Monday, August 19, 2013
Explore the EXPLORE!
Cherokee Guardians:
As one of the most influential people in your child’s life, now is a critical time to make sure your child is prepared to take that next step after graduation, whether that means starting college or starting a career. Monitoring college and career readiness is important to your child’s future. All Springfield Public Middle Schools administer the EXPLORE® exam. Cherokee will be administering the EXPLORE to 8th grade students on September 19, 2013.
EXPLORE is curriculum-based educational and career planning program for 8th and 9th graders that measures achievement in English, math, reading, and science. The assessment is based on the major areas of high school and post-secondary instructional programs and measures the skills and knowledge needed for college success.
EXPLORE is designed to help eighth and ninth graders explore a broad range of options for their future. Additionally, EXPLORE includes a career exploration component that stimulates students' thinking about future plans and relates personal characteristics to career options. Assessing students before high school also helps them build rigorous high school coursework plans to get, or stay, on track for their educational and career goals.
Visit www.explorestudent.org for more information.
Together we will prepare your student to be college and career ready.
Regards,
Alison Roffers
Guidance Counselor
aroffers@spsmail.org
*Majority of this letter was used from a sample on the EXPLORE website. :)
Sunday, August 4, 2013
Letter to Parents-New Year
August 2013
To the Guardians of Cherokee Students:
I hope this letter finds you doing well and ready to start a new, exciting year at Cherokee Middle School! My name is Alison Roffers and I am entering my sixth year as a school guidance counselor with Springfield Public Schools. My wish for this letter is to have it serve as a door opening for communication between you, as guardians, and myself throughout the school year. My primary goal is to be an advocate for your child at all times. After all, How can one fully learn if they have other concerns?
I will be visiting each classroom once a month for 50 minutes. In each classroom I will implement the Missouri Guidance Comprehensive Program, as well as the Springfield guidance curriculum, Too Good for Violence.
Throughout the year, I will conduct interactive learning groups. Groups allow me to connect with a small number of students to enhance their skills in one certain area. Groups are for all students. The purpose of groups is to have a specific goal and select students that excel or need further assistance in that target area. For example, I may form a friendship group and have students that struggle with making friends mixed with students that do not. It is a laid-back, fun experience.
I value the time I have with all of the Cherokee students. I inform each classroom/student at the beginning of the year, when they visit Mrs. Roffers it is confidential...UNLESS 1 of 2 things is happening: 1) They are or someone else is being hurt, or if, 2) Someone is in danger. Please know that I do not call every time a student visits my office.
Feel free to email or call me with any questions or concerns. I am here to assist you and your child in any way I can.
Sincerely,
Alison Roffers
http://aroffers.wix.com/the-counselorscove#!
aroffers@spsmail.org
To the Guardians of Cherokee Students:
I hope this letter finds you doing well and ready to start a new, exciting year at Cherokee Middle School! My name is Alison Roffers and I am entering my sixth year as a school guidance counselor with Springfield Public Schools. My wish for this letter is to have it serve as a door opening for communication between you, as guardians, and myself throughout the school year. My primary goal is to be an advocate for your child at all times. After all, How can one fully learn if they have other concerns?
I will be visiting each classroom once a month for 50 minutes. In each classroom I will implement the Missouri Guidance Comprehensive Program, as well as the Springfield guidance curriculum, Too Good for Violence.
Throughout the year, I will conduct interactive learning groups. Groups allow me to connect with a small number of students to enhance their skills in one certain area. Groups are for all students. The purpose of groups is to have a specific goal and select students that excel or need further assistance in that target area. For example, I may form a friendship group and have students that struggle with making friends mixed with students that do not. It is a laid-back, fun experience.
I value the time I have with all of the Cherokee students. I inform each classroom/student at the beginning of the year, when they visit Mrs. Roffers it is confidential...UNLESS 1 of 2 things is happening: 1) They are or someone else is being hurt, or if, 2) Someone is in danger. Please know that I do not call every time a student visits my office.
Feel free to email or call me with any questions or concerns. I am here to assist you and your child in any way I can.
Sincerely,
Alison Roffers
aroffers@spsmail.org
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