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Summary
Summary
School counsellors can play a powerful role in closing the achievement gap by incorporating principles of social justice - that is, equity and advocacy for all students - into their practice. This new resource for pre-service and in-service counsellors addresses the reasons why some students are more likely to encounter academic failure (racism, sexism, heterosexism, classism), and challenges readers to play an active role in bringing about the conditions for student success. Offering a variety of vignettes, strategies, activities, and reflective individual and group study questions, the book provides the framework for how school counsellors can mitigate the impact of negative factors hampering academic performance and healthy development. The book details six functions of a school counsellors that move schools toward more just practices and, ultimately, to higher test scores and increased student achievement.
Table of Contents
Preface |
Acknowledgments |
About the Author |
1 The Achievement Gap: Our Ultimate Challenge |
School Counseling and the Gap |
Where We Have Been and Where We Are Headed |
The Power of School Counselors |
Achievement Gap Defined |
A Closer Look at the Gap |
What Do We Know About Closing the Gap? |
Questions to Consider |
2 School Counseling Within the Context of Social Justice |
Redefining School Counseling to Serve Diverse Groups |
Focusing on Social Justice |
Key Functions of School Counseling Based on a Social Justice Approach |
Questions to Consider |
3 Counseling and Intervention Planning |
Critical Factors That Affect School Counseling and the Counseling Relationship |
Culturally Appropriate Counseling Interventions |
Assessing School Counselors' Multicultural Counseling Competence |
The Influence of Culture on Intervention Planning |
Questions to Consider |
4 Consultation |
Defining Consultation |
Social Justice Considerations and the Consultation Process |
Consultation Strategies |
Questioning Domains |
Assessing School Culture |
Questions to Consider |
5 Connecting Schools, Families, and Communities |
Avoid the Blame Game |
Five Principles of Effective SFC Partnership |
Barriers to School-Family Collaborations |
Questions to Consider |
6 Collecting and Using Data |
What Is Accountability? |
Using Data to Uncover Inequities |
School Counseling Program Evaluation |
Developing Program Assessment Tools |
Questions to Consider |
7 Challenging Bias |
Guidelines for Challenging Bias |
Social Justice Education in Schools |
Questions to Consider |
8 Coordinating Student Services and Support |
Collaborating With Community Organizations and Social Service Agencies |
Implementing Scheduling Practices That Encourage Rigorous Course Taking |
Coordinating College Preparation Interventions |
Coordinating Tutoring Services |
Participating on Individualized Education Program Committees |
Participating on Gifted and Talented Committees |
Questions to Consider |
9 Doing the Right Thing: Developing a Social Justice-Focused School Counseling Program |
Assessing Your Beliefs |
Assessing Your Skills |
Assessing Your Students' Needs |
My Vision for My School Counseling Program |
Concluding Remarks |
Resources |
Resource A Assessing School Equity |
Resource B School Counselor Multicultural Competence Checklist |
Resource C School Culture Assessment |
Resource D Assessing Beliefs About School-Family-Community Partnership Involvement |
Resource E SOARING Samples and Worksheets |
Suggested Readings by Topic |
References |
Index |