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Job Description:
2026-2027 SCHOOL YEAR
SCHOOL COUNSELOR
KENDALL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
JOB SUMMARY
The K-12 school counselor provides academic; career; college access, affordability and admission; and social-emotional competencies to every student annually by helping design, implement, and evaluate a comprehensive evidence-based school counseling program in each district school. The school counselor provides an annual plan and advising to every student, classroom school counseling lessons in collaboration with other educators for all students, group and individual counseling for some students. The school counselor also provides additional school-wide activities that promote student success helping to close achievement, opportunity, and attainment gaps, increase student career/college success, and improves mental health/well-being. The school counselor is an advocate, leader, and change-agent partnering with colleagues inside the schools, in the community, and with family members for optimal student success. The school counselor is supervised by the Director of School Counseling in consultation with the building Principal.
Services to Students
- Plans, delivers, and evaluates school counseling interventions to help close achievement, opportunity, and attainment gaps.
- Delivers academic success skills including: organization, time management, study skills to all students annually.
- Delivers career development skills including assessments, career clusters, use of Occupational Outlook Handbook (embedded in Naviance), creating resumes/cover letters, job shadowing/searching techniques.
- Delivers college access/affordability/admission skills to all students with attention to first-generation students, students with disabilities, and students needing affordability resources.
- Provides social-emotional skills to all students including anti-violence/ anti-bullying, stress management, cultural diversity, and strategies to improve energy/ mood Ensures every student has an annually updated ACCESS & Accomplishments Plan.
- Ensures ethical practice by using a decision-making model and sharing most recent updates of the ACA, ASCA & NACAC codes of ethics with all stakeholders.
- Coordinates orientation for new and transfer students and families.
- Applies developmental, learning, counseling, and education theories.
- Uses Mindsets & Behaviors for Student Success standards (ASCA) in the school counseling program.
- Demonstrates an understanding of the impact of cultural, social and environmental influences on student success and opportunities.
- Designs and implements instruction aligned to Mindsets and Behaviors in Classroom, Group, and Individual Settings.
- Provides appraisal/advisement in Classroom, Group, and Individual Settings.
- Provides short-term counseling in Group and Individual Settings.
Qualifications/Certificates:
- 068 School Counselor certification/eligibility in CT.
- Masters degree in Counselor Education/School Counseling.
- Knowledge of evidence-based research and best practices in designing, implementing, and evaluating a school counseling program and interventions including school counseling curriculum lessons, group and individual counseling, and planning/advising for all students.
- Demonstrated professional identity/memberships in state and national school and college counseling professional organizations.
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Effective skills in working with all school stakeholders and community partners.
- Ability to identify students with disabilities and refer for appropriate services and accommodations.
- Ability to affirm and work effectively with students and other stakeholders of multiple cultural and linguistic identities.
- Knowledge of ACA, ASCA and NACAC professional codes of ethics for school and college counselors.
Preferred Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Bilingual Fluent in Spanish.
- Experience and understanding of bilingual students unique academic and social-emotional strengths and challenges.
- Experience in urban, diverse environments.
- K-12 teaching, advising, and/or coaching experience.
- Experience using the ASCA Model, Code of Ethics, Professional Competencies, & Mindsets & Behaviors.
- Experience in career and college access, affordability, and admission counseling.
- Experience in a distance learning work environment.
Days: Monday - Friday
Salary: In alignment with NFT contract