Services

ScribOrder is a convenient and secure way for former students and corporations to request transcripts, graduation verifications, and replacement diplomas.

• Please note that Calvert County Public Schools does not keep copies of diplomas.
• All requests for student information will be submitted and paid for online using a credit or debit card.
• You will receive order status emails from scribonline@scribsoft.com.

Requests From Alumni

Official High School Transcript:  $3.00 + $4.00 fee = $7.00 total

• Orders are processed by the alumni's high school Guidance Office.
• Please allow up to 10 days processing time.

Replacement Diploma:  $40.00 + $4.00 fee = $44.00 total

• Replacement diplomas are ordered from our diploma company by Student Services.
• Please allow approximately 6 weeks processing time.
• Note:  If ordering a replacement diploma for employment, ask if the employer will accept an official high school transcript that shows your date of graduation, as that will be provided sooner.

Requests From Corporations, Governments, Universities

Official High School Transcript:  $20.00 + $4.00 fee = $24.00 total

• Orders are processed by the alumni's high school Guidance Office.
• Please allow up to 10 days processing time.

Verification of Graduation:  $15.00 + $4.00 fee = $19.00 total

• Orders are processed by the alumni's high school Guidance Office.
• Please allow up to 10 days processing time.

Philosophy

The Calvert County school counseling program is an integral part of every student's educational experience. It is a developmentally appropriate and sequentially planned program for all students. This program is directed toward assisting the students in understanding themselves as unique individuals and productive members of society who are cognizant of their rights and responsibilities. Furthermore, it assists students in making decisions and career and college choices appropriate to their developmental needs. The school counseling program is concerned with the personal/social development, career and college preparation, and academic development of the student. This program is designed to encourage the maximum growth and development of each student.

Program

The school counseling program addresses issues such as academic performance, interpersonal relationships, career and college planning, school adjustment, and appropriate school behavior. Other issues may include: character education, self concept, study skills, abuse and neglect, drug abuse prevention, suicide prevention, decision making, death, divorce, and other age-appropriate concerns of children. Delivery of services is provided through individual and group counseling, classroom guidance, teacher and parent consultation, parenting programs, community agency contacts, and participation in a variety of school teams.

Staffing

The school counselor is a school-based professional specifically trained to work with students, parents, teachers, administrators, and the community. All schools in Calvert County are staffed with full-time counselors who are available to meet with students and parents. Counselors may be reached by calling the school office.

School Counselors & Numbers

Home and hospital teaching is designed to provide short-term instruction to public school students, at home or in hospitals, who are unable to attend a regular school program due to a physical or emotional condition. Instructional services will be available to all qualified students during convalescence or treatment time in a medical institution or therapeutic treatment center, or at the student's place of residence. (See: CCPS Home and Hospital Teaching and Chronic Health Impaired Program for Students - Administrative Procedures.)

Instruction is provided by college graduates who are assigned by the Director of Student Services.

If a student needs to be out of school more than three weeks, the student is eligible to receive home teaching. Parents should request an application for Home/Hospital Instruction from the student's home school at once so that they have the application form when they discuss health and educational plans with the physician the medical condition and the need for services must be verified by a licensed physician. Applications must be signed by parents and returned to the student's home school.

Upon approval by Student Services, instruction begins within 10 days of the receipt of the application. If the student has a disability and is receiving special education and related services, the IEP committee revises the IEP to reflect appropriate goals and objectives to be addressed while the student is receiving home or hospital teaching services. All procedural safeguards and requirements apply to this IEP revision as any other IEP.

The length of instruction for students in a full-day program is six hours per week. The length of instruction for an identified student with a disability is determined through the IEP process.

Parents are asked to see that the student completes all required assignments just as would be required in the regular school setting. Because of the limited number of hours of actual instruction, students complete a great deal of independent work.

An adult must be at home during the time that the home teacher is present and providing instruction. At the end of each home teaching session, the parent is asked to sign the home teacher's log verifying his/her visit.

When the student is ready to return to school, the parent should notify the home teacher and the Department of Student Services of the return and send a release statement form the physician to the school. Students must report to the Guidance Office upon their return to school.

Calvert County Public Schools is committed to ensuring that homeless children and youth are afforded equivalent access to public education as provided to other students. Calvert County Public Schools is responsible for enrolling homeless students in the school that is in the best interest of the student and for providing prompt and sensitive service to parents, children and youth in need of assistance.

For assistance or additional information, please contact Student Services at 443-550-8460.

Calvert County Public Schools is invested in the philosophy of accentuating the positive of both students and staff by using PBIS strategies to assist with student achievement. This program involves the entire school community in acknowledging the positive characteristics, outcomes and progress related to academics, student behavior and social/emotional success.

Our system has seen great effectiveness, since the implementation of this program, on the reduction of discipline referrals and suspensions while creating a more positive learning environment for students and staff.

Conflict is inevitable but violence is not. Everyone needs a constructive way to deal with conflict, disputes, frustrations, or pent-up emotions.

Students can solve their differences before they lead to serious conflicts through the Peer Mediation Program. Students trained in the use of conflict management skills help their peers find solutions to conflicts that may otherwise escalate and result in referrals to the office, disciplinary interventions, or violent confrontations.

Peer mediators learn active listening and effective communication skills, how to help students brainstorm to solve problems, and how to finalize the agreement reached during the mediation. These skills can help solve a range of problems peacefully — problems like name-calling, rumor-spreading, or problems involving certain aggressive behaviors. Participants have found these skills to be valuable well beyond the limits of the peer mediation program.

Peer mediation is available in some of our schools. A staff member at the school coordinates this program, which has won praise from school personnel, parents, and, most of all, students.

Those who have taken advantage of peer mediation have found it to be an effective way to avoid confrontations so that they can focus on more important things, like getting good grades and demonstrating self-discipline and positive self-direction.

Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) formed a community to make social and emotional learning a part of equitable education. CASEL defines Social Emotional Learning (SEL) as an integral part of education and human development through which all acquire and apply the knowledge, skills, and attitudes to develop health identities, manage emotions and achieve personal and collective goals, feel and show empathy for others, establish and maintain supportive relationships, and make responsible and caring decisions.