Rachel Jackson joined CRS as the school nurse in 2023. Rachel has been a nurse at Walpole High School for the past 9 years and served as a district nurse in the Walpole Public Schools before that. She is familiar with CRS as she has served as the nurse for CRS Summer prior to joining us for the school year. Rachel has a B.S. in Nursing from Fitchburg State College and a Master’s in Education with a concentration in School Nursing from Cambridge College.
Prior to CRS, Sammy most recently served as the Lower School Counselor at Capitol Hill Day School in Washington, D.C. In addition to day-to-day support of PreK to fourth-grade students, she led psychoeducational counseling groups on topics like social skills acquisition, coping with worry and anxiety, and impulse control. Sammy also led the LGBTQ+ Student Union to support questioning or identifying students in grades 4-8 and was a member of the Admissions Committee to help support student and family needs throughout the admissions process. Previously, Sammy was the School Counseling Intern at The MacArthur School in Waltham, Mass. She received a BA in history and education from Colby College. Sammy earned her E.d.M in Prevention, Science, and Practice as well as a Certificate of Advanced Study Candidate in School Counseling from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
