Director of School Counseling / Section 504 Coordinator
Email Veronica Johnson: johnsonv@clarke.k12.ga.us
706-546-7721, Ext. 79567
School Counseling and Social-Emotional Learning
Overview
The goal of School Counseling Department is to provide and foster a comprehensive school counseling program that includes responsive services, school-wide programming, and social-emotional learning.
CCSD has full-time professional school counselors in all elementary, middle, and high schools. School counselors provide students with important services to develop the whole child and address the three domains of student development: academic, social/emotional, and career. In addition, the PreK-12 program is designed to ensure that school counselors provide direct and indirect services to all students. School counselors work to positively impact school attendance, behavior, academics, and achievement; thus serving as school leaders, student advocates, consultants, and collaborators to help remove barriers that hinder school performance..
Social-Emotional Learning
As a part of whole child development, CCSD works to develop students not only academically, but socially and emotionally. CCSD follows the CASEL (Collaborative for Academic and Social Emotional Learning) model for SEL (social-emotional learning) instruction. This includes basing what we are teaching on the five core SEL competencies in multi-tiered ways.
We provide:
Tier 1 SEL Instruction (during morning meetings in elementary schools and advisement in middle and high schools)
Programs include:
Second Step (early learning centers and elementary schools)
7 Mindsets (middle and high schools)
Leader in Me (select schools)
Tier 2 SEL supports
School-based mental health supports
School counselor- or school social worker-led groups
Individual counseling support
Behavior intervention support
MTSS
Tier 3 SEL Supports - individualized based on the student.
Section 504
Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, commonly referred to as "Section 504," is a nondiscrimination statute enacted by the United States Congress. The purpose of Section 504 is to prohibit discrimination and to assure that disabled students have educational opportunities and benefits equal to those provided to non-disabled students.
For more information regarding Section 504, please click the links below to view information on rights of parents and students under Section 504, as well as procedural safeguards.
Important Links
Contact Information

Veronica Johnson
School Counselor Directory
To reach out to your student’s school counselor, please find their contact information in the dropdown lists below.