MS/HS School Counselor (2025-26 School Year)

Lone Tree School has a tremendously supportive community and staff and believes in Every Student, Every Day. Staff and student schedules allow time for both staff and students to get to know each other. Staff collaboration is a priority in order to insure student needs are being met each day. Staff to student ratio is small, allowing for more individualized attention each day.

The Lone Tree Community School District is located along the Hwy 218 corridor with access to Iowa City in approximately 15 minutes. Lone Tree has a small-town feel with ready access to the amenities of Iowa City, Kirkwood Community College, and the University of Iowa. Lone Tree Community School District is proud to serves over 400 students.

Essential Responsibilities

• Delivers a comprehensive professional school counseling program for the purpose of improving study social/emotional, academic and career development
• Collaborates with instructional staff, other school personnel, parents, and a variety of community resources for the purpose of improving the overall quality of professional school counseling programs to support the school improvement plan
• Collaborates with the building leadership team to research, select, implement, and evaluate professional school counseling strategies focused on improvement of student social/emotional, academic, and career needs
• Advises parents and/or legal guardians of student social/emotional, academic, and career needs and/or goals for the purpose of communicating expectations, student's achievements, and developing methods for improvement and/or reinforcing needs and/or goals in the home environment
• Administers programs, assessments, and inventories for the purpose of making informed decision and guidance to support students' growth and success
• Monitors students in a variety of educational environments (e.g., classroom, school campus, school assemblies and events, etc.) for the purposes of providing a safe and positive learning environment.
• Responds to inquiries from a variety of sources (e.g., other teachers, parents, administrators, etc.) for the purpose of resolving issues, providing information and/or direction
• Supports classroom teachers for the purpose of assisting them in the implementation of supporting the social/emotional, academic and career needs and/or goals of students
• Serves as the Middle School/High School 504 Coordinator
• Participates in and/or leads a variety of meetings, including parent teacher conferences, PLCs, IEPs, 504 meetings, etc. for the purpose of conveying and/or gathering information related to the social/emotional, academic and career needs and/or goals of students
• Assist Administration in creating the Master Schedule and serves as the primary contact for individual class schedules for a students
• Plan transition activities and registration for current 5th grade students
• Advises 8th grade students in Career and Education planning and high school transition
• Reports incidents (e.g., behavior infractions, suspected child abuse, suspected substance abuse, etc.) for the purpose of maintaining personal safety of students, providing a positive learning environment and adhering to state and federal laws and school board policies
• Assist with all aspects of school improvement process related to the high school professional school counselor program
• maintain accurate records
• Maintains current knowledge of community resources and recent trends of counseling techniques
• Meets with high school students to plan, update, and implement their 4-year plan
• Meets with high school students to determine their post-secondary plans
• Engages in frequent check-ins to ensure on track graduation (credit check)
• Monitors important dues dates for students (ACTs, FAFSA, application timelines...)
• Organizes senior scholarships and award's night
• Arranges for students to go on college visits and brings college representatives on campus to meet with students
• Works with Kirkwood Community College to register student for academies, dual-enrollment classes, and various experiences
• Orders textbooks for students for college level courses

Knowledge of:

• Effective social, emotional, academic, and career counseling techniques and procedures
• Counseling techniques to facilitate decision making: problem solving, and coping skills
• Counseling theory, ethics and associated legal confidentiality requirements
• Principals, practices and procedures of educational counseling
• Specific laws regarding minors and child abuse reporting
• Positive Behavior Support Plan development and monitoring for general education students
• Community referral resources