WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2026 | 11:00 AM CST

What If You Had Backup on Every Credit Check?

Credit checks, transcript audits, and graduation requirements typically sit with a counselor who's already stretched across everything else in the building. Most of it still gets done by hand, one student at a time, and the students most likely to fall through are the ones who transferred in before their records fully caught up.

In this conversation, we chat with a counselor who found a way to catch gaps earlier instead of chasing them in the spring, about what actually changes when the tracking isn't hers alone to carry, and where she'd tell a new counselor to look first.

You'll walk away with:

• What a fall check-in looks like in a district that catches at-risk and transfer students early instead of finding them in a spring audit
• Where manual credit tracking is most likely to have a blind spot, and how to close it before it costs a student
• What actually changes for a counselor once the tracking isn't hers to carry alone

Guest Speakers:

• Laura Pevoto, High School Counselor, West Rusk CCISD
• Leisha Smith, Director of Career and Technical Education, West Rusk CCISD