POSITION GOAL:
Responsible for planning and implementing a Comprehensive School Counseling Program to ensure all students either: Elementary – achieve academic success, develop an understanding of career opportunities and develop social/emotional skills in response to issues they face Middle – are promoted to high school having begun the college and career exploration process High – graduate high school with a post-secondary plan
PERFORMANCE RESPONSIBILITIES:
A. Student Success for All
1. *Design and implement a data-driven, comprehensive school counseling program for all students to address barriers to student learning and to close the achievement/opportunity gap, and support SIP and District Strategic Plan goals.
2. *Spend a minimum of 80 percent of time providing direct and indirect services and 20 percent in program planning and school support activities.
- Direct services include, but are not limited to, school counseling core curriculum, individual counseling and student planning, classroom lessons, small group counseling, and preventative and responsive services.
- Indirect services on behalf of students include, but not limited to, referrals for additional assistance and consultation/collaboration with parents, teachers, administrators, and other stakeholders to create a learning environment promoting educational equity, access, and success for every student.
3. *Deliver programs that promote students’ development of essential mindsets and behavior standards including, but not limited to, learning skills, social skills, self-management skills, and college/career readiness skills.
4. *Review and disaggregate student achievement, attendance, and behavior data to identify and implement interventions with current knowledge of grade level promotion and retention criteria (HIGH SCHOOL - graduation requirements).
5. *Use school data to identify and assist individual students who do not perform at grade level and do not have opportunities and resources to be successful in school.
6. *Create yearly, data-driven goals that advance student outcomes in areas of academic, social/emotional, and college/career development.
7. *Use the skills of leadership, advocacy and collaboration to create systemic change to improve the academic, social/ emotional, and post-graduate success of all students.
8. HIGH SCHOOL - *Conducts credit checks with students and monitors at-risk students to ensure on-time graduation.
B. Promoting Positive School Climate
1. *Act as a system change agent in collaboration with the school leadership team to ensure a safe, supportive, and respectful school climate that promotes the social/emotional and academic development and success of all students.
2. *Foster family and community partnerships to support the social/emotional, academic and career development of all students. 3. *Infuse cultural competence, ethical and professional competencies in planning, organizing, implementing and evaluating the comprehensive school counseling program.
4. *Provide preventative education and skill building along with counseling for students during times of transition, separation, heightened stress and critical change.
5. *Use appropriate responses and a variety of intervention strategies to meet the needs of the individual, group or school community before, during and after crisis response.
6. *Support the continuum of mental health services, including prevention and tiered intervention strategies, and collaborate with both school-based and community mental health providers to enhance student success.
C. Leadership and Advocacy
1. *Attend monthly School Counseling PLCs.
2. *Develop and communicate a school counseling mission statement that is specific, concise, clear and comprehensive, describing a school counseling program’s purpose and vision of the program’s benefits for every student in alignment with the school, district and state missions.
3. *Use student data to demonstrate a need for systemic change in areas such as course enrollment patterns; equity and access; and achievement, opportunity and/or information gaps.
4. *Advocate for student equity and access to a 21st century education that fosters college and career readiness and promotes post-secondary success.
5. *Analyze and report outcomes of the school counseling program and goals, which are presented in the context of the overall school and district performance.
6. *Utilize technology effectively and efficiently to plan, organize, implement and evaluate the comprehensive school counseling program.
7. *Use legal and ethical decision-making based on standards and principles of the school counseling profession and educational systems, including district and building policies.
8. *Collaborate with school staff in the analysis of student performance data, rigorous goal setting, and development of effective action plans for improving academic, social/emotional outcomes for all students.
D. Additional Job Functions
1. To perform other duties as directed by Principal / Administrator
