About that Level Playing Field: Closing the Opportunity, Information, and Achievement Gaps

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School counselors are powerful allies in delivering strategies that impact the achievement gap. As school counselors, we have the ability to open doors so that every student has equitable access to a level playing field. This presentation focuses on school counselors doing practical work to impact the opportunity and information gaps, which have resulted in moving the achievement gap in a positive direction. Professional School Counselors all over America are reporting hard data showing how counselors impact students and help close gaps. Data will be presented from school counseling programs that have used an accountability system to impact course enrollment patterns and other measurable indicators of reducing the achievement gap.

Speaker:
Carolyn Stone, President of the American School Counselor Association and Director and Professor, University of North Florida, Jacksonville, FL