“…They valued collaborating with stakeholders (e.g., students, teachers, and administrators) to gain their buy‐in and support, which included creating and implementing the MTSS framework together. Thus, participants’ collaborative leadership in MTSS parallels several types of school counseling leadership theories: transformational, distributed, servant, and transformative (Harris & Hockaday, 2018; Janson et al., 2009; Shields et al., 2018; Lowe et al., 2018; Young & Dollarhide, 2018), as well as school counselors’ roles implementing CSCPs (ASCA, 2019). Overall, in tandem with previous literature, the current findings highlight the importance of school counseling leadership as intentionally collaborative, yet new to the literature also underscores school counselor's role in MTSS leadership specifically.…”