Connecting with the Counselors
A Communication from Robinson Elementary's Counseling Team
October 3,, 2021
We hope the arrival of October has you excited about the fall weather to come and the change of seasons.
On Friday of last week we met as a school team for professional development, which included some team building. One of the team building activities was Understanding Preferences in Group Work. The entire excercise can be found in the link below, but this included a step of us choosing one of 4 "compass points" which best describes how we function in the work place. Due to scheduling our whole counseling team did not participate, but those of us who did fell in the South group. This preference type is described as Caring-- likes to know that everyone's feelings have been taken into consideration and that their voices have been heard before acting. Does this sound like a counselor's role or what? We were not alone in this group, however, and this group(the largest) was full of educators from every capacity in our building. What we all agreed on is no matter which compass point an individual aligns with, all are needed to educate our kids, everyday.
Each compass point brings a specific area of knowledge to our kids. They are:
The North: Teach our children a complete curriculum
The East: Teach our children big concepts.
The West: Teach detailed concepts to our children.
The South: Teach our children with strong relationships and care.
As we said, all parts of the compass are valued and many of us have all four as part of who we are--depending on the situation. We are so fortunate to have the educators we have at Robinson and we are also very lucky to have the kids we get to work with each day. Thank you for sharing your children with us.
Please continue to reach out if we can be helpful. All of our contact information can be found at the end of this communication.
If you missed last week's communication, you can access it from this link:
Have an fabulous first week of fall!
REPEAT INFORMATION:
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Contact Information for 2021-22 School Year
ROBINSON COUNSELING TEAM
Indria Harris
School Counselor, preK-2nd grade
Indria.harris@kirkwoodschools.org
314-213-6100, ext. 4061
School Counselor, 3rd-5th grade
julie.cohen@kirkwoodschools.org
314-213-6100, ext. 4470
Tonya Ampey-Elong
Social Worker, KSD
tonya.ampey@kirkwoodschools.org
314-213-6100, ext. 4042
*At Robinson on Mondays and Wednesdays
Ana Shields
Educational Support Counselor
ana.shields@kirkwoodschools.org
314-213-6100, ext. 4065
*At Robinson all day Monday and Tuesday and Wednesday's until noon