{"id":26288,"date":"2024-06-06T10:04:07","date_gmt":"2024-06-06T15:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/?p=26288"},"modified":"2024-06-06T17:50:37","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T22:50:37","slug":"welcome-to-mpa-katie-bruns-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/2024\/06\/06\/welcome-to-mpa-katie-bruns-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome To MPA, Dana Distad!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-26291 size-full alignright img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/nclhx5yj.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Dana-Distad-WP.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/>Welcome to MPA, Dana Distad! This fall, Dana will join us as a Lower and Middle School counselor. We are so excited to introduce her to our community!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>From what school\/organization are you coming?<\/strong><br \/>\nI previously worked for the Academy of Holy Angels High School.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tell us about your education and past experience.<\/strong><br \/>\nI have a master&#8217;s degree in school counseling and in clinical counseling. As a school counselor, I provide group services aimed at proactive social-emotional learning (SEL) skills. I also engage in 1:1 sessions aimed at targeted goals and small peer groups.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What did you find appealing about MPA?<\/strong><br \/>\nDream Big. Do Right. The idea that the school is based on the whole individual.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What lasting impact do you plan to have on MPA?<\/strong><br \/>\nThe greatest joy for me is seeing a child apply the skills we have worked on to real-world situations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What\u2019s your big dream?<\/strong><br \/>\nI am living it! My big dream has always been to help youth become their best selves.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What are you and your family passionate about?<\/strong><br \/>\nI am so passionate about the little moments. We live in such a fast-paced world that it&#8217;s easy to always be thinking about the future. I love being in the moment and allowing time to slow down. Enjoying time with my family is the best way I am able to practice this every day.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What\u2019s a fun fact about you that our community would love to know?<\/strong><br \/>\nI am an eternal optimist and even joined the International Optimist Club!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to MPA, Dana Distad! This fall, Dana will join us as a Lower and Middle School counselor. We are so excited to introduce her to our community! From what school\/organization are you coming? I previously worked for the Academy of Holy Angels High School. Tell us about your education and past experience. I have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":26289,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,24,29,9,12,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-families","category-featured-posts","category-homepage","category-lower-school","category-middle-school","category-my-mpa-experience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26288"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26305,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26288\/revisions\/26305"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}