Academic Advice, Best Practices, Board of Education, Coaching, Collective Bargaining, Distance Learning, Multilingual, Program Evaluation, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Social Media, Spanish Language, Spreadsheets, Training/Teaching, Training/Teaching Curriculum
Job Description:
POSITION 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 school across the district. The school counselor provides an annual plan and advises 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 theAssistant Superintendent for Special Education & Pupil Personnel in consultation with the building Principal.
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.
- Experience in implementing and evaluating a school counseling program model such as the ASCA National Model.
- Experience in advising/planning for all students, developmental school counseling curriculum lessons, group counseling, and individual counseling.
- Technology skills including use of spreadsheets, social media, websites, apps, and other ways that build and enhance the school counseling program effectiveness with all stakeholders.
Preferred Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Bilingual Fluent in Spanish preferred.
- 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.
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.
- Such alternatives to the above qualifications as the Superintendent and/or Danbury Board of Education may find appropriate
Salary: Salary and wages are paid in accordance with the Collective Bargaining Agreement between NEA Danbury and the Danbury Board of Education which can be found on our website.