Monday, December 16, 2013
Sunday, December 8, 2013
Friday, November 22, 2013
Friday, November 15, 2013
Saturday, November 2, 2013
Sunday, October 20, 2013
Classroom Lessons
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Tuesday, October 8, 2013
Tuesday, October 1, 2013
Kids Together Against Cancer
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Sunday, September 29, 2013
Building Social and Emotional Skills in Elementary Students: Emotional Management | Edutopia
Part 6 of the series from Edutopia
Ninja Mastery- learning emotional management
Building Social and Emotional Skills in Elementary Students: Emotional Management | Edutopia
Ninja Mastery- learning emotional management
Building Social and Emotional Skills in Elementary Students: Emotional Management | Edutopia
Thursday, September 19, 2013
Open House
Thank you to our parents and students who attended Open House. It was wonderful to see so many involved parents and extended family members.
Monday, September 9, 2013
What does a School Counselor do?
Check out the videos on the About Me tab or the Video Clips tab to find out.
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Friday, August 9, 2013
Monday, August 5, 2013
Monday, July 29, 2013
Jacksonville Libraries Event
Jacksonville Libraries hosting DDU this week ...
July 30
3 p.m. Murray Hill Library
7 p.m. Southeast Library
July 31
11 a.m. Argyle Library
3 p.m. Bredham and Brooks Library
Aug. 1
11 a.m. Main Library, 11 a.m.
2:30 p.m. South Mandarin Library
7 p.m. Pablo Creek Library
Aug. 2
11 a.m. Beaches Library
3 p.m. West Regional Library
Didgeridoo Down Under is a unique, cross-curricular presentation that combines Australian music, culture, science, literacy development, comedy, character building, anti-bullying and audience participation. It's interactive, educational, motivational and highly entertaining ... a one-of-a-kind "edu-tainment" experience for all ages!
DDU Mission:
... promote tolerance and respect for all people and cultures.
... ignite excitement about learning and reading.
... further appreciation of world music and art.
... encourage environmental protection.
... help end bullying in schools.
... deliver superb fun!
Since 2003, DDU performers have presented more than 4,000 shows and workshops at schools, libraries, festivals and other venues throughout Florida and the U.S.
DDU Mission:
... promote tolerance and respect for all people and cultures.
... ignite excitement about learning and reading.
... further appreciation of world music and art.
... encourage environmental protection.
... help end bullying in schools.
... deliver superb fun!
Since 2003, DDU performers have presented more than 4,000 shows and workshops at schools, libraries, festivals and other venues throughout Florida and the U.S.
Tuesday, July 23, 2013
Building Social and Emotional Skills in Elementary Students: Inner Meanie and Inner Friend | Edutopia
I posted #1 - #4 in this series last year (you can access them from this link if you missed them. Here is #5
Building Social and Emotional Skills in Elementary Students: Inner Meanie and Inner Friend | Edutopia
Building Social and Emotional Skills in Elementary Students: Inner Meanie and Inner Friend | Edutopia
Monday, July 15, 2013
Want to keep your math skills sharp for the summer?
Click the link for a list of sites to practice. Includes games sites, sites with printable and online practice, and more. Let me know if you find non-working links or if you have a favorite site to add to the list (jenkinsb@duvalschools.org).
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1G24fZUNbKS8SxdoYeP4QzxNdnzaTTHjp-FcUkIhqZWc/edit?usp=sharing
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1G24fZUNbKS8SxdoYeP4QzxNdnzaTTHjp-FcUkIhqZWc/edit?usp=sharing
Thursday, June 20, 2013
Monday, May 20, 2013
Thursday, May 16, 2013
Saturday, April 27, 2013
Parent resources - safety
Resources for parents when discussing personal safety with your child:
http://www.parentingsafechildren.com/resources/resources-parents
http://www.parentingsafechildren.com/resources/resources-parents
Book for personal safety
Check out this link for a list of children's books on the topic of abuse prevention:
http://www.towardthestars.com/blog/news/top-10-resources-to-empower-girls-teaching-sexual-abuse-prevention-through-story/
http://www.towardthestars.com/blog/news/top-10-resources-to-empower-girls-teaching-sexual-abuse-prevention-through-story/
Monday, April 22, 2013
ESOL informational meeting 4-25-13
ESOL Parent Meeting
Would you like to learn more about:
• The ESOL Program
• How students enter and exit the ESOL Program
• Where to get assistance
• Your rights as a parent and your child’s rights
Please join representatives from the ESOL Department to learn about the ESOL program
When: Thursday, April 25, 2013
Where: Englewood HS (media center)
Time: 5:00 pm
For more information contact the ESOL Department at 390-2202
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Stanton and Douglas Anderson Students Earn National Achievement Scholarship
Read about one of our Axson alumni, Olivia Schmid:
duval county public schools - news
duval county public schools - news
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Why Elementary School Counselors.... read on
http://asca.membershipsoftware.org/content.asp?contentid=230
System Support
Elementary School Counselors Collaborate with:
Parents
Parent education
Communication/networking
Academic planning
College/career awareness programs
One-on-one parent conferencing
Interpretation of assessment results
Teachers
Classroom guidance activities
Academic support, including learning style assessment and education to help students succeed academically
Classroom speakers
At-risk student identification and implementation of interventions to enhance success
Administrators
School climate
Behavioral management plans
School-wide needs assessments
Student data and results
Student assistance team building
Students
Peer education
Peer support
Academic support
School climate
Leadership development
Community
Job shadowing, service learning
Crisis interventions
Referrals
Parenting classes
Support groups
Career education
**These examples are not intended to be all-inclusive
Why Elementary School Counselors?
Elementary school years set the tone for developing the knowledge, attitudes and skill necessary for children to become healthy, competent and confident learners. Through a comprehensive developmental school counseling program, school counselors work as a team with the school staff, parents and the community to create a caring climate and atmosphere. By providing education, prevention, early identification and intervention, school counselors can help all children achieve academic success. The professional elementary school counselor holds a master’s degree and required state certification in school counseling. Maintaining certification includes on-going professional development to stay current with education reform and challenges facing today’s students. Professional association membership enhances the school counselor’s knowledge and effectiveness.
Why Elementary School Counselors
“Today’s young people are living in an exciting time, with an increasingly diverse society, new technologies and expanding opportunities. To help ensure that they are prepared to become the next generation of parents, workers, leaders and citizens, every student needs support, guidance and opportunities during childhood, a time of rapid growth and change. Children face unique and diverse challenges, both personally and developmentally, that have an impact on academic achievement."
– “Toward a Blueprint for Youth: Making Positive Youth Development a National Priority,” U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Elementary School Students’ Developmental Needs
The elementary years are a time when students begin to develop their academic self-concept and their feelings of competence and confidence as learners. They are beginning to develop decision-making, communication and life skills, as well as character values. It is also a time when students develop and acquire attitudes toward school, self, peers, social groups and family. Comprehensive developmental school counseling programs provide education, prevention and intervention services, which are integrated into all aspects of children’s lives. Early identification and intervention of children’s academic and personal/social needs is essential in removing barriers to learning and in promoting academic achievement. The knowledge, attitudes and skills that students acquire in the areas of academic, career and personal/social development during these elementary years serve as the foundation for future success.
Meeting the Challenge
Elementary school counselors are professional educators with a mental health perspective who understand and respond to the challenges presented by today’s diverse student population. Elementary school counselors don’t work in isolation; rather they are integral to the total educational program. They provide proactive leadership that engages all stakeholders in the delivery of programs and services to help students achieve school success. Professional school counselors align with the school’s mission to support the academic achievement of all students as they prepare for the ever-changing world of the 21st century. This mission is accomplished through the design, development, implementation and evaluation of a comprehensive, developmental and systematic school counseling program. ASCA’s National Standards in the academic, career, and personal/social domains are the foundation for this work. The ASCA National Model: A Framework For School Counseling Programs (ASCA, 2002), with its data-driven and results-based focus, serves as a guide for today’s school counselor who is uniquely trained to implement this program.
Elementary School Counselors Implement the Counseling Program by Providing:
School Guidance Curriculum
– “Toward a Blueprint for Youth: Making Positive Youth Development a National Priority,” U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Elementary School Students’ Developmental Needs
The elementary years are a time when students begin to develop their academic self-concept and their feelings of competence and confidence as learners. They are beginning to develop decision-making, communication and life skills, as well as character values. It is also a time when students develop and acquire attitudes toward school, self, peers, social groups and family. Comprehensive developmental school counseling programs provide education, prevention and intervention services, which are integrated into all aspects of children’s lives. Early identification and intervention of children’s academic and personal/social needs is essential in removing barriers to learning and in promoting academic achievement. The knowledge, attitudes and skills that students acquire in the areas of academic, career and personal/social development during these elementary years serve as the foundation for future success.
Meeting the Challenge
Elementary school counselors are professional educators with a mental health perspective who understand and respond to the challenges presented by today’s diverse student population. Elementary school counselors don’t work in isolation; rather they are integral to the total educational program. They provide proactive leadership that engages all stakeholders in the delivery of programs and services to help students achieve school success. Professional school counselors align with the school’s mission to support the academic achievement of all students as they prepare for the ever-changing world of the 21st century. This mission is accomplished through the design, development, implementation and evaluation of a comprehensive, developmental and systematic school counseling program. ASCA’s National Standards in the academic, career, and personal/social domains are the foundation for this work. The ASCA National Model: A Framework For School Counseling Programs (ASCA, 2002), with its data-driven and results-based focus, serves as a guide for today’s school counselor who is uniquely trained to implement this program.
Elementary School Counselors Implement the Counseling Program by Providing:
School Guidance Curriculum
- Academic support, including organizational, study and test-taking skills
- Goal setting and decision-making
- Career awareness, exploration and planning
- Education on understanding self and others
- Peer relationships, coping strategies and effective social skills
- Communication, problem-solving and conflict resolution
- Substance abuse education
- Multicultural/diversity awareness
- Individual student planning
Academic planning
- Goal setting/decision- making
- Education on understanding of self, including strengths and weaknesses
- Transition plans
Responsive Services
- Individual and small-group counseling
- Individual/family/school crisis intervention
- Conflict resolution
- Consultation/collaboration
- Referrals
System Support
- Professional development
- Consultation, collaboration and teaming
- Program management and operation
Elementary School Counselors Collaborate with:
Parents
Parent education
Communication/networking
Academic planning
College/career awareness programs
One-on-one parent conferencing
Interpretation of assessment results
Teachers
Classroom guidance activities
Academic support, including learning style assessment and education to help students succeed academically
Classroom speakers
At-risk student identification and implementation of interventions to enhance success
Administrators
School climate
Behavioral management plans
School-wide needs assessments
Student data and results
Student assistance team building
Students
Peer education
Peer support
Academic support
School climate
Leadership development
Community
Job shadowing, service learning
Crisis interventions
Referrals
Parenting classes
Support groups
Career education
**These examples are not intended to be all-inclusive
Why Elementary School Counselors?
Elementary school years set the tone for developing the knowledge, attitudes and skill necessary for children to become healthy, competent and confident learners. Through a comprehensive developmental school counseling program, school counselors work as a team with the school staff, parents and the community to create a caring climate and atmosphere. By providing education, prevention, early identification and intervention, school counselors can help all children achieve academic success. The professional elementary school counselor holds a master’s degree and required state certification in school counseling. Maintaining certification includes on-going professional development to stay current with education reform and challenges facing today’s students. Professional association membership enhances the school counselor’s knowledge and effectiveness.
Sunday, April 7, 2013
Executive Functioning Development-Impulse Control Practice
Interesting read for parents and teachers:
Executive Functioning Development-Impulse Control Practice
Executive Functioning Development-Impulse Control Practice
Thursday, April 4, 2013
Florida School Counselor Association (FSCA) Board
FSCA eNews Update - April 2, 2013
Congratulations ...
Election Results
Congratulations to the following who were elected (or in the absence of a nomination, appointed) to the 2013 FSCA Governing Board:
President Elect , Carolyn BergerElementary School Level Vice President, Beth Jenkins
Middle Level Vice President No candidate, Araseli Martinez-Pena
District Supervisor Level Vice President , Lori Brooks
Region 2 Vice President, Khristi Keefe
Region 4 Vice President, Cindy Topdemir
RAMP Winners
The RAMP page has been updated, check it out. Also, take 3 minutes to watch a new video from the RAMP Winners at Jacksonville Heights Elementary #229. Kristen Sands and Millie Sierra discuss their experiences and the benefits of earning and becoming a Recognized ASCA Model Program (RAMP).
Montessori in the Home Materials available
Parent Education: Montessori in the Home
Check out the prezi presentation from last night and download or view the handouts on the Information for Students & Parents tab.
Check out the prezi presentation from last night and download or view the handouts on the Information for Students & Parents tab.
Monday, April 1, 2013
Thursday, March 21, 2013
Monday, March 18, 2013
School counselors need your help!
Attention Parents, Guardians, Grandparents:
School Counselors need your help!
The Florida Legislation is currently in session and considering the Student Failure Prevention Act (see http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2013/0154). This bill will do several things which include:• Defines the best use of these highly trained professionals;
• Requires every school provide at least one and sufficient additional full-time school counselors;
• Moves Florida's schools closer to the nationally recommended School Counselor to student standard ratio of 1:250 and thus to well-planned and accountable school counseling programs.
Step 1: Look up your legislators
Representatives:
http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/sections/representatives/myrepresentative.aspx
Senators:
http://www.flsenate.gov/Senators/Find
Step 2: Use the template below as a guide to write them an email and/or fax. Also feel free to call their offices and speak to either him/her or his/her aid.
Step 3: Call your local media (e.g., news, radio) and make your voice heard.
Sample letter:
March 18, 2013
The Honorable ____________________
As a parent of a xxxx school student and one of your constituents, I want to voice my support for the Student Failure Prevention Act being considered in the current legislative session (SB 154 and HB 801). I believe that school counselors are vital partners in helping our children to achieve and succeed. In fact, I am very concerned to have learned that, on average, there is only one counselor to approximately 500 students in Florida schools and some schools have no counselor at all.
Perhaps a personal story or bit of information here ...
I want my tax money to support this bill which will put more counselors in more schools and help them to work directly with our children. Parents, teachers, administrators and others can help although cannot fully prepare our children to be college and career ready, to learn the personal and social skills necessary for the 21st century workplace, or to navigate intricate academic requirements. Without more school counselors who work directly with students, only some will get attention and other students will be robbed of the help they deserve.
School counselors are unique as the only specially trained professional to help ALL students meet academic, behavior and career standards. They help to protect bullying victims and teach bullies new behaviors; they focus on keeping students in school and moving toward college, careers, and jobs; and they teach the key skills and attitudes that build our future workforce.
By following national and state standards and evidence-based practices, school counselors work with individual and groups of students, teachers, administrators, and families, in and out of the classroom. They are experts who develop and deliver targeted programs to ALL students, Pre-K through 12. These standards and practices are supported by diverse state and national groups including Florida's DOE, both the Florida and American School Counselor Associations, Kresge, Gates, and DeWitt Wallace Foundations and the National Association of Secondary School Principals.
The time is now. We are facing a critical crossroads in education and for the first time in our history, this generation of students is at-risk of having lower educational attainment than that of their parents. Florida in particular is facing historic economic challenges and a high student drop-out rate that can only be cured by investing in its present and future workforce in this way.
My child deserves your support for the Student Failure Prevention Act.
Sincerely,
XXXXXXXXXX
District name here
Sunday, March 10, 2013
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Friday, February 8, 2013
Monday, February 4, 2013
Tools for Success Conference for Families
Here is some information about the Tools for Success Conference for Families. Tons of valuable information and knowledgeable people in one place! Check it out and register now.
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Building Social and Emotional Skills in Elementary Students: Inner Meanie and Inner Friend | Edutopia
Here is the 5th article in the series on building social and emotional skills in elementary students. Articles 1-4 are linked below. Check back for more in the future. :-)
Building Social and Emotional Skills in Elementary Students: Inner Meanie and Inner Friend | Edutopia
Building Social and Emotional Skills in Elementary Students: Inner Meanie and Inner Friend | Edutopia
Local Counseling Resource
Information on a local resource for counseling services
See below for a brochure and referral form for Right Path. I do not have any direct knowledge of their services but am sharing this information as a resource for families.
Thursday, January 17, 2013
Kids Together Against Cancer
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Wednesday, January 2, 2013
Congratuations Yash!
Here is a link to the DCPS Spotlight article:
http://www.duvalschools.org/static/contact/communications/spotlight/2013/1218.asphttp://www.duvalschools.org/static/contact/communications/spotlight/2013/1218.asp
http://www.duvalschools.org/static/contact/communications/spotlight/2013/1218.asphttp://www.duvalschools.org/static/contact/communications/spotlight/2013/1218.asp
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