Counselor at Paisley IB Featured in National Magazine

By Daya Patton
Lead Counselor 
Paisley IB Magnet School

Daya Patton, who is the Lead Counselor at Paisley IB Magnet School, was one of five school counselors from the State of North Carolina chosen to present at the American School Counseling Association Conference this past July in Los Angeles.

The American School Counseling Association Conference is a national conference specifically for school counseling with keynote sessions, informative breakout sessions, in-depth looks at hot topics in the school counseling profession and networking opportunities. Approximately 3,000 school counseling professionals from all over the country attend the conference annually.

Mrs. Patton has been an advocate for educational opportunities for students with disabilities since her tenure as school counselor at Carter High School. Mrs. Patton presented a breakout session on Postsecondary Options for Student with Disabilities.

Because of Mrs. Patton’s overwhelmingly positive feedback from her session at the American School Counselors Conference, she was also invited to conduct a national webinar for the American School Counseling Association and had a feature article in the American School Counselor Associations’ September/October edition of their national magazine.

Subsequently, Mrs. Patton was invited in October to present two sessions at the School Counselor Leadership Conference in Riverside, Calif. At the School Counselor Leadership Conference, Mrs. Patton had the opportunity to meet Antwone Fisher, an advocate for students with disabilities and the inspiration and screenwriter behind the critically acclaimed motion picture Antwone Fisher directed by and starring Denzel Washington.