August: - Prepare SAP Informational Files for new teachers
- Distribute SAP referral sheets to all teachers
- Enrollment Interviews for new students
- Process student withdrawals
- Schedule Changes
- New Student Orientation Program
September: - Check with Grade 9 teachers to verify curriculum placements
- Fall letter and/or newsletter to students
- Grade 9 Homeroom advising sessions (focus on study skills & policies)
- "Making High School Count" presentation to Grade 9
- Schedule Changes
- Enrollment Interviews for new students
October: - PSAT test
- SAP Networking Day
- Red Ribbon Week
- Grade 10 Homeroom Advising Sessions
- Govenor's Schools of Excellence material distributed to teachers & students
- HOBY Youth Leadership Seminar Materials distributed to interested sophomores
- Guidance Newsletter
November: - GACTC Presentation and Field Trip to GACTC
- Grade 9 & 10 Individual Conferences as needed
December: - Schedule 8th Grade Transition Activities with SCMS Counselor
- Review PSAT test results with students
- Review students attendance records
January: - Review potential course failures
- Change of Semester
- Schedule changes
- Attendance Reviews
- Begin Scheduling for next school year
- Credit review for all students
- Guidance Newsletter
February: - Govenor's School of Excellence Applications due first week in Feb.
- PA Youth Education Summit Applications due in the Guidance Office
- Memo to staff regarding scheduling procedures
- Begin Grade 9 Individual Conferences
- Send Fall Failures letter to parents
- Process GACTC Applications
- Grade 8 Guidance Lesson focusing on High School Transition
- National School Counselor's Week
- National Eating Disorders Week
March: - Leadership Blair County Youth Applications
- Suicide Awareness Month
- Grade 8 Parent & Student Orientation Program
- Grade 9 Individual Conferences
- Grade 8 Scheduling
- American Legion's State Police Youth Week Program
April: - Careerlink Summer Youth Employment Applications are Available
- Pennsylvania School Counselor's Conference
- Review students attendance records
- Grade 9 TerraNova Testing
- Grade 8 Scheduling
- Guidance Newsletter
May: - Review potential course failures & credit reviews
- Distribute Summer School Information
- Grade 8 Tour of the high school
- SAP Maintenance Day
- SAP Files Review & Entry into the State SAP Catelog System
- Attendance & Failures Reviews
- Finalize GACTC admissions
- Guidance Office Luncheon for Student Guidance Helpers
- Mental Health Month
June: - Summer School Finalizations
- Guidance Newsletter
- GPA letters sent
- Inventory & Order Materials for next school year
- Update and merge student records
- Purge & shred old documents
- Prepare old school files for storage
- Analyze goals and set objectives for next year
- Review and evaluate calendar of events for entire past year
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