TJHS has four Professional Counselors working with students.
Each Counselor has a Masters Degree in School Counseling:

Carla Hartenhoff chartenhoff@cbcsd.org - First year Freshman with last names beginning with A-E and Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors with last names beginning with A-G.

Katie Rice krice2@cbcsd.org - First year Freshman with last names beginning with F-J and Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors with last names beginning with H-Pa.

Karla Hughes khughes@cbcsd.org - First year Freshman with last names beginning with K-Q and Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors with last names beginning with Pe-Z.

Al Vandenberg avandenberg@cbcsd.org - First year Freshman with last names beginning with R-Z and all ELL and Special Needs students.

Support is also provided through our Secretary, Suzy King sking@cbcsd.org, and our Data Specialist, Nancy Wilson.

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The High School Years
High school years are full of growth, promise, excitement, frustration, disappointment and hope. It is the time when students begin to discover what the future holds for them.

Meeting the Challenge
High school counselors enhance the learning process and promote academic achievement. The school counseling program is essential for students to achieve optimal personal growth, acquire positive social skills and values, set appropriate career goals and realize full academic potential to become productive, contributing members of the world community.

The counseling program is delivered through:

• Curriculum - Lessons designed for achievement of knowledge or skills.
• Individual Student Planning - Developing Career and Educational plans.
• Response Services - Aplan to meet the immediate needs of students.
• System Support - Activities that establish, maintain, and enhance the total school counseling program.

Counseling Domains
The high school counseling program is both proactive and responsive to the unique needs of individual students. Through the guidance curriculum, individual student planning activities, and response services, student needs are met in the following domains:

• Academic/Educational - Counselors guide students to be academically successful
  and to set present and future goals.
• Personal/Social - Counselors guide students to focus on self-awareness,
  relationship building, and respect for others.
• Career/ Occupational - Counselors guide students through self-awareness
  and career activities to formulate and identify realistic career goals.

 

Academic/Educational Success

Opportunities for Students to Recover CreditsThe Council Bluffs Community School District offers multiple ways for students to earn required or extra credits if they are not finding maximum success in the current classroom setting. These opportunities are designed to provide flexibility to meet student needs:

• Kanesville Alternative Learning Center
  
• Credit Recovery Centers
  
• Academic Centers
  
• Night School
  
• Transition Program
  
• Summer School

For questions regarding any of these programs, please contact your student’s school counselor.

Make-up Assignments

If a student is ill, the Counseling Center will collect make-up assignments after the student has been gone for 3 full consecutive school days. Call Suzy King (712-328-6491) to arrange for the assignments. Please know that it takes a full school day to pull all of the assignments together.

Please call your child’s counselor to discuss Hospital/Homebound Services if illness will keep your child from attending 3 or more weeks consecutively.

If a student is absent for less than 3 days or because of a family event or school activity, the student is to work with the teachers to collect the make-up assignments.

Career/College Planning

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