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COVID-19 has disproportionately impacted communities, exposing long standing systemic, structural and institutional educational inequities. Intentionality is required to create new postsecondary advising and counseling models that embrace diverse perspectives, call out racist policies and practices and increase opportunities for historically marginalized students. Students and families are navigating a complex and rapidly changing cradle to career pipeline today and need immediate support – their voices, which are often missing, must guide our next steps.
We need responsive and informed postsecondary guidance that is malleable to a quickly changing world impacted by a global pandemic. Recognizing that there are many people who work towards helping students navigate their post high school options, we seek to engage with and bring together all stakeholders (students, parents, guardians, K-12 educators, higher ed. partners, community based organizations, school counselors, graduate students, counselor educators and researchers) to respond to the clarion call for creative, decisive, and equity focused solutions.
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Building and Bridging Pathways Through Identities
As a Grade Level Coordinator, I recognized the privilege to identify as a first-generation college graduate because it has allowed me to build a rapport
Adaptability as a Form of Equity
Implementing a social justice and equity framework when working with students is crucial for their empowerment and success. As a coordinator for Avenues for Success
Building Student-Driven College & Career Access Programming- Part 2
I believe that the people who are closest to the problem should be centered when finding the solutions. Therefore, when addressing the problems of access
Building Student-Driven College & Career Access Programming- Part 1
Student persistence and retention has been a primary concern across all higher education institutions with many placing a priority on four year graduation rates and
First-Year College Experience & Finding a Sense of Belonging
“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
Shifting The Silencing Of Black Joy
We are six months into the year and life has truly attempted to interrupt black joy. As I reflect, it’s as though we get bombarded
The In-Between
Dear school counselors, When first asked to write a blog post about my article on college readiness, I was only too happy to write about
My Education is the Explosion of My Mother’s Dream Deferred
I come from places where enduring inequalities is the norm. I’ve seen my mother come home exhausted after a long day of work struggling to
Over the Rainbow: A Career Development Group for LGBTQ+ Teens
LGBTQ+ students face many barriers, often including school violence, harassment, and bullying (GLSEN, 2019; Rockenbach et al., 2017; Strear, 2017; Zamani-Gallaher & Choudhuri, 2016). Continuous
Career Academies as a Strategy to Promote College and Career Readiness for High School Students
The most critical contemporary objectives of secondary schools in the United States are to prepare students to be college and career ready. Yet, definitions of
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