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Peer-Reviewed Article: School Counselors' Justice Change: A Grounded Thepry of What Works in the Real World

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Peer-Reviewed Article: School Counselors' Justice Change: A Grounded Thepry of What Works in the Real World

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This article states how difficult it may be for a school counselor to take on a role to advocate social justice change. It states how there is a distinct difference between social justice change and systemic change within school communites (Singh, Urbano,& McMahon, 2010). This relates back to the topic of devloping a change agent approach in school counseling through leadership, advocacy, collaboration, and systemic change because it allows the school counselor and future school counselor the difference between social justice and systemic. Also elaborates that this topic is also important to the individuals that goes through educational inequalities and differences.

Reference
Singh, A., Urbano, A., Haston, M., & McMahon, E. (2010). School Counselors' Strategies for Social Justice Change: A Grounded Theory of What Works in the Real World. Professional School Counseling, 13(3), 135-145. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/42732887

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Peer-Reviewed Article: Meeting the Needs of Diverse Students: Enhancing School Counselors' Experiences

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Peer-Reviewed Article: Meeting the Needs of Diverse Students: Enhancing School Counselors' Experiences

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This article relates back to the topic of developing a change agent approach in school counseling through leadership, advocacy, collaboration, and system change because it explains how school counselors promote and maximize success for all students and help create a climate where diversity is celebrated (Hughley, 2011).When diversity it promotes a healthy environment for the students and the staff. This will allow stakeholders to be more active and influential to the students.

References

Hughey, J. (2011). Meeting the Needs of Diverse Students: Enhancing School Counselors' Experiences. Educational Considerations, 38(2), 20-27.

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Connect learning to the lives of the individual student

Allow the school counselor to be the educator that expands the knowledge on academic success

Cooperate with teachers, parents, and other stakeholders

Establish goals, objectives and action steps

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Professional School Counseling - UNC Pembroke

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Become a role model- when students see you doing the right thing they will respect you more.

Assist with behavioral issues

Reward excellent behavior

Always be direct and never change

Encourage, empathize, motivate

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School Counselors and Collaboration: Finding Resources Through Community Asset Mapping

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School Counselors and Collaboration: Finding Resources Through Community Asset Mapping

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This article addresses the budget cuts schools are facing and how school counselors are learning how to use what they have to help school counselors do what they need to do. It also addresses how school counselors can reach out to the community for resources to help them.Because school counselors have limited resources they need to collaborate with other stakeholders. This resource also talks about the importance of community mapping, which is something that can help school counselors collaborate with families and administrators. Community mapping allows the school counselor to be aware of what is happening in the community and knowing what resources are available in the community. Overall, this article talks about how school counselors sometimes do not work in the best situation so they have to be aware of what is around in their community to help.
Reference:
Griffin, D., & Farris, A. (2010). School Counselors and Collaboration: Finding Resources through Community Asset Mapping. Professional School Counseling, 13(5), 248-256.

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Promoting self-advocacy among minority students in school counseling

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Promoting self-advocacy among minority students in school counseling

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Self-advocacy is defined as the action of representing oneself or one’s views or interests. This specific article elaborates on the self-advocacy amongst minority students. Minority students consists of people of color, women, LGBTQ, students with disabilities, and students living in poverty (Astramovich & Harris, 2007). As school counselor it is our priority to promote success to help these individuals through their difficult challenges. As stated in the article, these populations as socially devalued and emphasized that, because of societal stigmatization and marginalization, they frequently have little power in influencing decisions that affect their lives. We have to be the voice to stand up to society for the silenced and help encourage a better system (2007). This article also gives principles for self-advocacy as well which consists of self-determination, empowerment, and social justice (2007).

Reference

Astramovich, R. L., & Harris, K. R. (2007). Promoting self-advocacy among minority students in school counseling. Journal of Counseling & Development, 85(3), 269–276.
Retrieved from the Walden Library databases

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Advocacy Competencies for Professional School Counselors

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Advocacy Competencies for Professional School Counselors

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This resource is from the Walden database. This article discusses advocacy competencies school counselors participate in. The competencies are dispositions, knowledge, and skills (Brown & Trusty, 2005). These competencies are meant to help guide counselors in their mission to become advocates. Overall, this article was used to explain what being an advocate as a school counselor means and what personal qualities are needed to be an effective advocate.
References:
Trusty, J., & Brown, D. (2005). Advocacy competencies for professional school counselors. Professional School Counseling, (3), 259.

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https://www.schoolcounselor.org/school-counselors-members/asca-national-model
Schoolcounselor.org is the ASCA website. This website is full of resources to use that relate the four themes of the national model. For example, there are webinars available on how to describe what the school counselor role is in 3 minutes, articles describing in detail the role each theme has in the school counseling profession, and even a place where school counselors can connect with one another to provide support, ask questions, or simply reach out. There is one article in particular that addresses the themes in the ASCA National Model titled “ASCA National Model Themes” and another article titled “Executive Summary” that briefly goes over the themes. These articles can be found in the link above. Overall, this website is a place where you can find information about almost anything relating to school counseling.

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https://confidentcounselors.com
I found this blog on Pinterest. This resource addresses collaboration with stakeholders and advocating for the school counselor’s role. It is written by school counselors, school psychologists, and school social workers. Confident Counselors discusses the importance of explaining to students and staff your role in the school at the very beginning of the school year. This would be a good time to talk to staff about working together to increase academic success and close the achievement gap. Many staff members probably do not understand how a school counselor can be of assistance with academics, so speaking to them right away about it would be beneficial. Confident Counselors recommends using data of your school counseling program to show stakeholders how important your role is with academic growth.

Talking to students early in the year would allow you to be more visible and start building rapport with students. This allows the school counselor the chance to talk about what a school counselor does in the school so the role is not misinterpreted. It is important to address all the different roles a school counselor has so students know they can go to you for academic help and well as social and emotional help.

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Waking up to difference: Teachers, color-blindness, and the effects on students of color

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Waking up to difference: Teachers, color-blindness, and the effects on students of color

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This article particularizes why race should not matter in the idea of how others should be treated. Color-blindness has been around for decades and we are still dealing with these issues today as a society. As stated in the article, research shows that teachers often hold cultural biases that can spark racialized, or cultural “Pygmalion effects” in classroom (Atwater, 2008). School counselors should be the voice of this type of injustice and discrimination within the school system. The article also elaborated on student achievement and how these expectations of these particular students often based on unconscious, or unintentional racial assumptions can have a very real impact on student achievement (2008). With the correct leadership, collaboration between all stakeholders, system change and appropriate advocacy there is a guarantee that color-blindness could be eliminated just have to work hard enough and educate and counsel the appropriate parties or everyone.

Reference

Atwater, S. A. C. (2008). Waking up to difference: Teachers, color-blindness, and the effects on students of color. Journal of Instructional Psychology, 35(3), 246–253.
Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.

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How a School Counselor might collaborate other school professionals, parents, and/or the larger community

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How a School Counselor might collaborate other school professionals, parents, and/or the larger community

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Community Outreach Programs

Parent Educational Workshops

Teambuilding

Academic and Emotional success strategies

After School Programs

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http://schoolcounseloradvocacyeffect.blogspot.com/
This resource is a blog written by various school counselors and their experiences in the school counseling profession. The blog posts are about various experiences as a school counselor. For example, she talks about being nominated for ASCA’s School Counselor of the Year and how school counselors play a role in academic success with the “Every Student Succeeds Act.” While talking about school counselors and academic success this school counselor advocated for lower counselor to student ratios to help the students become college and career ready and how big of a role school counselor’s play in academic success. One counselor states “it is important for school counselors to advocate for their place in the plan with local administration.” Another school counselor posted some tips on what to do to start making change in your school building. Overall, this blog is a collaborative effort by many school counselors to share their opinions and ideas on how to advocate for change.

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*Ceara Perkins

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School counselor helps connect students with big opportunities

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Five Ways School Counselors Can Serve as Leaders...

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Five Ways School Counselors Can Serve as Leaders...

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*Recognize and Showcase Diversity.
*Develop Community and Parental Development.
*School Counselors help with difficult situations.
*Maintain strong communication connections.
*Maxiumize educational success.

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Changes in organizational culture, policies, and procedures within individual organizations or across organizations that enhance or streamline access and reduce eliminate barriers to needed services by a target population.

Example 1: School counselor creating a system for child behavioral issues from abandonment

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A school counselor creating a new program to prevent bullying.
-Ashley K.

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An example of advocacy would be a school counselor standing up for a student of low socioeconomic status to help get him/her the tools they need to succeed in school.
-Ashley K.

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An example of leadership would be a school counselor developing and leading a program that teaches students proper ways to interact with peers.
-Ashley K.

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The action of working with someone to produce or create something.

Examples

1. Trusting, assisting, supporting, and sharing are mental visualizations that I have when thinking of collaboration. All are ways that a school counselor can collaborate with not only the adolescents but other stakeholders as well.

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Public support for or recommendation of a particular cause or policy.

Examples

1. Advocacy for a school counselor may be eliminating barriers impeding students' development.

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Like a Good School Counselor: Advocacy in School Counseling

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Video #1. *Ceara. P

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The action of leading a group of people or an organization.

Examples

1. School counselors demonstrates leadership by inspiring and empowering the youth and others around them daily.

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An example of collaboration would be working with the principal and teacher of a specific student to develop a behavior plan that allows him to be successful in school
-Ashley K.