student counselors

"In this funny, heartbreaking, timely memoir--told in the form of college admission essays--Irena Smith illuminates the dissonance of working as a college consultant in Palo Alto, California, helping the best and brightest students in the country gain admission to highly selective schools, even as her own children are unraveling"--Provided by publisher.

"Mrs. Joyce, the school counselor at Emerson Elementary, uses high-fives to connect with her students. When Raymond moves to town he's not sure what to think of Mrs. Joyce. He enters her office nervous and full of questions, but it doesn't take long for him to trust the caring counselor. By learning exactly what a school counselor does, Raymond finds he has nothing to fear and much to gain from friendly Mrs. Joyce"--Back cover.

Simple text and photographs explore the job of a school counselor and how he or she serves a community.

Follows the work of guidance counselor Gwyeth Smith, who applies his own unique method for helping high schoolers find a college that will not only help them toward their career, but also present an experience of self-discovery.

Blaming her husband for her son's fatal car accident, high school guidance counselor Beth Maller rails against everyday injustices at her job and eventually risks her career to launch a campaign against bullying and the persecution of LGBTQ students.

Julia Costell begins an unglamorous job as a guidance counselor at a performing arts high school after her ballet career ends, and fears she will never find her purpose in life again, until she meets a young teen with an amazing gift.

While trying to sort out her feelings for her landlord, Cooper Cartwright, assistant dormitory director Heather Wells starts a romantic relationship with one of her professors and becomes involved in the investigation into the murder of her boss.

An unmanageable, but lovable, eleven-year-old misfit learns to believe in himself when he gets to know the new school counselor, who is a sort of misfit too.