SMART Goals by Delivery Components

Individual Planning:

At the beginning of every grading period, the school counselors will collaborate with teachers to set an individual academic, reading, and behavior goal for every student to meet by the end of the grading period so that each student can attend a motivational incentive event. Reading goals will be set by each individual student ability level. By the end of the school year, the number of students that meet their academic, reading, and behavior goal will increase by at least 20%.

Guidance Planning:

Counselors will provide a minimum of five Conscious Discipline guidance lesson plans and activities for teachers to deliver to students by the end of the first grading period on the topics of Brain States, Composure, Self-Regulation, Choices, and Consequences.

Responsive Services:

Counselors will provide a minimum of 6 sessions of trauma group counseling using Healing the Experience of Trauma: Path to Resilience guidebook. Trauma counseling will be provided to students that score in the “moderate to severe” range on the trauma screening tool. At the end of the 6 sessions, trauma screening scores will decrease by 50%.

System Support:

By the end of the school year, counselors will offer nine self-care opportunities to support climate and culture among our staff. Completion of these opportunities will be documented in our calendars and we will collect outcome data in the form of a survey completed by staff.

Activity by Service Component

Individual Planning:

Academic, Behavior, and Reading goal setting with each student

Truancy Conferences for students with more than 15 unexcused absences

Home visits for students with more than 6 consecutive absences

Individual counseling for students with BIPs and by student request

Respond to all individual counseling requests via online counseling referral

Organize School Club program so that every student on campus participates in a school club during the school day

Mentor program with Community Partner for students with academic, social/emotional, and/or behavior needs

Individual elective course selection for every current and incoming student

Gifted and Talented Program screening of all enrolled students

Create individual 504 plans

Build master schedule around specific student learning needs

Provide access to social service needs including food, shelter, clothing, Christmas presents, Thanksgiving meal, transportation for homeless students and migrant students

Collaborate with feeder campus to organize Spanish 1 and Spanish 2 Credit by Exam for students to earn high school credit

Duke TIP Talent Search

Summer School Registration

Guidance Planning:

Kids 2 College lessons addressing learning styles inventory, high school options, types of degrees, college admission requirements, paying for college, career exploration.

Conscious Discipline lessons on Brain States, Composure, Self-Regulation, Choices, and Consequences.

Red Ribbon Week drug awareness lessons and class competitions

Internet Safety school assembly by Crime Stoppers

“Start With Hello” week lessons on social isolation

Anti-Bullying week Kindness Challenges

Attitude of Gratitude Week

Student and Staff Shout-Outs

Sixth grade lessons on Texas High School Graduation Plans and High School options

Community Service Project- Canned Food Drive

Fire Prevention Week lessons

Pennies For Patients Fundraiser for Leukemia patients

Responsive Services:

Operation Blessings Coordinator/ Thanksgiving food baskets

Spartan Elves Toy Give-away

Responded to 178 online counseling referrals in addition to counseling referrals submitted by teachers, students, and parents.

140 students referred to Communities in Schools social worker

School supplies, clothing needs, hygiene needs, social services provided through Communities in Schools program

McKinney Vento program case management

13 Referrals to Crisis Intervention Specialist

Suicide and Violence Risk Assessments

ADHD/Impulsive Behavior Student Support Group

Self-Harm Support Group

Grief Support Group

Trauma Support Group

Stay-Away Contracts and Victim Coaching

Backpack Buddy Program

System Support:

Teacher Appreciation Week coordinator

Teacher Treats/Teacher Self-Care Activities Coordinator

Campus Events Calendar for parents

Social Media manager

Parent Coordinator/ Title 1 Coordinator

504 Training

Parent Coffee Chats/ Parent Education Classes

Campus Improvement Plan contributors

School Messenger (Phone Callouts) manager

Team Building for staff meetings and New Teacher Orientation

Jingle Jam Coordinator (Christmas Follies/Talent Show)

New Student Orientation coordinator

Safe and Civil/PBIS Team member

Bell Schedule manager

Partners in Pasadena Campus Liaison

Feeder Campus visit Field Trip Organizer

Individual Planning Highlight

Our Counseling team collaborated with our Safe and Civil/PBIS team to organize fun incentive events for each grading periods during the 19-20 school year to motivate students to achieve their academic, behavior, and reading goals. The counselors collaborated with teachers to set achievement goals with each student, and if goals were met at the end of each grading period, students were eligible to attend a fun event to celebrate their accomplishments. The goal was for the number of students that met their goals to increase each grading period in a single school year. After analyzing the results, the data showed positive results! The percentage of students eligible to attend did increase from the beginning of the year to the end of the year; however, there was a dip in percentage during the third grading period. This is the time of year when the curriculum becomes more rigorous, and staff and students are preparing for STAAR testing. This data showed us that we may need to implement additional motivational interventions during this time to promote grit and perseverance to achieve student goals.

Guidance Planning Highlight

During the 2017-2018 school year, our discipline data showed that 55 office referrals were due to fighting/ mutual combat. In response to this data, the counseling team started the 2018-2019 school year by preparing five guidance lessons for our 5th and 6th grade students to implement during the first grading period. The lessons were designed to help them learn and identify the three brain states, notice their personal triggers, and identify and use coping strategies to help them go from upset to calm. These lessons are based on Conscious Discipline, our character education program. The key concepts taught in the guidance lessons were also repeated in the teacher trainings that were presented by counselors in Professional Learning Communities and were repeated throughout the school year during counseling sessions and classroom lessons. During counseling sessions, students were all able to identify all three brain states and identify which brain state they were stuck in during the time of upset and ways to shift to a higher state. After reviewing discipline data, our goal to reduce the incidents of fighting and mutual combat was achieved! There was a 14% decrease in office referrals related to fighting/mutual combat in one school year, and an 8% decrease in the number of fighting/mutual combat incidents from the previous school year. We have continued to focus on reducing the number of fighting and mutual combat referrals for the 2019-2020 school year through the use of our guidance lessons, and the number dropped down to 23 total referrals. We do realize this data was affected by the COVID-19 campus closure, but we still want to recognize our efforts to reduce this behavior on our campus.

System Support Highlight

COVID-19 brought about many emotions and concerns for our school family. While we were distance learning during the 2019-2020 school year, the RSMS Counseling Department created a virtual "Counseling Corner" during COVID. We emailed staff links to watch clips that would give them self-care tasks or a little bit of humor while we adjusted to distance learning. The Counselors recorded videos and shared a variety of activities to support the staff's mental health and self care. The Counselors also did a mental health check-in, by having staff members complete a survey to let us know how they are doing. The survey allowed us to get an idea of our climate and give us data on specific individuals who were referred to mental health providers in the Houston area that were providing telehealth sessions.

Parent Collaboration Highlight

RSMS School Counselors collaborated with parents to have a successful Grandparent's Day luncheon. Grandparents enjoyed eating lunch, dessert, and taking pictures in our photo booth with their grandchildren. The grandparents were thankful to have the quality time during the school day with their loved ones.