About Counseling

• Professional School Counselors are available at Colony Meadows Elementary School to provide a Comprehensive Developmental Guidance Program and services for all students in the areas of:

  • Guidance Curriculum - In an effort to help students develop competence in essential life skills
  • Responsive Services - Provide intervention for immediate personal/social/emotional concerns
  • Individual Planning - Provide guidance to help students plan, monitor, and manage their personal, educational and career goals, and facilitate transition activities for post-secondary education and/or training
  • System Support - Support campus staff, parents, and community to promote the educational, career, personal, and social development of students, as well as the Developmental Guidance Program

  Counseling Programs available at Colony Meadows Elementary

  New Cubs Student Ambassadors: These students in grades 1st-5th grades serve as a welcome committee to new students on the campus. Student Ambassadors are expected to meet once a month to discuss ways to help our new cubs adjust. Additionally, they push into the classroom monthly to check on new students and assist students as needed.

  Clements PALS: High School Students enrolled in the PALS program serve as mentors to our elementary students. In order to receive a PAL students must be referred by a parent or teacher.

   

Tiger Reminders

How Your Elementary Professional School Counselor Supports Students Through the Texas Model 

Guidance Curriculum 

• Deliver classroom guidance lessons that support students’ academic, career, personal, and social development, as well as skills related to self-awareness, decision-making, goal setting, communication, and problem-solving. 

• Promote positive study habits, organization, attendance, and academic success. 

• Support the development of competencies that help students become successful, responsible, and productive individuals. 

Responsive Services 

• Provide individual and small-group counseling to address students’ immediate academic, career, personal, and social concerns. 

• Respond to students experiencing challenges that may interfere with their ability to succeed in school. 

• Provide support during crises, transitions, conflicts, and significant life events. 

• Help students develop coping skills, problem-solving strategies, and healthy decision-making skills. 

• Identify students who may need additional assistance and connect them with appropriate school, district, or community resources. 

• Collaborate with parents, teachers, administrators, and other professionals when additional support is needed. 

• Advocate for students whose personal circumstances may create barriers to educational success. 

Individual Student Planning 

• Help students establish and monitor academic and personal goals. 

• Support students in exploring college, career, military, technical, and workforce opportunities. 

• Help students understand their strengths, interests, abilities, and areas for growth. 

• Assist students in making appropriate course selections and educational decisions. 

• Help students develop plans for their transition to the next step in their education. 

• Encourage students to take ownership of their educational, career, personal, and social development. 

System Support 

• Collaborate with teachers, administrators, parents, community partners, and other professionals to meet student needs. 

•  Connect students and families with appropriate community resources and services that support students’ academic, career, personal, and social development. 

Overall Purpose 

• Texas school counselors work to help all students develop academically, professionally, personally, and socially. 

• The Texas Model emphasizes a comprehensive, developmental, and data-informed counseling program designed around the specific needs of each campus. 

• Counselors work as part of a larger student-support team rather than functioning only as individual counselors. 

• The ultimate goal is to remove barriers and provide students with the support, knowledge, skills, and opportunities needed to succeed in school and prepare for life after graduation.