Our Counseling Staff

Welcome!

OUR MISSION

To encourage and empower every student at Sandpoint High School to achieve academic success, strengthen personal and social growth, and develop achievable post-secondary plans, delivered with the highest ethical standards, through a developmental standards based curriculum, and in partnerships with the professional school staff, parents, businesses, civic organizations and higher education.

WE BELIEVE

• All students have dignity and worth 
• All students have the right to participate in the school counseling program delivered by a certified professional school counselor 
• All students want to succeed and learn 
• High standards with appropriate support leads to greater achievement 
• Acceptance and mutual respect encourages students to take the risks necessary for academic and personal growth 
• Effort and perseverance are fundamental to success and growth 
• All students’ ethnic, cultural, racial, sexual differences and special needs are considered in planning and implementing the school counseling program 

CONFIDENTIALITY
We adhere to the American School Counselors’ Association Code of Ethics. This means we will keep the information students share with us confidential – unless they give us permission to share it or we are required by law or school policy to share it.

CONTACT COUNSELING AT (208) 263-3034 plus one of the extensions listed below.

CINDY ALBERTSON Counselor Department Chair ext. 4024 email Class of 2015 Sophomores P-Z Mentor Program Advanced Opportunities		DEBRA NUSBAUM Counselor  ext. 4022 email Class of 2016 Sophomores A-G Summer School Program		LINDA SPRINKLE Counselor  ext. 4023 email Class of 2018 Sophomores H-O Foreign Exchange AP Coordinator		JERALYN MIRE Post-secondary Transition Counselor  ext. 4021 email Post-secondary Transitions Dual Credits Financial Aid Local Scholarships

JACKIE BEARDEN School Psychologist ext. 3088 email		AMANDA SKINNER Records and Testing Coordinator ext. 4161 email		SARAH CLAUSEN College Career Mentor ext. 4018 email (Neer Peer - state funded grant)