{"id":316852,"date":"2020-02-04T06:05:08","date_gmt":"2020-02-03T20:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=316852"},"modified":"2020-02-04T06:05:08","modified_gmt":"2020-02-03T20:05:08","slug":"pladevega-is-still-pss-counselor-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/pladevega-is-still-pss-counselor-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Pladevega is still PSS\u2019 Counselor of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jillian Pladevega, third from the right, is awarded her second consecutive Counselor of the Year award yesterday at the Koblerville Elementary School. (KIMBERLY A. BAUTISTA)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Hopwood Middle School counselor Jillian Alice C. Pladevega has been named the Public School System\u2019s Counselor of the Year for the second consecutive year.<\/p>\n

Pladevega was named the 2019-2020 Counselor of the Year during the counselor\u2019s month proclamation signing yesterday at the Koblerville Elementary School. She was recognized for her outstanding performance as a middle school counselor.<\/p>\n

Pladevega said she was astounded but honored to receive the award for the second year in a row and she feels every school counselor should be recognized for their outstanding work at their respective schools.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am so shocked but I am so blessed. I am so humbled that they would consider my application. I think every year everyone should turn in an application but there is so little of us, everyone should be recognized. It doesn\u2019t matter the title; just knowing you\u2019re being appreciated is a lot,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Pladevega credits her getting the recognition to the recommendation letters she had from teachers, parents, and her students.<\/p>\n

\u201cI guess when it came down to it, [my application] went through because of the recommendation letters from parents, teachers, students, and admin. It\u2019s a lot of work so I\u2019m just as surprised but very honored,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Pladevega has been a counselor for HMS since 2013. Before taking up her counseling position, Pladevega was working as a Head Start teacher.<\/p>\n

Pladevega has been a school counselor for seven years now and aims to put in more work as a middle school counselor because it\u2019s inspiring to work with students.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t have kids of my own but it\u2019s really nice to have a taste of how it would be like to have my own kids. \u2026They say we mold them but they also mold me and who I am,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

HMS has four counselors, one designated for each grade level and its alternative program called LMA. Pladevega counsels over 20 students under the LMA program.<\/p>\n

\u201cId like to thank everyone that was involved, [especially] all the students. If the students weren\u2019t here, I wouldn\u2019t have a job and I wouldn\u2019t be who I am,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hopwood Middle School counselor Jillian Alice C. Pladevega has been named the Public School System\u2019s…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[900],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-316852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316852","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\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}