Junior High SEL & Wellness

💀 Why didn’t the skeleton go to the Halloween party?
– Because he had no-body to go with!

⚰️ How can you tell if a vampire has a cold?
– Because of the coffin!

🎃 Find more goofy Halloween jokes here

October is National Bullying Prevention Month. It is a month long event to prevent childhood bullying and promote kindness, acceptance, and inclusion. Watch the video and click on the document below to learn more!

In October, we also celebrate Red Ribbon Week from October 23 - 31st. Schools across the United States annually hold Red Ribbon Week activities to promote a drug-free lifestyle and positive decision-making among youth. Red Ribbon Week highlights the importance of living a drug-free life. It presents an opportunity for parents, educators, and communities to reinforce the drug-free messages they share with their children throughout the year. During Red Ribbon Week, youth and adults around the nation pledge to increase their knowledge by learning more about the destructive effects of drug abuse, including prescription drug misuse, and renew their commitment to live a healthy, drug-free lifestyle. Click on the link below to help your teen learn more information about living drug free.

Failure is not a step backwards, it’s a great stepping stone for success. We don’t grow and learn if we don’t step out of our comfort zone and push ourselves every once in a while. For me failure is part of life and part of business - it’s how we deal with failure that’s important. If you’ve failed at something recently or you’re afraid of failing, keep these lessons in mind to help you remember that failure can be a good thing.

• Lesson 1 – Knowledge

It is a very important lesson to learn that failure allows us to gain knowledge. The experience of failing is potent, because it allows us to reflect on where we went wrong and look at how we can do things differently the next time.

• Lesson 2 – Resilience

People who experience failure and then overcome it are likely to be more resilient and better able to cope with what life throws at them. By choosing to learn from the lesson and become wiser, rather than letting failure defeat you, failure then becomes a positive rather than a negative.

• Lesson 3 – Perspective

Failure helps us to learn and understand that success isn’t easy and it doesn’t happen overnight. It teaches us that we need to work hard to achieve our goals. It also allows us to reflect and put things into perspective, so that we can navigate away from difficult experiences.

• Lesson 4 – Clarity

Failure allows us to see what went wrong and how we could make a new path to success by not making the same mistake again. Failure is inevitable and it can make us feel bad, but it also gives us the opportunity to clearly evaluate a situation and move beyond any regret.

• Lesson 5 – Courage

We’re taught from a young age that failure is something to be afraid of, but if we never fail, we haven’t really lived. If we’ve experienced failure and bounced back, it can give us the courage to be ambitious and try new things. What’s the worst that can happen if we fail?

• Recovering from Failure

Pushing ahead and not giving up is one of the best ways to recover from failure. If we understand that it’s okay to fail and we stay motivated and work towards our goals, then failing can be reframed to be a positive thing. If we surround ourselves with people who can support us and help to pick us up if we fail, we can be more confident to take the next leap or calculated risk.

Failure is feedback and it brings you one step nearer to success.

Cuero ISD is committed to providing quality education to its students. In an effort to achieve this goal, parents/guardians may refer their student for counseling. Please click on the form below for more information. If you would like your child to receive counseling services, please fill out the form and return to your child's campus.

TCHATT (Texas Child Health Access Through Telemedicine) provides telemedicine or telehealth programs to children within Cuero ISD. TCHATT also helps to identify and assess the behavioral health needs of children and adolescents and provide access to mental health services. Cuero ISD is proud to be part of this program that helps students get access to mental health treatment and resources. If you would like more information about TCHATT, you can visit their website https://tcmhcc.utsystem.edu/tchatt/ or contact Courtney Kalinowski at ckalinowski@cueroisd.org.

Ruby Rodriguez, M.Ed. ~ Director of Special Programs

Courtney Kalinowski, M.S., LPC ~ School Climate Specialist

Lacy Timpone, M.Ed., LPC ~ School Climate Specialist

Kathy F. Scott, LMSW ~ School Climate Specialist

960 East Broadway Street, Cuero, TX, USA

(361)275-1900