Freshman Year
FOCUS: Transition to High School & Personal Plan of Study
Transition planning involves academic rigor, extracurricular involvement, and balancing school commitments. Creating a 4-year Plan based on a Personal Plan of Study helps to align current and future course selections with personal and career areas of interest.
Freshman Workshop for Success
This Presentation covers the following topics:
> What Do Your Counselor Do?
> Credits, Transcipts, and GPA
> Activites and Clubs
> Coping With Stress
> Intro to Naviance and Strengths Explorer
Curriculum Modules
Resume Builder
SchoolLinks offers a Profile and Resume Builder to provide a framework for your resume development. This can be used to work on different resume sections while documenting your goals, strengths, activities, and accomplishments. This is an important part of preparing for the college admissions process, as some colleges, scholarships, and other post-secondary applications will require your achievements to be part of those processes.
Creating A 4-Year Plan
During your freshman year of high school, you will start planning your courses utilizing your interests and strengths. This video walks through the importance of creating a 4-Year Plan, factors to consider when doing so, and an overview of the worksheet to help facilitate the process. This credit wheel will also help you with this process. Counselors will keep track of courses completed throughout your high school career on this graduation requirements worksheet.
Testive
Testive is the free personalized learning platform that helps you improve your ACT/SAT scores on your schedule and at your pace. Click HERE for their website and get your student's FREE baseline test day and find out exactly where they stand!
A+ Program
The A+ Program is a program sponsored by the state of Missouri that, as long as specific criteria is met by the end of high school, graduates will qualify to use A+ monies to pay full tuition at community colleges or technical schools.