From the counselors

The counseling team will discuss the following topics with students during the 2024-2025 school year.

• Suicide prevention*
  • Preventing Youth Suicide: Tips for Parents and Educators
  • Student reporting presentation
  • Wellcast: How to Help Someone Who is Suicidal
• Human trafficking*
  • PROTECT Prevention Education
• Dating violence*
  • Play It Safe! curriculum
• Fentanyl awareness
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• College and career information
  • Fort Worth ISD College Night (Sept. 17)
  • SchooLinks
  • Searching for colleges through Big Future and Niche
  • Texas Reality Check
  • Occupational Outlook Handbook
  • Jobs Y'all
  • FWISD Student Opportunity Board
  • Finaid
  • FAFSA
  • Creating an FSA I.D.
  • FWISD scholarship listings
  • Going Merry
  • Black College Expo: Oct. 19 (See email sent by Ms. Asbury on Aug. 29)
• Bullying
  • Resources from Cook Children's
  • American Academy of Pediatrics

*These state-mandated topics will be presented yearly at TABS and, according to state law, require parental consent. Consent forms were in the online registration information completed by all families at the beginning of the school year. We urge you to please allow your child to receive this information because it is incredibly important to equip your child with this knowledge in the event they are in need of it themselves or to need to help a friend or family member.

Here are some key dates and important links for the 2024-2025 school year.

• Progression plans: These individual meetings with grade-level counselors are conducted once a year to update and/or create a four-year academic plan.
  • Grades 11 and 12: September and October
  • Grades 9 and 10: Oct. 21 through Feb. 14
• Important TCC dates can be found here. Some highlights:
  • Registration for TCC classes
    • Spring 2025: Oct. 21
    • Summer 2025 (only students entering grades 11 and 12): March 24
    • Fall 2025: mid-April
  • TCC final exam calendar
  • Drop deadlines
    • Fall 2024: Nov. 21 for 16-week courses
    • Spring 2025: May 1 for 16-week courses
    • See this calendar for eight-week course timelines.
• Graduation information
  • TCC
• Fort Worth ISD graduation information has not been finalized, but TABS usually graduates the Thursday after Memorial Day
• Fort Worth ISD ECHS calendar