- Grant Elementary School
- Counseling Services at Grant Elementary
Patricia Dennard, School Counselor
- Meet the Counselor
- Counseling Services at Grant Elementary
- Welcome to Our Wellness Team Schoology Classroom With Ms. Dennard, Mrs. Kelly and Ms. Fleet (Intern)
- Scheduling Counseling Sessions with Ms. Dennard
- Ms. Dennard's Web X Personal Room Link
- Emotional Wellness Conversation Starter
- Virtual Calming Room
- Social Emotional Activities
- Making Parenting Easier in Difficult Times: Tips and Strategies
- District Social Emotional Resources for Families
- Emergency Family Resources for Food, Clothing and Basic Needs
- COVID Resource Support in English and Spanish
- Safe2Tell
- Educator Resources
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WELCOME TO GRANT ELEMENTARY COUNSELING!
As the school counselor, Ms. Dennard supports all Grant students, staff, and parents in a variety of ways. Some of these supports include:
- Supporting the classroom, and now online, delievery of the school-wide Social Emotional Learning Curriculum. Students are taught about Social Emotional Competencies to include: Self-Awareness, Self-Management, Responsible Decision Making, Relationship Skills, Social Awareness, and Self Awareness.
- Running small intervention groups based on needs identified by students themselves, teachers, and parents. These groups include: reteaching of concepts covered in the classroom that need more reinforcement and practice, Grief and Loss, Friendship, Conflict Management, Changing Families, and Anger Management to name a few.
Ms. Dennard also supports in the following ways:
- Conflict Mediation and Resoultion
- Crisis Management
- Targeted Skill Development identified through our
- Threat and Risk Assessments
Ms. Dennard is in her 24th year in education. She has served as a 4-5 looping teacher, a School Counselor and a Behavior Interventionalist. She additionally supports children as a play therapist in her private practice outside of District 11.