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According to the U.S. Department of Education (2010), Latina/o English language learners (ELL students) are less likely to complete high school and attend college compared to their White non-Latina/o peers. Numerous factors affect Latina/o ELL students' academic achievement, including insufficient resources, acculturation issues, attitudinal barriers, immigration factors, and English-language proficiency. Through a literature review, we identify particular school counselor interventions that address these barriers and promote college access among Latina/o ELL students.

School counselors are charged with helping students in the personal/social, academic, and career development domains. Obesity creates adverse educational outcomes for students along these three domains, suggesting an obesity achievement gap. Thus, school counselors can benefit from knowing which interventions have been shown to be successful in working with students who are overweight. This article presents school counselors with five empirically-based interventions to confront obesity in their schools: Student Media Awareness to Reduce Television (SMART), Dance for Health, Planet Health, Stanford Health Heart Program, and PE4Life. The specific role that school counselors can assume to help implement these interventions is also reviewed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]