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Counseling

The comprehensive school counseling program is integral to a school district’s total educational program. It is developmental by design and includes sequential activities organized and implemented by school counselors with the active support of parents/guardians,  teachers,  administrators, and the community. As a developmental program, it addresses the needs of all students by facilitating their social/emotional, academic, and career development, helping create positive and safe learning climates in schools, and helping students feel connected to school and at least one caring adult. At the same time, the program assists students as they face issues and resolve problems that prevent their healthy development. The school counseling program aims to provide kindergarten through grade 12 students with successful educational experiences.

Vision Statement

The Ladue School District school counseling program will empower every student to become a lifelong learner, a responsible and contributing member of a global society, and achieve their highest potential.

Mission Statement

The Ladue School District school counseling program offers services to all students, regardless of their identity, to ensure equity and access for each unique student and their limitless learning possibilities. By involving parents/guardians, the community, and all school partners, we aim to create and advocate for a learning environment where each student's personal, academic, and future-ready skills are supported and challenged to enhance student outcomes.

How do counselors support all students?

School Counseling Curriculum

Individual Student Planning

Responsive
Services

System
Support

  • School Counseling Curriculum: Implement educational activities and classroom lessons on social-emotional learning
  • Responsive Services: Support students through brief individual counseling, small group counseling, crisis intervention, consultation, and referral to outside counseling services
  • Individual Student Planning: Help students develop academic and career goals, support students in transitional periods
  • System Support: Evaluate effectiveness and collaboration with staff to support student needs, community outreach, and committee participation.

Multi-Tiered System of Supports 

School counselors directly intervene and indirectly support students through a multi-tiered system of supports (MTSS). MTSS is a culturally sustaining, evidence-based framework implemented in pre-K–12 schools using data-based problem-solving to integrate academic and behavioral instruction and intervention at tiered intensities to improve the learning and social/emotional functioning of all students (Sink, 2016). Guided by student-centered data, MTSS teams engage in cyclical, data-based problem-solving; make informed decisions about general, compensatory, and special education; and assist in creating a well-integrated, seamless system of instruction and intervention (Ehren, Montgomery, Rudebush, & Whitmire, 2006).

All Students

Universal Supports

  • Social/Emotional Curriculum on Emotional Regulation, Empathy, Values, Goals, & Leadership 
  • Counselor Classroom Lessons
  • Child Abuse Prevention Program
  • CHADS Coalition for Mental Health
  • Missouri Eating Disorder Prevention
  • Prevent +Ed Tobacco Prevention
  • Prevent +Ed Conflict Resolution
  • Prevent +Ed Leadership Skills
  • Individual Student & Career Planning

Some Students

Targeted Interventions

  • Consultation with Teachers, Parents, & Administrators
  • Check-in/Check-Out
  • Small Group Counseling
  • Educational Support Counselor Services
  • CHADS Family Support & Mentoring
  • New to Ladue Club
  • Restorative Justice Circles & Conflict Resolution

Few Students

Individualized Interventions

  • Crisis Response
  • Referral to Outside Mental Health Agencies
  • Short-Term Counseling
  • Student Support Team
  • Social/Emotional/Behavioral Team
  • Behavior Intervention Plans
  • 504s