When the State of Utah implemented a comprehensive guidance program, it began with a state-sponsored training of school guidance teams. Successfully identifying and displacing non-guidance activities (NGAs) in the comprehensive guidance program was a complicated process and was dependent upon communication and building positive relationships with…

This article describes how one high school addressed the time-consuming problem of registration by looking at an electronic solution. Typically counselors were spending 50-60% of their time with registration and schedule change. This school worked with a software company to produce an Internet/telephone registration system. The system took into…

For many years the school guidance counselor has played an important role in the education and guidance of students in public schools. School counselors have been historically viewed as an appendage or as an ancillary service to the school's education mission. While the ancillary model has helped some students, it has been inadequate in helping…