ABSTRACT
What might a school counselor learn when she consults Pasifika students and parents about how a secondary school could do things differently? That is the story this chapter tells. These consultations told of the parents' hopes for their daughters' education and were alive with possibilities for action while at times gently exposing corners of cultural blindness on the part of the school. Most particularly, the consultations suggested that the means for crossing bridges of cultural difference were readily available to Pasifika students and families and that, perhaps, schools, counselors, and teachers might learn more from them about the nature of bridge crossing.
