School Counselling to Close Opportunity Gaps: An Antiracist and Social Justice Framework

In this course, Dr. Cheryl Holcomb-McCoy, Dean of School of Education at American University, begins with a powerful contrast between two students, one black and one white, showing the huge opportunity gap between the two. Defining anti-racism and social justice, Dr. Holcomb-McCoy builds the case for why these stances are the only ones that can create conditions leading to success for all students; they do it by confronting conditions that create opportunity gaps. She proposes a six-component framework for anti-racist and social justice school counselling, offering illuminating examples.