School Counseling

The mission of the school counseling program is to provide a comprehensive, developmental counseling program addressing the academic, career and personal/social development of all students. Counselors will work with educators, parents or guardians, and the community to facilitate a support system, ensuring that all students at Pathways Academy of Technology and Design are prepared to perform at the highest level and become contributing members of society.

School counselors will:

• Provide individual planning sessions and classroom guidance lessons to students in the areas of academic planning and success, career awareness and social/emotional development in accordance with planned objectives for grade level.
• Conduct structured, goal-oriented counseling sessions in systematic response to identified needs of groups of children. Themes include: academic skill building, social skill development, career awareness, conflict resolution, family issues, making healthy choices, etc.
• Provide information and skills to parents, school staff, administration and the community to assist them in helping students in academic, career and personal/social development.
• Take a leadership role in the infusion of counseling content into the curriculum, staff development and parent education programs.
• Assist parents in addressing school related problems and issues. Refer students and their parents, as needed, to appropriate specialists, special programs and/or outside agencies.
• Inform students and their parents as to pertinent test results and their implications for educational and career planning.
• Promote the liaison and coordination of school activities and resources and communicate between and among home, school, community agencies and business and industry.
• Plan and coordinate programs such as career and college fairs, scholarships, and other extensions of the counseling curriculum.
• Design, deliver, evaluate and revise a planned sequential and developmentally appropriate school counseling curriculum to include lessons in academic success, career awareness and planning and personal/social growth and understanding.
• Systematically develop and evaluate planning for high school and post high school on an annual basis through individual planning which results in a written career/educational plan for each student.
• Plan, implement, maintain and evaluate the systems necessary for the support, maintenance and improvement of the school counseling program.
• Articulate the school counseling program to students, parents, teachers staff and community.

School Counseling Assignments

Counselor Information:

Ms. Kim Bennett

Phone: 860-695-9495

Email: capok001@hartfordschools.org

Student Assignments: Last names A-K

Ms. Lauren Jefferson

Phone: 860-695-9453

Email: Lauren.Jefferson@hartfordschools.org

Student Assignments: Last names L-Z