Ramon C. Cortines School Code (CEEB/ACT): 054376

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Mission Statement

Our mission is to facilitate each student’s personal/social, academic and career development through the counselors’ delivery of guidance and counseling activities in conjunction with a collaborative effort between the home, school and community. The ultimate objective is to diminish the student’s deficits and strengthen their unique capabilities to enable them to participate in a global society as responsible citizens. This will be done in part by: helping students identify their interests and abilities, enhancing student’s productivity, fostering independence and dependability, increasing self-expression, furthering appropriate decision-making, and expanding conflict-resolution skills. 

Philosophy and Belief Statement

As professional school counselors we believe:

 •       All students can learn and should be given the opportunity to do so.

•       All students have dignity and worth and have a right to a safe, mutually respectful, healthy and orderly learning environment.

•        Learning involves the education of the whole person and is a continuous lifelong process.

•        All students have the right to participate in the school counseling program.

•        Learning requires the active participation, mutual respect and Individual accountability of students, teachers, staff, parents, and community members.              

•        Diversity is to be respected and appreciated as we foster unity among our students, faculty, staff and community.

The school counseling program will:
           

•       Be student-centered. The program will be based on specified goals and developmental student competencies for all students.

•       Include education that extends beyond the classroom environment and allows students to develop lifelong skills that can assist them in the pursuit of their life goals.          

 •      Consider student’s ethnicity, culture, race, sexual orientation, and special needs when planning and implementing the school counseling program.

•       Be data-driven. Data will be used in assessing the needs and effectiveness of the school counseling program and will drive future program development and evaluation.