The goals of our workshop, has and will remain, to restore, refresh, and rejuvenate our counseling professionals while providing resources and connections to address educational issues.  We will provide knowledge and tools to create great interactions and positive outcomes with diverse student learners.

Past sessions have included: Middle to High School Transition, Changing Dynamics in Education, Restorative Practices, Trauma & Mental Health Awareness, Grief Counseling, and so much more.

Sessions will include the military and career guidance and technical programs as career options and college preparatory sessions.

We welcome Dr. Jerlando F.L. Jackson as our Keynote Speaker!

Jerlando F. L. Jackson is the ninth dean of the Michigan State University College of Education, MSU Research Foundation Professor of Education, and Director and Chief Research Scientist of the Organizational Disparities Laboratory. 

For thirty consecutive years, MSU has been ranked a top public College of Education with academic programs in education, health, and well-being. MSU College of Education has 10 programs ranked in the top-15, with three ranked #1, six in the top-5, and eight in the top-10. 

As dean, Jackson is committed to continuing the MSU College of Education’s rich legacy of leadership, scholarship and service, with a keen focus on interdisciplinary and cross-college collaborations with a defined state, national, and global footprint through key partnerships. Since assuming the deanship in July 2022, Jackson has ushered the college through the finalization of a strategic plan and strengthened relationships with the MSU College of Natural Science and MSU Health Sciences, resulting in new initiatives. In particular, the Advancing Education with Science strategic priority positions the college to lead in the areas of virtual education, intelligent classroom design and utility, artificial intelligence in education, STEM education, and VAX-R, the mixed application of virtual reality, augmented reality, and extended reality to create industry changing teaching and learning experiences. The initiative creates new opportunities with MSU’s College of Natural Sciences, College of Communication Arts and Sciences, College of Engineering, Lyman Briggs College, College of Social Science, and external partners including Great Lakes Virtual Reality.

Dean Jackson is also committed to harnessing the transformative power of education and fostering an innovative, enriching, and supportive organizational culture and environment in which faculty, staff, and students can optimize their professional growth. Thus, he created a series of initiatives to foster information sharing, collaboration, and support amongst the college community, including InformED, in which university leaders share expertise with the college, and ExplorED, a video series showcasing influential leaders discussing critical challenges related to education, health and well-being.