Program Components
            
The Northside ISD Guidance Program delivers services to students, parents and staff through four program components that Texas law (TEC 33.005+) now prescribes for guidance services in Texas Schools.  
              *The Guidance Curriculum component describes sequential, skill-based, and developmentally appropriate lessons that are taught, typically in class settings, to help students develop essential life skills.  The Student Skill Goals reflect the content of the lessons presented.   
             *The Responsive Services component describes counselor activities designed to intervene on behalf of any student whose immediate personal concerns or problems put the student's continued educational, career, personal, or social development at risk. Counselor may provide individual and/or group counseling, family/staff consultation, and coordination of other services to assist students. 
            *An Individual Planning system is in place to assist and guide students as they plan, monitor, and manage their own educational, career, personal, and social development. Relevant activities may include transition activities between grade levels, pre-registration and registration, interpretation of standardized testing, assisting with the goal-setting process.   
        
*System Support is offered by counseling staff to augment the efforts of teachers, staff, parents and other members of the district and community in promoting the educational, career, personal, and social development of students. Sample activities in this category can include parent education, staff development, consultation with parents and staff, student referrals to other support programs.

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