First Quarter 2015

Welcome to the first edition of the Perrysburg High School Counseling Newsletter! This newsletter will be published quarterly and is brought to you by the PHS School Counseling Office and the College Advising Office. Please look for future newsletters in October, January and April. Please feel free to contact Lindsay Czech or Dawn Burks with any feedback or suggestions.

It is hard to believe, but here we are beginning a new school year! We are looking forward to working with you this year and hope that you feel that we can be a support to you here at Perrysburg HS! Some of the things that are provided through the Counseling/College Advising offices are:

• Individual/Personal counseling
• Schedule changes 
• College/Career planning
• Conflict mediation
• Promote personal and social growth
• Provide information and resources 

We hope that you will take advantage of the resources available within our offices and come down when you have any questions or concerns. We wish you much success this school year. If there is anything we can do to make this year go smoothly, please don't hesitate to contact us or even better, stop by to see us! You can make an appointment to see your counselor or Mrs. Czech by stopping by the Counseling Office or sending us an email. We would love to see you and we look forward to working with all of you!

• Thursday, August 20 - Open House 6:30-8:30 p.m.
• Friday, August 21 - late registration deadline for September ACT (additional fee)
• Monday, August 24 - last day to drop or add classes for the semester
• Wednesday, August 26 - Senior Meeting during Enrichment 8:30am in Auditorium
• Monday, September 7 - No School (Labor Day)
• Saturday, September 12 - ACT test
• Friday, September 18 - regular registration deadline for October ACT
• Thursday, September 24 - Parent/Teacher Conferences 5:30-8:30pm
• Wednesday, September 30 - University of Toledo Informational Meeting 6:30 PHS Library
• Friday, October 2 - late registration deadline for October ACT (additional fee)
• Wednesday, October 7 - deadline to register for PSAT 
• Wednesday, October 7 - Northern Wood County College Fair 6:30-8:00pm in PHS Commons
• Wednesday, October 14 - PSAT test
• Saturday, October 24 - ACT test

U.S. Service Academy - DEADLINES
Naval - Military - Airforce - Merchant Marines
Senator Robert Portman - due Sept. 18
Senator Sherrod Brown - due Sept. 23
Seniors can apply to either senator for any of the academies.

The PSAT will be offered at Perrysburg High School on Wednesday, October 14, 2015 for interested sophomores and juniors with a 3.5 GPA or above. Please sign up in the Counseling Office between September 23rd and October 7th. The cost to take the PSAT will be $15.00. You must have payment with you upon registration. Checks should be made out to PHS. Fee waivers are available if you meet certain criteria (please see either your school counselor or Mrs. Czech). For more information about the PSAT, please visit this link.

For those of you who are new to PHS and as a refresher to returning students and parents, Naviance is college planning software that PHS offers to all students at no charge. As a freshman, every PHS student is given a Naviance account. Parents can also request a code to create their own account. Through this site, students and their families can research colleges and start building a list of colleges they are interested in. Senior year, we use Naviance to send transcripts and letters of recommendation to colleges electronically. Check out Naviance at www.naviance.com (click Sign In at the top - Students & Families Sign In). If you ever forget your login information, please see Mrs. Czech or your school counselor.

Please welcome Lauren Phillips our new intern within the counseling office. She is working on her Masters in School Counseling at BGSU and is very excited to be working with Perrysburg High School. You may see her around the school working with students on various projects including counseling, college advising projects, enrichment days, group counseling and much more! She will be a great resource to the students, parents and community of Perrysburg. Please feel free to contact her with any questions or concerns throughout the school year.

Megan Lazor comes to us from Woodland Elementary School as our new School Counseling Secretary. She was a kindergarten monitor for four years prior to her new position. She and her husband have lived in Perrysburg for 14 years and have two daughters in the district. She is thrilled and excited to be at the high school and is looking forward to working with the students, parents and staff.

The Olweus Bullying Prevention Program has been implemented within our school district. The goal of this program is to bring awareness to staff and students and provide positive supports to address the issues of bullying. The high school will have an Olweus kick-off event on Monday, August 31st and run a pep rally schedule that day. There will be class meetings throughout the year to address the various issues and build a positive culture within our high school.

Not sure what you should be doing to prepare for college? Use these helpful college planning timelines to keep on track!

• Senior Timeline
• Junior Timeline

A medium-sized (around 14,000 students), independent university located in the nation's center, Washington University is counted among the world's leaders in teaching, research, patient care and service to society. They have an 8:1 student faculty ratio. Professor Joseph F. Loewenstein describes the institution as “small enough that we can know our students’ names and stories, yet large enough to support scholarly research across a broad range of specialties.”


Wash U has Academic Divisions of Art & Architecture, Arts & Sciences, Business, Engineering, Law, Medicine and Social Work & Public Health. U.S. News and World Report ranked Washington University #1 for Social Work in 2013. Professor Loewenstein mentions: “We take pride in supporting students whose interests straddle disciplines: musician-scientists, politicians-historians, physicists-classicists, feminists-linguists.”

Wash U is competitive from an admissions perspective with a 16% acceptance rate last year. The middle 50% testing ranges for ACT is 32-34.

Some of the words Wash U’s academic deans used to describe their students included collaborative, seekers, engaging, curious and busy.

ACT Registration - www.actstudent.org
SAT Registration - www.sat.collegeboard.org
Naviance - College Planning Software – www.naviance.com
Penta Career Center – www.pentacareercenter.org
Follow PHS College Advising on Twitter - @PHSCollegeAdvis


Christin Lee, A-D, [email protected], ext. 5184
Dawn Burks, E-K, [email protected], ext. 5183
Steve Pierce, L-R, [email protected], ext. 5185
Rick Rettig, S-Z, [email protected], ext. 5186
Lindsay Czech, College Advisor, [email protected], ext. 5182
Megan Lazor, Secretary, [email protected], ext. 5188
Mary Neely, Secretary, [email protected], ext. 5001
Melissa Notestine, Prevention Specialist, [email protected], ext. 5195
Lauren Phillips, School Counseling Intern, [email protected]