Benefits for Student - Ensures every student receives that benefit
of the school counseling program
- Promotes a rigorous academic curriculum for every student
- Ensures equitable
access to educational opportunities
- Monitors data to facilitate student improvement
- Provides strategies for
closing the achievement gap
- Supports development of skills to increase student success
- Enhances articulation
and transition between levels
Benefits for Parents/Guardians - Provides support in advocating for their children's academic, career and personal/social development
- Supports partnerships in their children's learning and academic and career planning
- Connects to community and school-based services
Benefits for Teachers - Promotes an interdisciplinary team approach to adress student needs and educational goals
- Supports the learning environment
- Analyzes data to improve
school climate and student achievement
Benefits for Administrators - Aligns the school counseling program with the school's academic mission
- Provides a proactive school guidance curriculum addressing the students' needs
- Monitors data for enhancing school climate and school improvement
Benefits for School Counselors - Supports accress to every student
- Defines responsibilities
within the context of a school counseling program
- Seeks to eliminate non-school-counseling
program activities
- Provides a tool for program management, implementatioin and
accountability
- Recognizes school counselors as leaders, advocates and changes agents
- Ensures the school counseling program's contribution to the school's mission
Benefits for post-secondary Education - Enhances articulation and transition of students to post-secondary institutions
- Motivates every student to seek a wide range of post-secondary options
- Encourages and supports rigorous academic preparation
- Promotes equity
and access to post-secondary education for every student
Benefits for Community: Business, labor & industry - Builds
collaboration, which enhances a student's post-secondary success
- Connects business,
industry and labor to students and families
- Supports the academic preparation necessary
for students' success in the workforce
- Increases opportunities for business,
industry and labor to actively participate in the school counseling program
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