3. What does my counselor DO all day?

4. How do I obtain a transcript?

The high school counseling department is organized on a Developmental Counseling Model. Services are delivered to students, parents, & staff from a three-dimensional approach following a curriculum developed as a guideline:

1. Social Emotional: Response to personal issues that are inherent to the high school years. Components include individual counseling, support groups, consultation with parents & staff, crisis response, referral, etc.
2. Career Planning: Assistance to help students clarify their interests, abilities, and values leading to exploration of potential career opportunities. Identification of a general career pathway with purposeful experiences while in high school is encouraged (e.g. job shadows, internships, career speakers).
3. Educational Planning: Assistance for high school planning & success as well as post secondary planning options that match each student’s abilities and interests. Counselors serve as a referral source to internal & external support systems (child find referrals, academic support, learning alternative centers, community resources, etc.) Post secondary educational planning is enhanced by college visits, field trips to college fairs, military & post-secondary representatives visiting our school, as well as individual guidance to access information & proceed through the admission process. Response to personal issues that are inherent to the high school years.  Components include individual counseling, support groups, consultation with parents & staff, crisis response, referral, etc.  Assistance to help students clarify their interests, abilities, and values leading to exploration of potential career opportunities. Identification of a general career pathway with purposeful experiences while in high school is encouraged (e.g. job shadows, internships, career speakers).

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1. Student Review Team Referral: A committee that examines individual student needs and plans interventions. Assessment and intervention decisions for special services are initiated by this committee.
2. Prevention: Preventing student chemical ("controlled substances" including drugs, alcohol, or tobacco) use or concern for others’ use. Referral and/or consultation with Dan Nelson (prevention specialist) are often accessed.
3. Harassment: Students initiate issues of harassment through school counselors who then utilize the school’s harassment procedures in support of the students.
4. Personal Emotional Health: Potential referral to school resources (school psychologist, prevention specialist, gifted & talented coordinator, teen parent program, Alexander House social worker or groups, police liaison officer, school nurse, etc.) as well as community resources (counseling services, county social services, crisis hotlines, crisis centers, pregnancy testing, etc.).
5. PSEO: Post-Secondary Enrollment Option allows advanced junior and senior students to take some or all of their classes at local colleges and universities. PSEO classes can earn students college credit as well as fulfill high school graduation requirements.

1. Maintains school academic records. This includes updating student transcripts, testing and activities. Maintenance, storage, and archiving of student records of all past & present district enrollments is also coordinated.
2. Coordinates student testing. Administering tests, interpreting test results, and storing test results are included in this responsibility. Current testing being administered and coordinated include:

Transcripts are available through the counseling office by calling 763-785-5547. Transcripts are needed for college applications, scholarships and some job applications. Parents must request a transcript if the student is under 18 years of age; transcripts are free to students currently enrolled in high school. After a student turns 18, the student must request the transcript. After graduation, the fee for a transcript is $5.00. Official transcripts must be mailed directly to the institution by the high school. An unofficial transcript (a copy of the transcript) may be given directly to the student or parent (if student is under 18). Go to Transcript Request Form.