Cultural Connection

Abstract

For this guidance lesson, we will be presenting to all our students during their pathways time. Pathways is a 30-minute time block that is built into our students’ schedules. They begin four out of the five days of school with pathways, Monday through Thursday. As counselors, we typically must bid for a pathways time slot due to all the additional interventions and initiatives we must implement. This past year the counseling department was able to secure a pathways time slot once a month, I am hopeful that we will be able to continue throughout the 2024-2025 school. Pathways lessons are taught by the classroom teachers during our 30-minute time slot since we have close to 1,050 students. This has been the most efficient way we can implement social/emotional and counseling lessons to all students. Given this time constraint and lesson implementation set up, I am working to create a quick, 30-minute guidance lesson that all our teachers can implement. I also feel that this is the best way to improve teacher and student relationships. This lesson is meant to build connections amongst students as well as between teachers and students and help ignite the passion that teachers have for their students to build relationships on.