“Genia is a personable, proactive, adaptive, and student-centered team player. She gets along well with her colleagues and often receives great praise from students and families. Her approach to counseling is to be proactive, while offering prevention and intervention services to support the many aspects of student success and well-being.
While she has many skills through her experience, she is also adaptive in that she realizes that it is important to customize her work to the individual student, and to overcome changes, obstacles and challenges, to ensure that student and team needs are met.
She recognizes that each student and family is unique, and her listening skills allow her to truly understand what is requested and needed. I would highly recommend Mrs. Ruzer as an experienced, personable, and dedicated counselor. She has met and exceeded goals through her track record of successful counseling services to help students and their families to be prepared for success in K-12, college/career and beyond.”
— Melah Davis, MA, PPSC, Middle School Counselor
“Genia proved to be quick to understand complex student scenarios, apt at forming excellent college plans, and able to maintain a strong personal ethic as she advised students of all racial and socio-economic backgrounds.
Genia interacted with her colleagues with great understanding and compassion and will no doubt do that with her colleagues and students. When you talk to her, her wisdom, patience, and keen observations will immediately spring forward to you and surely allow you to see what I saw all year in Genia: a warm, wise and caring individual.
As a twenty-year educator who has navigated both the high school classroom and counseling practice, if given the opportunity, I would hire Genia to be part of my staff with no hesitations.”
— Armando Diaz, MA, PPSC, Christian Brothers High School
“I had the wonderful opportunity to observe Genia in her role of a counselor. She demonstrated great attention to detail, thorough preparation and analysis, integrity, and endless patience. She was a selfless advocate for students with disabilities, those with missing homework, or with challenging situations at home. Some of the students graduated only because of her efforts.
I would highly recommend Genia to work as a counselor in any environment. She thrived at Lovonya DeJean Middle School and other schools of WCCUSD never lowing her expectations and the level of performance. She would be in her element both in any high achieving stellar school or in a school facing many challenges. She can work with students of various age groups and with adults alike. I have learned a lot from Genia as an educator and as a person.”
— Ioulia Solovieva, ELD Teacher
“I met Mrs. Ruzer when she was subbing as counselor almost a decade ago. Mrs. Ruzer was a wonderful presenter for a workshop we did together called “Emotional Toolbox.” She is very well versed in socio-emotional work with children. Mrs. Ruzer is very patient and has a very comforting demeanor that opens up people and allows them to trust her.
I highly recommend Mrs. Ruzer as counselor. She’s a person-centered professional with lots of compassion.”