Evaluating school counselors with the Danielson Framework

School counselors are almost always in the teacher bargaining unit, so they have to be evaluated on the same cycle as teachers. Their work does not look like teaching. A counselor runs individual and group counseling, crisis response, scheduling, college and career planning, and family outreach.

Scoring that against a classroom instruction rubric is unfair to the counselor and hard to defend if the evaluation is ever challenged.

What we provide

A counselor-specific rubric built on the same four-domain structure your administrators already use, in both the 2013 and 2022 editions.

• Evidence is recorded against components written for counseling work, not classroom instruction
• Counselors complete self assessments against their own rubric
• Observations, walkthroughs and summative evaluations run on the same calendar and in the same system as your teachers
• District reporting stays consistent across every role

The rubric derives from Danielson consulting work published by state education agencies. The 2022 edition is our own. See whether this fits your district → Back to all roles