About me
Dr. Joyce V. Brown is a recognized school counseling leader, serving as a teacher, counselor and district director of School Counseling, within Chicago Public Schools from 2004 - 2008. She was the chief architect of the Chicago Public Schools district-wide four-week summer transition program, Freshman Connection, for 30,000 freshmen and successfully developed and introduced the data driven American School Counseling Association (ASCA) model to repurpose the role of 400 high school counselors as college advising leaders, within the newly formed department of Office of Postsecondary Education. Under her leadership counseling teams won 12 Recognized ASCA Program Awards (RAMP), and in 2005 she was named the best transformed school counseling unit in the state of Illinois by the Illinois School Counseling Association (ISCA). Prior to joining the central office staff, she was a teacher and school counselor at Kenwood Academy for 34 years.
She currently is president of Joyce V. Brown Consulting Group, an organization providing college and workforce readiness coaching and professional development to schools, school districts and non-profit agencies throughout the nation, and is a partner in the newly formed National Postsecondary Strategy Institute (NPSI), an organization that helps school districts organize, structure and implement a district wide postsecondary advising framework, focused on the integration of three components, leadership, a data strategy and school counselor engagement.
Dr. Brown has served as a consultant to the Department of Education FAFSA Tracking Pilot Program, College Board, National Office of School Counselor Advocacy (NOSCA) and the Education Trust. As a founding member of the National Consortium for School Counseling and Postsecondary Success (NCSCPS), she provides consultative services to former First Lady Michelle Obama’s REACH HIGHER Initiative. She has been a panelist on President Obama’s, College Opportunity Agenda, Strengthening School Counseling and College Advising, at Harvard University and a panel moderator for President Barack Obama’s College Opportunity Summit, at the White House. She is also an adjunct faculty member at Johns Hopkins University.
