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Hello Bucks County Counselors Advisory Board Members,

As you may remember from our last meeting, we agreed that by our next meeting, Tuesday, May 15, 2012, we would have a completed introductory email and questionnaire to be sent to all Bucks County School Counselors. I realize that there may be some obstacles in how we will overcome the geographical challenge. As mentioned in my initial email, please begin compiling email addresses for the counselors in your district.

History: If anyone out there wants to add to this history, please feel free to do so.
If I can remember correctly, we used to meet at least two times a year alternating with the Lower Bucks Technical High School and the Middle Bucks Technical High School. These would be a breakfast meeting with the students preparing a delicious breakfast and the Executive Board would schedule a guest speaker.

The BCSCA had bylaws requiring yearly elections for the Executive Board which included the election of a President, Vice President, Secretary, and Treasurer. The annual dues were $15 per year.

Listed below are the Pages within this Wiki along with a brief description.

1. **Introductory Email** – This email along with the Questionnaire will be sent to all school counselors in Bucks County to provide a brief history of the Bucks County School Counselors Association and ask them to complete the “Survey Monkey.” If everyone is okay with it, I will take care of creating the Survey Monkey because I always enjoy learning new programs.

2. **Questionnaire ­** – Please create ten to fifteen questions regarding counselors’ interest of reestablishing the BCSCA. Perhaps this means defining the Bucks County Counselors Advisory Board as providing one function while the BCSCA would provide another? The beauty of the Wiki is that we can comment and then have others review our thoughts and comment some more. Through this process I believe we will find a consensus.

Please remember the following when commenting:

1. There is not a Spell Check in a Wiki. 2. Write, proofread, and edit the document in Word and then cut and paste to the Wiki. 3. Please sign your name next to your comments so we know who wrote what. 4. Carefully review the “pasted” information because it may transfer differently. 5. Remember to click the “Save” tab after making changes to your work.

Before you go and begin typing, please watch this short and entertaining video __ [|What is a Wiki?] __ – Commoncraft created a short and entertaining video called __Wikis in Plain English__ which will provide you with the basics about Wikis.

One final thought. If you have a particular question for me, I would encourage you to email me directly at kjones1@btsd.us. If it pertains to the members, I can always copy it to the Wiki and then send an email to everyone to check out the entry.

Since we have about one month to create the letter and questionnaire, I would encourage everyone to check the entries frequently because around the 10th of May, I will want to compile the thoughts for a final draft of the introductory email and questionnaire in preparation for our meeting on May 15, 2012.

Thanks in advance for all of your help.

Karla