COCC and OSU Cascades VIP Luncheaon
Hi all,
I hope everyone is having a great start to their year! We have some very exciting news to share with you, Central Oregon Community College and Oregon State University-Cascades invite you to the 2023 VIP Luncheon on December 5th! This lunch will be for the amazing college and career staff, school counselors, and administrators in recognition of your efforts that promote educational opportunities for high school students. We can’t wait to celebrate you!
The registration link and invitation for the luncheon is below. You can also view the registration link here! Please fill this out as soon as you can and no later than November 28th. We hope to see you all there!
We also wanted to share news for our annual Preview Day in the spring! This day will be held on April 19th. Save the date!
Looking forward to celebrating you all in December!
Kayleen, Sarah, & Sofia
OYCP Updates
Hello BLP Counselors; As we near the end of the first semester it is time that we start noticing students who are struggling, at risk of quitting, not passing classes or not gaining credits to graduate on time. I would love the opportunity to discuss how our alternative high school works to get those students back on track. We are a 1-of-a-kind high school located here in Bend. Our focus is on credit recovery and helping youth find a more positive path in life. I can assure you our 22-week residential and 12-month post-residential program works. We have an almost 90% success rate with our students. Our school is tuition free, all inclusive, completely accredited and students have the opportunity to earn 8-10 credits which will all carry over to their home area schools. Please contact me so that I can help you help our young people.
Oregon Youth Challenge is having an orientation/open house and application seminar.
Saturday, November 18th
Orientation 10am-12pm ~ Come find out what we’re all about and how we help students get caught up and back in school on target to graduate on time.
Open House ~ 12:30pm – 3:30pm ~ Tour the facility and meet some of our current students.
Application Help ~ 12:30pm – 3:30pm ~ We’re here to help families with the application process.
All are welcome. (if a parent and student wish to attend the Orientation, they will need to register: www.oycp.com, apply now button (this does not mean they are applying, it takes them to the page to sign up for orientation).
Feel free to contact me with questions or concerns.
Respectfully,
Lori Witty
Admissions Counselor
541-317-9623, Ext. 223
FAX: 541-388-9960
Website: www.oycp.com
November PLC
It was so nice to connect as teams this week and seeing our progress on our journey to alignment, defining, and developing a comprehensive school counseling program for students!
Middle School PLC Slides
Please check out the slides for the THREE franchised lessons that will be delivered based on our SchooLinks curriculum agreements.
We will continue to work in school teams to define our school counseling programming (Tier 1 and 2) and develop learning targets to begin the development of districtwide agreements and expectations for school counseling programming for all students.
Elementary School PLC Slides
Thank you for those that shared their challenge during our Solution Focused Circle. We will continue our work towards defining and aligning our agreements and curriculum for Tier 1 and Tier 2 school counseling programming.
High School PLC Slides
Linked here is the presentation from COCC College Now and Financial Aid
We will continue to work on our HS CSCP Agreement Document over the course of the next month.
- Review the HS CSCP Agreement document:
- Add any programming you are missing for your site
- 12th grade was missing for some
- Add any social/emotional programming for your site
- Add any programming you are missing for your site
- Define/Clarify *Highlighted in Yellow:
- Tier 1 Topics that are covered in the activity
- Learning Targets: What do we what students to understand as a result of the activity/programming?
Use of Time Reminder
We have scheduled our Use of Time Data collection for November 13-17 and November 27-December 1st. We are asking that all counselors complete this data gathering process. Along with our Student Conference Data (Synergy Data) that you have inputted thus far, we will be sharing the compiled data with administrators and level leads in December.
Here is the information below with instructions on how to complete this process:
Here is a link the Google Folder. In it you will find a folder for each school and “Use of Time Sheets” for each counselor at that school. There is one sheet for November 13-17 and another for November 27-December 1.
The Use of Time Calculators are really easy to use, just put an X in the correct box for how you spent your time during that 15-minute period for each day.
Here is a link to the agreements for our agreed activities for how to input and where. Please review this document PRIOR to completing the Use of Time data collection. We need to make sure we are all calibrated on how to input the data into the form.
Again, we will be sharing this data with each other as well as administration and level leads. The more accurate it is, the more impactful it will be😊
Thanks!