A COMPREHENSIVE SCHOOL COUNSELING PROGRAM
is like a tool kit. It includes different tools--or strategies--for different situations.
- Counselors use developmentally appropriate lesson plans to prepare students for the challenges they face academically and personally, and to help them consider factors that will come into play as they make choices about high school and look ahead to college and career. (Check out the sample lesson plans on the Goodies page.)
- Counselors provide support through individual and small group counseling sessions for academic, behavioral, and emotional concerns. They also consult with family members. (Give us a call or email if you have any concerns you would like to discuss.)
- Counselors examine data on student achievement to identify and address opportunity and achievement gaps, with the goal of removing obstacles to achievement for all students.
- Counselors advocate for systemic change.
- The counseling program philosphy can be summed up in two words:
Check here often to learn about counseling department events and
to keep
up with
deadlines for high school applications and admissions.
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list of the month's events.
NEW VISION DEFINITION OF
SCHOOL COUNSELING
School counseling is a profession that focuses on the relations and interactions between students and their school environment with the expressed purpose of reducing the effect of environmental and institutional barriers that impede student academic success.
School Counselors work to close the between students. Which gaps?
Click to find out.