Whodunit? It's time to open the case file, y'all.
We’ve got a student who keeps leaving class, a behavior plan that is NOT working, and a school counselor whose fingerprints are all over it.
So... who’s actually responsible for the mayhem?
Because when campuses start talking about behavior plans, the details get complicated fast:
Should the school counselor be involved?
Are you actually qualified to write the plan?
And if you do write it, does that make you responsible for whether or not it works?
We’ve got a whole lineup of possible suspects: the student, the staff, and the school counselor.
And by the time we close the case, you may be surprised to learn that “Who wrote the behavior plan?” is the least important question of all.
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All names, stories, and case studies in this episode are fictionalized composites drawn from real-world circumstances. Any resemblance to actual students, families, or school personnel is coincidental. Details have been altered to protect privacy.
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This work is part of the School for School Counselors body of work developed by Steph Johnson, LPC, CSC, which centers role authority over role drift, consultative practice over fix-it culture, adult-designed systems and environments as primary drivers of student behavior, clinical judgment over compliance, and school counselor identity as leadership within complex systems.
