by Kori Washington

Counselor Andrea Schedler’s love for educating others started from a very young age. 

“I can vividly remember just playing school and baby dolls. And then in third grade I remember somebody asking me well what do you want to be when you grow up and I was like ‘I want to be a teacher’,” said Schedler. 

 As you can see Schedler always knew she wanted to work with children and when she got older she started working at a daycare, which led her to major in elementary education and earn a minor in psychology. These are the experiences that have led her to where she is now.

Schedler’s day begins when she steps into her second-floor office to prepare for all her incoming freshman meetings. She starts off by preparing a folder for each student with all the information they’ll need for freshman year and to make sure they get to know her as well.

“One of my main goals as a counselor is to make sure every freshman know who I am because I hate when people say, ‘I didn’t even know who my high school counselor was’.” 

For the past three years that Schedler has been a Jeff High counselor she has also been working on a new goal to increase resources for teens and their mental health, and this is important to her because she wants students to know that those resources are available to them and also so they can feel more comfortable at school.

It’s Schedler’s commitment to her students that makes her the best at what she does. 

“Freshman year she just helped me get through it ´cause I was fresh to high school coming from middle school, so it was a big change but she helped me out,” said sophomore Carter Durbin. 

Junior Cash Waters agreed. “During freshman year she really helped me get comfortable with this school and get to know everybody.”

When Schedler welcomes her freshmen she likes to offer them advice for the school year.

“Get involved in something, whether it’s a sport, club or other upcoming school activities so that you can have a group of friends and people that you can trust. And always have a trusted adult.”