School Counseling
Role
The School Counselor's Role is to help all students fully develop their academic, personal and social abilities. School counselors are able to advocate for all students and help assist administrators, staff, teachers and families. School counselors deliver classroom instruction and also meet with students in a small group setting or on an individual basis, when needed.
The Blair Community Schools K-12 Counseling Program is based on the American School Counselor Association's student competencies in academic, career and personal/social domains. Our curriculum in the elementary schools focuses on character education, conflict management, bully prevention, health, career exploration and goal development.
Ms. Schultz's Weekly Schedule:
Monday - Arbor Park
Tuesday - Deerfield
Wednesday - Arbor Park
Thursday - Deerfield
Friday - Arbor Park
Classroom Lesson Topics
Classroom guidance lessons are structured around themes that reinforce ASCA Mindsets and Behaviors and support the Second Step Curriculum that is taught by teachers. Various resources are utilized to create students who have good character and are good citizens.
The goal of small groups is to help students learn effective communication skills, learn valuable coping skills, recognize how feelings and behaviors are related to academic performance, and to help each other through sharing feelings and experiences in a safe environment.
Confidentiality
The counseling relationship between students and their school counselor requires an atmosphere of trust and confidence. Students must trust the school counselor to be able to enter into a meaningful and honest dialogue with the school counselor (Iyer & Baxter-MacGregor, 2010). Confidentiality is the ethical and legal term ascribed to the information communicated within the counseling relationship, and it must be maintained unless keeping that information confidential leads to foreseeable harm. “Serious and foreseeable harm is different for each minor in the school setting and is determined by students’ developmental and chronological age, the setting, parental rights and the nature of harm” (ASCA, 2022).