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Introduction

My name is Lavinia L. Cody and I am the School Counselor for grades K-8. This will be my 3rd year with Winslow Unified School District #1. I am honored and excited to continue to be part of this amazing Bulldog family! I am also a Bulldog alumnus c/o 1997. I can certainly relate to the saying, “Once a Bulldog, Always a Bulldog.”

 

I received my Bachelor's degree from Arizona State University in 2005 in Native American Studies.  I then attended Northern Arizona University in 2011 and received my Master's of Education degree in School Counseling in 2017. 

 

I will be providing support to teachers and staff.  Support provided can be therapeutic, but my role as a certified school counselor is not to diagnose but to provide temporary/short-term support to help students overcome acute issues that they are having on their school performance. I am committed to encouraging, supporting, and empowering our students to become the best versions of themselves.  I also provide group counseling based on the student’s needs.

 

If you feel like your student will benefit from counseling services at school, you can find the consent forms in the front office.  To begin services with a student, I will need a signed consent form giving me permission to work with your student.  You can return to the front office.   

Please do not hesitate to contact me with any questions or concerns. I look forward to working with you all and getting to know your students throughout the school year.  Thank you.

 

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What does a school Counselor do? The school counselor is here to support every single student in the building! The counselor does the following:

  • Runs group counseling activities to support student growth
  • Performs individual student planning to help student with student growth.
  • Performs individual student planning to help student goal setting.
  • Performs individual student planning to help with students with goal setting, understanding their own potential.
  • Provides brief, solution-focused individual counseling to support academic, social/emotional success.
  • Provides support during crisis
  • Collaborates with school staff, families, and community agencies to support students.
  • Makes referrals for appropriate community resources.

The school counselor does not:

  • take disciplinary action with students
  • provide-long term therapy

WUSD Culturally Responsive Curriculum

Indian Country School Counselors Institute
Professional Development Program:
 
The Indian Country School Counselors Institute (ICSCI) attaches great importance to the process of writing a curriculum unit. A Guidance Curriculum Unit must be written by each School Counselor in the program. The purpose of the curriculum unit is to share your learning about culturally responsive best practices through writing, and to demonstrate how this learning will inform your work as a School Counselor. The curriculum unit should be relevant and
immediately useful to you in your role with students. We recommend that you select a topic that you can do a classroom-based guidance unit about; think about the particular grade level that you will be using the unit with and write the unit focused on that grade level and guidance topic. The process of developing a curriculum unit includes completing significant background reading, and various small writing assignments before submitting the full, complete unit at the end of the program. By writing the curriculum unit, you are planning to use it in your role as a School Counselor. You are also contributing to the online repository of curriculum units that are freely available to other educators looking for resources to better serve Indigenous students and communities.
 
The ICSCI curriculum unit is different from other resources you may use because it is – first and foremost – culturally responsive and original. What we mean by culturally responsive is centering and leveraging of the cultural knowledge, prior experiences, frames of reference, language, and performance styles of diverse learners to make your classroom more relevant and
effective. 
 
To read the full curriculum written by Mrs. Lavina Cody, please click here:
 

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