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Find the K-12 Missouri School Counseling Learning Standards and School Counseling Curriculum here.

The school counseling curriculum aims to facilitate students’ optimal growth and development by assisting them in acquiring competencies that promote academic, career, and interpersonal/intrapersonal development. The curriculum consists of structured developmental activities presented systematically through classrooms and large groups from kindergarten through grade 12.

School counselors must work closely with teachers to organize where and when school counseling curriculum activities will be taught. These activities should be cross‐referenced to state and national standards and provide effective ways to work closely with classroom teachers to achieve the district's educational goals.

See the Missouri K-12 School Counseling Learning Standards and School Counseling Curriculum webpage here for more information.

The Individual Student Planning (ISP) is a program component of the Missouri Comprehensive School Counseling Program (McSCP) that assists all students with educational/career planning, educational transitioning, and self-appraisal for decision making.  ISP is vital to every student's college and career readiness development grades K-12.

• Introduction to MCSCP Individual Student Planning (narrated Powerpoint)
• Individual Student Planning Guide (K-12) (2024)
• Elementary Rubric (2024)
• Middle School Rubric (2024)
• High School Rubric
• Senior Interview (2022)
• Career Center NSC Implementation Guide (2022)

See the Individual Student Planning webpage here for more information.

The school counselors should be available and responsive to special or unexpected needs of students and parents/guardians. Thus, the purpose of the Responsive Services Component is to work with students whose personal circumstances, concerns, or problems have the potential to interfere with healthy social/emotional, academic, and career development. Issues that students may face include; academic challenges, educational and career decision making, family loss, relationships, school attendance, stress, substance abuse, physical abuse and neglect, and suicide. As a result, there is continuing need for individual counseling, small group counseling, crisis intervention, consultation, and referral. The Responsive Services component also supports the activities in the School Counseling Curriculum and Individual Student Planning components.

As students are supported in overcoming barriers to their social/emotional, academic, and career development, parent/guardian involvement is essential.  This may come in the form of referring their children for assistance, working with school counselors to identify issues of concern, giving permission for needed services, and providing help in resolving issues.

Responsive services are implemented through the following: individual counseling, small group counseling, crisis intervention, consultation, and referral.

Overview of MCSCP Responsive Services (Powerpoint)

See the Responsive Services webpage here for more information.

The Missouri Comprehensive School Counseling Program System  Support  contains  the  management  activities  and  services  required  to  effectively  support  a  district’s comprehensive school counseling program. The administration and management activities of a district’s comprehensive school counseling program are located in this component as are activities that support other educational programs. The System Support component is implemented through activities such  as  program  management,  professional  development,  staff  and  community  relations,  consultation,  committee participation, community outreach, and evaluation.

• Overview of MCSCP System Support (Powerpoint)
• Information and Sample Questions for a Planning Survey

Principal Counselor Annual Agreement

(Missouri model adapted from ASCA annual agreement)

Talking points for Missouri model Principal counselor annual agreement

Principal Counselor Agreement Form

See the System Support page here for more information.