Principal and School Counselor Collaboration to Support All Students

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

With greater attention on accountability in PK-12 schools, there is a great need to close gaps in access, attainment, and achievement (Holcomb-McCoy, 2007). As such, school counselors have been charged to help address those gaps by using advocacy, leadership, and collaboration to bring about systemic change through comprehensive school counseling (ASCA, 2019; McMahon et al., 2014). Collaboration with school principals provides opportunities for school counselors to foster partnerships that maximize resources and student support from educational stakeholders within and outside of schools. As collaboration is key to school counseling and educational leadership practice, it must be a key aspect of school counselor and principal work to improve schools to meet students’ social, emotional, academic, and career and college readiness needs.

Sub Unit

• Division E - Counseling and Human Development / Division E - Section 1: Counseling

Chair

• Rachel Louise Geesa, Ball State University

Papers

• Making School Counseling Mandates Meaningful - Carol A. Dahir, New York Institute of Technology; Robert Feirsen, Manhattanville College

• Meeting Students' Needs During a Global Pandemic: School Leader and School Counselor Perceptions - Rachel Louise Geesa, Ball State University; Theresa Kruczek, Ball State University; Renae D Mayes, The University of Arizona

• Principal and School Counselor Collaboration to Design and Deliver a Comprehensive School Counseling Program - Olcay Yavuz, Southern Connecticut State University

Discussant

• Laura Owen, San Diego State University