Email: erin.pingelton@dumasisd.org
Website: https://www.dumasisd.org/index.php?pageID=352545_3
Location: 623 Powell Ave Drive, Dumas, TX, USA
Phone: 806-935-4153
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nissa.dunnam.79

At Morningside Elementary School, the counselor works with students individually, in groups and in classroom counseling lessons to support the personal, social and academic growth of all students. The counselor works with the administrative team to develop programs and support families including parent education, consultation, and resources.

Tonie Crawford is instrumental at Morningside. Through classroom lessons and individual or group counseling sessions, students learn coping strategies, responsibility, and proper social behavior to be successful. She cares about the mental and physical health of our students of diverse backgrounds and abilities, providing crisis counseling and guidance for students affected by trauma, and supporting our staff with effective strategies for students with behaviors that may interfere with teaching and learning. She meets with students and/or parents when attendance becomes an issue. Coffee with the Counselor gives parents online access to videos and lessons about common parenting themes.

Erin Pingelton

Principal Morningside Elementary

The Morningside Elementary Counseling Advisory Council (CAC) meets 2 times each school year:

August and June

Erin Pingelton: Principal

Tonie Crawford: Professional School Counselor

End of the Year Meeting:

At the end of the 2018-2019 school year, I met with principal Erin Pingelton and discussed the end of the year report. We also discussed the benefits of applying for CREST and setting up a Counseling Advisory Council for the next school year.

The mission of the Dumas ISD School counseling department is to develop a proactive and comprehensive program that focuses on the academic, career, and social/emotional needs

of all students. As professional school counselors, we partner with students, staff, parents, and community agencies to provide tools and resources to advocate for students to assure growth and development. This program is designed to meet student and campus needs in alignment with the TEC 33.006 and the Texas Model for Comprehensive School Counseling Programs.

Definition: The Dumas ISD Counseling Department believes that every student is entitled to a safe and supportive learning environment. We will use a proactive comprehensive counseling program to meet the needs of all students enabling them to achieve success by attaining a social/emotional understanding, problem-solving skills, and develop into a responsible citizen. We, as professional school counselors, will continually partner with students, staff, parents and community agencies to continually develop the comprehensive counseling program (TCA, 2018).

Rationale: The Dumas ISD counseling department works with educators and families to educate all students in the areas of social/emotional learning, and career awareness to ensure they reach their academic and individual potential. The professional school counselors will acquire data through attendance and discipline reports, district and state assessments to meet the needs of the students, campus, and community. We will use appropriate research-based theories and ethical practices as the foundation of the comprehensive counseling program. The proactive comprehensive counseling program encompasses the competencies of career awareness, interpersonal and intrapersonal effectiveness, and personal health and safety to support students in their development.

Assumptions: The Dumas ISD comprehensive school counseling program is guided by the following assumptions in order to be proactive and effectively implemented.

• Dumas ISD will continue to seek professionally certified school counselors to implement and conduct the program.

• Every student, parent, teacher, and any other recipient of the comprehensive school counseling program will have equal access to the program.

• Parents are full partners in the education of their children (TEC 26.001). Dumas ISD will implement a school counseling advisory council that will include parents, members of the academic team and other community agencies to advise on the creating, implementing and evaluating of the school counseling program.

• Professional school counselors have administrative commitment and support. We are an integral part of the academic team.

• Dumas ISD will continue to offer a positive work environment. Professional school counselors are encouraged to contribute to the needs and feedback of the educational environment.

• Dumas ISD will continue to provide an adequate budget to meet the needs and goals of the counseling program.

• All campus administrators understand and support the priorities and demands of the program. Dumas ISD understands the time needed to design, evaluate, and monitor the data gathered to keep the counseling program moving in a proactive direction.

• Dumas ISD administrators will ensure that professional school counselors have the materials, supplies, and equipment necessary to support the development and implementation of the program.

• Dumas ISD will ensure that the professional school counselors will have appropriate and sufficient access to the facilities.

School counseling program goals keep the comprehensive school counseling program focused and on a proactive path. Our comprehensive school counseling program uses SMART goals to guide the development of curriculum and interventions. The professional school counselor reviews data collected from needs assessments from campus staff, parent meetings and the counseling advisory committee along with campus improvement committees, academic excellent indicator system (AEIS), Texas academic performance reports (TAPR), discipline referrals, public education information management system (PEIMS), counseling daily tracking logs, and attendance reports. We will evaluate all the data and look for proactive trends in which the comprehensive school counseling program can address these needs.

The professional school counselor will revisit SMART goals and all data collected during the school counseling program year to make sure the data is moving in a positive proactive direction. Classroom counseling (Guidance) lessons include pre and post-test surveys for students to determine if the lesson is aligned with the SMART goal and the effectiveness of the program. The counseling advisory committee, the campus academic team, and the campus improvement committee assist with evaluating the impact of the counseling curriculum and interventions using data collected through needs assessments from campus staff, parent meetings, discipline referrals, and attendance reports.

Guidance:

• By September 1, 2018, the school counselor will provide a classroom counseling lesson to all K - 6th-grade students on internet safety.
• By the end of the year, the professional school counselor will provide a classroom lesson to all Pre-K -2nd-grade students on body safety "My body my business."

Responsive Services:

• The School Counselor will meet with 100% of all students referred to the counselor by students, families, teachers and other caring individuals to develop self-awareness and a goal to promote personal and academic growth.
  

• During the school year, the professional school counselor will advocate for all students through consultations with students, families, and the academic team.
  

Individual Planning:

• By the end of the school year, the professional school counselor will assist all students in understanding the different career clusters and the variety of careers that are available in each cluster.
  
• By the end of the school year, the professional school counselor will work with all students, teachers, and families for strategies to educate and promote awareness, and personal and academic growth.

System Support:

• During the initial meetings of the school year, the school counselor will inform all teachers and staff members on our district's suicide and child protective reporting protocols and procedures. 100% percent of teachers and staff members will be able to identify two district personnel that they must notify in the event of a suicide threat.
  
• By the end of the school year, the professional school counselor will collaborate with people and services within the Dumas community to distribute bike helmets to all students that participate in a Bike Rodeo (Bicycle Safety Education Program).

Classroom Counseling Lessons (Guidance)

• 96 Classroom counseling lessons
  

Themes of Lessons by Grade

· Headstart, Pre K & K- Lessons to help school adjustment

· 1st - Emotions and coping skills

· 2nd - Kindness

· 3rd - Growth Mindset

· 4th - 7 Habits (Leader in Me)

• Start with Hello Week Lessons
  
• Reverse Career day
  

Responsive Services

• Consult with teachers, students, and parents. This may often mean attending ARD, staffings and 504 meetings.
• Small group - test anxiety, attendance, and friendship
• Meeting with students and families when students make a suicide threat or are self-injuring.
• Meet with students that are referred to counseling by teachers, parents, students or other caring individuals

Individual Planning

• Supporting referred students and helping them develop a counseling goal to further personal and educational growth.
• Collaborate with 4th-grade teachers on reverse Career Day.
• Small group tier 2 & 3

System Support

• Coffee with the Counselor
• Dumas ISD Elementary Counselor Facebook Page
• Bike Rodeo
• CRCG District 69 Meetings
• District Committee

A classroom counseling (guidance) lesson was taught on taming test anxiety, titled, "Taming the Testing Monster." This lesson was taught to all 3rd and 4th-grade students to prepare them for the STAAR test and help to alleviate some stress that the students were feeling. Teachers then recommended students who exhibited test anxiety for small group counseling. The professional school counselor ran 6 groups of students. A total of 22 3rd and 4th-grade students participated in the groups. Most of these students had failed benchmark or district assessments. The total number of STAAR tests these students took was 65. These students passed 75.38% of the 65 STAAR tests. Of the 65 STAAR tests, 24.62% failed. Of the 65 STAAR tests, 41.54% resulted in approaches. Of the 65 STAAR tests, 23.08% resulted in meets grade level. Of the 65 STAAR tests, 10.77% of the STAAR test resulted in mastered. Teachers also reported that students were calmer taking the test.

Taming the Testing Monster - https://edpuzzle.com/

• Create an account as a Student
  
• Code to join the class is vutagaf
  

The Professional School Counselor collaborated with several community agencies to provide a bike rodeo. Lee Crosby, DSHS, received a grant to distribute bike helmets to the kids. The grant states the kids have to receive bicycle safety education when they receive their helmets, so we asked for a lot of community help. One station was manned by the Dumas ISD maintenance crew. The maintenance crew adjusted the kid's bike seat and handlebar since the kids grow so fast we wanted to make sure the bike was a proper fit. Several high school students volunteered to help the little kids go through the stations. The DPS taught safe places for kids to ride in our town. TxDOT set up an obstacle course and showed the kids some safe ways to ride their bikes. The Air Ambulance crew flew their helicopter to the rodeo and kids got to look at the helicopter and meet the pilot and medics. Two businesses in our community donated a boy and girl bike to go in a drawing for the kids to win. We had several kids that attended the bike rodeo without a bicycle because they didn't own one. We were so excited when the kids that won the bikes participated in the bike rodeo without a bike. I love seeing children in our community wearing helmets as they ride their bikes.

The actual lesson is available at http://www.edpuzzle.com .

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In order for the professional school counselor to be available to support students, families and our academic team, we have flipped our counseling lessons. All of our classroom counseling lessons are recorded prior to showing them. The professional school counselor introduces the lesson and closes the lesson in real-time. We are also with the students as they watch the video unless we get called out for an emergency. This has worked great in our district. The videos are available for teachers, families, and staff to watch. A teacher is welcome to review the lesson with students if they feel their class needs a refresher on the lesson. Families may watch the video to know what their children are learning.

The professional school counselor is shared between 6 campuses. The success of the counseling program relies on the collaboration of administrators, teachers, staff, families and community agencies. The professional school counselor relies on all stakeholders to ensure that each delivery component (classroom counseling lesson, responsive services, individual planning, system support) meets the needs of the comprehensive counseling program. All stakeholders will contribute and evaluate data to ensure the counseling program is moving in a proactive direction. The counseling program relies on communication through email, facebook, and surveys, to share information between all stakeholders.

Texas State Model Application:

A Model Comprehensive, Developmental Guidance & Counseling Program for Texas Public Schools, A Guide for Program Development, Pre-K–12th Grade, Fourth Edition.