School Counseling to Close Opportunity Gaps: A Social Justice and Antiracist Framework for Success

Create conditions that lead to success for ALL students and confront conditions that create opportunity gaps

This new edition of a bestseller shows school counselors how to incorporate principles of social justice, antiracism, equity, and advocacy into their practice and addresses the reasons why some students are more likely to encounter challenges at school due to racism, sexism, heterosexism, and classism. It includes:

• Vignettes, strategies, activities, and reflective individual and group study questions
• A framework for how school counselors can mitigate the impact of negative factors that hamper academic performance and healthy development, especially among students of color

Six functions of school counselors that move schools toward more just practices and, ultimately, to higher test scores and increased student achievement.

Author: Cheryl Holcomb-McCoy
Publisher: Corwin Publishers
Published: 03/03/2022
Pages: 232
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 10.10h x 7.40w x 0.70d
ISBN13: 9781071854914
ISBN10: 1071854917
BISAC Categories:
- Education | Counseling | Academic Development
- Education | Counseling | Career Development