We hope that you are all doing well. Our names are Dr. Timothy “T.J.” Schoonover, Dr. Yenitza Guzman, and Christy Tran and we are inviting you to participate in a research study entitled The Experiences of School Counselors-in-Training Learning Anti-Racist Practices: A Phenomenological Study.

This study will examine how school counselors learn about anti-racist practices in their graduate program and what anti-practices they learn, as well as the experiences within their graduate program. This study is approved by the Institutional Review Board at Northern Illinois University with IRB Protocol # HS23-0462

To participate in this study, you must meet the following criteria:

• Must be 18 years of age or above to consent.
• Must be a school counselor in training
• Completed a minimum of nine graduate-level course credits from a counselor training program.
• Agree to record interviews.
• The capacity and willingness to contribute to this study.
• Assurance that sufficient time will be dedicated to the interview rounds.
• Ability to access the Internet and email.

If you meet this criteria, here is the link to the informed consent and demographic survey in Qualtrics.

Your completion of these documents does not guarantee you as a participant in this study. After completion of the survey, you will be contacted by a member of the research team to schedule an interview.

Participation is voluntary and will require approximately 75 minutes to complete the following:

a) Qualtrics survey

b) Initial qualitative interview

c) Follow-up qualitative interview

After completion of the follow-up interview participants will be sent a $10 eGift card to Amazon.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us at tschoonover@niu.edu, yguzman@niu.edu, or Z1934107@students.niu.edu.