Counseling & Support

Visit the BVSD Student Support Services Website for information on how BVSD supports students' academic success, career development, and life skills. This department oversees BVSD's School Counseling Program.

BVSD believes in providing students with a strong foundation of safe, inclusive learning environments, support strong assessment practices, and create clear processes for instruction and layered interventions that meet students where they are and move them forward.  The Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS) is a layered system approach to provide assistance to students and families in BVSD to help them feel supported, connected, and successful.  For more information, please see the websites below.

• BVSD MTSS Website
• Colorado Department of Education MTSS Website

Our goal is to optimize school success for all students in the academic, career, and personal-social domains. Therefore, a counselor’s role is:

• To provide curriculum in the areas of academic success, career development, and life skills
• To teach, promote, and model the New Century Graduate skills
• To advocate for ALL students
• To promote district and school goals such as achievement, cultural diversity, equity and school safety
• To guide all students through their Individual Career and Academic Plan (ICAP)

Middle School Curriculum Benchmarks

Secondary Counseling Curriculum Benchmarks in Table Format

School counselors who work at the middle school level help the students in a variety of ways:

• Identification of Interests and Academic Aptitudes 
• Goal Setting, Course Selections, and Academic Achievement  
• Academic Interventions / Response to Intervention
• Development of Social Skills  / Resistance of Peer Pressure
• Development of Decision Making and Problem Solving Skills
• Transitioning Successfully to High School

High School Counseling Curriculum Benchmarks

Secondary Counseling Curriculum Benchmarks in Table Format

High school counselors spend a lot of their time helping students make sure their course selections are aligned with their goals for after they graduate. In particular, counselors assist students in researching post-graduation opportunities such as college or professional training. When students apply to colleges, they often seek guidance from their counselors on how to complete the application, what to write about for their admission essay, and who to get letters of recommendation from. Counselors also continue the work with students on their social and emotional development, study skills, decision making, problem solving, and resiliency.

BVSD is pleased to be working with Boulder Psychological Services (BPS) and Parent Engagement Network to bring you the Pathways to Parenting Success Series forums. These public forums focus on topics important to parents and students such as developing self-esteem in your child and secrets of effective parenting as well as broadcasting special events. For more information about upcoming events, visit www.boulderpsychologicalservices.com/upcoming-events.  Past events can be found on the BPS You Tube Channel.