Not Alone

This statement is so common: “Our child would not have graduated from high school without … .”

It’s a Celebration

The classic single was released in October 1980, a month after I started my sophomore year in high school, and was the song used for the dance routine for varsity cheerleading tryouts later that school year.

Let's Get Together

Twenty-five years ago, my husband and I were juggling two jobs, a toddler and infant twins in our rural North Carolina community.

Recovery and Repair

The weather was volatile and sinister in our small North Carolina county the winter our twins were born. 

A Common and Consistent Identity

Equity for All

Even though the U.S. Constitution requires all children be given an equal educational opportunity regardless of race, religion, gender, socioeconomic status or citizenship, we still haven’t managed to achieve equity and equality in our schools.

School Counseling Heroes 

Does Anybody Have a Map

A Silver Lining

My Hat's Off

Gadgets and Gizmos

We Look to You

A voice of reason. A protector of students. A positive, humble and strong advocate for school counselors. And, most importantly, a kind human.

Inside Insight: Working Together

"I think I'm gonna like it here."

Growing Complexities

A Team Approach

Never Stop Learning

I grew up in the North Carolina mountains, the daughter of two university professors and the granddaughter of an illiterate tobacco farmer. Our Protestant, church-going family was socially conservative but politically liberal, thanks to FDR’s New Deal policies that provided employment to my grandfather.

Always a School Counselor

Captivating Stories & Celebrations

Maslow Before Bloom

2020, for all of its problems, could go down as the year in which Maslow before Bloom was acknowledged by everyone involved in education.