Counseling Center
Counseling Mission Statement
Welcome to the counseling center! Our mission as school counselors is to help students navigate high school, providing academic, career, and social/emotional support in a variety of capacities. Direct student services include classroom lessons, small group, and individual counseling, and helping students explore interests to help them make decisions about their future. Indirect student services include collaboration with teachers, parents, and the community to support student achievement, and to provide referrals to community resources for students and families needing extra assistance.
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The Introduction
Our counseling team is here to support students academically, socially, and emotionally throughout high school. While we generally assign counselors by grade level to ensure consistent and focused support, we also understand that some students and families may have existing connections or preferences. We’re happy to remain flexible in order to best meet each student’s needs.
Counselor Assignments:
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9th Grade: Odalis Garcia
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10th Grade: Odalis Garcia & Sammi Borders
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11th Grade: Sammi Borders
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12th Grade: Ashley Paulsen
Please feel free to reach out to any counselor you're comfortable with — we're here to support you!
Nuestro equipo de consejería está aquí para apoyar a los estudiantes académica, social y emocionalmente durante toda la preparatoria. Aunque generalmente asignamos consejeros por grado para brindar un apoyo consistente y enfocado, también entendemos que algunas familias y estudiantes ya tienen conexiones con ciertos consejeros. Estamos felices de ser flexibles para poder atender mejor las necesidades de cada estudiante.
Asignación de consejeros por grado:
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9th grado: Odalis Garcia
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10th grado: Odalis Garcia y Sammi Borders
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11th grado: Sammi Borders
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12th grado: Ashley Paulsen
No dude en comunicarse con el consejero o consejera con quien se sienta más cómodo(a); ¡estamos aquí para apoyarle!
Sammi Borders, Odalis Garcia & Ashley Paulsen-Cook
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Sammi Borders has a bachelor's degree in Psychology from the University of Utah. She took a year off and taught pre-school at Head Start for that year. She then got into graduate school at Northern Arizona University where she got her master's degree in School Counseling. During that time, she worked as a paraprofessional in a SPED classroom, which included lots of fieldtrips to the special Olympics. After she graduated, she moved back to Salt Lake City and started her counseling career at Rose Park Elementary School. After 2.5 years, she was ready for a change and made it as a high school counselor to SLCSE at the beginning of the 2021/22 school year. She loves indoor cycling, cooking, baking, and hanging with her two dogs. Email: samantha.borders@slcschools.org Phone: 801-578-8226 ext. 1011 |
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Ashley earned a Bachelor's Degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Utah. She then continued her interest in engineering by completing a Master's Degree in Civil Engineering. Then she taught the engineering class at SLCSE during the school's inaugural year. After that, she decided to head back to school and get her Master's Degree in Educational Psychology which would allow her to work as a school counselor. Working at SLCSE is a great break from her other job as a mother to three kids: her first little boy and her twins. |
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