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Your email address will not be published. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. It takes a village: How counselors and psychologists support the college aspirations of students of color. By Gorana Ilic, James E. Rosenbaum, Isabelle Matthies, and Lynn Meissner. Climate change: The thief of childhood. Mental health services in schools: Student perceptions. Career Confidential. Phyllis L. Now, with the advent of the pandemic caused by the novel coronavirus, many school counselors have become connectors and comforters-in-chief — not just to students but to parents and school staff.
Last spring, schools began closing in response to the pandemic. According to Education Week , 48 states; four U. Suddenly, students, families, counselors, teachers and administrators all had to find a way to virtually re-create their in-person school routines.
This already-challenging shift was complicated by the significant number of students who lacked access to high-speed internet or desktop, laptop or tablet computers. Already at a disadvantage, these disenfranchised students — many of whom were Black, Indigenous or people of color BIPOC — now faced being completely locked out of school academic activities for the rest of the year. Many schools spent the spring and summer scrambling to provide devices and internet access to students — a task that was still incomplete going into the new school year.
Stories of students struggling to keep up with online instruction on cell phones are still not uncommon. In addition, when the economy took a nosedive as the coronavirus spread, it made it hard to focus on anything but survival for many families. But even financially secure families found it challenging to provide the ideal learning environment as — in many cases — parents working from home with multiple children wrestled with carving out a physical space and a time for each person to be online.
Students missed getting to see their friends and participating in extracurricular activities. Sports seasons were canceled. The theater curtains never went up on school plays. Rites of passage such as prom and graduation ceremonies largely fell by the wayside. And now it is fall, meaning a brand new school year. Even so, in many parts of the country, the football fields and stands will remain empty, the marching band instruments will stay silent and there will be no homecoming dances.
Things are decidedly not back to normal. No one knows what the future will hold. Continuing to hold classes online while simultaneously ensuring that students and families have the needed technological resources — or, in some cases, the absolute basics, such as enough food to eat — continues to be a team effort. Because safeguarding the mental, emotional and physical welfare of students is the essence of what school counselors do, these professionals have typically been at the center of the problem-solving process since the arrival of the coronavirus.
Counseling Today spoke to several school counselors at the end of the school year and as they prepared for the new fall semester to learn more about the challenges of performing their jobs in the midst of a pandemic.
Bancroft is a Title I school i. Many of the families in the district live in poverty and often share relatively small living quarters with extended family. If they trust the counselors and teachers, she says, they will be more likely to reach out if they need help addressing emotional or mental health problems or accessing vital resources such as food and shelter. Schools in Washington, D. We owe it to the kids. School counselors can be an integral part of school administration.
They ensure that the school counseling program and academic mission are in line and promote student success. Counselors also quite often develop a system to manage the program and help the administration use counselors effectively to augment student development and learning.
Additionally, they provide useful data from the program for funding and grant application purposes. A good school counselor can and will help the school run smoothly and effectively, but with the light and distanced touch that can often lead others to wonder what effect they have even had on their education, if any.
To learn more, contact an Alliant Admission Counselor today at Published by Alliant International University. Still, 11 million high schoolers attend a school with not enough school counselors.
This is unacceptable. In fact, many of the recent and potential teacher strikes have not only been a fight for better pay, but more resources and supports, such as school counselors. Because every child in America deserves to live up to their full potential. That means having access to the academic and social-emotional support they need when they need it. There is a common misconception that equity and equality mean the same thing — and that they can be….
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