The Transformed School Counselor

About Carol A. DahirCarolyn Stone

Carol A. Dahir Ed.D. is a professor and the former chair of the school counseling department at the New York Institute of Technology (NYIT). In addition to working as an elementary teacher and middle school counselor she spent 14 years as supervisor of school counseling programs and student support services. Since 1995 she has served as a consultant for numerous state departments of education school systems school counselor associations and national organizations. As the project director for both the American School Counselor Association's National Standards and Planning for Life (career development) she has focused her writing research and presentations on excellence accountability and continuous improvement for school counselors. A past president of the New York State School Counselor Association she served on the governing board for the American School Counselor Association as a vice president for postsecondary/supervisors and as a North Atlantic Region trustee for the National Career Development Association. She additionally received the Life Career Achievement Award from the New York State School Counselor Association. An accomplished national presenter Dr. Dahir has delivered more than 400 workshops in 48 states and in 12 countries. She has authored more than 75 publications as well as ASCA's Sharing the Vision: The National Standards for School Counseling Programs and Vision Into Action: Implementing the National Standards. She has also collaborated with Dr. Carolyn Stone for three editions of SCHOOL COUNSELOR ACCOUNTABILITY: A MEASURE OF STUDENT SUCCESS. Carolyn Stone Ed.D. is a professor of counselor education at the University of North Florida where she teaches and researches in the area of school counselors and accountability. She also guides school counselors negotiating the legal and ethical complications of working with minors in schools. Prior to becoming a counselor educator in 1995 Dr. Stone spent twenty-two years with Duval County Public Schools in Jacksonville Florida where she served as a middle school teacher elementary and high school counselor. She also supervised 225 school counselors. She was the 2006 president of the American School Counselor Association (ASCA) and is in her twentieth year as ASCA's ethics chair. In 2010 ASCA awarded Dr. Stone its highest honor--the Mary Gerke Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2012 she was awarded the Florida School Counselor's Association's Robert Myrick Lifetime Achievement Award. Dr. Stone was the principal investigator (PI) of the Transformed School Counselor Initiative and is currently the PI for her fourth GEAR UP grant. She is the past president of the Florida Counseling Association and the Florida Association of Counselor Educators and Supervisors. She has delivered more than 700 workshops in 50 states and 18 countries and has authored three books including SCHOOL COUNSELING PRINCIPLES: ETHICS AND LAW. She has also written dozens of journal articles and more than one hundred ASCA columns. Dr. Stone's professional path in middle school teaching elementary and high school counseling and supervision for counselors in a large urban school district and counselor education has equipped her with firsthand experience and understanding of the professional world of school counselors.