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It's School Psychology Awareness Week!
This week, DPS honors its school psychologist during School Psychology Awareness Week (November 11-15, 2019).
This year’s theme, “Find Your Focus” is action-oriented, flexible, and relevant to all age groups. Finding your focus can mean a variety of meanings from paying attention to being able to see an idea more clearly, to identify areas of interest, or to be persistent or determined in one’s effort. Focusing can help us set goals, identify action steps, communicate a need, and engage in discussions to help create the connections necessary for students to develop critical academic and social-emotional skills.
Additionally, school psychologists and other school staff may “find their focus” by honing in on their leadership in the counseling room, the classroom, the community, and beyond. School psychologists can find a focus to help improve school climate, advocate for systems-level change or enhance specific areas of their practice.
We are extremely proud of the work of our DPS psychologists. Their commitment to our students, schools to our community is immeasurable.