Graduation Resources

School counselors play a critical role in ensuring schools provide a safe, caring environment and that students have the necessary mindsets and behaviors to advance academic achievement outcomes. School counselors work collaboratively with stakeholders to ensure equity, access, and academic success of all students.

• Academic Advisement and Policy Guidebook

• Concurrent to High School Equivalencies

School counselors support students’ academic success by:

• Leading the development of a safe and caring school culture
• Delivering a school counseling program based on data identifying student needs
• Delivering information to students and teachers within the school counseling curriculum on best practices in mindsets and behaviors (i.e., learning strategies, self-management skills, social skills) and metacognition skills critical to academic success
• Providing relevance to academic effort and educational pursuits by assisting in students’ career planning and future career-related goals
• Working with administration, teachers, and other school staff to create a school environment encouraging academic success and striving to reach one’s potential
• Working to remove barriers to access and provide students with the opportunity for academic challenge in the most rigorous coursework possible
• Establishing data analysis methods to identify and target systemic barriers deterring equitable access
• Providing opportunities for students to: Enhance their self-efficacy beliefs and competence; Develop attributional beliefs; See value in tasks related to achievement; Develop mastery/learning goals; Develop autonomy; Relate to others
• Working to establish student opportunities for academic remediation as needed
• Emphasizing family-community-school relationships in addressing academic needs

• Graduation FAQs
• Complete Graduation Toolkit
• Class of 2030 Checklist

• Class of 2029 College Preparatory/Work Ready Curriculum Graduation Checklist
• Class of 2029 Core Curriculum Graduation Checklist
• Class of 2028 College Preparatory/Work Ready Curriculum Graduation Checklist
• Class of 2028 Core Curriculum Graduation Checklist
• Class of 2027 College Preparatory/Work Ready Curriculum Graduation Checklist
• Class of 2027 Core Curriculum Graduation Checklist
• Class of 2026 College Preparatory/Work Ready Curriculum Graduation Checklist
• Class of 2026 Core Curriculum Graduation Checklist
• Class of 2025 College Preparatory/Work Ready Curriculum Graduation Checklist
• Class of 2025 Core Curriculum Graduation Checklist
• Class of 2024 Core Curriculum Graduation Checklist
• Class of 2023 College Preparatory/Work Ready Curriculum Graduation Checklist
• Class of 2023 Core Curriculum Graduation Checklist

• College Preparatory/Work Ready Curriculum Overview
• Core Curriculum Overview
• Parental Curriculum Choice Letter (Opt Out)
• Parent Curriculum Choice Letter (Opt Out in Spanish)

• High School Subject Codes
• Career Tech OCAS Subject Codes
• Academic Advising FAQs
• Dropout Prevention
• Oklahoma Academic Scholar Recognition Program

• State Testing Resources
• OPI Scores Conversion for Transcript
• English Language Arts
• Mathematics
• Science

• Achieve Best Practices (pdf)
• Ideas and Promising Programs for High Schools (pdf)
• National High School Alliance - Academic Interventions to Help Students Meet Rigorous Standards (pdf)
• KhanAcademy
• March2Success

For additional questions, contact Christi Sturgeon, Director of Comprehensive School Counseling