GISD’s district mission is:  Inspiring and Empowering Every Learner to Lead, Grow, and Serve.

GISD Counselors uniquely support this mission through a balanced school counseling program by

• Understanding every learner’s strengths and unique interests and creating and supporting personalized academic plans with the learner to reach their academic and post-secondary goals.

• Providing every learner with a calming presence and nurturing environment where personal social skills can be taught, learners are encouraged, and self-awareness is strengthened.

GISD counselors recognize that to work toward this goal, we must:   

• Foster and model healthy relationships

• Meet learners where they are

• Collaborate and advocate for learner needs within a broad support network

School Counselors in Georgetown ISD implement a high-quality comprehensive, developmental school counseling program that aligns with the Texas Model of Comprehensive School Counseling.  

The components of the program include:

• Counseling Services Mission Statement

• Program Assumptions

• Program Definitions

• Program Rationale

At the campus level, counselors annually:

•  Set Goals

• Create Plans

• Share Objectives through the Principal Agreement

Counselors deliver their programs through 

• Guidance curriculum

• Individual planning

• Responsive services

• System Support

Comprehensive School Counseling Program Assumptions are statements of student, staff, and program conditions that must exist for the school counseling program to exist.

• Comprehensive School Counseling Programs (CSCP) provide for each of the four delivery system components: Guidance & Advising, Individual Planning, Responsive Services, System Support.

• Every student, parent, teacher, community member, etc. has equal access to the CSCP's services.

• Parents will be full partners with educators in the education of their children.

• Counselors can make their unique contributions to the educational program and healthy growth & development of students.

• School Administrators understand and support the school counseling program priorities and demands & make decisions that reflect those.

• All Staff Members accept responsibility for CSCP's goals and objectives

For the 2023-2024 academic school year, GISD counselors will continue to prioritize the following two assumptions:

• Priority assumption one:  Comprehensive School Counseling Programs (CSCP) provide for each of the four delivery system components: Guidance & Advising, Individual Planning, Responsive Services, System Support.

• Priority assumption two:  School Administrators understand and support the school counseling program priorities and demands & make decisions that reflect those.

Georgetown ISD school counselors, in collaboration with campus and district administrators, teachers, parents, and community partners, strive to provide a comprehensive counseling program for all students.  In Georgetown ISD, we believe every learner shall graduate from our schools with the attributes outlined in our Learner Profile, which include the ability to:

• Communicate, collaborate, and apply critical thinking

• Create and innovate

• Obtain knowledge through inquiry and exploration 

• Adapt and persevere

• Develop self-knowledge and personal responsibility 

• Build and model respectful relationships

School counselors play a critical role in supporting students to learn, grow, and connect through classroom guidance, small group interactions, and individual student support, in order to strengthen these Learner Profile attributes for academic success in GISD and beyond.  

To learn more about each campus’ comprehensive school counseling program, follow the link to their campus page and view their CSCP plan.

The Georgetown ISD Counseling Services Team empowers students to be socially and emotionally prepared to learn, grow, and connect.  Our counseling programs serve the whole child by preparing students with competencies which address interpersonal and intrapersonal skills, personal health and safety, and post-secondary planning.  Counselors use a variety of data-gathering practices to determine student needs and implement strategies to address these needs into their school counseling program.  GISD school counselors utilize their unique counseling skills to address students’ individual and developmental needs.  Additionally, we work closely with families, staff, and the community to support student needs through consultation, collaboration, guidance and advising, and referrals to additional resources as needed.