McCleskey School Counseling Program
Philosophy Statement
We believe that:
- All students have the ability to learn and achieve
- All students have a right to a safe and supportive learning environment
- All students have a right to a developmentally aligned program that supports academic, career, and personalized/social growth
- All students have the right to be heard and treated with dignity and respect
- All students have the right to a professional school counselor who collaborates with other educators, families, and the community on behalf of all students
The School Counseling Program:
- Reaches all students in each grade level
- Is comprehensive in design building on the skills learned from the previous grade level
- Focuses on programs that are preventive in nature
- Promotes student success by aligning the school counseling goals with the school, county and state academic goals
- Utilizes the American School Counseling Association (ASCA) National Standards as the foundation for a guidance curriculum that supports academic, career and personal/social development
- Offers a delivery system that provides school guidance curriculum, individual student planning and responsive services, and systems support
- Uses data to drive intentional guidance services and to advocate for systems change
- Monitors student progress
- Collects and shares process, perception and results data and analyzes critical elements and seeks improvement each year based on the results.
- Be evaluated by the school counselors through outcome data including perception, process, and results data
- Celebrates success!
All School Counselors will:
- Plan and manage the comprehensive school counseling program in collaboration with their site administration and advisory council
- Abide by the professional school counseling ethics as advocated by the American School Counselors Association
- Participate in professional development activities essential to maintaining a quality school counseling program
- Advocate on behalf of all students
