
The final Joust About Careers episode of 2024 features the 10-minute highlights of the interview with Abby Yates, a 1999 Van Buren graduate who is a Clinical Supervisor and Mental Health Counselor at The Willow Center. The highlights focus on how a typical day looks for Abby, whether there is a difference between a counselor and therapist, the environments where mental health professionals can work, and what students need to know before entering this field.
The highlights and full interviews are available on YouTube at bit.ly/JoustAboutCareers, or you can listen to full interviews on your favorite podcast platform by searching Joust About Careers.
Have a great week!


We sang Christmas songs and pied Deputy Crouch for meeting our Toys for Tots goal! Merry Christmas!
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More Positive Behavior Referrals! Merry Christmas! 🎄 🎅 🎄
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Congrats to Greysen and Kylie for their Positive Behavior Referrals!
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Student Volunteer Opportunity of the Week - 12.19.24


Get your tickets! The sophomore class dinner is on Jan. 11th in the elementary cafeteria.


More Positive Behavior Referrals!
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Congrats to our recent Positive Behavior Referrals!
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The last full episode of the Joust About Careers podcast in 2024 features 1999 graduate Abby Yates, a Clinical Supervisor and Mental Health Counselor at The Willow Center. In the interview, Abby shares how a typical day looks in her position, how mental health professionals often don’t have the luxury of a consistent 8-5 work schedule, why mental health professionals transition to new positions so often, and much more.
To watch on YouTube, visit bit.ly/JoustAboutCareers. To listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or other podcast platforms, search Joust About Careers.
Have a great week!


Congrats to our Stevi B's winners and Ivy for her Positive Behavior Referral!
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This morning our National Honor Society members and their advisors, Chelsea Burden and Charlotte Smith, collaborated with CASA of Hancock County to fill stockings and wrap gifts for Hancock County children.







Let’s make this FUN! If Van Buren Elementary Students can fill this box two more times for Toys for Tots, two random students will be selected to pie Deputy Crouch in the Face during their lunch time! The deadline is 3:00 PM on December 18th!
Good Luck!
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Hope everyone can come out to the 2nd/3rd grade Christmas program, Gnome For the Holidays, tonight at 7 PM, in the HS Auditorium!
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Congrats to Raelynn for her Positive Behavior Referral!
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Members of the Chick-fil-A Leader Academy unloaded trucks, organized coats and other winter essentials, and helped people shop at the Coats for Christmas event this past Friday night. Participating in this event was the group's Do Good December project this year.





This week's Joust About Careers episode features the 10-minute highlights of the interview with Alexis (Youngpeter) Beachy, a 2015 Van Buren graduate who is a Palliative Care Pharmacist with Ohio Health. The highlights focus on how a typical day looks for Alexis, the wide variety of settings in which pharmacists can work, the huge role internships and education play in the path to a pharmacy career, and the characteristics of successful pharmacists.
The highlights and full interviews are available on YouTube at bit.ly/JoustAboutCareers, or you can listen to full interviews on your favorite podcast platform by searching Joust About Careers.
Have a great week!


Another batch of Positive Behavior Referrals!
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Spanish III students participated in the annual piñata competition. Staff and students voted and this year’s winner is junior Joselyn's whale shark. Muy bien, Josalyn!


Do you need to get some Christmas shopping done? Just need an evening to yourself? Bring your kiddos to us and enjoy your own parents’ night out on Friday December 13. Register your kiddos at the QR code!


Congrats to our Knights of the Round Table!
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