Calendar of events
July
- Schedule new students
- Assist with Open House
- class schedule changes and review transcripts
AUGUST
- New student registration
- Complete schedule changes
- Student course credit advisement
- Classroom Guidance (Seniors)
- Provide individual counseling
- Review student academic records
- Attended weekly counseling department meeting
- Coordinate parent/teacher conferences
- Attend Rockdale County Counselor Meeting
- Curriculum Open House
September
- Attend UGA and Georgia Tech Workshop
- Counselor Workshop
- Provide individual counseling as needed
- Analyze senior, junior, and sophomore transcripts
- Plan and conduct Senior Parent Meeting
- Start senior evaluations with students
- Continue with senior classroom guidance
- Conduct freshman, sophomore, and junior classroom guidance
- Attend PROBE Workshop for counselors
- Write letters of recommendation for students
- Plan and attend counseling department meetings
- Attend parent conferences
- Attend Rockdale County counselor meeting
- Attend Faculty meetings
- Attend ACT counselor workshop
- Attend cultural diversity county
- workshop
- Work on AP course
- audit
- Fill out AP participation
- information and mail to College board
- Meet with top 15 seniors, provide update information on Val. & Sal.
October
- Administer PSAT test
- Continue classroom guidance
- activities with juniors
- Provide individual counseling
- Continue to write letters of recommendation
- Review Progress Reports
- Plan and attend weekly counseling department meetings
- Attend faculty meetings
- Administer ACT at Heritage High school
- Help coordinate and administer the PLAN test
- Continue senior evaluation with students
- Write letters of recommendation for students
- Signs of Suicide classroom guidance
- First upload for HOPE due
November
- Double check second semester schedule
- Classroom Guidance activities including Bridge Law
- Individual counseling
- Attend GSCA Fall Conference
- Continue with finish evaluations
- Continue to write letters of recommendation
- Plan and conduct counseling department meetings
- Plan Georgia Apply to College Day activities
- Hold Georgia Apply to College Day
- Attend parent conferences
- Attend Faculty meetings
- Write letters of recommendation for students
December
- Review of student schedules
- Individual counseling
- Plan and conduct counseling meetings
- Continue to write letters of recommendation
- Attend Faculty meetings
- Write letters of recommendation for students
- Determine Star student and Star teacher
January
- Individual counseling
- Provide financial aid information to students and parents (FASFA)
- Review Seniors first semester grades for graduation
- Notify parents of students who may be in danger of not graduating with their class
- Plan and attend counseling meetings
- Assist students with local scholarship information
- Attend Faculty meetings
- Attend Rockdale County Counseling meeting
- Plan and conduct counseling department meetings
- Write letters of recommendation for students
- Work on initial graduation list
- Conduct classroom guidance Bridge Law
- Conduct classroom guidance for AP testing
february
- Administer ACT test at Heritage
- Individual counseling
- Assist with National School
- Counselor Week Activities
- Attend Rockdale County counseling meeting
- Send preliminary verification of HOPE to Georgia Student Finance Commission
- Assist with registration for next year
- Write letters of recommendation
- Attend Faculty meetings
- Attend Counseling Department meetings
- Coordinate and conduct Student AP exam sign-up (applications and payments)
March
- Individual counseling
- Review progress reports
- Conduct and plan counseling meetings
- Attend IEP, 504 meetings, Hospital Homebound, Parent/Teacher Conferences, etc.
- Registration - Advise students about graduation requirements (future coursework options)
- Attend faculty meetings
- Plan and conduct counseling department meetings
- Write letters of recommendation
- Coordinate AP testing
April
- Individual counseling
- Plan and attend counseling department meetings
- Registration - Advise students about graduation requirements (future coursework options)
- Attend IEP conferences, 504 meetings, Hospital Homebound, Parent/Teacher Conferences, etc.
- Write letters of recommendation for seniors
- Attend faculty meetings
- Conduct and plan counseling department meetings
- Meet with seniors that are endanger of failing and not graduating
- Help with Honors Night Program
- Help Coordinate AP
- testing
May
- Provide Summer School information to students
- Provide names for preparation of diplomas and diploma types
- Prepare list of graduating seniors
- Have seniors complete senior survey
- Help determine scholarship recipients
- Complete registration for next year
- Attend IEP, 504, Hospital Homebound, and other parent/student conferences
- Individual Counseling
- Assist with honors program
- Contact Senior students and parents who will not graduate at the end of the semester
- Assist with graduation
- Plan and conduct counseling department meetings
- Complete end-of-year documentation and assessments
- Administer SAT at Rockdale County High School
- Attend faculty meetings
- Coordinate and administrator AP exams
- Package and mail AP exams and AP materials
- Submit payments for AP exams
- Review transcripts for next fall semester
June
- Send final verification for HOPE to Georgia Student Finance Commission
- Post planning