What do Counselors do?
Every School counselor believes that every student should have access to an adult, or adults in their life who will encourage them to thrive in academics, careers, and in life. Given the appropriate supports, every student is capable of success.
We help students achieve success by offering 3 levels of support. Click on a dropdown arrow to learn more.
Tier 3 A Few Students
Tier 2 Some Students
Tier 1: All Students
The Core Curriculum:
Beaumont Unified School District's counseling team uses the Second Step Social Emotional Learning Suite to aid in achieving our goal of providing a safe and secure environment and high quality educational opportunities for all students.
These lessons are considered Tier 1 Support and ALL students at Sundance get these lessons as part of their core instruction.
Lessons occur once per week in the students' classrooms' and last about 30 minutes.
Lessons are structured to provide students opportunities to interact with each other and learn and practice a new social skill, recognize an emotion, or problem solve together. At the end of every other lesson students will have a "home link" which they can complete at home with a caring adult and return to their teacher for a Sunshine Ticket!
The average lesson is structured like this:
Warm up and Review of what we have learned so far
A social story to set up the new skill
Practicing the new skill as a class
Practicing the new skill as a pair or small group
Summarizing the skills we have learned so far
Click a dropdown menu below to get a detailed breakdown of the sequence in which your child is learning each lesson this year.
Kindergarten and 1st Grade
2nd Grade and 3rd Grade
4th and 5th Grades
Small Group Counseling
Small group counseling is a Tier 2 Service. Some students might need small group counseling to help them with social skills, coping skills, study skills, or emotion regulation.
If a student is having persistent difficulty with applying life skills to their learning, friendships, or emotion management, then they may need a referral for counseling which can be found Here. Students will also need parents or guardians to sign an informed consent document which is found here in English or here in Spanish.
Small groups are composed of up to 8 students of the same developmental level. They happen once per week for 6-8 weeks in the counseling office and last about 30 minutes.
Students in small groups are encouraged to respect confidentiality. Confidentiality in a school setting means that students will respect the privacy of their fellow group members by refraining from disclosing what other students share during group. If students wish to share what they shared in group, then they are permitted to do so so long as it does not violate other students confidence. The counselor is not permitted to share what students say during group unless:
The student is a danger to themselves
The student is a danger to others
The student is in danger from others
If any of the three above conditions are met, the counselor must breech confidentiality in order to KEEP ALL STUDENTS SAFE.
Below are some examples of small group curriculum that we use at Sundance to support student success. These may change based on student need and school or community counseling goals.
Following Directions
Friendship Skills
Worry Warriors
Friendship and Other Weapons
Girls in Real Life Situations (GIRLS)
Building Champions
Zones of Regulation