The Transformed School Counselor In Action
Carol Dahir
Assistant Professor & Coordinator of Counseling
New York Institute of Technology

Session Description
What does it take to tackle the challenges of 21st century schools and ensure that all students receive what is needed to achieve? The impact of today’s school counselor goes far beyond the reach of the traditional “guidance counselor”. Explore the attitudes, beliefs, behaviors, knowledge, and skills that will transform a counselor’s work and help deliver an effective school counseling program that provides every student with the academic support, career planning, and personal/social development needed to succeed.

Keynote Speaker
Carol A. Dahir, Ed.D, holds graduate degrees in education, school counseling, and educational administration. She received her doctorate from the Department of Educational Leadership at Hofstra University with a research agenda in school counseling standards. Her background as an educator includes experiences as an elementary school teacher, a middle/junior high and high school counselor, and as a central office administrator supervising both school counseling programs and student support services. She is a former president of NYSSCA, an ASCA Board Member and has extensive experience serving as a consultant for school counseling associations and state departments of education for school counseling programs in 15 states. Carol also served as a consultant to ASCA’s National Model for School Counseling Programs, the College Board, Pathways to Equity and College 101 Project, ACT’s National Career Development Initiative and is a national trainer for the Education Trust’s Transforming School Counseling Initiative. She is co-author of the ASCA National Standards and co-author with Carolyn Stone of School Counselor Accountability: A Measure of Student Success (2004), and the recently released book, The Transformed School Counselor (2005).

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