having guest speakers come in to teach about really things that we kind of mentioned earlier today before we came up here, things like social emotional development, academic development, and career development. So, those are done in the lessons. And with that, we took an average from K through 8th grade on what percentage of our time we're working on these areas.

So, those are done in the lessons. And with that, we took an average from K through 8th grade on what percentage of our time we're working on these areas. And from K through 8 this year is about a 20% of our time is working on school counseling curriculum. The next one is individual student planning. Once again about 12% of our time is built on that one. Definitely at the middle school we spend more time on our IAPS the individual career and academic plan. So starting in eighth grade every student will have a plan created for that person and that carries on to high school to help them with their career and college goals. Then two we look at goal setting. We do a check-in, check out with students that need it. Course advising, scheduling, and transitions. And we'll talk more about transitions later. Responsive services, you can see 35% of our time is with that. That's when we spend most of our time where we're actually sitting in working face to face with students either through individual counseling, group counseling, um crisis counseling, consulting, and things like that. The final one, system support, 19%. This is where we are basically supporting the school, supporting the district and supporting the community in different systems. So this way we are part of program advising, we do professional development, program management, program evaluation and also involved on various committees. Well, good evening everyone.