As a DIS School Counselor, I create and implement both academic and therapeutic interventions for the purposes of fostering better mental health and positive learning outcomes for all students. Consult with school staff and parents regarding the behavioral, social, and emotional needs of students, and recommend appropriate support strategies. Conduct in service training for staff around student support. Collaborate with school on universal interventions for students such as peer mediation, conflict mediation, etc. Provide crisis counseling and referrals for students as needed. Consistently and routinely update case files for students, both academic and social-emotional, utilizing school information systems such as Naviance and PowerSchool. Attend and participate in school guidance meetings such as site attendance meetings, School Success Team meetings, 504 meetings, Positive Behavior Support Plan meetings, and IEPs. Actively create space for diverse voices and points of view that reinforce each student’s identity. Act as an advisor to a group of students. Engage in self-reflection and a diversity of thinking, particularly related to the school’s mission to support diversity, equity inclusion and anti-racism

Support to the Director of SEL at their site. As an elementary SEL ILT, our work will center on our vision: At CWCLA, we strive to provide the community with resources and strategies needed to prepare a new generation of changemakers who have developed healthy identities, can work across lines of difference, solve complex problems, and contribute to their communities in a meaningful way. We use SEL to help address inequity and empower students and adults to co-create thriving schools and contribute to safe, healthy, and just communities. As part of co-facilitating monthly/bimonthly SED PD, we hope to develop teacher capacity in this area through engaging all staff, students in SEL practices, SEL lesson and community engagements.