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Meet the Folks Counselors!
Back-to-School with the Counseling Department 2024-2025
🔹 Meet the Teacher Events 🔹
6th Grade Super Saturday Meet the Teacher Open House 9:00-11:00 am
Counselors will be available at our Open House events! Please stop by and learn about the resources in place to support your child's success. See you soon, Stallions!!!💙
Saturday, Aug 10, 2024, 09:00 AM
Folks Cafeteria
7th and 8th Grade Meet the Teacher Open House 4:00-6:00 pm
Wednesday, Aug 14, 2024, 04:00 PM
Folks Cafeteria
Folks Counseling Department
Students are assigned to a counselor based on the first letter of their last name
Allison Gibson, Counselor (A-E)
Angie Perez, Head Counselor (F-H)
Sheena Martinez, Counselor (I-P)
Diana Hernandez, Counselor (Q-Z)
Folks Counseling Office
Norma Esparza, Grade Reporting Secretary
Folks Counseling Department Mission Statement
The Counseling Department at Dr. John Folks Middle School will provide and implement a comprehensive school counseling program that is designed to assist all students by advocating for their personal, academic, social and emotional well being. Our goal is to empower, support and equip our students to receive the best education in a safe and nurturing environment that will prepare them to be successful in their future.
Counseling Program Components
Professional school counselors work within 4 key components: responsive services, individual planning, guidance & system support.
Responsive Services
In this component, school counselors intervene with or on behalf of those students in pre-kindergarten through 12th grades whose personal circumstances, concerns, or problems are threatening to interfere with or are interfering with their healthy educational, personal, social, career and/or educational development.
- Responsive Services includes both individual and small group counseling
- Small group counseling helps students to learn skills, develop self-awareness, practice new behaviors, and better understand how to effectively cope with challenges that life presents. Each group varies based on student and campus need. Students will not be seen in small group counseling without the written permission of a parent or guardian. Sometimes small group counseling isn't the best placement for your teen. If that is the case, we will support your teen through individual counseling for responsive services.
- Responsive services are available through student self-referral, teacher/administrator referral, and/or parent referral.
Individual Planning
The individual planning component guides students to plan, monitor, and manage their own educational, career, personal and social development. Each student is provided with necessary steps toward his/her established goals.
Guidance
The Guidance Curriculum component includes skill based lessons designed to help all students develop competence in essential life skills. Guidance lessons are based on student need.
Skill goals include:
- Intrapersonal Effectiveness
- Interpersonal Effectiveness
- Post Secondary Planning and Career Readiness
- Personal Health and Safety
System Support
This component indirectly services our students. The System Support component describes management activities which assure the delivery of a high quality school counseling program.
Counseling MTSS Tiers of Student Support
Student Request To See A Counselor
Students have access to their counselor and can contact them in any of the following three ways:
- Counseling Department Google Form- Make a request to talk with your counselor by clicking on this link: https://tinyurl.com/46nttzr
- Email your counselor
- Ask a teacher for a pass to visit your counselor
Bell Schedule 2024-2025
Staff Resource Page
Helpful Links
Resources for Families
Northside Threads
The Threads Closet supports Northside families by providing free clothing to students in need who are enrolled in the district.
If you would like to visit the Threads Closet, please contact a Folks Counselor for a referral. Once a referral is made, an appointment will be scheduled.
Click the link below for more information:
https://www.nisd.net/district/whole-child/family-engagement/northside-threads-clothing-closet