Lauren Buerck and Amber Reese, Counselors at Griffin Elementary for the 2022-2023 school year, recently received the CREST award from the Texas School Counselor Association. CREST, which stands for Counselors Reinforcing Excellence in Students in Texas, recognizes schools with outstanding counseling programs. Schools who receive CREST awards have demonstrated a commitment to using the Texas Model to improve the lives and achievement of students in academic, career, and personal social domains.
CREST is a continuous improvement document that gives a school counseling program an opportunity to demonstrate effective communication and a commitment to obtaining results. CREST helps counselors to evaluate their counseling programs, promote their programs to the stakeholders in their districts, demonstrate the effectiveness of their guidance and counseling programs through empirical means, and to implement the Texas and National models for school counseling programs.
CREST looks at the counseling program in five categories: • Introduction to the School and the Role of the Professional School Counselor
• Program Implementation Cycle
• Foundational Components
• Four Service Delivery Components • Program Curriculum The counseling team prepares a digital submission that highlights these areas and communicates just what the counseling program is doing to help students succeed. These are sent to reviewers throughout the state of Texas to be judged according to pre-set standards of excellence.
Griffin Elementary is part of a select group of schools from across the state to win the CREST Award for Counseling Excellence for 2023-2024.
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