School Counseling Program

The Southwest Independent School District Guidance and Counseling Department will provide a comprehensive developmental school counseling program that is implemented by Certified School Counselors, at the campus level, PK - 12.

Southwest uses as it’s framework the Texas Model for Comprehensive School Counseling Programs 5th edition (TEC §33.003 - 33.007) The 10 school counselor responsibilities/roles described in The Texas Model addresses the whole child to maximize academic achievement, social and emotional development, and post-secondary college and career readiness.

The Southwest School Counseling Program supports the educational, career, personal, and social development of all students PK - 12, and is designed to include the following components: Guidance Curriculum, Individual Planning, Responsive Services, and System Support.

School Counseling Program Components

• Guidance Curriculum   

The purpose of guidance curriculum is to teach students how to develop transferable skills. The guidance curriculum is taught in units in the classroom through differentiated, developmental learning activities with planned lessons for various groups of students.

• Responsive Services

The purpose of responsive services is to intervene on behalf of students whose immediate personal concerns or circumstances put their continued educational, career, personal, and social development at risk.

• Individual Planning

The purpose of individual planning is to guide all students as they plan, monitor, and manage their individual educational, career, personal, and social development

• System Support

The purpose of system support is to identify and coordinate resources and activities on campus and in the community that indirectly benefit students

Character Strong

Character Strong is our adopted character education program.  It is a  transformational program focused on fostering the whole child through vertically aligned lessons of social emotional learning and character development. 

The social emotional learning addresses self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relational skills, and responsible decision-making, while the character education concentrates on educating the whole child, developing virtues of a thoughtful, healthy, and compassionate human being.

• SEL Competencies: Self-Awareness, Self-Management, Social Awareness, Relationship Skills, Responsible Decision-Making

• Character Development: Patience, Kindness, Honesty, Respect, Selflessness, Forgiveness, Commitment, Humility

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