Warren Township High School to keep student-support teams with cohorts through graduation, staff says

A staff member at Warren Township High School outlined a plan to reorganize student services so the same team of counselors, social workers, psychologists and deans will stay with a cohort of students from 9th grade through graduation.

"We are going to switch up that model to provide more consistent relationships between our students and these important school staff members," the staff member said, explaining the district will split student services into four teams. "Instead of students switching between 2 different teams halfway through their high school career, we are splitting up our student services into 4 different teams."

Under the plan, incoming 9th graders will be assigned to a team focused on freshmen; that team will move with the cohort into 10th grade. "Each grade level student services team will move up, which means the adults who are working with seniors will pick up the incoming 9th grade students," the staff member said. The speaker added teams'offices will move to the Almond campus so staff can "walk alongside the students all the way to graduation."

The staff member framed the change as intended to strengthen relationships and continuity: "We believe wrapping these adult supports around a group of students and staying with them throughout their entire high school career will help our students have the best relationships with their school counselors, social workers, psychologists and deans at this important time in their growth and development."

The remarks described the model and its goals but did not specify an implementation timeline, required approvals, or any formal vote by the school district. Funding sources, staffing counts, and the exact timing of office moves were not specified in the transcript.

No formal actions or decisions were recorded in the transcript; the presentation described the district's intended operational change and expected benefits.