College & Career

College and career Awareness Week

Each year, the CRMS Counseling office hosts a college and career awareness week. The week includes a variety of activities to start conversations about post-secondary options.

• • • • Teacher Interviews: Daily videos are created and shown to students that include teacher interviews. During the daily videos, teachers are interviewed about their experiences during college that apply to the topic focused on each day.

      • Virtual Tours: During the daily videos, clips are shown of a variety of colleges and universities. Some focus on the specific college while others focus on a specific area of college life (i.e. paying for college, admissions, dorm life, etc.).

      • College Corridor: Our college corridor is a hallway leading to our academic wing. In it, we have grouped our staff members by colleges attended. AVID classes will also post a Men's and Women's NCAA Sweet Sixteen Bracket where we will be tracking the events of March Madness. Students also have the opportunity to vote on the winners. The hope is that the College Corridor will provide students with Colleges and Universities to expand their exposure to a variety of settings as well as provide them with teachers as resources for those colleges they may be interested in attending.

      • PALS Interviews: High school endorsement areas (STEM, Public Service, Business and Industry, and Arts and Humanities) will be highlighted through interviews with high school PALS students in the daily videos.

      • CAW Quiz Contest: Students have the opportunity to participate in a daily quiz contest based off the video from that day. Correct answers on the quiz will enter students into a drawing for prizes! Prizes are awarded the week after College Awareness Week.

      • Rumble at the Ridge: We cap our College Awareness Week off with Rumble at the Ridge - a basketball game that pits our student players against our faculty team. Run by our CRMS student council, the event comes with a pep rally and definitely creates a fun and competitive game for spectators and all involved.

Four Year Planning (Eighth Grade)

During a student's eighth grade year, the counselor dedicates lessons to students to help them with the process of transitioning to VHS. This transition includes understanding graduation requirements and planning these requirements out through their four years in high school. The lessons are meant to provide students with the opportunity to understand the process. Students are not creating unchangeable plans. For more information about these lessons, visit the eighth grade counselor's guidance website.