The Illing Middle School Counseling Program is data-driven to provide developmentally appropriate, preventative and responsive counseling services to all students resulting in academic achievement, social-emotional growth, and in college and career readiness.

The School Counselors at Illing Middle School believe:    

• School counselors are advocates for every student.

• All students have significance, worth, and the potential to achieve success.

• All students – regardless of age, gender, race, ethnicity, or sexual orientation – shall have equal access to all services (academic, career, and social/emotional) provided by the counseling program and the school.

• The school counseling program serves a central role in meeting students’ developmental needs through interventions in academic, career, and social/emotional domains.

• Learning experiences should be designed around the students’ needs in such a way as to make them personally meaningful to our students.

• All students learn best when positive relationships are present and fostered daily by adults in our building

• School counselors recognize the unique strengths and abilities possessed by each individual student as tools to achieve their goals.

• The American School Counselor Association ethical standards should guide the work of the school counseling program and school counselors.