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Canajoharie counseling team outlines K'12 social-emotional curriculum, Naviance career exploration and college-credit options
Summary
District counseling staff described a three-tier counseling model (universal classroom instruction, targeted small groups, individual counseling), use of Naviance starting in grade 6 to build career portfolios, and pathways including academies and college-in-high-school/dual-credit opportunities.
Jennifer, the district's director of special education and instructional services, introduced the school counseling team and outlined a tiered K'12 counseling model that pairs social-emotional learning with academic and career planning.
"Each one of our counselors wears multiple hats," Jennifer said, describing Tier 1 whole-class SEL instruction delivered four times a year, targeted small groups for skill-building and individual counseling tied to 504/IEP supports.
Staff described the district's use of Naviance beginning in sixth grade to help students explore personality types and career clusters. Counselors said students build a Google-sheet portfolio from assessment results that carries into high school and is used to inform course selection and academy placement.
The district's academies include education, business, CSI, tech trades, pre-college STEM, culinary and performing arts. Counselors said academies aim to give students an early sequence of coursework aligned with interests while allowing flexibility to change tracks.
Counselors also reviewed college-in-high-school and dual-enrollment options through local community colleges (FMCC, Hudson Valley and others), noting both the opportunity to earn college credits and cost barriers for some families. Staff provided AP enrollment counts for current classes (for example: American history 16 students; English 11, 17 students; Global 22 students; calculus 3 of 6 students taking the AP exam) and said some students are shifting toward college-credit courses because colleges increasingly set higher AP-score thresholds for credit.
The presentation concluded with a summary of partnerships, financial-aid supports (including mention of the Excelsior Scholarship) and plans to monitor academy enrollment and career-path trends as students move into junior and senior scheduling.
Next steps: counselors will gather participation data on academy uptake and early-admit enrollment and return to the board with follow-up information.
