July-September 2026

📅MARK YOUR CALENDARS:

Collaborative Meeting Dates
Please save the following dates for this year's School Counselors Collaborative meetings. I look forward to connecting, sharing, and growing together at each one!

• September 21, 2026
• November 9, 2026
• January 11, 2027
• April 5, 2027

(Visit ARIN's Course Registration site (opens in new window) to register for the trainings; links will be posted later this summer, so keep checking!)

We invite you to join us for the 2026 Fall Counselor Workshops (open in new window). These free, online sessions provide the latest updates on College Board programs and practical resources to support your work with students in the 2026-27 school year. Whether you're helping students plan, prepare, or take their next step, these workshops will ensure you have the most current information and insights to make an impact.

PSCA Conference | December 2-4, 2026 | State College, PA (opens in new window)

The move beyond high school can be exciting — and overwhelming. Set to Go from the Jed Foundation helps students prepare emotionally for life after high school and equips parents and educators with strategies to guide them. Whether it’s college, work, or a gap year, these tools are designed to build resilience, reduce stress, and support mental health. This resource (opens in new window) is timely and relevant.

Research consistently identifies high student-to-counselor ratios as a barrier to effectively meeting students' individualized needs, especially in under-resourced schools (Parzych et al., 2023). In response, best practice recommendations emphasize that school counselors should operate within a Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS) framework (ASCA, 2021), where interventions are layered across universal (Tier 1), targeted (Tier 2), and individualized (Tier 3) levels to ensure that services are proactive, equitable, and responsive to diverse student needs (Goodman-Scott et al., 2020; Sink, 2016).

The Class of 2030 enters high school this fall, and they may be the first cohort where college readiness, career readiness, AI literacy, financial literacy, workforce development, durable skills, and postsecondary planning all converge into a single challenge. Not separate tracks, one student, four years.

We want to hear from Pennsylvania educators about how you're approaching this moment. What is your school or district newly implementing this year for this class? What do you wish you were doing to prepare this class that you're not doing yet, and what's getting in the way?

Take two minutes to share your perspective. Your responses (opens in new window) will shape how we support districts across the state.

Ordering is now open for the SAT Suite of Assessments for the 26-27 school year. To review pricing and new multi-assessment discounts, please visit this site (opens in new window).

In March 2026, the Pennsylvania House Education Committee advanced legislation that would set guidelines requiring at least 80% of a school counselor's time be used for delivering services to students, addressing the issue of counselors being pulled into non-counseling duties like test administration. Read more here (opens in new window).

Amendments to Pennsylvania law under Act 47 of 2025 regarding the disposition of Safe2Say Something reports took effect 60 days after the act's enactment — counselors should make sure they're up to date on any procedural changes this created in their buildings. Read more here (opens in new window).