I hope you are not alarmed when I tell you that I have a little voice in my head that takes pleasure in taunting me with the notion that I really have no idea what I am doing...that I am some kind of imposter in the various roles that I take on...and that it will not be long before everyone around me finds me out.This school counseling blog hit home with me as it relates to keeping this voice in check.

I have been blessed in my ten years of experience as a school counselor to work alongside two principals who both understood the importance of a collaborative partnership between school counselors and principals.  What I appreciated most about our relationship was that each principal, one at the middle school level and one at the high school level, had a high level of respect for my position and training as a school counselor.

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I subscribe to a listserv for counselor educators and supervisors called CESNET and this thread came up posted by Wes Irwin:

I was surprised to learn that the school district that I recently moved into, Mounds View School District, MN has replaced school counselors with "Deans." If you are interested you can read more about this on their website via a link to their electronic newsletter http://www.moundsviewschools.org/ from the Spring of 2010.  This school district is pretty highly rated. I do not yet know the background as to what brought this about. Is this a trend nationwide?

If there is one thing that the recent FOX television program got right, it is the gender and age of the school counselor on Glee.

With Wednesday night class, I have seen about 15 minutes of three different episodes of this new program.  As I was watching the glee club teacher and another character (Emma Pillsbury) hook up last night, my daughter informed me that she was the school counselor.

A current debate is raging in professional counseling associations surrounding the issue of professional identity of counselors.

The Association of Michigan School Counselors (AMSC) and the Michigan School Counselor Association (MSCA) are hosting a joint spring conference on April 27, 2009 at Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti, Michigan.

Since the profession of school counseling has opened up to include non-teachers being trained as school counselors, there has been much debate surrounding the following question:  Does one need to be trained as a teacher to be an effective professional school counselor?

School counselor v. guidance counselor:  Does it really matter?  When we talk about the role of the counseling position in schools, many would argue that the title doesn't matter.