Vision and Mission of Counseling Department

School Counseling Vision Statement

All students at New Providence Middle School graduate ready for post-secondary opportunities, while learning what it means to be successful in a changing and diverse world. They demonstrate their success through resilience, by embracing differences, and being empathetic adults. They continue to evolve and live a life of integrity, commitment, to their family, career, and communities. The students acquire a growth-mindset and cultivate the world’s next generation of leaders.

School Counseling Mission Statement

The comprehensive school counseling program at New Providence Middle School is data-driven and is used to advocate for equity, inclusiveness, and academic excellence among all students, through individual and small-group counseling as well as school-wide counseling lessons. In collaboration with the stakeholders, the school counselors help eliminate barriers, model empathy, and provide equity for students through data-informed interventions. These interventions provide the necessary skills to be successful in all post secondary opportunities.

Beliefs

  1. Cultural competence is necessary to assure that the needs for all students are being understood and met.

  2. The development of resilience and a growth mindset will help students succeed.

  3. All students should have equal access to high quality education. A high quality education includes social emotional learning, rigor in academics, and being college/career ready.

  4. Data is essential to monitoring students' success.

  5. All students need self-awareness to be prepared for post-secondary opportunities.

  6. A data driven school counseling program evolves to the needs of the students.

  7. Collaboration is a tool that can be used to advocate for all students.

  8. School counselors model leadership qualities to the students.

  9. The school counselors need continuous professional development to create change.