Tier 3
School Counsellors provide individualized interventions to promote success in career connected learning and Hopeful Transitions for learners who have demonstrated evidence that additional supports are required beyond Tier 2.
Tier 3 supports may include...
- Personalized Learning Plan (PLP)
- Referrals to career counselling, The Work Room, etc.
- ESS Connect
- Case conference
- Brief Solution-Focused Counselling
- Referrals Child and Youth
- Case Manager
- For additional supports: Resources & Learning Activities | Hopeful Transitions (nbed.ca)
Tier 2
School Counsellors support and/or provide targeted interventions to promote success in career connected learning and Hopeful Transitions for learners—including students, educators, and support staff—who have demonstrated evidence that additional supports are required beyond Tier 1.
Tier 2 supports may include...
- Involved in transition plans (newcomers, grade level or school change, life after school planning, etc.).
- Collaboration with teacher/PLCs, analyzing data, and creation of targeted group work.
- Supporting the development and implementation of PLPs.
- Brief Solution-Focused Counselling.
- Delivery and creation of skill building and/or targeted areas through class-based teaching.
- Collaborating with student and teacher on learner profile.
- For additional supports: Resources & Learning Activities | Hopeful Transitions (nbed.ca)
Tier 1
School Counsellors share proactive and universal classroom/school-wide instructional practices and strategies to promote success in career connected learning and Hopeful Transitions for each learner.
School Counsellors work collaboratively with all career influencers in the school community to support, advocate and lead career connected learning. The school community includes students, families, classroom teachers, Behaviour Intervention Mentors, Educational Assistants, Educational Support Teachers – Resource, Child and Youth teams, administrators, and other stakeholders.
Tier 1 supports
In collaboration with school administration develop a plan, using UDL, to ensure every learner is actively engaged in career connected learning.
- Collect data to inform best practices and planning.
- Provide support and instructional leadership to classes around career connected Learning and students' creation of Career/Life Digital Portfolios in myBlueprint in alignment with Policy 316B.
- Collaborate with career influencers.
- Provide and share resources on career connected best practices for all learners.
- Support planning for high school and post-secondary, which includes all career activities after high school, not only college and university.
- Coordinate professional learning and/or opportunities for staff on best instructional practices and strategies to support career planning that may connect students’ mental health and social emotional well-being.
- For additional supports: Resources & Learning Activities | Hopeful Transitions (nbed.ca)