Peyton Junior-Senior High School counseling department Mission Statement

Our mission as a counseling department at Peyton is to equip students with confidence to meet challenges that require assertive communication skills, healthy boundaries, and emotional intelligence skills. Every student is provided with an opportunity to find effective coping skills, exercise confident decision-making skills and collaborate with peers. With the support of the community, school and families’ students are encouraged to be successful life-long learning.

Peyton Junior-Senior High School Counseling Department Vision Statement

The goal of the counseling department at Peyton Jr-Senior High School is to equip students with effective communication skills, by boundary setting and building confidence. It is our goal to support students’ academic, social/emotional and career goals through a comprehensive, proactive, and adaptive school counseling program that is accessible to all students.

Our goal is to support students’ academic, social/emotional and career goals through the following: providing comprehensive guidance lessons that are proactive in building healthy boundaries, effective communicative and emotional intelligence skills; collaboration with students, families, and staff during times of stress in order to help meet challenges.

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