Guidance Plan
Academic, Social & Emotional Development
8. To provide for the social, emotional, and academic needs of students.
9. To help students plan for their futures and obtain goals.
10. To provide crisis intervention as needed.
11. To help students cope with stressful situations and collaborate on problem solving with staff, students, and parents.
Objective 8
To provide crisis intervention and personal counselling to help students who are experience difficulties which interfere with academic success.
Expected Outcomes:
- Students will be scheduled for counselling on an as needed basis.
- If students require additional mental health services, the counsellor may suggest outside counselling through a community agency.
Method of Evaluation:
- Student and parent feedback
- Counselling logs where applicable
Objective 9
To provide parents, students, and teachers with problem-solving approaches to help students become more successful in the classroom.
Expected Outcomes:
- Students will be assisted with self-advocacy skills and necessary tools to help them access the services and supports they need to be successful in school.
Method of Evaluation:
- Student report and feedback
- Teacher reports
Objective 10
To help students who are experiencing attendance problems resolve those issues which interfere with the learning process.
Expected Outcomes:
- Student attendance will be monitored and issues which prevent students from attending school on a regular basis will be addressed with students and parents when necessary.
Method of Evaluation:
- Attendance records review
- Student feedback
- Teacher feedback
Objective 11
To provide services for teachers which lead to increased student performance and decreased disciplinary issues in the classroom.
Expected Outcomes:
- Students who are experiencing behaviour, social or emotional problems will receive appropriate counselling or referral services as needed.
- Counsellors will assist teachers in establishing a classroom climate that is conducive to the learning process.
- Counsellors will provide teachers with short term interventions or classroom counselling experience to address factors which impede student learning.
Method of Evaluation:
- Teacher, student, & parent feedback.
- Review of student records as appropriate.
- Review of attendance records as appropriate.
OBJECTIVE
To improve cultural awareness for all students throughout the year.
Strategy: Cultural awareness training will be provided to students and staff at the schools.
Person(s) Responsible: School Curriculum Committees
Timeline: On going
Measure of Success: Increase in the number of activities in the school and a decrease in the number of bullying harassment incidents.
OBJECTIVE
To provide opportunities for students to share their perceptions of the school environment.
Strategy: Establish a committee in the school to discuss school climate. Committee should be composed of students, teachers, administration, and parents.
Person(s) Responsible: School Administration
Timeline: Annually
Measure of Success: Degree to which recommendations are adopted by the Unified
School Improvement Committee.
OBJECTIVE
To continually renew the commitment from administrators and faculty to support positive self esteem in students.
Strategy: Conduct monthly discussions with school administrators to reinforce cultural diversity goals
Person(s) Responsible: Superintendent and Directors Timeline: On going
Measure of Success: The implementation of assigned goals
Strategy: To establish activities designed to improve school morale.
Person(s) Responsible: School Guidance Counselors, school faculties, and school administration
Timeline: On going
Measure of Success: Satisfactory survey data will indicate annual improvement in staff and student morale.
Measures at the School Level:
• A School Bullying Policy to be incorporated along with the Code of Conduct
• Questionnaire Survey
• School Conference day on bully/victim problems
• Better supervision during recess and lunch time
• More attractive school playground
• Contact telephone
• Meeting staff – parents
• Activities with parents during the year. Different seminars and events will be conducted, in which we will be teaching parents, teachers and staff how to identify, deal with, and combat Bullying
Measures at the Class Level:
• Character Education lessons taught in classrooms
• Class rules against bullying: clarification, praise and sanctions
• Regular class meeting
• Role playing, literature. Recreation of the "B-Bomb Show"
• Cooperative learning
• Common positive class activities
• Anti-bullying workshops and activities with students, included in the After School Program
• Class meeting teacher – parents/children
Measures at the Individual Level:
• Serious talks with bullies and victims
• Serious talks with parents of involved students
• Teacher and parent use of imagination
• Help from “neutral” students. Creation of Intervention & Support Teams, consisting of previously selected students, monitored by teachers, tutors and counsellors.
• Help and support for parents
• Discussion groups for parents of bullies and victims
• Change of class or school
The Measures
Welcome to the Skull Middle School!
OBJECTIVES
- To annually survey students concerning the prevalence and severity of bullying.
- To communicate a clear moral position against bullying and harassment.
- To implement bullying prevention principles with students, parents and educational staff.
- To establish, where absent, consistent, enforceable rules pertaining to bullying.
- To annually communicate these policies to students, parents and educational staff.
- To integrate the bullying prevention principles in class room instruction where possible
- To recruit peer helpers to communicate rules and principles to incoming students.
- To train peer helpers to use anti-bullying intervention skills in real life situations
- To provide skills for students to deal with bullying.
PRINCIPLES
1.Bullying is real and requires vigorous, sustained intervention.
2. Successful bullying prevention programs most often require collaboration between school and home.
3. No group or student should be marginalized or maligned to promote another group.
4. Bullying policies should provide protection for all students.
5. The objectives of a school anti-bullying program should be to reduce bullying until there is none.
WHY TO CREATE AN ANTI BULLYING PROGRAM?
- 20% of children have suffered from some type of bullying.
- 1.6 % of students suffer bullying constantly, and 5.7% suffer from it sporadically.
- A study from ‘Instituto de la Juventud’ (INJUVE) states that 16% of the polled students have participated in aggressions and exclusions to other students.
- The ‘Instituto de Evaluación y Asesoramiento Educativo’ (IDEA) states that 49% of students are insulted at school. Also, 13% of students confess to have hit their peers.
- Most usual ages to suffer from bullying are 10 to 16. More than 50% of bullying victims are students of ESO.
- By age 23, children who were bullied in middle school were more depressed and had lower self-esteem than their peers who had not been bullied.
THE ANTI BULLYING PROGRAM
OBJECTIVE
To expand library resources to include more moral values.
Strategy: Purchase new culturally diverse materials.
Person(s) Responsible: School Librarians in collaboration with classroom teachers Timeline: On going
Measure of Success: Materials purchased.
OBJECTIVE
To encourage recruitment of a diverse student body in school sponsored activities.
Strategy: The club members will invite all students of different ethnic backgrounds to club meetings to encourage their participation.
Person(s) Responsible: Club Sponsors, School Administration Timeline: Ongoing
Measure of Success: Increase in minority student participation.
In an ever-changing society, it is necessary for Skull School to prepare our students to live and learn in this new world. The Bullying Committee strives to provide a positive learning and work environment for all students and employees by developing, implementing, and monitoring policies and procedures that enhance diversity, provide meaningful classes education, and awareness about bullying in schools.
DIVERSITY PLAN
OBJECTIVE
Conduct a needs assessment.
Strategy: Establish school climate surveys for grades two through twelve.
Person(s) Responsible: School Administration: Annually
Measure of Success: Results will be used by the Bullying Committee.
Activities
Timeframe:
Ongoing
Other Resources:
Ongoing, as requested.
Staff Assigned:
As needed
Classroom Teachers
Guidance Counsellors
Target Group
Ongoing
Mental Health Agencies
Department of Probation
Social Services
Child Protective Services
Guidance Counsellors
Classroom Teachers
All students
Attendance Officer
Administration
Guidance Counsellors
Activities:
All Teachers
Provide study skills and academic success group experiences for students who experience failure or who are at risk of not meeting the state standards.
Guidance Counsellors
All students and families
Provide short term classroom counselling sessions at the request of teachers or administrators who are experiencing difficulty in the classroom setting.
All students
Liaison with community agencies to coordinate services for students and families who need additional support.
Monitor attendance of students and provide intervention services as necessary when poor attendance interferes with student success.
GUIDANCE PLAN
Mission Statement
In coordination with the parents, faculty, students and administration, the guidance department will support each student in achieving academic, social and vocational success. The department wishes to be a resource for the students, parents, faculty, and the community.
The counsellors:
- Create an atmosphere in which the students can deal with problems which prevent students from functioning to the best of their ability.
- Are able to advise staff and effect changes in the educational program that will meet the needs of all students.
- Believe that all individuals have a right to equality of opportunity regardless of their sex, religion, color, national origin, or handicapping condition.
- Are committed to breaking down all barriers based upon such extraneous and destructive considerations.
OBJECTIVES
Communication/Community Support
1. To facilitate effective home/school communication to monitor student progress and support student success.
2. To establish effective community relationships to help support students and families.
Developmental Transitions
3. To facilitate positive transitions for students entering and leaving Skull Middle School
4. To develop and maintain student records which reflect an accurate and complete picture of each student.
5. To help new students adapt to Skull Middle School
6. To create appropriate educational alternatives for students and help students access necessary services.
7. To provide a broader vision of educational and vocational opportunities for students.
- Public middle school
- Located at the Lavapiés neighbourhood
- A working population affected by unemployment, and a young population facing the dangers of juvenile delinquency and addictions.
- 50% immigrant students
The counsellors help the teachers with the Tutorial Action Plan which guides the tutorial classes of the students
This plan has two main points:
- gives academic support: teaching study techniques or giving tools to the student to make decissions about his life
- Class problem solving: tries to solve all the littel conflicts between the students before this growns up. And also helps them to solve it by their own