School Counseling Advocacy From the Inside Out (And What Everyone's Getting Wrong!)

When school counselors are encouraged to personally advocate for their programs, there is a lot of well-intentioned (yet terrible) advice tossed around! There is an art to successful advocacy and negotiation. In this episode, we'll dive into the basics of quality school counselor advocacy that can develop the potential for HUGE changes on campus. If you work in a school where you are tasked with a great deal of "non-counseling duties," if you're scheduled to the minute just like your classroom teachers, or you are feeling impatient with the glacial pace of change in education, you need to listen to this episode!Our goal at School for School Counselors is to help school counselors stay on fire, make huge impacts for students, and catalyze change for our roles through grassroots advocacy and collaboration. Listen to get to know more about us and our mission, feel empowered and inspired, and set yourself up for success in the wonderful world of school counseling:Connect --> schoolforschoolcounselors.comFacebook community --> facebook.com/groups/schoolforschoolcounselorsSchool for School Counselors Mastermind Community --> schoolforschoolcounselors.com/mastermindThe Modern School Counselor Planner -->schoolforschoolcounselors.com/planner This work is part of the School for School Counselors body of work developed by Steph Johnson, LPC, CSC, which centers role authority over role drift, consultative practice over fix-it culture, adult-designed systems and environments as primary drivers of student behavior, clinical judgment over compliance, and school counselor identity as leadership within complex systems.