And I also work with individual students who may have a little bit of anxiety with that transition. And then we have transition meetings with middle school personnel and just give them a heads up about our student needs. All right, that picture was not photoshopped. Those people look great. So great to be honest with you. So I um have Liz Tucker who's our current eighth grade counselor will be sixth grade counselor next year and then Mark Schneider who is our sixth grade counselor this year and I'm the seventh grade counselor. So very similar to elementary, our goal for a middle school support students, teachers, and families. Though basically all of our stakeholders, we play a vital role in the areas of responsive services, individual and group counseling, individual student planning, as well as personal, academic, and career development. And that's done again through our lessons in classrooms, individual sessions, group sessions, and our individual student planning. So like like elementary, we have transitions also. um exciting year. I know Liz is our eighth grade counselor, working with sixth grade, I mean fifth grade, too. So, she's doing double work. So, she's working with all of the students at the elementary level and fifth grade, getting them ready to make a smooth transition to the high school, working with the teachers and staff and administrators and parents at those schools to learn as much as we can about those fifth graders again so they become part of our YO down family.

So, she's doing double work. So, she's working with all of the students at the elementary level and fifth grade, getting them ready to make a smooth transition to the high school, working with the teachers and staff and administrators and parents at those schools to learn as much as we can about those fifth graders again so they become part of our YO down family. We have a counselor administrative visits to elementaryaries done every year where they make presentations to the students to let them know about the positives and excitement about coming to the middle school and answer all the great questions they have as far as will I get left behind? Will people know me? Will I know my locker and things like that. So, it's really exciting time for them to learn. Then also we have a great time just happened in April with our fifth graders come and visit us and we have eighth grade web leaders where this stands for where everyone belongs and they serve as mentors and tour guides for those fifth graders again just to welcome them to their school. And then I'm very partial to this web orientation. Myself and Chris Chisum are the two co-directors for web. And we started this about maybe six, seven years ago where we actually have a half day dedicated just to our rising sixth graders. the whole school is theirs. We have full activities, small group activities.

And we started this about maybe six, seven years ago where we actually have a half day dedicated just to our rising sixth graders. the whole school is theirs. We have full activities, small group activities. We do tours and answer questions and feedback from teachers, parents, and students is that when that first day of school comes, they feel ready. And then final one for the eighth grade to high school transition. We're looking at curriculum and transition lessons to prepare students about getting ready for high school. What exactly is a GPA? Why is every every grade, every assignment important? And talking about that with those students. Uh we assist with the I caps. Again, every student will have an ICAP by eighth grade and that carries them through the high school years. They do eighth grade visits at the central Clayton High School also. And we have transition meetings throughout the year with all CHS personnel. And this is something just to kind of show the different areas again and what's used by the different buildings. As you can tell, most of the four components are being used K through 8th grade. The only major difference right now is the counseling lessons. I know elementary school counselors kind of use that um something called character strong that we've adopted a few years ago. They use that with their lessons whereas our school at W down all the teachers use that in some way or the some form or the other.

I know elementary school counselors kind of use that um something called character strong that we've adopted a few years ago. They use that with their lessons whereas our school at W down all the teachers use that in some way or the some form or the other. The other areas you can tell that K through 8th grade everyone is using. Um individual student planning we have the IAP of course since that is a eighth grade specific. Elementary won't um do that one. And then career fairs, we do that every three years at the height at the at Yown. And I believe elementary touches on careers throughout their lessons throughout the year. You all have the candies, so there's no questions. All right. We're open it up. Okay. Um I have a question, but who I I'll just open up the floor to anyone else. Lucia or Nina, do you have any questions for them? You don't have to. No pressure. So, you said Oh, turn that up. Yeah, there you go. You said you have pretty positive student feedback from the web program at Woundown. Um, like what's the specific feedback you're hearing? What do you think is like working well, especially like within that program? Great question. That's one of my students. Great question. So, great. So, yes, that's right. That's right. So, I would say actually we had uh our web we're doing web interviews right now. And so, we have about 85 students that are all trying to apply for just 40 spots.

So, I would say actually we had uh our web we're doing web interviews right now. And so, we have about 85 students that are all trying to apply for just 40 spots. And so, we are myself and Chris have a great opportunity to meet with those students. And one question we asked is that what do you remember about web when you came in last year as a sixth grader? What do you remember? And many of them said I was scared coming to white down. It's huge homework, bigger kids and things like that. But most of them said, "My web leader helped me with that transition." And that having an eighth grade kind of a rock star, someone who knew me in the hallways, they really felt they belonged at White because people saw them. Yeah, great question. Okay, Lucia, did you Yeah. Um, first of all, thank you so much for the presentation and for the candy. It's always amazing to be able to go into like all of the little offices and just throughout Clayton High School like take a minute, take a Kit Kat, take a minute. It's I don't know. It's amazing.