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BHS Counseling Department

The school counseling department is made up of approximately 20 counselors who manage student caseloads based on academic learning communities, specific programs, and focal student groups. Based on assigned caseload, counselors provide differentiated services to students. Every counselor’s role and responsibility includes all three of the California school counseling program areas, however, the counseling team is organized to allocate tiered supports collaboratively, using an asset framework to serve each student and meet them where they are at a given time of need.

The counseling program is aligned to a Multi Tiered System of Support (MTSS) model for providing student services. Alietta Ortega Mendoza, is the lead counselor and PD Coordinator. Vice Principal, Keldon Clegg, supervises the school counseling program.

BHS Counseling strategies and activities are organized into three program areas

Academic

Career and Vocational Counseling

Personal and Social Counseling

All counselors are assigned caseloads of students based on learning communities and/or specifically designed programs that support participating students with embedded tiered supports. Below is a list of school learning communities and specifically designed program, and following are school counselors and their assigned caseloads.

School Learning Communities

Academic Choice: AC

Academy Medicine Public Service: AMPS

Arts & Humanities Academy: AHA

Berkeley International High School: BIHS

Communications Arts & Sciences: CAS

Universal 9th Grade: U9

Specifically Designed Programs

Counseling Enriched Class: CEC

Home Base: HB

Multi-Lingual Program: MLP

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