You Should Know - Guidance Counselors

Important information and DOE memos

• Guidance counselor hours
• Contract Article 7: Assignments and Counseling Conditions
• Guidance counselor workload dispute form and guide
• Chancellor's Memorandum #45, 1987-1988: Provisions for School Staff
  Important information to supplement Article 14 of the Guidance Counselors Contract.
• Special Circular #45: Annual Professional Performance Review and Report on Probationary Service of Guidance Counselor

Important arbitration wins

• "Cascade" Agreement: Excessing Rules of Guidance Counselors and Social Workers
• Coverage Arbitration
  The UFT in August 2011 won an important grievance filed on behalf of guidance counselors at a Queens middle school who were forced by their principal to cover for the teacher assigned to their school’s SAVE room, instead of meeting with students that they were supposed to be counseling.