1. Students prosper when provided with a safe and respectful school environment that ensures all students have dignity and worth.
2. Student learning, achievement, and development are maximized by participation in a comprehensive school counseling program that is planned, managed, implemented, and evaluated by professional school counselors.
3. Student success is predicated on the development of a certain set of social/emotional skills that pertain to self-sufficiency, self-efficacy, interpersonal development, and social awareness.
4. The school counselor is a valuable resource to administrators, students, parents, and the greater community.
5. The school counselor is a leader, advocate, and collaborator that practices the ASCA Ethical Standards for School Counselors.
6. The school counselor is a data-driven decision-maker that utilizes information to inform school counseling programming which promotes student learning and achievement.
7. The school counseling program strives to develop lifelong learners in an ever-changing and diverse society.
8. The school counseling program is student-centered, focusing on social/emotional, academic, and career development.
9. The school counseling program is an integral function of a positive school climate which is achieved through collaboration with students, faculty, administration, parents, and the community.