1. WELCOME TO 8TH GRADE STUDENT EXPECTATIONS
RCMS School Counseling

2. Preview Attendance Behavior Grades School Connectedness Promotion
How to see a Counselor

3. Attendance, It Matters FACTS Chronic Absence=2 or more days per month
Poor attendance affects your grades and more
Higher chances of dropping out of high school
Excused absences hurt too
Suspensions adds additional missed time in the classroom, which increases the dropout risk
Absences and tardies can result in being placed on the exclusion list

4. How to improve attendance
Make sure you come to school on time
Check your tardies on StudentVue
Complete community service hours
Attend Saturday School
Dress out for P.E.
Rewards and incentives for Perfect Attendance

5. Behavior
RESPECT: means caring and treating others with kindness. By showing respect for others, property, the environment, and yourself, you will, in turn, earn the respect that you deserve!
“The Golden Rule” Treating other the way you would want to be treated.

6. Behavior RESPECT your teachers, school staff and your peers
If your are DISRESPECTFUL you may get:
Detention
ISS
A referral to counseling
Discipline Referral and parent contact/meeting

7. Grades Do your homework and your classwork Attend tutoring regularly
Check your grades on StudentVue
If you are in ASES, attend after school tutoring with you teachers
Take pride in your grades
Bad grades = no fun
Attend Saturday school to fix an F
It’s your grade, own it!

8. School Connectedness Join a club Show your pride
Be involved in extracurricular activities such as: sports, dances, social events
Harvest Fest
Turkey Bowl
Student of the Month
Trimester Rewards
School dances
YOU MUST BE PASSING YOUR CLASSES ALL TRIMESTERS, HAVE GOOD ATTENDANCE AND BEHAVIOR TO PARTICIPATE IN MANY EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES

9. Promotion Grades (No Fs) Attendance Behavior/Referrals
Every Trimester Counts!

10. Chromebooks Do Don’t Use Chromebook Responsibly
Check your grades on StudentVue
Complete assignments in google classroom
Don’t
Use inappropriate language (cyber bullying, harassment, drugs, foul language, threating language

11. How to see a Counselor No drop-ins (new procedure)
Ask your teacher to make an appointment to see your counselor or make your own request
Fill out a digital request from to see your counselor
We will follow-up with you

12. Counselors Mr. Ochoa (7th grade & 8th grade A-L)
Mrs. Guerrero (6th grade & 8th grade M-Z)
Ms. Ramirez (Prevention Specialist)

13. Counseling
Confidentiality!

14. Counseling
School counselors provide a safe environment to ALL students to allow them to reach their full potential (personally & academically)
Seeing your counselor should never be a negative experience. We do not deal with discipline issues
We listen
We want to see you succeed

15. Who else can Help? Your teachers Front office staff (studentVue)
School Nurse
School Security
ISS teacher (community service)
Administration (2 Assistant Principals and 1 Principal)
PLUS students and peer mediators
Sprigeo