Academics
Guidance Office
2023-2024 Course Selection Resources
2023-2024 Course Selection Resources
2023-2024 Course Descriptions
Nurturing the Hearts of Students
Our mission is to nurture the heart of a young woman by noticing the light within in her and to create an environment to learn to manage their lives academically and personally. We provide classroom guidance lessons, individual and small group sessions. The aspiration for our students and their parents is to feel supported, informed, and empowered to grow in mind, body, and spirit.
Student Support
- Academic Advising
- Wellness
- College Readiness
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Guidance Program
List of 4 items.
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Freshman Year
Guidance courses are offered to freshman to help them adjust more quickly and successfully to the unique modular system of Incarnate Word High School. These courses are taught by the 9th/10th-grade counselor and by junior students through the Guidance Office Leadership Program. -
Sophomore Year
Guidance lessons will support students in the following areas: positive self-esteem development, goal-setting, establishing responsible behavior, encouraging interpersonal effectiveness, and promoting strong communication skills. -
Junior Year
College exploration classes are designed to offer juniors a jump start on the application process. The class will cover topics relative to preparing to apply during the senior year. Topics cover best practices for utilizing Naviance for application support, requesting documentation from teachers and school, understanding admissions terminology and paperwork types, and standardized testing. -
Senior Year
College application classes are held the senior year to provide support to students during the college application/scholarship processes. This class covers real-time topics to assist students in
rounding out their college list, defining their application timeline, reviewing required documentation and best practices to complete their college applications.
