Ongoing activities: Aids parents and teachers in helping children succeed, helps students develop and build self-understanding and self-awareness, helps students relate to others, promotes positive attitudes and values among students, helps in identifying the needs of children, assists students with the growing up process, provides individual academic student conferences, provides individual and group counseling to students with academic, social, behavioral and crisis issues; gains understanding of students through observations and participation in the classroom, serves as a bridge between home, school and community; helps parents access community resources, makes referrals to community resources and consults with outside agencies, coordinates efforts with other school specialists, provides parent-teacher conferences, interprets tests to provide information about abilities, achievement, interests and needs; makes home visits as needed, oversees the implementation of the 504 plans.

Elementary Guidance Directory

Ongoing activities: Orientation of new students and parents, individual academic advisement conferences for students, parent-teacher conferences, individual and group counseling to students with social, behavioral and crisis issues; bridging the gap between home, school and community; providing parents with community resources, referrals to community resources and consultation with outside agencies, coordinates efforts with other school staff, coordinates parent education workshops, consultation and referrals: parents, teachers, administrators and community; guidance program needs assessment; Student Individual Graduation Plan development, Guidance Advisory Council meetings, student class scheduling, partnering with businesses and educational institutions, Student Assistance Team meetings, student contracts, student monitoring, with parent follow-up; classroom guidance lessons such as conflict resolution, character education, social skills, and study skills; test coordination and interpretation of tests to provide information about student abilities, achievement, interests and needs; coordinate Duke Talent Search (7th grade); overseeing implementation of the 504 plans; incentive/recognition/awards program.

Middle School Guidance Directory

Ongoing activities: Orientation of new students and parents, individual academic advisement conferences for students, parent-teacher conferences; personal, social, crisis and career counseling; mentoring programs, guidance record maintenance, maintenance of credit sheets for each student in each grade, staff development, providing parents with community resources, referrals to community resources and consultation with outside agencies, coordinating efforts with other school staff, consultation and referrals: Parents, teachers, administrators and community; student monitoring, with parent follow-up; Student Individual Graduation Plan enhancement, preparation of applications: National Merit, National Achievement, college admissions and other scholarships; coordination of college recruitment and in-school visits, college recommendation letters, college scholarship and financial aid information, coordination of college tours, providing technical school information, small student group scheduling, Advanced Placement course emphasis, partnering with businesses and educational institutions, coordinating the Gifted and Talented Services; coordination of K-PREP, AP, ACT, SAT, PSAT and PLAN, including interpretation of test scores to provide information about student abilities, achievement, interests and needs; enrolling and withdrawing students, overseeing implementation of the 504 plans, incentive/recognition/awards program, Talent Search program and Upward Bound, providing school profile information, U.K. minority field trip, Governor's Scholars Program, Governor's School for the Arts program, Commonwealth Diploma transcript verification, prepare rank-in-class for seniors, prepare list of retained students, advise students who need to attend summer school/extended school services and prepare referrals and applications.

High School Guidance Directory