Empower to Lead
Leadership, advocacy, and systems change.
You're more than the title. School counselors carry students, families, and campuses every day, and rarely get a day that's built for them. This is that day.
Region 4 School Counseling Symposium
Empower. Expand. Elevate.
You're more than the title. School counselors carry students, families, and campuses every day, and rarely get a day that's built for them. This is that day.
Join school counselors and counseling leaders from across the region during National School Counseling Week for practical, practitioner-led learning, a keynote from the #techCAREtwins, and a full day designed to recognize the work you do.
Wednesday, February 3, 2027
Region 4 McKinney Conference Center
$350
Call for Presenters
Share What's Working in School Counseling
Our best sessions come from counselors in the field. If you have a strategy, program, or practice that's making a difference for students, we want to hear about it.
Submit a Proposal
Proposals due Friday, December 11, 2026.
We welcome proposals across six strands:
- Empower to LeadLeadership, advocacy, and systems change
- Empower Student SuccessAcademic achievement, engagement, and student supports
- Empower the FutureCollege, career, and life readiness
- Empower WellnessMental health, resilience, and belonging
- Empower Your ProgramComprehensive school counseling, data, and accountability
- Empower What's NextInnovation, technology, and the future of school counseling
Keynote
Meet the #techCAREtwins
Twin sisters Dyann Wilson and Amy Storer help Texas school counselors use technology with intention: to engage students, scale mental health initiatives, simplify administrative work, and keep care at the center.
Dyann Wilson, a school counselor and edtech advocate, helps transform counseling programs through intentional uses of technology and digital tools that make SEL more accessible, engaging, and relational.
Amy Storer, an Innovative Learning Specialist in Montgomery ISD, is a certified trainer for Google, Microsoft, Adobe Express, and Canva, and brings practical strategies that make learning meaningful.
Every registered participant receives a copy of School Counselor Resource Series: AI Explorers: Empower Students with Artificial Intelligence Awareness.
Built for Everyone Who Supports Students
Whether you counsel students every day, lead a counseling program, or are working toward becoming a school counselor, there's a place for you here.
Elementary Counselors
Middle School Counselors
High School Counselors
Counseling Directors & Coordinators
Special Education Counselors
College & Career Advisors
MTSS & Student Support Staff
Administrators
Aspiring Counselors
Six Pathways. One Day Built for You.
Choose the breakout sessions that fit your role and your students across four breakout rounds.
Empower Student Success
Academic achievement, engagement, and student supports.
Empower the Future
College, career, and life readiness.
Empower Wellness
Mental health, resilience, and belonging.
Empower Your Program
Comprehensive school counseling, data, and accountability.
Empower What's Next
Innovation, technology, and the future of school counseling.
Event Feature
Celebrate National School Counseling Week With Us
The symposium falls in the middle of National School Counseling Week, and the whole day is designed to honor you. Registration includes breakfast, snacks, lunch, a conference bag, the keynote's book, and giveaways throughout the day.
Learn, Connect, and Be Celebrated.
Spend a day with school counselors from across the region and leave with ideas you can use with your students right away.
Wednesday, February 3, 2027
Region 4 McKinney Conference Center
Register for the School Counseling Symposium
Wednesday, February 3, 2027
7:00 am – 3:30 pm CT
Region 4 McKinney Conference Center
7200 Northwest Drive, Houston, Texas, 77092