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Watchung Hills board hears updates on strategic plan: counseling, peer outreach, design lab and unified sports
Summary
District leaders and students described progress on the five‑year strategic plan, highlighting expanded counseling services, a peer outreach arts class, a new design lab and course, growth in career internships, and the inaugural unified flag‑football team.
Watchung Hills Regional High School District presented an update on progress toward its five‑year strategic plan at the May 13 board meeting, with administrators, clinicians, teachers and students describing recent programs and space improvements aimed at social‑emotional support, innovation and inclusion.
The update focused first on social‑emotional growth and wellness and the district’s multi‑tiered system of supports. Jason Sabino, co‑chair of the goal, told the board the district logged “over 12,000 visits to our school counseling offices this year,” which administrators said shows high student engagement with counseling services. School counselors and student‑assistance counselors described their roles: school counselors deliver tier‑1 lessons and individual academic and personal guidance; student‑assistance counselors provide a higher level of in‑school intervention; and on‑site clinicians from Rutgers offer tier‑3…
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