Congratulations to the Trinity Springs Middle School Counseling Department for winning the 2023-2024 CREST Award for Counseling Excellence from the Texas School Counselor Association.
The department consists of counselors Alyssa Aguillon, Melissa Clayton and Lauren Brown.
Schools receiving CREST awards have demonstrated a commitment to using the Texas Model for Comprehensive School Counseling as adopted by the Texas Education Agency, and in turn, improving the lives and achievement of students in academic, career, and personal social domains.
As part of the CREST program each year, counseling departments have a continuous improvement document that gives them the 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 prepared a digital submission that highlighted these areas and communicated what the counseling program is doing to help students succeed. The document was then sent to reviewers throughout the state of Texas to be judged according to pre-set standards of excellence.
