Our Beliefs and Vision

Mickle Counselors believe:

  • all students have dignity, worth, and ability to achieve
  • all students should be accepted for their ethnicity, culture, sexual and racial differences
  • all students should have access to school counseling program
  • all students should have access to certified master level counselors

Mickle’s comprehensive school counseling program should:

  • be data driven and interventions will be planned from data gathered about Mickle Middle School students
  • provide leadership to assess school needs, to identify issues and to collaborate with others to develop solutions
  • aligned with local, state, and national standards and policies
  • be designed to meet the developmental, academic, personal/social and career needs of each student
  • provide intervention services for our “at-risk” population
  • partner with community resources

All counselors at Mickle:

  • follow professional ethics of guidance and counseling as determined by ASCA & NSCA models
  • will participate in monthly PLC’s to collect school specific data used to evaluate and drive the counseling program
  • will attend key professional activities to support a strong developmental counseling program
  • will collaborate with administration to evaluate the strengths of the counseling program

Our Vision:

Mickle Middle School administration believes that all staff need a “vision” that promotes learning for all. As a community we work together to help students “see” their future. This is why the wording of our building mission was selected to state “vision” instead of mission.

As a counseling program our mission supports the school vision that all students are capable of learning and learn based on their individual strengths. Our school demographics have continued to change to become more culturally diverse and with these changes our department understands the importance of educating staff and students about differences within cultures.

We believe strongly in our part in this education and this is why we included in our mission a statement about understanding diversity. Our department recognizes students as a whole being not only the academic part of the student’s lives. This team effort; staff, counselors and administration support the mission of the “whole” student which included guiding students with their personal, social and career needs.

We believe students continue to develop and learn after leaving Mickle, therefore we try to develop competencies necessary for high school and beyond. One of our efforts, in achieving our mission, is working with Lincoln Northeast High School where graduation rates are tracked and a program has been developed to address the students at-risk of not graduating. Life-long learning and continued success is part of our mission and our department is part of a larger community that also believes this mission.

Please contact us if you have any questions!