Children affected by personal, family, or community issues are not able to achieve at their full academic potential. The school counselor's primary task is to help them become better learners by providing a comprehensive program that includes responsive services, individual planning, systems support and a guidance curriculum. Kimbrough's counselor, Yolanda Padilla, can be reached at 619-362-4400, ext. 4010.
Our School Counselor Helps Students by...
-
Aiding students in their development of positive attitudes towards self, family, school and community.
-
Providing growth groups for students to help them appreciate their unique qualities, express their feelings, practice self-control and appropriate social skills, and learn resiliency.
-
Teaching students study skills, anger management skills, and impulse control skills for achieving success.
-
Developing and delivering classroom guidance lessons that teach skills such as making healthy decisions, resolving conflicts, and respecting others.
-
Assisting students to become invested in their school success by showing them the importance of ATTENDANCE and how it relates to future opportunities.
-
Working collaboratively with students, parents, and teachers to identify and remove barriers that may impede student achievement.
-
Facilitating SST Meetings.
-
Monitoring Attendance
-
Providing growth groups for students to help them appreciate their unique qualities, express their feelings, practice self-control and appropriate social skills, and learn resiliency.
Our School Counselor Helps Parents by...
-
Providing growth groups for students to help them appreciate their unique qualities, express their feelings, practice self-control and appropriate social skills, and learn resiliency.
-
Understanding developmental stages and needs of young children through early adolescents at school and at home
-
Teacher conferences/ Consultations.
-
Dealing with family changes and crisis.
-
Linking parent and child to important services within the community and school.
-
Helping parents to become involved and kept informed, through parent meetings, phone consultations, PTA, newsletters, home visits, and resource referrals.