The counselor Tonya Womack Campbell and parent liaison Rosanelda Foo at wonderful Williams Elementary School kicked off the school year with a volunteer orientation. Volunteers received information on how to help students and the community be successful. Nutrition information was presented, and school procedures were given. Joining volunteers were principal Ami Potts, assistant principal Priscilla Zepeda, and secretary Dora Trevino.
The students of Adams Middle School participated in their first Friends of Rachel Club meeting on Wednesday. They pledged to start a chain reaction of kindness and help promote caring and compassion.
The parents, counselor and faculty at HOPE Academy are ready to cruise with Career Cruising.
Moseley's First Thunder Rally hosted by the Kindness and Compassion Club
Moseley Students Turns Their Backs on Bullying
Ms. Sabbath's first grade class wear their clothes backwards (Turning Their Backs on Bullying) to promote Kindness Week at Moseley Elementary.
The SGP counselors held their first Lunch On the Landing (LOL) for the school year. Fridays, you can find them during lunches available for all students and staff and happy to help.
NED comes to Moseley Elementary to help kick off Rachel's Challenge and Kindness Week.
Ms. Price's third grade class wears blue to represent peace during Kindness Week at Moseley.
Rachel's Challenge at Eisenhower
All our scholars at Eisenhower Elementary participated in our Rachel's Challenge Kick Off last Friday. Our Eisenhower Cougars do love our Random Acts of Kindness Bingo and our contagious kindness song and dance.
Thank you to all our special teachers and administrators who supported our all-day long activity.
Successful Danish With Dad at Bonham Early Education School hosted by Narlie Campos, family engagement specialist, and Patricia Boylen, school counselor. It was wonderful to see so many dads and students with beautiful smiles, enjoying quality time together.
Daniels Grandparents Day
Mrs. Mays' counseling department at David Daniels Elementary hosted lunch to celebrate Grandparents Day on Monday. The students and grandparents had a wonderful time.
GPHS Counselors Tuesday Talk
GPHS counselors are in the cafeteria every second Tuesday of the month. This Tuesday we spoke to students about the following:
1. How to request eTranscripts on Career Cruising for the colleges/universities that they want to attend.
2. Promoted the GPISD College Night event coming up on September 22 at SGPHS.
3. Promoted our Rachel’s Challenge Club.
4. Promoted our new club, New Beginnings, a club that provides student mentors for our new-to-the-country students.
GP Meet the Teacher Night
GPHS counselors were available to provide information to parents and students regarding the following information:
· Promote GPISD’s College Night
· Promote GPHS’s Clubs-Rachel’s Challenge & The New Beginner’s Club
· Pass out GPHS’s Monthly Newsletter
· Pass out GPHS’s Counselor Fact Sheet
· Pass out GPISD’s Grading Period End Dates
· Pass out ACT & SAT Upcoming Test Admin Dates
· Discuss the Start of Evening School @ GPHS
· Ensure That Every GPHS Student Knows Their Skyward Log-In & Password
Character Counts at Reagan Middle School. Faculty and staff are making sure our Knights are making responsible choices everyday.
GPHS counselors and GPISD joined together with the City of Grand Prairie #BeTheIMPACT. The City of Grand Prairie's IMPACT team, which promotes drug and alcohol prevention and other responsible lifestyle choices, met with students during lunch periods at the IMPACT table. IMPACT is promoting their public service announcement film project that will be shown at the GP vs SGP football game September 30.
GPCI hosted it's Meet the Teacher Night and First Parent University session, where students and parents got a jumpstart on how to be successful for high school and beyond, present by Counselor Baneca Nyereyemhuka.
Elementary counselors partner with the Green & Clean team. Thank you for a great evening.
Eisenhower Parent Volunteers
Our parents love what we do so much they are willing to volunteer their time to support our scholars at Eisenhower Elementary. This morning the School Counselor, Diana Ham, presented our Volunteer Kick Off Training at the Eisenhower. Volunteers learned about safety, confidentiality and how to be a role model for our Eisenhower Cougars.
School for the Highly Gifted Anti-Bullying Awareness
The School for the Highly Gifted counselor and students get an early start on anti-bullying awareness by making Acts of Kindness pamphlets and creating their own kindness logos.
The GPISD April Month of Service was presented with the Honorable Mention for the Keep Texas Beautiful Sadie Ray Graff Educator and Institution Award at the city council meeting, Tuesday, September 6. The Sadie Ray Graff Award recognizes those in the field of education who encourage or demonstrate efforts to promote the KTB mission through environmental education.
Receiving the award are Brenda Townsend, NSEC Program Coordinator; Cheryl Golden and Dana Jackson, GPISD Counseling Services; and Amanda Linbergh, Keep Grand Prairie Beautiful. Cheri Reynolds Howard, KTB Board member, presented the award and Ron Jensen, Mayor of Grand Prairie, congratulated the award recipients.
SGPHS counselors & GPISD teamed up with the City of Grand Prairie #BeTheIMPACT. The City of Grand Prairie's IMPACT team, which promotes drug prevention and other responsible lifestyle choices, met with students during their lunch periods at the IMPACT table. IMPACT is promoting their public service announcement film project that will be shown at the GPHS vs SGPHS football game.
GPFAA’s counseling team met with our class of 2017 seniors to start talking about college and submitting applications. We see a bright future ahead of these Phantoms.
The counseling team at GPFAA made their rounds to every seminar class to introduce themselves along with their intern from TCU. The students were excited to hear about all of the services offered in the counseling department.
Reagan counselors enthusiastically introduced themselves to their students and shared all the great things the counseling department has to offer in the coming school year. The counselors are grateful to the Social Studies teachers for opening up their classrooms, which allowed the counselors to meet every Reagan Knight.
