Welcome to Counseling and Guidance
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GOALS of the DHS Counseling Department
1. Provide all students with safe, nurturing, inclusive, and flexible learning environments.
2. Utilize data to develop, implement, and assess comprehensive guidance and counseling programs.
3. Guide all students as they plan, monitor, and manage their own educational, career, and personal-social-emotional development.
4. Ensure our program reflects district, state, and national counseling ethics, standards, and expectations.
5. Engage the 21st century learner through the use of technological tools.
6. Implement curriculum which develops personal-social-emotional skills.
7. Intervene on behalf of students with immediate personal concerns or problems in the areas of personal-social-emotional, career, and/or educational development.
8. Provide system support for our diverse community through: consultation with teachers; parent education and community partnerships; campus-based school improvement plans and goals; and state and local standardized testing program.
Contacts
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Michelle Sotello, Receptionist
940.393.7210
Transcript Requests
940.393.7200
Registration and Enrollment
Tiffany Thrasher, Registrar
940.393.7212
tiffany.thrasher@decaturisd.us
Sean Stanton, Counselor
Last names: A-G
940.393.7209
Megan Thomas, Counselor
Last names: H-O
940.393.7235
Online Request Form to see Mrs. Thomas
Catherine Kelly, Counselor
Last names: P-Z
940.393.7237
Online Request Form to see Ms. Kelly
The online form is to be used for self-referrals (students may refer themselves), and parents, teachers, and others may use this form to refer a DHS student to the counseling office. Please contact the counselors if you have questions regarding the referral process.