School Counselors - The Finest Contemporary Collaborators
“As this chapter points out, we believe that it is essential to collaborate with professionals from other areas of specialization.” (Chung, Bemak ,2012, p 196). It has been my professional experience that school counselors and the other professionals within a school are outstanding collaborators. I would be both happy and proud to invite any professional from the community to come and observe a team of school professionals collaborate. I have attended countless I.E.P meetings, 504 meetings, SST meetings, and recently PBIS meetings. The goal of all these meetings is to improve the educational experience of an individual student, a group of students or the climate of the school. Perhaps these collaborations are so successful because all of the professionals involved care about the students more than money or power or because there is a protocol involved in the way the meeting is carried out. I am not certain but they do work! In an IEP (Individualized Educat