My Beliefs
I believe:
- All students have a capacity to learn and should be empowered to reach their intellectual and social potential.
- Diversity is to be respected and appreciated.
- It is a priority to eliminate any barriers to educational opportunities and to close the achievement gap.
- All students have the right to participate in the school counseling program that will be consistent with expected students’
developmental stages and differences in learning styles.
- All students have dignity and worth and have a right to a safe, mutually respectful, healthy, and orderly learning
environment.
- Learning involves the education of the whole person and is a continuous, lifelong process.
- Learning requires the active participation, leadership opportunities, mutual respect and individual accountability of students,
teachers, staff, parents and community members.
The school counseling program will:
- Provide academic, career, personal and social development for every student.
- Be student-centered.
- Consider all students’ ethnic, cultural, racial, sexual orientation, gender identity and special needs.
- Include education that strengthens the classroom environment and allows students to develop lifelong skills.
- Engage students in classroom, group and/or individual activities to enhance student learning.
- Use data to drive the program development and evaluation, continually assessing student needs, and actively monitoring
student results as well as drive future program development and evaluation.
- Be a collaborative effort among the school counselor, administration and teachers to coordinate with parents and the
community to deliver a comprehensive school counseling program.
I will:
- Be a leader in school reform, identifying barriers to student success and collaborating with all stakeholders in order to close
the achievement gap.
- Lead a comprehensive school counseling program utilizing best education practices, knowledge of student development
and strategic interventions to remove barriers to ensure each student’s opportunity for academic success.
- Be a full-time employee who holds state certification, has obtained a master’s degree in school counseling, and who
delivers a school counseling program in accordance to the American School Counseling Association’s National Model.
- Abide by the professional school counseling ethics as advocated by the American School Counselor Association.
- Participate in professional development to maintain a quality school counseling program.
- All students have a capacity to learn and should be empowered to reach their intellectual and social potential.
- Diversity is to be respected and appreciated.
- It is a priority to eliminate any barriers to educational opportunities and to close the achievement gap.
- All students have the right to participate in the school counseling program that will be consistent with expected students’
developmental stages and differences in learning styles.
- All students have dignity and worth and have a right to a safe, mutually respectful, healthy, and orderly learning
environment.
- Learning involves the education of the whole person and is a continuous, lifelong process.
- Learning requires the active participation, leadership opportunities, mutual respect and individual accountability of students,
teachers, staff, parents and community members.
The school counseling program will:
- Provide academic, career, personal and social development for every student.
- Be student-centered.
- Consider all students’ ethnic, cultural, racial, sexual orientation, gender identity and special needs.
- Include education that strengthens the classroom environment and allows students to develop lifelong skills.
- Engage students in classroom, group and/or individual activities to enhance student learning.
- Use data to drive the program development and evaluation, continually assessing student needs, and actively monitoring
student results as well as drive future program development and evaluation.
- Be a collaborative effort among the school counselor, administration and teachers to coordinate with parents and the
community to deliver a comprehensive school counseling program.
I will:
- Be a leader in school reform, identifying barriers to student success and collaborating with all stakeholders in order to close
the achievement gap.
- Lead a comprehensive school counseling program utilizing best education practices, knowledge of student development
and strategic interventions to remove barriers to ensure each student’s opportunity for academic success.
- Be a full-time employee who holds state certification, has obtained a master’s degree in school counseling, and who
delivers a school counseling program in accordance to the American School Counseling Association’s National Model.
- Abide by the professional school counseling ethics as advocated by the American School Counselor Association.
- Participate in professional development to maintain a quality school counseling program.