Meany Middle - Counselor - FTE Job Seattle area,Washington USA,Education / Teaching

Position: Meany Middle - Counselor - 0.6 FTE

Overview

The purpose and role of the school counselor is planning, organizing, and delivering a comprehensive school guidance and counseling program that personalizes education and supports, promotes, and enhances the academic, personal, social, and career development of all students, based on the national standards for school counseling programs of the American School Counselor Association.

--RCW 28A.410.043

Position Reports to

School Administrator

Direct Services (60%)

School Counseling Instruction: delivery of district and locally determined structured lessons to help students attain desired competencies in three domains: academic, career, and personal/social, supporting the knowledge, attitudes, and skills appropriate for students’ developmental level;

Appraisal and Advising: school counselors coordinate and provide large-group, classroom, small-group, individual ongoing systematic activities designed to assist students in establishing personal goals and developing future goals; using strengths, learning and career inventories;

Responsive services: designed to meet students’ immediate needs and concerns, including short-term individual counseling, small-group settings, and/or crisis response; referral to outside services as appropriate.

Indirect Services (20%)

Indirect services are provided on behalf of students as a result of the school counselors’ interactions with others. Indirect services should be assigned as other fair share duties. Indirect services include:

Consultation (such as being part of MTSS)
Collaboration (acting as student advocate during IEP, 504, or Student intervention meetings)
Providing Outside Community, Mental Health or other Resource Options to students, families or those who support students.

Comprehensive Program Planning and Other Duties (20%)

The school counselor should design and implement a comprehensive school counseling program which includes direct and indirect services to support district strategic goals. School counselors incorporate district requirements and data‑driven decision making in a tiered service model. School Counselors create an annual school counseling plan and evaluate the program’s outcome.

Accountability: school counselors utilize data to determine effectiveness of the school counseling program and counseling interventions to guide future actions and improve future results for all students. School counselors provide annual results for their services and interventions that supports District Strategic goals.

Attends Seattle Schools’ professional development sessions to increase professional growth and to implement and improve personal and district processes.

Per state law tasks such as monitoring testing, supervising students at lunch and recess, assuming duties of other Non-counseling staff are not direct or indirect services.

Other Functions

Adheres to ethical guidelines and state/federal mandates.
Performs related duties consistent with the scope and intent of the position.

Required Knowledge, Skills & Abilities Knowledge

Implicit bias, culturally responsive teaching, anti‑racist practices and racial equity literacy
State content standards and district curricular materials
Setting student academic achievement goals, continuous progress monitoring, and adjusting instruction based on formative and interim assessment data

Decision Quality & Problem Solving

Weighs the consequences of options before making a decision.
Applies appropriate criteria to situations for the purpose of making decisions.
Displays self‑confidence in own judgment.
Focuses on the facts and solutions instead of opinions and problems.

Strategic Agility & Innovation Management

Sees ahead clearly and accurately anticipates how potential ideas may play out.
Thinks holistically by combining ideas in unique ways or making connection between different ideas.
Examines and evaluates potential solutions to determine where the greatest gain can be achieved.
Creates new ways of thinking to address complex issues.

Motivating Others

Creates a climate in which people want and choose to do their best.
Makes each individual feel that his/her work is important.
Determines what motivates each person and uses it to get the…