Counselor Pool - Elementary

Openings as of 5/25/2026

26/27 Counselor Pool
- Elementary

• Position Type:
  Student Support Services/ Guidance Counselor
• Date Posted: 3/19/2026
• Location:
  
  District Wide

Job Title: 26/27 Counselor Pool
- Elementary

Reports to: Principal

• Valid teacher certification
• Master's Degree in Counseling and Texas School Counseling Certification

• Ability to present information in a one‑on‑one, small group, and large group situations to students, parents and district staff.
• Knowledgeable about college admission and testing requirements
• Knowledgeable about Financial Aid including FAFSA and TAFSA
• Knowledgeable of Career and Military preparation
• Strong organizational, communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to use the district's student management systems and technology platforms

• Plan, organize, implement, and deliver structured group lessons according to the district's guidance curriculum to improve students' interpersonal and intrapersonal effectiveness, personal health and safety, post‑secondary planning and readiness, and other developmental needs.
• Teach the school guidance curriculum components through the use of effective instructional strategies and planned structured groups considering diverse student populations and needs for differentiated instruction.
• Work with students, staff, parents or guardians, and the community to identify priorities where students will be served through the guidance curriculum component. Collaborate across curricular areas to integrate guidance lessons into content area curriculum.
• Create a balanced curriculum by using well‑planned and intentional activities and materials, incorporating guest speakers, and offering engaging delivery techniques, including technology tools.

• Use accepted theories and effective techniques of developmental guidance to respond to problematic or critical incidents to support students and offer services in time of need.
• Use preventive activities to remove barriers that interfere with a student's educational, career, personal, and social development.
• Implement remediation practices to assist students in coping with problem situations or unwise choices. Identify precipitating and antecedent factors, effective and ineffective approaches to dealing with the circumstances, and provide feedback to guide future decisions.
• Use specialized skills to support students in crisis situations requiring immediate response. Maintain a healthy and safe school environment by collaborating with district staff, parents or guardians, and local officials.
• Provide continued support to students in need through individual counseling, small group counseling, consultation, or referral to services outside the school or district.
• Serve as an impartial, non‑reporting resource for interpersonal conflicts and discourse involving two or more students, including accusations of bullying.
• May serve on district or campus behavioral threat assessment and safe and supportive schools team.

• Create school counseling services that are developmental and age‑appropriate and provide information or literature that highlights related topics to students, teachers, and administrators.
• Assist individual students and their parents or guardians in monitoring their academic, career, personal, and social development as they progress in school.
• Act as a student advocate, leader, collaborator, and systems change agent. Advocate for a school environment that acknowledges and respects diversity and ensures equitable access and placement in courses and programs for minority, disenfranchised, homeless, and other special populations.
• Interpret standardized test results, offer career development activities, provide strategies for grade level transitions, and guide students in individual goal setting and planning including creating and reviewing personal graduation plans and providing information about post‑secondary opportunities.

• Collect, summarize, and interpret testing data to plan, create interventions, guide students, and address specific student needs.
• Conduct an annual program audit to…