Guidance

Through a comprehensive developmental school counseling program, the counselors work collaboratively with school staff, parents and the community to provide a caring, supportive school environment in which our students can achieve academic and personal success.

• Classroom Lessons
• Each counselor pushes into various classrooms throughout the school year.  Topics addressed include: being proactive, solving conflicts, gossip and rumors, bully prevention and other issues affecting adolescents' development.
• In addition, the counselors assist students with the following interventions and responsive services:
• Academic skills support 
• Organizational, study and test-taking skills 
• Coping strategies 
• Peer relationships and effective social skills 
• Communication, problem-solving, decision-making and conflict resolution 
• Multicultural/diversity awareness 
• Goal-setting/decision- making 
• Academic planning 
• Transition planning 
• Individual and small group counseling 
• Individual/family/school crisis intervention 
• Peer facilitation 
• Consultation/collaboration 
• Referrals

• Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls
  by Rachel Simmons
• Growing Up Global: Raising Children to Be At Home in the World
  by Homa Sabet Tavangar
• Real Boys: Rescuing Our Sons From the Myths of Boyhood
  by Willam Pollack
• Get Out of My Life, but First Could You Drive Me and Cheryl to the Mall
  by Anthony E. Wolf
• The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Teens
  by Sean Covey