Winston’s School Counselor conducts individual, brief, solution focused counseling and check-ins, small group counseling and regular consultations with families and outside therapists. The counselor visits classrooms regularly for whole group counseling lessons on a wide range of social-emotional topics. Winston’s counselor works collaboratively with faculty and staff advocating for students' academic, behavioral and social-emotional needs and works as a part of the Student Support Team to develop interventions to help each Winston student reach their potential.
Services of Counseling
The purpose of the Responsive Service component is to intervene with, or on behalf of, those students in pre-kindergarten through 12th grade whose personal circumstances, concerns, or problems are threatening to interfere with, or are interfering with, their healthy personal, social, career and /or educational development.
The System Support component describes management activities which assure the delivery of a high-quality guidance program and service which indirectly benefits students by supporting other programs.
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.
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 or her established goals.