Counselor Pool

Location:

To Be Determined

Counselor Salary Schedule

Elementary School: 189

Middle School: 197

High School: 210

Some positions may be grant-funded and are contingent on availability of funds.

Develops and implements a comprehensive developmental guidance program for all students to promote student success and school completion as specified by law in the Texas Education Code Section 33.005.

• Leads and manages a data-driven, developmental, comprehensive guidance program using a continuous improvement implementation cycle that is aligned to student needs and demonstrates a positive impact on student achievement, attendance, and discipline outcomes.
• Adhere to the ASCA Code of Ethics.
• Engages students in developing, implementing, updating, and completing transition plans through personalized education activities including career awareness and college-readiness experiences such as Career Day, guidance lessons, and Education Go Get It Week that support goal setting and planning for postsecondary pathways, six-year (progression) plans, Personal Graduation Plans for identified students, and student interest inventories.
• Advocates for students, mediates and facilitates on behalf of student interests and needs.
• Provides engaging student guidance lessons effectively and systematically as evidenced by student and teacher feedback (topics and schedule for all students according to TEC and District Policy).
• Provides responsive, intentional counseling to students identified as needing additional support to address specific student outcomes and identified goals;
  Serves on the campus and district Crisis Response Team, consistently responds to students in crisis and follows established district protocols, policies, and relevant laws.
• Creates and maintains annual and weekly calendars that outline the events and activities that will be implemented for the school year. The content in the calendars align with the vision, mission, and student outcome goals.
• Maintains daily accurate professional records of counseling and Student Support Services related activities.
• Responds to students individually and serves as an active participant in the multi-tiered system (MTSS) process for identifying and supporting struggling learners early.
• Selects and uses counselor interventions appropriate to student needs and circumstances.
• Provides skill-based small group counseling with guardian consent including specific student outcomes and goals identified; provides referral when appropriate.
• Facilitates early interventions and student referrals to school/district special programs and/or services.
• Engages parents and provides targeted parent education opportunities related to personalized education, career awareness and college readiness, and prevention topics.
• Educates faculty, parents, community, and students about the guidance program and services through public information programs (Open House, PTO meetings, campus website, newsletters, and so forth).
• Interprets assessment data (MAPS, PSAT 8/9, PSAT, SAT, ACT, AP Potential, and so forth) to students and parents as a student advocate to promote understanding of educational planning options.
• Interprets information and ideas effectively and participates in campus wide staff development.
• Develops and maintains positive working relationships with all stakeholders, representatives from community agencies, mentors and others supporting the counseling program.
• Collaborates and develops data driven program objectives (CEIP/MEASURE) and monitors progress each 6 weeks throughout the year.
• Evaluates the effectiveness of individual activities and the overall program success in meeting desired student outcomes identified in the counseling to submit year-end reports to all stakeholders.
• Collaborates in the planning and evaluation of student assessment activities.
• Observes ethical standards of the Texas and the American School Counselor Associations.
• Pursues continuous professional growth and development to maintain current understanding of procedures and best practices in the field of professional school counseling.
• Creates campus advisory council and meets at least once during the school year to evaluate the school counseling program.
• Utilizes data to guide decision making, in student development and placement, direct instruction lesson content, and small group counseling interventions as well as measure the effectiveness of these prevention and intervention components.
• Provides individual…