Susan Snelling

• Provide personal counseling services to all students from the sixth grade to beyond high school to support them with their social, emotional, academic, and career/college needs.
• Collaborate with teachers, administrators, and parents/families to address the needs of the students and help to develop a safe, supportive, and positive environment for all of them.
• Develop a rapport with each student, working with them one-on-one, to build trust. Work with each to attend school regularly, be ready to learn, and do their best. Identify any roadblocks and help find solutions so that they can be focused on being productive students.
• Provide crisis intervention counseling, when necessary, applying preestablish trust, rapport and training to work towards a positive outcome.
• Assist each student to develop an academic plan for high school which includes their goals, aspirations, strengths/weaknesses and connect them with their career possibilities for the future.
• Provide instruction, aptitude assessments and opportunities, both in school and out, to help each student explore and make informed decisions about their future careers and post-secondary education choices. Have students attend outside career/college fairs, provide job shadowing opportunities, when possible and bring in outside professionals.
• Work with the high school students to develop the skills to complete the requirements for getting a job, apply for post-secondary education/training, FAFSA, scholarships, and an activity chart, while encouraging them to be organized, professional, neat, and forward thinking. Work with middle school students to use the same type of skills within their schoolwork, projects. and personal interactions.
• Provide instruction as a classroom teacher for culinary arts, sewing, college prep class, as well as supervising students during independent Edgenuity periods, and study hall.
• Develop and manage the GHS CNA program by working closely with the RCC staff, our outside supporting agencies, the district office, and the CNA students. Setup meetings, write grants, provide statistics/reports, order/complete POs for all equipment, manage transportation needs, etc. Provide any assistance and answer questions from the media, school board, outside agencies, students, parents, and OSBN.

• Coach and train GEAR UP School Coordinators to work with their middle and high school students to prepare for, pursue and succeed in post-secondary education.
• Work to promote and encourage career exploration so that students were making educated decisions for future education, training, and career choices.
• Attend career fairs, across the state, with our GEAR UP Career Booth, working directly with 7-12th grade students.
• Work with the GEAR UP Coordinators to identify roadblocks the students were facing, which kept them for attending school regularly, being successful in the classroom, graduating on time and reaching their future post-secondary education goals and career aspirations.
• Work with each district to design program activities that would meet the needs of students, parents, staff and community that were grounded in the Oregon GEAR UP research-based model.

Note: Throughout the 10 years working with Oregon GEAR UP, I worked with and coached coordinators and staff from 42 school districts throughout Oregon, where we served over 30,000 students in 91 schools.

• Personal, Academic and Career Counseling
• District Career Plan and Standards Coordinator
• Administrative Team member which included district budgeting, interviewing/hiring staff, team decision making, development of the School Wide Improvement Plan and helping establish effective programs, procedures, classes and curriculum.
• Head Teacher which included advising teachers with questions, issues and concerns, Site Council member, PBS & Curriculum Team member, and College Now & Expanded Options Coordinator.
• District Testing Coordinator
• GEAR UP Coordinator which included writing the initial grant, plan development, budgeting & documentation coordination, activity planning, & preparing formal reports.
• Schoolmaster System Manager which included the initial program set-up, scheduling, student records, 4 year graduation plans and state reporting.
• CIS & Navigation 101 Coordinator
• Club & Class Advisor to include but not limited to Skills USA, GEAR UP, Prom, Catering business and Concession Stand Advisor.
• Coaching volleyball for 19 years and JH Track for 3 years.

• HD208 Career & Life Planning Instructor - Both on campus & through College Now at Glendale High School
• Summer Advisor for the Advising and Career Services Center on the UCC campus