District Professional School Counselors

• Professional school counselors know how vitally important it is to reach and teach all students and to make a positive impact in the life of every child in order to achieve the utmost success, regardless of individual circumstances.
• Individual student success must remain in the forefront of our minds so that every opportunity is given to provide whatever measure needed in order to reach the highest success rate possible. 
• All students have the right to be served by the school counseling program.
• The school counseling and guidance program is an essential and integral part of the overall educational process.
• The school counseling program should be consistent with developmental stages of learning. Growth and learning are developmental in nature; thus students learn through different means and at individual rates.
• An ongoing program of counselor competency training/retraining is necessary to maintain a quality school counseling program.
• The professional mandates and guidelines proposed by the national and state school counselor association shall continue to set standards for the school counseling program.
•  All students:
  • should have access to a school counselor to discuss personal concerns
  • should have access to information about occupational and educational planning
  • have the right to assistance in identifying their needs in the personal/social domain
  • should have the opportunity to make choices within the constraints of the​ educational system 

Professional School Counselors

Students and Parents