![]() ![]() ![]() Through their collaboration toward social justice, principals and school counselors seek to eliminate systemic barriers to rigorous educational experiences for all students. When done effectively, this collaboration supports comprehensive school counseling. However, it is important that the school principal effectively communicate, collaborate, and create structures for the counselor’s work in this regard. The school counselor is positioned to engage with students and families, address systemic inequities, and lend their expertise to school-wide decision-making teams. Collaboration between social justice-oriented school principals and school counselors has potential toward these ends due to the unique role of the school counselor. Educators engaged in social justice-oriented practices seek to increase opportunity and achievement for all students, taking into account subgroup identities, such as race, gender, sexuality, ability, language, religion, and immigrant status. Greater efforts are needed from educational stakeholders to recognize and disrupt educational inequities. Guided by Social Capital Theory, this paper outlines standards-aligned curricular units for principal preparation, developed in partnership with school counseling faculty, that are currently being implemented at one Midwestern university with the goal of promoting collaboration toward P-12 student success. The purpose of this project was to align standards and competencies from National Educational Leadership Preparation (NELP) and the American School Counselor Association (ASCA) to develop units of study for preparation programs that foster effective partnerships between administrators and school counselors. However, higher education preparation programs for principals and school counselors have not typically collaborated in efforts to prepare candidates to work together through curricula employing national standards from both fields. To meet the challenges of promoting equitable educational opportunities and improved academic achievement for all P-12 students, principals and school counselors must join forces in substantive ways. ![]()
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