Jennifer Russell, Terrell Elementary Counselor
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 832.223.6500
What is the role of a School Counselor?
The role of an elementary school counselor is to collaboratively aid all learners in their academic, social, and emotional needs. My overall goal is to enhance your child’s intrapersonal and interpersonal effectiveness, aid in planning and readiness for future school endeavors, and assist with skills growing their personal health and safety. I am committed to respecting all students’ individuality and understanding their diverse backgrounds and differences in influences in their present lives, with the knowledge that together, counselors, administrators, teachers, and parents have the unified efforts of positively impacting the academic success of the child.
Counseling Mission Statement
To assist all learners wholistically in meeting their social, emotional, and academic needs through a collaborative partnership with students, staff, and our community aided by a balanced comprehensive school counseling program.
Services and Program Components
All counseling program services fall under the four components of the comprehensive school counseling program and are offered based on student and community need and assessment data.
- Guidance Curriculum – LCISD utilizes Character Counts! and The Responsive Counselor to address lessons for all K-5 students covering areas like social skills, conflict resolution, and respect. Lessons build upon prior years of learning and are transferrable to all elementary campuses in the district. An examples is weekly counseling whole group lessons.
- Responsive Services – These services assist students when intervention is needed for immediate personal circumstances, concerns, or problems that interfere with their healthy personal, social, educational, and career development. Examples are individual counseling, group counseling, behavioral interventions, and referral services.
- Individual Student Planning – These services guide all students as they manage, plan, and monitor their educational, career, personal, and social development. Examples include 5th grade planning for 6th grade, STAAR preparation, career exploration, and leadership opportunities like Student Council.
- System Support – This necessary component provides that data that drives our school counseling program. Not only does the System Support component cover monitoring student academic and accountability data, but also provides feedback for program needs, collaboration efforts with staff, and community outreach and program connection for families. Examples include school counseling program management, PTA and PBIS collaboration, staff professional development, program planning and accountability.
- TEA. (2018) The Texas Model for Comprehensive School Counseling