COUNSELOR, 2026-2027 School Year, HEMMENWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School DistrictKaty, TX
Onsite

About The Position

This position is for a Counselor for the 2026-2027 School Year at HEMMENWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. The role involves implementing a comprehensive school counseling program that supports students' academic, career, personal, and social development.

Requirements

  • Master’s degree from a recognized, accredited college or university
  • Valid Texas Certificate as a Professional School Counselor
  • A minimum of two (2) years of successful experience as a classroom teacher is required
  • Valid Texas school counselor certificate
  • Knowledge of counseling procedures, student appraisal, and career development
  • Excellent organizational, communication, and interpersonal skills
  • Visionary leadership in public schools to work with faculties, families, and communities of the 21st Century.

Responsibilities

  • Plan, organize, implement, and deliver structured group lessons according to the district’s guidance curriculum to improve students’ interpersonal and intrapersonal effectiveness, personal health and safety, post-secondary planning and readiness, and other developmental needs.
  • Instruct students and manage their behavior.
  • Present information in one-on-one, small group, and large group situations to students, parents or guardians, and district staff.
  • Teach the school guidance curriculum components using effective instructional strategies and planned structured groups considering diverse student populations and needs for differentiated instruction.
  • Work with students, staff, parents or guardians, and the community to identify priorities where students will be served through the guidance curriculum component.
  • Collaborate across curricular areas to integrate guidance lessons into the content area curriculum.
  • Create a balanced curriculum by using well-planned and intentional activities and materials, incorporating guest speakers, and offering engaging delivery techniques, including technology tools.
  • Use accepted theories and effective techniques of developmental guidance to respond to problematic or critical incidents to support students and offer services in time of need.
  • Use preventive activities to remove barriers that interfere with a student’s educational, career, personal, and social development.
  • Implement remediation practices to assist students in coping with problem situations or unwise choices.
  • Identify precipitating and antecedent factors, effective and ineffective approaches to dealing with the circumstances, and provide feedback to guide future decisions.
  • Use specialized skills to support students in crisis situations requiring an immediate response.
  • Maintain a healthy and safe school environment by collaborating with district staff, parents or guardians, and local officials.
  • Provide continued support to students in need through individual counseling, small group counseling, consultation, or referral to services outside the school or district.
  • Serve as an impartial, non-reporting resource for interpersonal conflicts and discourse involving two or more students, including accusations of bullying.
  • Create school counseling services that are developmental and age-appropriate and provide information or literature that highlights related topics to students, teachers, and administrators.
  • Assist individual students and their parents or guardians in monitoring their academic, career, personal, and social development as they progress in school.
  • Act as a student advocate, leader, collaborator, and systems change agent.
  • Advocate for a school environment that acknowledges and respects diversity and ensures equitable access and placement in courses and programs for minority, disenfranchised, homeless, and other special populations.
  • Interpret standardized test results, offer career development activities, provide strategies for grade-level transitions, and guide students in individual goal setting and planning, including creating and reviewing personal graduation plans and providing information about post-secondary opportunities.
  • Collect, summarize, and interpret testing data to plan, create interventions, guide students, and address specific student needs.
  • Conduct an annual program audit to inform accountability, action plans, time management, and systemic change.
  • Participate in campus-based school improvement planning and goal setting.
  • Provide parent or guardian and staff training and consultation to foster student educational, career, personal, and social development.
  • Clearly articulate and communicate the counseling program’s management system and related program action plans to campus and district staff, parents/guardians, and the community.
  • Participate in staff development and continuing education opportunities to improve job-related skills and research to identify best practices in implementing a comprehensive school counseling program.
  • Ensure student records are maintained as required by state and federal regulations.
  • Comply with policies established by federal and state law, State Board of Education rules, and board policy.
  • Comply with all district and campus practices and regulations.
  • Adhere to legal, ethical, and professional standards for school counselors including current professional standards of competence and practice.
  • Follow district safety protocols and emergency procedures.
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