School Psychology Futures Conference Advancing Preparation, Practice, and Scholarship: Reimagining Student Success

The School Psychology Futures Conference represents a decennial effort to examine the field’s evolving responsibilities to children, youth, families, schools, and communities. This special topic section—School Psychology Futures Conference Advancing Preparation, Practice, and Scholarship: Reimagining Student Success—highlights scholarship inspired by the 2023–2024 Futures Conference. This introductory article situates the 2023–2024 Futures Conference within a broader history of future-oriented scholarship and professional self-examination in school psychology. We argue that the conference extended and reoriented long-standing conversations about role expansion, prevention, consultation, systems change, leadership, and advocacy by centering intersectional social justice, anti-oppressive practice, and liberatory education and mental health care. The special topic section is organized around six pillars: Leadership, Science and Scholarship, Practice, Education and Lifelong Learning, Workforce Development, and Advocacy. Across these pillars, the included articles address social change leadership, culturally responsible and community-centered practice, graduate preparation and mentorship, workforce sustainability and diversity, early childhood systems, artificial intelligence, restorative justice, and advocacy for systems transformation. Collectively, the articles reimagine student success with a broader vision grounded in belonging, dignity, cultural affirmation, agency, mental health, opportunity, and structural change. This special topic section offers a forward-looking agenda for school psychology as a visible, necessary, and relevant force advancing equitable and liberatory educational and mental health systems.Impact StatementThis special topic section advances a reimagined vision of school psychology grounded in leadership, culturally responsible practice, systems-level advocacy, and liberatory education and mental health care. The contributions offer actionable directions for strengthening graduate preparation, diversifying and sustaining the workforce, expanding equity-oriented scholarship, and promoting practices that are responsive to children’s, families’, and communities’ lived experiences. Overall, this work positions school psychologists as leaders, collaborators, and advocates who can help transform systems so that student success includes not only achievement and mental health, but also belonging, dignity, agency, and opportunity.