Briarhill Middle School Counselors

A - K Melissa Pittillo

L - Z Amy Aguinaga

L.I.S.D. Guidance and Counseling Mission Statement:

To Help Encourage Learning Potential (HELP), we as counselors will help students, teachers, administrators, and parents build skills that promote healthy self concepts and good citizenship.

GUIDANCE CURRICULUM

•  Anti-Bullying

•  Anti-Harassment

•  Identifying & Managing Feelings

•  Anti-Violence

•  Problem-Solving Skills

•  Drug, Alcohol, Tobacco

•  Educational & Career Opportunities

•  Cross Cultural Effectiveness

CONTACT INFORMATION

aguinagaa@lisd.net

pittillom@lisd.net

MEET THE COUNSELORS

Amy Aguinaga serves students with last names beginning with L-Z. Coming from New Mexico, she is a new “Texan.” Before counseling, she taught 4 th and 5 th grade for nine years. Ms. Aguinaga has two daughters, ages ten and thirteen.

Melissa Pittillo serves students with last names A-K. She last worked at Lake Dallas Middle School as a counselor. Before that, she taught English at LHS. Ms. Pittillo has a five year old son and a three year old daughter.

OUR PHILOSOPHY

We are committed to a guidance program that is dynamic and which fosters the developmental foundations of all students. We believe in the dignity and worth of each individual and that all students can benefit from a preventive and developmental guidance program. Inherent in this process is the total involvement of school personnel, parents,and the community.

OUR PROGRAM

The guidance and counseling program will include:

1. A Guidance Curriculum to help students develop their full educational potential.

2. A Responsive Services component to intervene on behalf of any student whose immediate personal concerns or problems put the student's continued educational, career, personal or social development at risk.

3. An Individual Planning system to guide a student as the student plans, monitors and manages the student's own educational, career (including interests and career objectives), personal and social development; and

4. System Support to support the efforts of teachers, staff, parents and other members of the community in promoting the educational, career, personal and social development of students.