Lakewood Schools Counselor Corner

News You can Use Volume 3

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Feel free to reach out if there is anything we can do to help. What info would you like to see if future newsletters? Let me know!

Naviance Parent Access!

It's happening. Naviance is our College and Career suite of services to help our students research colleges, apply online to college, research careers, complete a resume, search for scholarships, you name it. Parents have access too! (Parent accounts are View, Not Do in nature, meaning you cannot alter your student's information). Check out this Parent Naviance Tour on YouTube and email me with Naviance in the subject header and I'll get you access for your student's information. vkieffer@laca.org

Sign up for Remind for your student's Graduation class for text updates

App:


Class of 2020 text @e68h49 to the number 81010


Class of 2021 text @ahddd2 to the number 81010


Class of 2022 text @b32dkg to the number 81010


Class of 2023 text @7ke632 to the number 81010


Class of 2024 text@bf67d34 to the number 81010

Meditation

Here is a basic meditation to Train Awareness. It takes about 5 minutes. I invite you to try it https://youtu.be/egqDlQe-r5E

FAFSA info

There are free session for students and their parent(s) to learn about the FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid) and subject to change.

Scholarships!!

We have wonderful scholarship donors!! All of these scholarships are LOCAL for LHS seniors only!!


Our friends with Lakewood Education Foundation, Braden Poling

Memorial Scholarsip, Hebron Masonic Lodge Scholarship, Gary Mason Lee Memorial Scholarship have active applications students can complete via Google Forms in their online Classroom!! No printing needed! Hugely helpful.


Younger students can take a look at these top scholarship essay prompts.

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Are you experiencing Technology Issues?

LHS Tech Team will be available again next Monday (see details below) at the Middle School.

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On Monday April 20th the LHS Tech Team will be available at Lakewood Middle School from 10AM to 2PM to provide basic LHS Chromebook maintenance and support. Loaner devices may be distributed based on the severity of the problem.

To be eligible to receive this service, a support ticket must be submitted by Saturday April 18th and you must bring your Chromebook and charger with you.

To generate a support ticket send an email from your Lakewood Google account to lancertech@lakewoodlocal.k12.oh.us. The email Subject line should include your first and last name and Chromebook number. Then use the Body of the email to provide a description of the issue.

“The Chromebook and accessories you may receive are LOANERS. They remain the property of Lakewood Local SD. You are expected to return all loaners in the same condition as they were when provided to you. Any loss or damage to equipment loaned to you will result in a ‘fee’ assessed to your student record. Contact the Tech Team at lancertech@lakewoodlocal.k12.oh.us if you require assistance.

The Chromebook and any accessories are to be turned in on upon request of Lakewood Local SD.”

CCP updates

Some students were not able to attend a CCP meeting with a parent in order to be eligible to take college courses as some of those meetings were cancelled. Fear Not!

Please find my virtual CCP Parent and Student Informational Meeting watch it with your student and your student will need to complete the CCP Questionairre. College admission tesitng requirements are being evaluated as students cannot get to campuses to placement test and ACT/SAT tests are being cancelled as well. Accuplacer scheduled for May at LHS is up in the air. Stay tuned.

How to reach school counselors by phone

Not a huge fan of email?


Mr. Sikorski (A-K) and Ms. Kieffer (L-Z)have Google Voice numbers. Students/ Parents can reach out to us via text, leave a voicemail, too. We are checking these number periodically throughout the day.


Ms. Kieffer 614-758-7404

Mr. Sikorski 740-233-1644


We are holding Monday Drop Meetings via Google Meet for students to "swing by" and answer questions or just say hi at 11am. Parents are welcome too! https://meet.google.com/aco-eooh-ntd

ACT to offer students summer test date options and ACT test online at home

If you remember ACT testing, this is truly unprecedented!! Read the article from the ACT site here.

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