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Explore our counseling program, here!
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Explore our counseling program, here!
The mission of Patton Counseling Department is to provide proactive, comprehensive support to all students, fostering academic, career, and social/emotional growth. Through collaboration with staff, families, and community members, counselors equip students with lifelong learning skills and facilitate smooth transitions to future stages, empowering all students to thrive and contribute beyond school.
Patton's school counseling program ensures all students have access to personalized learning that ensures personal, academic, career, and social and emotional growth. Rigorous counseling curriculum supported with partnerships among counselors, school staff, families, and the community are delivered to all students helping them to build skills to succeed as lifelong learners and productive, positive contributors to society.
National School Counseling Week 2026 (#NSCW26) is Feb. 2-6, 2026, to focus public attention on the unique contribution of school counselors within U.S. school systems. The theme is: School Counselors Amplify Student Success. National School Counseling Week, presented by ASCA, highlights the tremendous impact school counselors can have in helping students achieve school success and plan for a career. National School Counseling Week is always celebrated the first full week in February.
To help our students expand their emotional awareness and feeling vocabulary, the SSC has introduced a monthly feeling word. This initiative is designed to expose students to a wider range of emotions and support their ability to identify and express how they feel.
We’ve noticed that many students rely on basic feeling words such as sad, mad, or happy. While these are important, feelings are complex and exist on a spectrum. Emotions can vary in both pleasantness and level of energy. By learning more specific feeling words, students can better understand their emotions, communicate their needs, and develop stronger social-emotional skills.