Category: Leadership & Strategy
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Systems & Policy Analysis In conversations about the evolution of student support services, few subjects generate as much quiet tension as a single word: guidance. For several decades, national advocacy campaigns pushed hard to retire “guidance counselor” in favor of “professional school counselor,” framing the shift as a matter of earned professional respect and to…
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✨ New Advocacy Resource Published by The Institute for School Counseling Advocacy & Research (ISCAR) For school counselors, communicating program impact and celebrating student successes isn’t just an extra task, it is essential to the sustainability, equity, and growth of comprehensive school counseling programs. Every school year, counseling teams lead high-impact interventions across academic achievement,…
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🎬 ISCAR Expert Roundtable Advocating for School Counseling: The Legacy of California’s SPARC & The Modern SCPP Moderated by Sarah Whipp, Ed.D 4,000+ Pins Awarded 2-Page Visual Snapshot MTSS Tier 1 Proactive Focus 100% Admin Alignment How do school counselors bridge the gap between heavy daily workloads and systemic role recognition? In this virtual roundtable,…
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In public education, we often judge the value of a system by how it responds to an emergency. When a student experiences an acute crisis in the hallway, when peer conflict erupts in the cafeteria, or when enrollment errors threaten a student’s graduation path, the school counselor has historically been the first professional called to…
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ISCAR View from the Field The Silence in the Office The morning after the Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS; Maryland) Board of Education finalized the Fiscal Year 2027 budget, the school counseling department felt noticeably heavier. The headlines focused on numbers: a $3.72 billion budget, a stubborn $36 million shortfall, and a stark line item…
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In the world of education, we are often rich in passion but poor in time. This scarcity has created a silent crisis: a widening gap between the groundbreaking research produced in our universities and the daily realities of a school counseling office. When school counselors are denied the opportunity to integrate new evidence into their…