Counseling Department

Welcome to the Mustang Counseling Department

The Mustang Counseling Department is dedicated to providing a comprehensive guidance and
counseling program addressing the whole child to maximize academic achievement, social and
emotional development, and post-secondary college and career readiness. Counselors work to provide
students with programs that support the four components of the Texas Model for Comprehensive
School Counseling Programs: Guidance Curriculum, Responsive Services, Individual Planning, System
Support.

Guidance Curriculum

School counselors provide classroom guidance lessons that facilitate student growth and development
in the areas of educational, career, personal, and social development in four curricular content areas:
Intrapersonal Effectiveness, Interpersonal Effectiveness, Post-Secondary Education and Career
Readiness, and Personal Health and Safety.

Individual Planning

The individual planning component guides students to plan, monitor, and manage their own
educational, career, personal and social development. Each student is provided with necessary steps
toward his/her established goals.

Responsive Services

In this component, school counselors intervene with or on behalf of those students in pre-kindergarten
through 12th grades whose personal circumstances, concerns, or problems are threatening to interfere
with or are interfering with their healthy educational, personal, social, career and/or educational
development.

System Support

The System Support component describes management activities which assure the delivery of a high
quality school counseling program, and service which indirectly benefits students by supporting other
programs.

Academic Planning

• NISD Course Catalog
• NISD Transcript Requests

Extracurricular Activities

• Clubs and Organizations Link

Mental Health Resources

• NISD Mental Health and Wellness
• FindHelp.Org
• Suicide Prevention Lifeline

Post-Secondary Readiness

• Alamo Promise
• Cafe College
• College Board