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Organized Lunch Bunch is a group for intermediate students, ages ten to twelve, that will meet once a week to organize backpacks in hopes of keeping up with assignments, utilize school-given planner to goal set and plan for upcoming assignments, grab small school supplies as they may not have, and reflect upon practices that will ensure success.

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The counselor will keep students, teachers, and parents informed through Remind and Smore.  With this age group, students have access to their school email to find updates.  Teachers and parents will be interested in progress made in the group as well as learning that is taking place.

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Lunch Bunch will allow all stakeholders to be involved with student success not only in academic achievement, but also with their future.

B-SS 6. Collaborate with families, teachers,
administrators, other school staff and
education stakeholders for student
achievement and success
a. Partner with others to advocate for student achievement and
educational equity and opportunities
(American Counseling Association, 2014).

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Organized Lunch Bunch is a group led by the school counselor to help students gain organizational skills not only help with their backpack of keeping up with assignments and supplies,  but utilizing their agenda to plan ahead and goal set with the ultimate goal of better academic achievement.

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Students will be selected based on teacher recommendation from Google form asking teachers to recommend students based on academic need.
Counselor will meet with students that were recommended, individually, and ask if they would be interested in joining the group.  The counselor will explain reasons for recommendation and how they will benefit from the group as well as, reflect on personal growth. A consent letter will be sent home with the child to be signed and returned by parent of guardian. At that point the student will be admitted to the Lunch Bunch.

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Lunch Bunch will be run like a Professional Learning Community, PLC, in that the group will create and establish Norms (Missouri Comprehensive Guidance and Counseling Program, 2015, p. 7), or group rules, which will be repeated by group members at the beginning of each time of meeting.  Norms constructed will benefit group time, but students will also need guidelines along the duration of the six weeks which will be similar to Participant Guideline Resource attached below.
Example Norms are:
- Respect one another's opinion.
- Promote what is best for the group.
- Respect each other's privacy.  What goes on in group, stays in group.
- Not a time for technology use unless part of skill being taught.

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Lunch Bunch will be a homogenous group of students (Missouri Comprehensive Guidance and Counseling Program, 2015, p. 6) where as all students participating in the group are there for the same reason.

Stage 1: Students will participate in restorative circle by stating their name, grade level, and favorite food (since it is a lunch group).  Students along with counselor will create norms and comprehend understood purpose for the group that will be posted in the room.  Counselor will explain the privacy basis for the group, as well as reiterate the why of the group and how collaboration and participation are vital.  Norms will also help with this.

Stage 2: Students will begin to follow tasks and newly taught skills.  Members will conduct partner checks with binders, supplies, goals, agendas and begin to collaborate and reflect with each other providing constructive feedback.

Stage 3: For our last group we will have a pizza lunch, students will answer the following questions, and we will share, in circle, where students will have created a safe place to take risks and can expound upon each question.
- Do you see a difference in your study skills since the beginning of group?
- What are some of the things you have gained during this group?
- What skills do you plan to continue to use after group?
- Do you see a difference in your teachers' attitudes and your grades due to our group?

Collaboratively set a date to meet back again to reflect on continued use of strategies and skills, possibly before STAAR. (Missouri Comprehensive Guidance and Counseling Program, 2015, p. 6-8)

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American Counseling Association. (2014). ACA Code of Ethics. Alexandria, VA: Author.

Missouri Professional School Counselors and Counselor Educators. (2015). Professional school counselor small group counseling guide: A professional school counselor's guide to planning, implementing, and evaluating school-based counseling groups.  Retrieved from https://dese.mo.gov/sites.files/guid-respon-serv-small-group-counseling-guide-2015.pdf

19 Texas Administrative Code. (2001) §239.15

Texas Education Code. (1995). §33.003

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Lunch Bunch participants will be instilled with faith that they have been given skills and strategies to help them become stronger academically, plan ahead, goal-set, and to help them in the future. (Yalom, 1970)

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The counselor will provide a participative led workshop model type group. He/She will teach the skill while allowing students to collaborate and work independently constructing what the counselor has modeled. Counselor will facilitate within the group as students are working. Celebrating small steps such as binder checks and all in order, turned in assignments for the previous week, teacher compliment, or academic achievement will all be vital in promoting the effectiveness of the group.

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Standard III of the Texas Administrative Code explains that counselors will, "...use both preventive and intervening strategies to address the concerns of learners and to help them clarify problems and situations, set goals, explore options, and implement change" (Texas Education Code, 2001, § 239.15)
Creating this group based on the input of teachers will help students understand the issue, learn skills and strategies to overcome the problem, set goals, and change the habitual behavior into positive success.

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According to the Texas Education Code the school counselor must obtain parent consent, "...for the student to participate in those activities for which the district requires parental consent" (Texas Education Code, 1995, §33.003)
Before a student is allowed to participate in the small group, the school counselor must have signed consent from the student's parent or guardian.