School Counseling

Guidance Personnel

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Angela Stoddard - School Counselor

Mrs. Savatrie Narayan - Guidance Clerk

Mrs. Christine Deines - Data Entry; Information Processing Clerk

Welcome to the Guidance Office! Our mission in Guidance and Counseling is to assist your child and his/her teachers in facilitating Madison Street's mission statement and goals for each and every student. Please call if we can be of service. 671-7253

We would like to invite you to come in and get to know us and the services we offer and those offered from this office. You may come by school or call during "teacher hours" and make an appointment with us. You don't need to wait until you have a problem or special reason! We hope that, together, we can lay a good foundation for future success and achievement by making your child's years at Madison Street a happy and rewarding learning experience.

Counselor's Goals

  • Help children understand themselves and others
  • Help to identify children with special needs
  • Provide crisis intervention
  • Develop plans to prevent academic/behavioral problems from developing
  • Provide Character Education program
  • Coordinate the efforts of other professionals working for children
  • Provide orientation for children coming to Madison Street Academy for the first time
  • Promote positive attitudes toward persons of diverse cultural, racial, ability, and socioeconomic backgrounds

General Information

Attendance: As parents it is your responsibility to assure your child/children have regular, timely attendance. However, if a child is not in his/her classroom at the second bell, he/she must check in at the Front Office before reporting to class. Also, if children are chronically absent, tardy, or picked up early, notices may be sent from the Guidance Office in accordance with Marion County School System policies and FL statutes. If your child is absent, upon your child's return to school, send a hand-written note as to the reason for the absence. If your child was seen by a doctor, please send the doctor's note.

Official Records: Your child's cumulative records are housed in the Guidance Office. If you need to review anything in the folder please call ahead and make an appointment for someone to go over the contents with you. If you need a copy of any document in your child's folder we can provide it for you. If you request more than two copies, a charge will be assessed at 5 cents per copy. Again, please call ahead and we will try and have it ready for you. If you are transferring out of Madison Street Elementary we will make sure all necessary documents are forwarded to your child's new school.

*If you are a non-custodial parent who wishes to have copies of report cards, interim reports, and other routine school information, please see your child's teacher. You will be required to provide self-addressed, stamped envelopes for this.

Registration

Click here to view the MCPS Enrollment & Withdrawal Procedure

All new students must register in the Guidance Office. Our personnel are familiar with all the requirements and can help you with questions or open the link above.