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BVMS Counseling Department Mission Statement
In connection with the BHUSD’s commitment to educational excellence, The Beverly Vista Middle School Counseling program’s mission is to advocate for access, equity and success for all students through a data based multi-tiered system of support that seeks to meet students needs. We aim to reach all students and empower them for lifelong success through individual, group and school wide levels to promote growth in academics, college-career readiness and social emotional development. Our department is committed to fostering a culture of collaboration with staff, families, students and our local community to ensure all students have access to a nurturing environment that promotes lifelong educational excellence.Enter your text here...
BVMS Counseling Department Vision
Aligned with our school and district vision, the Beverly Vista School Counseling department envisions all our students reaching their full potential to thrive with integrity and resilience in a complex and changing world. Students will have access to a data informed comprehensive counseling program that provides resources and opportunities that enable them to achieve academic success, college, career and life readiness skills as well as social and emotional well being from post-secondary and beyond.
You're School Counselors are always happy to help and here is when and how you can contact us.
Academic Concerns
If you have any academic concerns, we will always direct you to speak with your child's teachers first. Our teachers are wonderfully supportive and often have a tool box full of supports and ideas that can support a student in need.
If after collaborating with the teacher, your child is still struggling to find success, then it is time to reach out to your child's grade level School Counselor.
Social or Emotional Concerns
If your child is struggling socially or emotionally, it is always best to reach out to your grade level school counselor and/or your child's Case Manager if applicable.
Social concerns typically include friendship issues or if your student is struggling to fit in. Emotional concerns typically include family struggles (i.e divorce, severely ill family member, death of a loved one) or if you feel your student may be struggling with mental health challenges.
If you feel your child is being bullied in any way, please always contact your grade level administrator.
You can also refer to our resources page to see if there are available resources that can help you and your child deal with specific challenges.
Counselor Contact Information
Your grade level School Counselor is always best reached via email.
Ms. Schulcz: [email protected]
Ms. Park: [email protected]
Ms. Hulsy: [email protected]
Counselor Suggested Naviance Curriculum
First, how can you access the Naviance Curriculum?
- Click here to log in to Naviance using CLEVER
- Once on the homepage, scroll to the bottom left where it says "Resources to get Ready."
- Click where you see "Naviance College, Career and Life Readiness Curriculum."
- Search for the counselor suggested lessons or find a lesson that looks interesting to you!
| 6th Grade | 7th Grade | 8th Grade |
| What do you know? (Pre Assessment for 6th Grade Sequence) | What do you know? (Pre Assessment for 7th Grade Sequence) | What do you know? (Pre Assessment for 8th Grade Sequence) |
| My Foundation - Middle School: Students identify their foundations and make a plan to use them for success. | Habits for Success: Students learn strategies for succeeding academically in school and at home. | Success, Risk and Failure: Students learn the benefits of trying even with the risk of failure. |
| Goal Setting: Students learn to set effective goals. | Getting Involved: Students learn how getting involved can help them to succeed. | Working Through Stress: Students learn to persevere in stressful situations. |
| Using My Strengths: Students recognize their strengths and make a plan to use them to their advantage. | How I Learn: Students learn about various learning preferences and styles. | Re-imagining Success: Students determine what factors mark success in their lives. |
Other Suggested Naviance Activities:
- StrengthsExplorer will help uncover your talents and reveal your potential strengths to you and the people in your world
- Career Interests Profiler is a tool that can help you discover the types of work activities and careers that match your interests.
- Road Trip Nation will help you find your road by watching leader stories from across the globe. Search by interest, theme, or leader name (i.e. Angelica Inguanzo, the Frontend Engineer at YouTube).
- Colleges homepage so you can search hundreds of colleges across the world, what they specialize in, their acceptance rates, and so much more
Hello BVMS Family,
Your counselors are so excited to welcome you and your student to Beverly Vista! We've created this page to help answer any and all questions related to starting a new school.
We recommend you start by clicking here for our Student and Parent Handbook. Our Handbook will guide you through all of our school expectations and policies. Go over this handbook together with your student to ensure they know our cell phone policy, behavior expectations, dress code, etc.
Bell Schedule: Here is the link for the daily bell schedule. Our schedule changes each day of the week, so it will be helpful to get to know it before you start!
Class Schedule: Your counselor will be creating your student's schedule. Student will have 4 core academic classes, physical education and 2 electives. Your student will begin in grade level courses, unless a transcript from your previous school shows that your student was enrolled in an honors equivalent class. If you do have a transcript, please feel free to forward a PDF to your counselor so they can make the adjustments if applicable.
Absences: Report any period or day absence by emailing our attendance office at [email protected]
COVID Protocols: Masks are no longer required for students when attending BVMS, but are optional should your child feel most comfortable. If you child has been at school and later tests positive for COVID, please email [email protected] immediately. For more information about BHUSD COVID policies, click here.
Electives: Each Student has the opportunity to choose two year long electives (Y), 4 semester electives (S), or any combination of both (i.e. 1 year long and 2 semester long). Among these are World Language (Spanish/French) and Music (Band, Orchestra, Drama/Theatre). Here is the course catalogue, for additional information on individual elective courses. Please note, that if you student is entering BVMS mid-year, elective placement will be based on availability. We also have support classes for English and Math. If either of those are areas in which your student struggles, please contact your grade level counselor for more information.
Technology: All students are provided with a school assigned laptop for use at school and at home. Students will utilize many programs to complete their school work, but the main programs are Gmail, Aeries and Google Classroom.
Aeries is the platform that we use to communicate with students/parents/teachers, to provide course content and to provide grade information. We would highly suggest getting familiar with Aeries as soon as possible prior to your start at BVMS. Click here for a step-by-step guide to using the Aeries student portal.
Gmail and Google Classroom are both accessed with your students district provided email and their student ID number. To access this information, you can check Aeries or email your counselor. Click here for more help logging onto Gmail and Google Classroom.
For any additional tech resources you can click here.
Textbooks: Students will be provided with an at home set of textbooks, which are theirs to borrow for the school year. While on site, students will have a classroom set of textbooks, so there will be no need to travel with any textbooks!
Clubs: Get involved by joining a club. We offer many clubs on campus from Chess club to Art club. Clubs meet at lunch or after school. You can click here for more club information.
Lunches: Students have a 40 minute lunch each day. Many students bring their lunch but every student is able to receive one free lunch and breakfast daily. Once students receive their ID card at the beginning of the school year, they will enter or scan their ID at the cashier to record the meals served. Click here to visit our Food Services page for any additional questions!
Communication: Open and collaborative communication is vital to student success, and we at BVMS value parents and students’ ability to communicate and self advocate. If you need to get in touch, click here for email addresses for staff, or you can use Aeries Parent Square. If you are having trouble deciding who would be the best to contact to address your concerns and questions, click here.
School Entrances & Exits:
1) Main Entrance (Front of BVMS on Elm Dr.)
2) Bell Tower Entrance (Corner of Charleville & Rexford)
**Morning Hours: 7:30 a.m. - 8:05 am (7:30 a.m. - 9:35 a.m. Wednesdays).
**Dismissal Hours: 3:10 p.m. - 3:40 p.m.
For more detailed information, please check out the following links!
Pick up and drop off safety tips
Suggested walking routes to BVMS
Suggested driving routes to BVMS
PTA and BHEF: Our BV PTA and the Beverly Hills Education Foundation (BHEF) both support multiple programs here at BVMS, including counseling and wellness. They are always looking for supportive BVMS parents to help make positive changes in the lives of our students through membership, volunteering and donations. Click here join and donate to the PTA and click here to donate to BHEF.
Athletics: We offer Fall and Spring sports for students to participate in after school! Click here for more information about our athletics program and how to register.
If there are any additional questions, please feel free to contact your grade level counselor. Welcome to the Bulldog Family!
Throughout the school year, the BVMS Counselors visit classrooms to deliver classroom guidance lessons based on the BVMS Four Core Values: Building Resilience, Valuing Learning, Making Connections, and Showing Integrity.
To learn more about these specific lessons and follow up questions to ask your child, please see below!
