High School Counselors

Welcome to Beatrice High School! We are honored to make your high school career a good one for both you, and your student! School Counselors at BHS work with students one on one or in large groups, typically. The areas your high school counselor tries to mainly focus on are: academic, career, personal/social development and your post high school graduation plans.

Mission Statement

The mission of the Beatrice Public School District Counseling Department is to work in partnership with the school community to provide a structured program of services to all students. As student advocates, we recognize the uniqueness and personal worth of each child. Our K-12 developmental school counseling program promotes academic, career, and personal/social development based on each student’s potential for growth within the context of his or her individual, family, multicultural and human perspective.

Our Beliefs

The Beatrice Public Schools professional school counselors believe:

  1. All students can learn and should be given the opportunity to do so.

  2. All students have dignity and worth and have a right to a safe, mutually respectful, healthy and orderly learning environment.

  3. Learning involves the education of the whole person and is a continuous lifelong process.

  4. All students have the right to participate in the school counseling program.

  5. Learning requires the active participation, mutual respect, and individual accountability of students, teachers, staff, parents and community members.

  6. Diversity is to be respected and appreciated as we foster unity among our students, faculty, staff and community.

  7. The school counseling program is student-centered, based on specified goals and developmental student competencies for all students.  

  8. The school counseling program includes education that extends beyond the classroom environment and allows students to develop lifelong skills that can assist them in the pursuit of their life goals.  

  9. The school counseling program considers all students’ ethnic, cultural, racial, sexual orientation and special needs when planning and implementing the school counseling program.  

  10. The school counseling program is data-driven.  Data will be used in assessing the needs and effectiveness of the school counseling program and will drive future program development and evaluation.  

  11. All school counselors will be full-time employees who hold state certification and have obtained a master’s degree in school counseling.  

  12. All school counselors will deliver the school counseling program as outlined by the Nebraska Essential Learning’s adapted from the American School Counselors Association National Model.  

  13. All school counselors will abide by the professional school counseling ethics as advocated by the American School Counselors Association.

  14. All school counselors will participate in professional development essential to maintaining a high-quality school counseling program. 

  15. All school counselors will be evaluated by an administrator on a regular basis.