What Really Matters Is School Counselor Empowerment: A Response to Hipolito-Delgado and Lee

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From 2016-17 academic year, Lee County Educator Efficiency System was used to evaluate Lee county counselor. Previously, EDUCATEAlabama program was used to evaluate Lee County 's counselor from 2009 to 2010 academic year. Previously, the Alabama State Vocational Education Expert Evaluation (PEPE) system was used to evaluate counselors. The local representative is in charge of evaluating the counselor, but the system coordinator will support the completion of the process. If the counselor is located between the two schools, both principals will participate in the evaluation process.

As an act of empowerment, it fights oppression and is interwoven with advice of social justice (Hipolito-Delgado & Lee, 2007; Lee, 2005). For Lee (2005), "Empowerment is a development process to understand how people who are helpless or alienated in some way will affect their lives" (p. Social justice counseling is a theoretical and practical extension of the basic premise of multiculturalism aimed at promoting the redistribution of important resources among groups. From this point of view, consultation with black men is not only to discuss individual problems, but also to conduct a sincere and critical analysis of how to completely suppress inhuman acts by impeding self-actualization. This is explained by the fictional vignette below. It is based on a very common encounter between blacks and campus police.

Conclusion Many scholars seek empowerment of alienated communities, including Chicana / o and Latina / o youth (Hipolito-Delgado & Zion, 2015). Nonetheless, there is a gap in how literature promotes empowerment. Based on the results of this survey, some school counselors cultivate licenses for students of Chicana / o and Latina / o in a manner consistent with the empowerment theory. Through the work of these counselors as a blueprint, the authors promote social and cultural awareness, promote positive identity, promote society by promoting society by establishing relationships of trust with students I will appeal to the school counselor to encourage. Action n