COUNSELING STAFF
| Veronica Chavez - Head Counselor | Students with Last Names (A-L) | veronica.chavez@nisd.net | (210) 397-1026 |
| Madeline Moreno - Counselor | Students with Last Names (M-Z) | madeline.moreno@nisd.net | (210) 397-1028 |
| Kimberly Lowery - Secretary | Grade Reporting Secretary | kimberly.lowery@nisd.net | (210) 397-1032 |
COUNSELING FRAMEWORK
The Coyote Counseling Department believes in fostering a community of lifetime learners. In partnership with parents, teachers, administration, and the community, counselors work with students to achieve positive educational, personal, social and emotional development for students by following the Texas Model for Comprehensive School Counseling Programs' four components: guidance curriculum, individual planning, responsive services, and system support.
GUIDANCE CURRICULUM
The Guidance Curriculum component includes skill-based lessons and units designed to help all students in Kindergarten through 12th grade develop competence in essential life skills. There are a variety of skills addressed under the four main skill goals of:
- Intrapersonal Effectiveness
- Interpersonal Effectiveness
- Post-Secondary College/Career Planning and Readiness
- Personal Health, Safety, and Wellness
INDIVIDUAL PLANNING
The Individual Planning component is where students are guided in planning, monitoring, and managing their own educational, career, personal and social development. Each student is provided with necessary steps toward his/her established goals.
Individual Planning can be seen at Connally Middle School through student/parent conferences, individual meetings with the counselor, small group meetings with the counselor, and parent/staff consultation that focus on the student's personal education and career goals.
RESPONSIVE SERVICES
The purpose of the responsive services component is to intervene with or on behalf of those students whose personal circumstances, concerns, or problems threatening to interfere with or are interfering with their healthy personal, social, career and/or educational development. Responsive services at Connally Middle School include individual and small group counseling sessions.
***In order to build a relationship and trust with students, what is discussed in individual and small group counseling remains CONFIDENTIAL.***
Information that needs to be told to parents, other helping-professionals and/or school officials include situations involving:
- Harm to self
- Harm to others
- Threats to school safety
- Sexual Contact / Pregnancy
- Information requested by a valid subpoena
SYSTEM SUPPORT
The System Support component describes management activities which assure the delivery of a high quality guidance program and services which indirectly benefit students by supporting other programs.
System Support at Connally Middle School can be seen through parent meetings, consultation with teachers, participation in campus-based school goals, and counselor professional development.