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Role & Responsibilities

I.S. 192 Piagentini - Jones School Counseling Program

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School Counselor Role & Responsibilities School counselors have many duties and responsibilities related to designing and implementing a comprehensive school counseling program. Therefore, programs should free school counselors to do what they do best and what only they can do. Most school counselors have a master�s degree and have formal training in both mental health and education. Although school counselors are team players who understand fair-share responsibilities within a school system, they cannot be fully effective when they are taken away from essential counseling tasks to perform. Link: Appropriate and Inappropriate Responsibilities

The acronym ACCESS summarizes the competencies all students should have based on our developmental counseling program.

Academic

Career

College/Post-Secondary Education

Emotional/Personal

Social/Cultural

Skills Program for every K-12 Student

Chen-Hayes, S.F. (2008) Lecture notes packet, EDG 700. Bronx, NY: Lehman College / CUNY

TACKLE�Transformed school counselor skills:

Teaming and collaboration with all stakeholders to close achievement and opportunity gaps and ensure career/college readiness and access for every student.

Advocacy for every student to close gaps and promote career/college readiness and access

Culturally competent counseling and school counseling program coordination to close gaps and promote career/college readiness and access skills.

Knowledge and use of technology to close gaps and promote career/college readiness.

Leadership to close gaps by challenging school policies and procedures and ensuring all students receive ASCA-standards based school counseling program lessons (access) and educational planning (access plans) annually to close gaps.

Equity assessment using data�using school report cards, comprehensive educational plans and other information to create evidence-based gap-closing interventions and career/college readiness interventions with demonstrable results.

Chen-Hayes, S.F. (2008) Lecture notes packet, EDG 700.Bronx, NY: Lehman College/CUNY