OUR PHILOSOPHY

Crespi’s counseling Department challenges, encourages, and supports each young man to reach his highest level of achievement while emphasizing his spiritual, intellectual, moral, and social development. In attempting to develop in the student the tools necessary to achieve his goals, the Department strives to instill a sense of self-esteem, self-discipline, good citizenship, cooperation, and social responsibility.

 

Objectives

Analysis

To provide data, by means of proven testing instruments, necessary for the development of their curriculum plan.

Growth

To help students grow toward efficient work habits, intelligent self-direction, effective group membership, and healthy emotional responses.

Career

To prepare students for their college or careers after graduation from the Crespi.

Guidance

To provide each student with educational, personal, moral, and social guidance.

Self-Awareness

To assist students in growing toward a better understanding of self.

Communication

To facilitate ongoing communication between parents, faculty, and students.

Potential

To help students be successful with the talents they have and with the opportunities that are open to them.

NAVIANCE

As a college-prep high school, it is important for students and families to begin the college process early. As such, Crespi subscribes to a robust college search website and tool called Naviance. Naviance is a web-based resource for Crespi students that supports student course, career, and college planning. Each family receives a login ID and password to gain access through the Counseling webpage to their personal account.

Naviance allows students to:

  • Complete career and college interest surveys that will produce a list of target colleges
  • Compare Colleges
  • Track Deadlines
  • Produce Scattergrams
  • Show Schedule of College Visits

STUDENTS WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES
Crespi is a college preparatory school and does not have a learning disability program. As such, Crespi does not modify its curriculum. However, for students whose disabilities do not preclude their completion of Crespi’s course of studies, the following accommodations may be made:
 
  • Students with a diagnosed IEP must provide the Counseling Department with documentation of the student’s learning disabilities. These reports must come from a licensed educational specialist and will be kept on file by the counselor.
  • Information on the student’s learning disability and recommendations will be provided to his teachers. No special treatment by the teacher can be expected.
  • If accepted, the student agrees, without exception, to take regular classes and fulfill all Crespi graduation requirements.
  • It is strongly recommended that the student works with an educational/learning therapist.
  • Students meeting learning disability criteria may request assistance from the Counseling Department to gain extended time on College Board exams (SAT, ACT). Crespi Carmelite High School cannot guarantee such accommodations, but we will support the application process.
  • The final exam testing period lasts one hour and forty-five minutes, and instruction design final exams to take the average student sixty minutes to complete. As such, the typical extended-time accommodation of 50% additional time is built into the testing period: there are no additional extended-time accommodations for final exams.
  • Depending on the recommendation in an IEP, students may request additional assessment accommodations through the Counseling Department. Such requests should be filed before the end of the first five-week grading period of the school year. Filing a request does not guarantee accommodation.
  • Students may be permitted to sit in the front of the classroom or other locations as necessary per the recommendations in an IEP.
  • Students may utilize a laptop or other mobile device to take notes in class, or to type in-class assignments.
  • Other accommodations may be considered with the approval of the Vice Principal of Academics.

NCAA ELIGIBILITY CENTER
If you are student-athlete at Crespi Carmelite High School, you must register for a Certification Account with the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Eligibility Center. Please click the link below to register. www.eligibilitycenter.org.
 
Here is helpful link on How to Register: http://www.ncaa.org/student-athletes/future/how-register