 Mansfield ISD celebrates National School Counseling Week on Feb. 4-8 in recognition of our 65 counselors who work with students every day.
In honor of National School Counseling Week, Mansfield ISD salutes the dedicated individuals who help the students to achieve their full potential and continued success. MISD school counselors serve as facilitators that guide students toward happy and healthy futures.
“Our counselors are some of the hardest working group of people that I have ever encountered,” says Andrea Hensley, MISD’s Coordinator of Guidance and Counseling. “School counseling is not just a job, it is truly a calling. I am proud to say that the MISD has the finest group of counselors ever called into the profession.”
National School Counseling Week, sponsored by the American School Counselor Association (ASCA), is celebrated to focus public attention on the unique contribution of professional school counselors within U.S. school systems. National School Counseling Week highlights the tremendous impact that counselors can have in helping students achieve school success and plan for a career.
“Our counselors provide a vital component of the educational process for all students as they meet the challenges of the 21st century,” says Hensley. “During this week, we want to thank all our counselors for their service to our students, staff and community.”
The United States Senate and House of Representatives has designated the week of February 4 through February 8, 2008, as ‘‘National School Counseling Week’’ for the following reasons:
- School counselors have long emphasized the importance of personal and social development in academic achievement.
- School counselors help develop well-rounded students by guiding them through their academic, personal, social, and career development.
- School counselors have been instrumental in helping students, teachers, and parents deal with the trauma that was inflicted upon them by hurricanes Katrina, Rita, and other recent natural disasters.
- School counselors help students face a myriad of challenges every day, including peer pressure, depression, the deployment of family members to serve in conflicts overseas, and school violence.
- School counselors are usually the only professionals in a school building who are trained in both education and mental health matters.
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