High School Guidance Counselor (1.0 FTE) Cottage Grove High School

High School Guidance Counselor

Cottage Grove High School

(1.0 FTE)

25-26

Cottage Grove High School is seeking a high school guidance counselor starting the 2025-26 school year who is skilled at creating both meaningful relationships and help students as they navigate high school and prepare their post-high school plans. This permanent position would be an important part of an experienced and energetic counseling/office staff (including out career-college counselor and specialist), as well as a school staff with the mission to partner with parents and the community to help students find their direction for their future.

Cottage Grove High School has 600 students in grades 9-12 and promotes a welcoming and positive experience for all students. CGHS prides itself in offering students a wide variety of courses, opportunities and experiences to challenge and prepare them for tomorrow. CGHS strives to be a local leader in CTE, technology and instruction.

Duties

• Maintain appropriate written documentation, record keeping and data collection.
• Maintains communication with school staff regarding individual students' needs.
• Provides consultant services for teachers, parents and students.
• Provides counseling and guidance services, including career and developmental counseling.
• Create student schedules and assist with the master schedule.
• Monitors/tracks academic achievement of students toward graduation and provides interventions when necessary.
• Initiates parent, teacher and student conferences
• Assist in solving student behavior problems.
• Maintains communication with students, patrons and colleagues.
• Provide crisis intervention and referral series as needed.
• Assist with student supervision.

Qualifications

• Valid Oregon cousenling certificate (or the ability to obtain)
• Experience guidance counseling at the secondary level
• Demonstrated abilities to plan and implement instruction a around district curriculum guides
• Ability to work and communicate with students, teachers, parents and administrators
• Ability to contribute in a meaningful way with an experienced team of instructors as part of professional learning communities

Preferred Qualities

• Evidence of multi-cultural experience and cultural competency
• Bilingual proficiency and/or multicultural experience strongly preferred
• Willingness to coach and/or advise sports, clubs or activities

An ideal candidate would also embody the mission, vision and collective commitments of CGHS and its staff:

CGHS Mission: We are ALL about learning at high levels to ensure our students succeed after high school.

CGHS Vision: Students & Staff at CGHS learn together to:

• Authentically take risks to own the learning experience
• Cultivate and create a sense of belonging and safe environment for EACH individual
• Make relevant connections between learning & life
• Prepare to meet the needs of our ever-changing world

CGHS Collective Commitments: in order to fulfill our fundamental purpose and become the school we describe in our vision statement, each member of the staff commits to the following

• I will be a positive, contributing member of my collaborative team.
• I will teach the essential standards of our agreed-upon curriculum unit by unit.
• I will monitor each student’s learning on an ongoing basis through classroom and team-developed formative assessments.
• I will use evidence of student learning to inform and improve my practice and to better meet the needs of each student.
• I will work with my colleagues to achieve our SMART goals.
• I will seek out best practices to support student learning.
• I will keep parents informed of the progress of their children.
• I will commit to culturally responsive practices, building relationships, and increasing equity.

Salary

Salary will be determined by the experience and degree level in accordance with the licensed

salary schedule.

Application Procedure

Applications are completed online at: https://slane.tedk12.com/hire/index.aspx

Application review will begin April 28th, 2025

AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

South Lane School District is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, parental or marital status, age, veterans’ status or genetic information. Reasonable accommodations for the application and interview process will be provided upon request and as required in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act (ADA).