Departmental Mission:
The WMHS Counseling Departmental website integrates school counseling related information and resources from the American School Counselor Association, MCPS School Counseling Unit, and Watkins Mill High School to empower the Watkins Mill Cluster Community stakeholders (parents, teachers, administrators, students, businesses, and community agencies) in the goal of collaboration to serve All students and have them attain levels of academic and life success.
MCPS/WMHS Counseling Mission :
Professional school counselors are leaders who advocate, collaborate, and facilitate individual and system change to ensure every student has the knowledge and skills necessary for academic success and personal growth.
Our Guiding Principles from the Comprehensive School Counseling Program
- Is comprehensive in scope
- Reaches every student
- Is preventative in design
- Is developmental in nature
- Is culturally competent
- Champions equity, access, and social justice
- Is an integral part of a total educational program for student success
- Addresses measurable student standards in the areas of academic, personal, interpersonal, career, and healthy development
- Includes classroom guidance, responsive counseling, individual planning and system support
- Is conducted in collaboration with all stakeholders
- Uses data to drive program decisions
- Monitors student progress
- Measures both process and outcome results and analyzes critical data elements
- Seeks improvement each year based on results data
- Shares successes with stakeholders
- Is clearly aligned with the mission of the schools
- Is based on national standards
