PHILOSOPHY STATEMENT

Woodland High School’s Counseling Department believes that each student:

• Benefits holistically when they take ownership of their learning and actions.
• Has the right to access a comprehensive school counseling program that facilitates their academic, college and career, and social-emotional development.
• Has the opportunity to express their individual needs and goals with a student-centered, compassionate, professional school counselor.
• Needs a safe, caring environment in which to learn. 
       

Our comprehensive school counseling program will:

• Actively provide school counselors who lead, advocate, collaborate and purposefully plan programming that empowers critical thinking, problem solving and competent citizenship.
• Promote opportunities for school counselors to be visible and accessible to all students and stakeholders.
• Be developed, monitored, and evaluated based on data, the school improvement plan, and specified goals.