High School Counseling
Welcome to the Upper Dauphin Area High School Guidance Counselor’s webpage! The focus of the Counseling department is to provide students with support in their academic, personal/social, and career development. As school counselors, we help students with conflict resolution skills, career awareness, college planning, scholarship searches, high school scheduling, testing (PSAT, AP, PSSA, NOCTI), 504 plans, coping with peer pressure and stress, improving attendance, enrolling and withdrawing from the district and much more. Please feel free to contact your child’s assigned counselor by phone or email to discuss your students’ needs.
We have two counselors and a secretary at the high school. The counselors are each assigned to two classes according to year of graduation and follow the students throughout high school. This allows the counselors and students to get to know each other better which enables the counselor to better assist students in post-graduation planning. Our secretary, Marcia Schell, works hard at maintaining and advertising all of the scholarship opportunities for graduating seniors.
Counselor for current 10th and 12th grades: Lora Nestor – MA, NCC 362-6472 or Email Lora Nestor
Counselor for current 9th and 11th grades: Amy Heinbach – MA 362-6474 or Email Amy Heinbach
Personal Counseling Services: The counselors have an “open door policy,” which means that students are welcome to come into the office anytime the door is open. Students are either referred by a peer, parent, teacher, the SAP process, or come in on their own. The counselors are professionally trained to counsel students individually or in small groups on issues such as depression, anger management, grief and loss, self-esteem, crisis management, divorce, bullying, conflict resolution, study skills, time management and many other issues. When the counselor deems it necessary, he/she will contact the parent and may recommend counseling through an outside agency.
UPCOMING EVENTS -
8th grade orientation at the high school will be held Thursday, February 16th at 7pm in the auditorium. All students in 8th grade should plan to attend with their parents.
Scholarship Information
January 2012 Scholarship List
February 2012 Scholarship List
Mid-February 2012 Scholarship List
Scheduling for 2012-2013 School Year
2012-2013 Course Selection Book
12th Grade Course Selection Sheet
11th Grade Course Selection Sheet
10th Grade Course Selection Sheet
9th Grade Course Selection Sheet
News and Information
PSSA Testing Dates
New Student Enrollment Forms