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Text Box: The Professional School Counselor’s Role
Professional school counselors focus their skills, time and energy on direct service to students and families. To achieve maximum program effectiveness, the American School Counselor Association recommends that professional school counselors spend 80 percent of their time in direct service to students. Professional school counselors participate as members of the grade level teams and use the skills of leadership, advocacy and collaboration to promote systemic change as appropriate.
Counseling Services
Professional school counselors provide services to students, parents, school staff and the community in the following areas:
School Guidance Curriculum - Mr. Nash has a curriculum that consists of structured lessons designed to assist students in social/emotional, career and academic areas. The school guidance curriculum is delivered throughout the school's overall curriculum and is systematically presented by Mr. Nash in collaboration with other professional educators in 4-8 classrooms and group activities. Mr. Nash sees every student in the building at least once a month, in the classroom setting.
Individual Student Planning -Professional school counselors coordinate ongoing systemic activities designed to assist students in establishing personal goals and developing future plans.
Responsive Services - Responsive services are preventative and/or interventive activities that meet students immediate and future needs. These needs can be necessitated by events and conditions in the students' lives and may require any of the following:
o individual or group counseling
o consultation with parents, teachers and other educators
o referrals to other school support services or community resources
o peer helping
o information
Professional school counselors develop confidential relationships with students to help them resolve or cope with problems and developmental concerns.
System Support—System support consists of management activities that establish, maintain and enhance the total school counseling program and include professional development, consultation, collaboration, program management and operations. Professional school counselors are committed to continual personal and professional development and are proactively involved in professional organizations that promote school counseling at the local, state and national levels.
Mr. Nash is a Certified School Counselor, a Certified Special Education Teacher and a Licensed Marital and Family Therapist. He is also a Professional Photographer, Videographer, Musician and DJ and has run clubs at school in photography and Photoshop.

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Guidance Lessons
High School Options
School to Careers
Study Skills
Self Help Resources