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Forbes Middle School Counseling Mission Statement:
Mission Statement:
Georgetown ISD’s district mission is to inspire and empower every learner to lead, grow, and serve. Forbes Counselors' uniquely support this mission through a balanced school counseling program by:
Understanding every learner’s strengths and unique interests and creating personalized academic plans with the learner to reach his/her 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.
Forbes counselors recognize that to work toward this goal, we must:
Meet each learner where they are and look for opportunities to foster meaningful connections.
Assess and advocate for student needs in order to provide relevant social and emotional instruction and guidance.
Use data to collaborate and advocate for students within a multi-tiered system of support.
Program Definition, Rationale, & Assumptions:
Program Definition:
Forbes Middle 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 the comprehensive school counseling program at Forbes, click here.
Rationale:
The Forbes counseling 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. Forbes counselors utilize their unique counseling skills to address students’ individual and developmental needs. Additionally, the counselors work closely with families, staff, and the community to support student needs through consultation, collaboration, advising, and referrals to additional resources as needed.
Assumptions:
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 2022-2023 academic school year, the Forbes counselors will prioritize the following two assumptions:
Priority assumption one: The Comprehensive School Counseling Program (CSCP) provides for each of the four delivery system components: Guidance & Advising, Individual Planning, Responsive Services, System Support.
Priority assumption two: Counselors can make their unique contributions to the campus and foster healthy growth and development of students.
Developing Goals:
The Forbes counselors, administrators, and leadership team work closely together to identify needs and supports for students during the 2022-2023 school year. Teachers also contribute to the goal development through student referrals, meeting with counselors about student needs and concerns, and feedback in the social and emotional design team. Parents provide feedback on student and campus needs at the monthly Coffee with the Principals and Counselors, and the PTA actively collaborates with the counselors on ways to address student needs. When creating annual goals, school counselors review a variety of data points, and collaborate with key stakeholders to create meaningful and reasonable goals. The list below shows some of the data sets used to develop our 2022-2023 counseling goal.
Forbes Spring 2022 Student Experience Survey
Forbes 2022 Teacher Experience Survey
District School-Based Therapy statistics from 2021-2022 school year
Care Solace district dashboard
Annual Campus Behavioral Threat data
Learn more about our goal in Section IV.
Evaluating Our Program:
In addition to feedback from the FACE, the counseling team utilizes assessments in the form of surveys to evaluate the needs of the students and develop program goals. Specifically, the Student Experience Survey (SES) assesses every student in terms of social/emotional and academic concerns. This information is used to help identify students in need as well as providing feedback in terms of school climate and culture. The counseling team utilizes the information to design guidance lessons and provide targeted interventions for students.
Similarly, the Forbes campus conducts a Teacher Experience Survey (TES) in order to identify areas of necessary student growth and improvement. The results of the TES are compared to the SES to highlight overlap and design a plan for those targeted needs.
In addition to the evaluation instruments mentioned above, the Forbes counselors also rely on administrative, staff and parent feedback to evaluate the effectiveness and progress toward our program goals.
Student Experience Survey:
Student Experience Survey:
The Student Experiences Survey (SES) is conducted twice throughout the school year (a mini SES in the Fall and a full SES in the Spring). The survey allows students and staff the opportunity to respond to a series of questions in the SEL domains (i.e. intrapersonal, interpersonal, and cognitive), as well as environmental and engagement with learning. The information from the survey is used by Forbes to create school-wide, small group, and individual plans for the upcoming school year. The survey represents one moment in the student's school year. With this in mind, other data points are cross referenced (i.e., MTSS check-in responses, counselor requests, referrals, etc.).
Prior to administering the survey, parents receive communication and have the choice to opt their student out of the survey.
Click here for a list of Student Experience Survey questions provided by the district.
Example of the 2021-2022 SES
Intrapersonal Results
Intrapersonal results.pdfStaff 2021-2022 Survey
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