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During the North Mason School Board’s Sept. 15 meeting, high school counselor Rebecca Roberts spoke about the work being done for the Comprehensive School Counseling Plan before Board Director Laura Boad moved to approve the plan as presented.

According to Roberts, the American School Counseling Association has a model they’ve published for more than a decade outlining the best practices in counseling.

“School counseling has shifted, in the last decade or two, from being very individualized (to) taking a schoolwide, data-driven approach to influencing and affecting the whole school sy...