Introduction to the Special Issue: Creating Social Capital through School Counselor-Principal Collaboration

Abstract

Intentional collaboration among school principals and school counselors can improve the student experience by better meeting students’ social/emotional, academic, and career and college readiness needs. In this special issue, we seek to share the many ways school counselors and school administrators (e.g., principals, assistant principals) can effectively work together to ensure that school counseling programs throughout pre-K–12 schools are comprehensive, support equitable opportunities, and empower all students to experience success. This special issue includes 11 articles representing conceptual, qualitative, quantitative, mixed-methods, and best practices methodologies with a commitment to equity and access while simultaneously bridging social capital to create networks of resources within the school and the community to support all students.

Keywords

collaboration educational leadership principal school counselor social capital

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