ATTENDANCE MATTERS! :)
Tutoring: Each teacher holds office hours once per week. Ask your teacher when their office hours are held :)
Helpful Websites:
Website 1: Infoplease Homework Help
Description: Information Please – browse frequently assigned topics to find homework facts and also search tips, according to subject area. Researches through almanacs, encyclopedias, and dictionaries according to topics that students enter.
Website 2: http://www.factmonster.com
Description: Fact Monster is a free reference site for students, teachers, and parents. Get homework help and find facts on thousands of subjects, including sports, entertainment, geography, history, biography, education, and health.
Website 3: http://www.uni.edu/walsh/linda7.html
Description: This site provides a sampling of sites that provide tips to help you manage your time, take better notes and study more effectively, work on your memory, and take tests. You can also explore your learning style and explore some excellent general academic success sites.
Website 4: http://www.studyguidezone.com/resource_tips.htm
Description: Tips on listening in class, college prep schedules, how to be a good student, learning styles, note taking, systematic reading, forming a study group, motivation for college, time management, effective studying, math fear, beating the stress, test anxiety, nervousness, and test taking techniques.
Stress is a normal part of life, but you don't have to face it alone---explore these resources to find healthy ways to cope and grow.
Virtual Play Room: Explore this interactive virtual counseling room to discover fun activities, coping strategies, and resources that support your well-being.
If you are experiencing bullying or have concerns about someone else, please talk to a school counselor or another trusted adult—we are here to listen, support you, and help.
Check out the following resources:
Committee for Children
Committee for Children’s Second Steps Curriculum combines social-emotional learning (SEL), bullying prevention, and child protection to form a cohesive foundation for whole-school success.
Cyberbullying Research Center
The Cyberbullying Research Center provides up-to-date information about the nature, extent, causes, and consequences of cyberbullying among adolescents.
http://cyberbullying.us/resources/
Hands and Words Are Not For Hurting Project
The Purple HANDS Pledges represents our efforts to educate Oregon’s children and adults about abuse and violence and what each one of us can do to stop violence in our own lives and in the world.
International Bullying Prevention Association
The purpose of the International Bullying Prevention Association is to support and enhance quality research based bullying prevention principles and practices to achieve a safe school climate, healthy work environment, good citizenship and civic responsibility.
National Bullying Prevention Center /Teens Against Bullying
National Bullying Prevention Center’s website provides resources for educators and students.
http://www.pacerteensagainstbullying.org/
Stop Bullying Now
Information, intervention strategies and advice for those impacted by bullying. Presenting practical research-based strategies to reduce bullying in schools.
If you are having thoughts of suicide or are worried about someone who might be, please come see someone in the School Counseling Department, Admin, or a trusted adult---we are here to help you.
Outside of school hours, do not wait and reach out to a trusted adult.
Resources listed below are free, confidential, and available 24/7.
988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline --- Call or text 988, or chat online at 988lifeline.org. Available in English, Spanish, and 240+ languages via interpretation.
Crisis Text Line --- Text HOME to 741741 to reach a trained crisis counselor by text, anytime.
The Trevor Project --- Call 1-866-488-7386, text START to 678-678, or chat at thetrevorproject.org.
Emergency --- If there is immediate danger, call 911.
"The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members."
Coretta Scott King