Laura Ross is the lead counselor at Five Forks Middle School in Lawrenceville, Georgia, where her focus is connecting with students to connect them to their education. She has been a school counselor for almost 18 years. Laura was an elementary school counselor for 8 years and is in her 10th year as a middle school counselor. She has presented at district, state, and national levels on creating school-wide teacher-student connections, integrating academics into counseling lessons, using technology and data in school counseling, creating counseling lessons with social justice and equity lens, and more.
Laura was the 2020 American School Counselor Association (ASCA) School Counselor of the Year. She serves on the Georgia School Counselor Association (GSCA) Executive Board as Immediate Past President and is a leader in her school district, Gwinnett County Public Schools, collaborating on committees with a focus on middle school counselor professional development, civic engagement, social-emotional learning, teen lures curriculum, student discipline, and equity. She is also a Counselors for Computing consultant.
https://schoolcounselor.org/Magazines/March-April-2020/Laura-Ross-2020-School-Counselor-of-the-Year
