These passionate and caring professionals work tirelessly to help students examine and understand their abilities, strengths, interests, and talents.
- They work in partnership with families as they encounter the challenges of raising children in today’s world.
- They focus on positive ways to enhance students’ academic, career, and social-emotional development.
- They work closely with teachers and other staff to cultivate an educational system in which students can realize their full potential and set healthy, realistic, and optimistic aspirations.
Our district has 14 school counselors across our 11 schools: Kim Osby (Escalante), Bruce Willams (Escalante), Cindy Bonitz-Ryan (Florida Mesa), Alanda Martin (Miller), Sallie Kautter (Needham), Jessie Davis (DHS), Jackie Juliana (Animas Valley), Anna Donovan (Park), Melissa Cooper (DHS), Jeff Perry (Miller), Kaitlyn O'Sullivan (Riverview), Barbara Frontella (Fort Lewis Mesa), Autumn Frickel (Sunnyside), and Dave Blau (Big Picture)
"The combination of their masters-level training, educational experience, and personal attributes make them an integral part of our schools and the embodiment of our Portrait of a Graduate skills and dispositions," said Sean Hembree, DSD's Coordinator of Student Support Services.
The American School Counselor Association promotes student success by expanding the image and influence of school counseling through leadership, advocacy, collaboration, and systemic change. ASCA helps school counselors guide their students toward academic achievement, career planning and social/emotional development to help today’s students become tomorrow’s productive, contributing members of society.
Founded in 1952, ASCA has a network of 51 state and territory associations and a membership of approximately 43,000 school counseling professionals. Additional information on the American School Counselor Association can be found by visiting schoolcounselor.org.
