Guidance Department

Parent Orientation to Registration for next school year
January 25, 2012 at 7pm

Rising 6th graders meet in NMS auditorium
Rising 7th and 8th graders meet in the cafeteria

SOL Schedule Spring 2011

Helping Students Move in the Right Direction

Mrs. Debbie Williams dwilliams@rcs.k12.va.us		Ms. Terrie Bigler tbigler@rcs.k12.va.us
Guidance Secretary		6th - 8th grade counselor - A - J

Carolyn Penn cpenn@rcs.k12.va.us		Dr. Peggy Barker-Meise mbarker-meise@rcs.k12.va.us
SAP Coordinator		6th - 8th grade counselor - K - Z

The Northside Middle School Counseling Program assists students in acquiring the knowledge and skills necessary for healthy development. Our program recognizes that parents, school personnel, and the community each have important roles to play and resources to contribute assisting students with their academic career, social, and emotional development.

The four components of our program are:

Guidance Curriculum: School counselors help students develop their educational potential through skill based lessons and units that assist in guiding students to learn competence in essential life skills.
Responsive Services: Counselors assist students whose immediate personal concerns or problems put their continued educational, career, personal or social development at risk.
Individual Planning: Counselors guide students as they plan, monitor, and manage their own educational, career, personal, and social development.
System Support: Counselors collaborate with and support the efforts of teachers, staff, parents, and the community in promoting the educational, career, personal, and social development of students.

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