Counseling Department
Counseling Team
Addie Ashton
College & Career Counselor
Passages Class
Facilitator
Assessment Coordinator
Krista Kingston
Advanced Opportunities Manager/Adviser
Dual Credit/AP Classes
Warhawk Way Class Facilitator
Ridgevue High School Counseling Department's Vision Statement:
The Ridgevue High School Counseling Department provides a comprehensive counseling program that is equally available to all students to provide education, skill, and aptitudes needed to be successful and productive citizens. Students contribute to the strength of their communities, and the nation at large, by the acceptance of responsibility, positive values, and diversity. Students possess the essential survival skills to meet the challenges presented by their career, community, and global environments. Students embrace the notion that education is a lifelong process and that learning is facilitated through the efforts of their family, their community, and their school. Students rise to the level of highest standards to which they are held and acquire knowledge to the full extent of their abilities, aptitudes, capabilities, and interests through a counseling program that recognizes and provides for individual differences.
Ridgevue High School Counseling Department's Mission Statement:
The mission of the Ridgevue High School Counseling Department is to connect all students to their future; to prepare all students for success as 21st century citizens; to utilize innovative strategies to reduce the achievement gaps for all students in collaboration with faculty, administration, parents, post-secondary institutes, and the Idaho State Department of Education.
VISION - To prepare students to become successful 21st century citizens.
BELIEF - Relationships matter/growth mindset is key.
MISSION - To connect students to their futures.
GOALS - To bring college to our students. To remove obstacles. To prepare students with skills necessary for success as 21st century citizens.
WE BELIEVE:
All students have dignity and worth.
Learning is a fundamental birthright.
'It's all about relationships' (tagline from ISCA 2015 Conference)
Four achievement gaps are identified and targeted for Ridgevue students: achievement gap; global gap (Tony Wagner pdf); PTE skill acquisition gap (Mike Rowe pdf); generation gap (Daniel Pink pdf)
All students have equal opportunity to work with state certified, master's level school counselors.
Data-driven decisions ensure a relevant and effective counseling program.
Monitoring and measuring student progress is essential to ensure relevance and student success.
Preventative strategies are best practice.
Developmental stages are a significant factor when designing a relevant and effective counseling program.
OUR COMPREHENSIVE COUNSELING PROGRAM WILL:
Advocate for and support all students.
Collaborate with stakeholders to address academic, personal/social, postsecondary, and career needs of students through a comprehensive, collaborative, preventative, and developmentally appropriate program.
Gather and utilize data to design and measure programs, as well as to provide information for relevant decision-making.
Support the vision and mission of the Vallivue School District and the State of Idaho in closing achievement gaps.
Encourage and support research and culture indicators in designing best practices.
Monitor student progress and provide relevant and timely responses to intervention for at-risk students.
Report the results of the comprehensive school counseling program with stakeholders.
Provide responsive individual counseling services.
Approach the counseling profession from a growth mindset.
AND THAT ALL SCHOOL COUNSELORS AT RIDGEVUE HIGH SCHOOL WILL:
Participate in annual evaluation based on the ASCA model.
Abide by the professional school counseling ethics as advocated by the American School Counselor Association.
Participate in annual professional development opportunities provided by the Vallivue School District.
Maintain a State of Idaho Certification.
Our Professional Website:
https://www.schoolcounselor.org/
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
Canyon County Indigent Services
Canyon County Community Action Program
Commerce Library Public Assistance Programs
Website for Professional Technical Programs in Idaho: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PwqJWq5FmFNz1KgYkm-A7y6c7ngAQdX2qLq3Us_paM8/edit?ts=580f9a07 -