Ms. Haneen Saleh

Elementary School Counselor/Anti-Bullying Specialist

Email: hsaleh@epps.org

Phone: 201-796-8700 x2825

School Counselor

Ms. Lisa Minichini

Elementary School Counselor

Email: lminichini@epps.org

Phone: 201-796-8700 x2825

Counselor's Corner

The elementary school years set the tone for developing the knowledge, attitudes and skills necessary for children to become healthy, competent, and confident learners. Early identification and intervention of children’s academic and social/emotional needs help to remove barriers to learning and increase academic achievement.

As an elementary school counselors, we work with students by providing individual and small group counseling, classroom SEL lessons, and consultation/referral, in an effort to help remove these barriers and encourage students to reach their full potential. Some specific areas that may be addressed in counseling include academic motivation, behavioral difficulties, social skills, family changes, coping with feelings, and self-esteem. We also work very closely with parents, teachers, school staff and the community in an effort to help students achieve academic, social, and personal success and to promote a positive school climate for all.

Please feel free to contact us by phone or email with any questions or concerns!

Services Provided:

  • Individual/Group Counseling

  • Responsive Services/Crisis Counseling

  • SEL Classroom Lessons

  • School-wide Positive-Behavioral Programs

  • Consultation/Collaboration

  • Referrals for Therapy

bucket filler

At Gilbert Avenue Elementary, we thrive on promoting a positive environment infused with kindness and respect. Our bucket filling program showcases just that. It coincides with Carol McCloud’s book, Have you filled a bucket today? At the beginning of each school year, the kindergarten classes are read this book and introduced to this school-wide program. The book talks about the invisible bucket that everyone carries with their happy feelings inside. When an individual conducts a random act of kindness, they are contributing to filling another person’s bucket. Many students are surprised to hear that when they fill someone else’s bucket, they are also filling their own! However, when individuals engage in name calling or unkind behaviour, they are bucket dipping. By dipping into someone else’s bucket, you can never fill your own. When a staff member notices a student conducting an act of kindness, they fill out a bucket-filling slip. Bucket-fillers are announced monthly.