COUNSELOR, 2026-2027 School Year, CYPRESS SPRINGS HIGH SCHOOL

Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District • Cypress, TX

1d • Onsite

About The Position

This position is for a Counselor for the 2026-2027 School Year at Cypress Springs High School. The role involves implementing a comprehensive school counseling program that supports students' academic, career, personal, and social development. The counselor will work with students, staff, parents, and the community to foster a positive and effective learning environment.

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.
• 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.
• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level