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HEART – Helping Every Adolescent
Reach Tomorrow
The purpose of
the team is to provide a means of identifying and helping students who have serious problems which interfere with their success
in school. The HEART team will target the following crisis areas:
Drug
and Alcohol
Chronic
Discipline Problems
Excessive
Absences
Decline
In Academic Performance
Suicide
and Depression
Children
of Divorce
Eating Disorders |
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Peer Mediation
Peer Mediation is an alternative approach to solving conflicts.
It is a voluntary process that involves talking out a problem with the help of specially trained student mediators.
The mediators guide the students through the mediation process.
Its goals are:
(1) to reduce the number of student fights;
(2) to increase student conflict resolution skills; and
(3) to provide students an appropriate vehicle for resolving
conflicts.
A number of our seventh and eighth graders have been trained
to serve as mediators. They work in pairs with an adult in the background when mediation has been requested by a student,
teacher, or administrator. Mediators do not decide who is right or wrong in the student disputes; rather, they are supportive
to both students in conflict as they help them find a solution to their problem using the structured steps of mediation. Mediations
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Individual Counseling
Students are invited to come to speak with us when
they are having difficulty with a problem that is important to them. Students may schedule an appointment by dropping
their name in the "Counselor's Box" in the front office of WMS. One of the counselors will respond to you as soon as
possible. Sometimes it may be the next day before we will be able to see you but We WILL MEET WITH YOU ASAP.
Group Counseling.
Several small groups are run every year on various topics such as: coping with divorce,
friendship, and anger management. If you are interested in participating in a particular type of group please let one
of the counselors know and we will survey other students for interest. Groups typically last for six to eight weeks
and have anywhere from three to eight members.
Anger
Management
Stress Management
Self Confidence
Study Skills
Others upon need
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COMMUNITY RELATIONS
Parents are informed through progress reports, report
cards, and telephone calls of their son's and/or daughter's academic status throughout the school year.
- Parent - teacher-counselor conferences may
be initiated by any of the participants.
- The Guidance Department publishes information
quarterly in the WMS school newsletter to inform the community of testing dates, important academic schedule dates, and other
matters of interest.
- The Guidance Department publishes scholarship,
High School open houses, important reminders, workshop information, and other pertinent guidance information on the WMS website.
- The Guidance Department schedules information
sessions for students and parents regarding High School planning.
- The Guidance Department publishes the school
profile report annually.
RECORD MAINTENANCE
The Guidance Department and the Office of Student
Support Services keeps a complete academic record for each student. The student record shall consist of the transcript and
the temporary record, including all information-recording and computer tapes, microfilm, microfiche, or any other materials-regardless
of physical form or characteristics concerning a student that is organized on the basis of the student's name or in a way
that such student may be individually identified, and that is kept by the public schools.
SCHEDULING
- Students are assisted in developing a course
schedule that meets their needs.
- The Guidance Director meets with Leaving 8th
grade parents in an evening workshop at Whitman Middle School
to discuss High School offerings. A Program of Studies is given to each 8th grade student during scheduling week.
- A course selection sheet is distributed to
all students in Grades 7th and 8th in their English classes. Once the course selection sheets have been completed,
they are returned to guidance for data entry into the computer.
Counselors meet with each student to review and
evaluate the student's course selections/schedule. Together they resolve conflicts, make adjustments, and modify programs
based on individual preference and needs |
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