Guidance

Guidance Staff  2024-2025

Sherri Watson
swatson@auburn.k12.ma.us
Teams: Polar Bears & Dragons

Kim Sicurella
ksicurella@auburn.k12.ma.us
Teams: Sharks & Phoenix

Jamie Nikopoulos
jnikopoulos@auburn.k12.ma.us
Teams: Stingrays & Lemurs

Andrew Shore
ashore@auburn.k12.ma.us
Social Worker

Jessilyn Smith
jsmith@auburn.k12.ma.us
School Psychologist

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Guidance Services and Assisting Students

  • Counsel students regarding educational issues such as course selection and prepare them for educational experiences.
  • Counsel students regarding personal issues such and social and behavioral problems.
  • Provide special services such as bullying and organizational and transitional preparation.
  • Counsel students to understand themselves by discussing their educational growth as a student and an individual.
  • Consult with teachers and parents about supporting their student’s growth as a student and an individual.


Guidance Goals

6th Grade

  • Utilize quest class as a time to develop skills such as
  • Transitioning to 6th grade
  • Responsibility
  • Decision making
  • Organization
  • Friendships
  • Identity
  • Social/ Emotional growth


7th Grade

  • Monitor organization
  • Create goals to become more independent and take on responsibility
  • Developing grade oriented objectives to prepare for 8th grade


8th Grade

  • Connections for the future (after graduation)
  • Develop skills for transitioning to High School/ Vocational School
  • Assist with thinking about career paths and goals