WELCOME!
And thank you for visiting this site! After all, school counseling is a team experience involving students, parents, school staff, and community members. Our focus is on helping to develop happy, healthy, capable, and productive youth who are intelligent and can effectively interact with others, appreciate differences, and resolve conflict peaceably.
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REFUSAL SKILLS
Part of the ongoing curriculum at BES is to help children to understand what is expected behavior. Generally this translates into only doing what is healthy for yourself and others. Classroom discussion recently has explored how to keep friends, stay out of trouble, and have fun.
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KIDS ON THE BLOCK
Kids on the Block is a puppet troupe that presents skits especially designed for elementary school students using life-sized puppets.
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LEARNING STYLES INVENTORY©
This past year the school counselor has been researching available inventories that assess learning styles, multiple intelligences, learning preferences, personality, and career/vocational issues. The search has focused on well-tested instruments that provide the student, parent, and teacher with a written report explaining the results, build insight and awareness, and provide an avenue for improved learning.
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IMPACT
(AKA: Educational Support Team,
EST, or Act 117)
WHAT IS IT?
The IMPACT Team is a standing committee of BES staff. Its purpose is to work with teachers and parents to identify and design additional supports or interventions for students who may benefit from them.
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504
(Section 504 of the
Rehabilitation Act of 1973)
WHAT IS IT?
The 504 Team is a group of BES staff assembled to address a particular child's needs as directed by Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. This is a nondiscrimination law that protects students who have a physical or mental impairment which substantially limits one or more major life activities by ensuring a free appropriate public education (FAPE) as adequately as that of students without impairments.
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RESPONSIVE CLASSROOM©
BES utilizes an approach to community that focuses on strengthening social, emotional, and academic competencies: Responsive Classroom (RC). Responsive Classroom believes, among other things, that:
 the social curriculum is as important as the academic curriculum, how children learn is as important as what they learn, and to be successful academically and socially, children need a set of social skills: cooperation, assertion, responsibility, empathy, and self-control.
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SECOND STEP©
Some BES teachers are supplementing Responsive Classroom with the Second Step Program. This research-based curriculum focuses on developing communication, emotional management, empathy, cooperation, and problem solving skills. Children who are socially competent perform better academically. They are also more likely to resolve interpersonal conflict peaceably.
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KNOW YOUR BODY©
This year BES will begin to implement the research-based Know Your Body (KYB) curriculum in grades kindergarten through six. The KYB curriculum addresses the health education content areas recommended by the Centers for Disease Control. KYB is aligned with, and its lessons cross-matrixed to, the Vermont Department of Education and the 2006 National Health Education Standards.
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WEB LINKS RELATED TO SCHOOL COUNSELING
RE: GENERAL RESOURCE INFORMATION
www.vermont211.org
United Way
statewide resource referral
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