ISB’s Elementary School Counseling Center is staffed by two full time counselors. One counselor is dedicated to serving our Pre-K-Grade 2 students, parents and teachers while the other serves the students, parents and teachers of Grades 3-5.
Our comprehensive counseling program includes:
Orientation
It is our goal to ensure that each new student has a smooth transition to ISB. Welcoming new students and their parents, providing them with an orientation of our Elementary School, and supporting each student’s adjustment to his/her new environment comprise the foundation that we build upon to make certain that each student succeeds socially and academically.
Classroom guidance lessons
Our comprehensive guidance program focuses on activities and lessons that are consistent with identified student needs. To this end, we conduct formal and informal assessments to determine these needs and priorities as perceived by students and staff. In addition, our counselors serve as coordinators for our Character Counts program which aims to build trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, fairness, caring and citizenship in all of our students.
Small group counseling
A variety of small group counseling activities occur throughout the year which focus on issues that include academic and social development.
Individual counseling
Our counselors provide an environment that is conducive to students communicating freely and openly with them. Within this environment we strive to know each student as an individual providing them with the tools to overcome academic challenges, maintain a positive self-image, and utilize problem solving strategies.
Teacher and parent consultation
Collaborating with teachers and parents in a unified approach to find the most effective methods to help each child reach his/her academic potential is the cornerstone of our program. Always operating with the best interest of the student in mind, we work together to help each child achieve academic and social success.
Parent presentations and workshops
Parent presentations and workshops are given on a wide array of educational issues designed to help parents become familiar with special topics of interest, and our programs and services, all with the aim of better serving each child and strengthening the bond between home and school.
Counselors
