{"id":190560,"date":"2015-01-29T04:00:41","date_gmt":"2015-01-28T18:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=190560"},"modified":"2015-01-29T04:00:41","modified_gmt":"2015-01-28T18:00:41","slug":"boe-proclaims-feb-2-6-school-counselors-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/boe-proclaims-feb-2-6-school-counselors-week\/","title":{"rendered":"BOE proclaims Feb 2-6 School Counselors Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The CNMI State Board of Education proclaimed Feb. 2-6 as \u201cSchool Counselors Week\u201d for the district\u2019s public schools during a meeting on Tueday.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_190566\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-190566\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a attid=\"190566\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Counselors-pix.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Counselors-pix-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Public School System counselors, students, and officials gather for a photo after the Board of Education proclaimed Feb. 2 to 6 \u201cSchool Counselors Week\u201d at the BOE conference room. (Dennis B. Chan)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-190566\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-190566\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Public School System counselors, students, and officials gather for a photo after the Board of Education proclaimed Feb. 2 to 6 \u201cSchool Counselors Week\u201d at the BOE conference room. (Dennis B. Chan)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Public School System counselors and a crowd of students attended the proclamation signing by acting chair Marylou S. Ada.<\/p>\n<p>The proclamation recognized counselors for their active commitment in helping students explore their abilities, strengths, interests and talents, among other things.<\/p>\n<p>According to Education Commissioner Dr. Rita M. Sablan, they will be naming the Counselor of the Year in February.<\/p>\n<p>She spoke of the growth they\u2019ve made in their counseling program, with now only four PSS schools lacking counselors. She said they hope to recruit more counselors from the Northern Marianas College.<\/p>\n<p>Starting in February, the PSS website will have a portal featuring highlights of their school counselors, showing \u201cthe things they do,\u201d Sablan said.<\/p>\n<p>The American School Counselor Association has sponsored National Counseling Week \u201cSpice Up Your Counseling Program\u201d from Feb. 2 to 6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CNMI State Board of Education proclaimed Feb. 2-6 as \u201cSchool Counselors Week\u201d for the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":190566,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1222,262,40,41],"class_list":["post-190560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-education-commissioner-dr","tag-northern-marianas-college","tag-pss","tag-public-school-system"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}