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Learning together: Local school counselors taught new tools at annual UVU conference
School counselors play an integral role in the student experience at the grade school and college level, providing educational and employment resources as well as emotional support. Sam Jarman, the executive director of the Mountainland K-16 Alliance, said counselors are heavily relied upon by the administrators of local schools to help meet the needs of the students and their families. This can be an enormous responsibility because counselors have the highest adult to student ratio of any school position, assigned upward of 350 to 375 students at a time, according to Jarman. So the ...