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Gregory Luna Middle School Counselors are responsive to campus needs and provide services in accordance with TEC §33.005 and in alignment with The Texas Model for Comprehensive School Counseling Programs. The mission of the Counseling Department at Gregory Luna Middle School is to 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 assist in supporting and cultivating lifelong learners towards resilience and success.

The Northside School Counseling Program on each campus supports the educational, career, personal, and social development of all students PK - 12, and is designed to include the following components: Guidance Curriculum, Individual Planning, Responsive Services, and System Support.

Guidance Curriculum

School counselors provide classroom guidance lessons that facilitate student growth and development in the areas of educational, career, personal, and social development in four curricular content areas: Intrapersonal Effectiveness, Interpersonal Effectiveness, Post-Secondary Education and Career Readiness, and Personal Health and Safety.

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.

Responsive Service

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.

System Support

The System Support component describes management activities which assure the delivery of a high quality school counseling program, and service which indirectly benefit students by supporting other programs.

All students receive Guidance Lessons every 4-5 weeks that address developmental skill goals in one of four areas:

Interpersonal Skills ( appreciating differences, effective communication, respecting boundaries & privacy)

Intrapersonal Skills (Self-regulation, self-worth, goal-setting, decision making)

Post-Secondary Planning ( Next-year registration, college and career readiness)

Personal Health & Safety (Resiliency and positive coping, wellness practices)

Safety Monitoring Application (Bark for Schools):

As an additional safety measure, the District is implementing a new student safety monitoring application called Bark for Schools. The implementation of this safety monitoring application at the middle and high school level will help provide the District yet another important tool to leverage in order to better protect our student’s online activity while utilizing their school Google account.

Bark for Schools, an extension of Gmail, Google Drive, and Google Chat, is a content monitoring tool that leverages powerful artificial intelligence technology to help detect potentially dangerous or inappropriate situations that students may be facing both in and out of school including cyberbullying, threats of violence, predatory advances, inappropriate language, sexual content, and suicidal ideation.

If potential digital concerns arise on school-issued accounts, Bark for Schools is able to send designated school representatives specialized alerts to ensure they can address the situation in a timely manner. These alerts are important because they also provide insight that could help us continue to promote the well-being and safety of the entire student body.

Finally, it is important to understand that both NISD and Bark have a strong commitment to protecting student privacy. The District will not utilize this tool to monitor communications other than what is flagged in the previously mentioned categories with the intention of student safety in mind. For more information on the Bark for Schools software solution, please feel free to visit their website

If a student is flagged under the Bark system for suicidal ideation or self-harm they will be called into the counseling office to address the safety of the student and parents will be notified.

The Luna Counseling Department co-sponsors the Luna Campus S2S (Student to Student) Program. Our student to student group is up and running and excited to be a part of welcoming new students to Luna.

S2S is a part of the Military Child Education Coalition and supports military families as well as all new students to our campus.

If your child would like to be a part of S2S please have them complete the S2S interest form and pick up a permission slip in the counseling office.

S2S Meets monthly on the 1st Thursday of each month in the Library. Students must have a ride home and/or walk home and be picked up by 4:50 pm.

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