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FAFSA's Expected Family Contribution Is Going Away. Good Riddance.

The dollar figure that the federal financial aid form spits out has long left families confused and despondent. And then there are those great expectations. The Expected Family Contribution — a dreaded and confusing term for parents...

source: The New York Times

The Mathematics of Opportunity: Advancing Social Justice Through Math Education

Math education and social justice are inextricably linked. To truly attain education equity, we need to radically change the role of math to ensure that classes, tests and requirements don't stop students in their educational tracks....

source: Just Equations

Autism Webinar (in Spanish) — Estrategias para apoyar a los niños con autismo 1/28/21

source: NYS Regional Center for Autism Spectrum Disorders

National School Counseling Week-Feb 1-5

National School National School Counseling Week (NSCW) is always celebrated during first full week in February. This year, NSCW begins on Monday, February 1st and concludes on Friday, February 5th. ASCA's theme for this year's NSCW is: "School Counselors: All In For All...

source: ASCA

Resources to Support Students in Times of Fear and Uncertainty

As you continue to support students and colleagues in the aftermath of the U.S. Capitol attack on Jan. 6, remember that it is OK to acknowledge and process your own emotions you hold space for your students to express theirs. School counselors...

source: ASCA

NYSSCA Board Elections 2021

It's time to become involved in your professional association! The following positions are open for nominations: President-Elect-Elect VP Elementary Level VP Middle Level VP Counselor Educators Regional Governors (3 year term) Region 2, Region 4, Region 6, Region...

source: NYSSCA

NYSSCA Announces Free Counseling Program PD Series

NYSSCA announces an important professional development series, CHAMP CAMP 2.0, for school counselors,...

source: NYSSCA

Is the pandemic to blame for lower college enrollments?

As is customary for a high school principal who lives in the community that he serves, when I see my former...

source: By Brian Stack

'I had no other option.' Teens balance zoom classes and fast-food jobs — Sometimes at the same time — To support struggling families

When the pandemic hit last March, Kashish Bastola, a high school junior in Frisco, Texas, immediately went to work at a Freshii fast food restaurant run by his father. "I felt like I was protecting...

source: The 74

Pandemic's toll shows up on students' college applications

In a college application season like no other, students who have seen every aspect of their lives disrupted by the coronavirus are grappling with how to show their potential. High school seniors around the U.S. are facing January and February college application deadlines...

source: The Associated Press

The unreported gender gap in high school graduation rates

A welcome trend in recent decades has been the sustained rise in high school graduation rates up to a national average of 85% for 2017-2018 — as well as a significant narrowing of differences by race and ethnicity for this educational milestone (though gaps remain)....

source: The Brookings Institution

Schools are a lifeline for homeless students. COVID-19 is severing the connection.

As temperatures began to dip this fall, Allen Blackwell III says he and his colleagues at Baltimore City Public Schools kept watch on weather reports hoping to see it hit 32 degrees. That would herald the opening of winter shelters...

source: EdSurge

How to ease back to in-person learning

The unpredictability of COVID-19 means that while many districts have returned to full in-person learning, many also have retained either a fully remote or hybrid learning schedule. Still others returned to in-person learning and then had to pivot to remote learning due...

source: District Administration Magazine

Virtual learning will stick around after COVID fades

About two in 10 U.S. school districts have already adopted, plan to adopt or are considering adopting virtual learning after the end of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new RAND Corporation study. The survey of district leaders indicates that virtual learning was the...

source: eSchool News

US Supreme Court to weigh whether schools may discipline students for internet speech

The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear a major case on student speech, granting a Pennsylvania school district's appeal of a lower court ruling that had overturned the discipline of a high school student who posted a vulgar...

source: Education Week

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Ending the torture of bullying: Resources, lesson plans and activities

FAFSA's Expected Family Contribution Is Going Away. Good Riddance.

The Mathematics of Opportunity: Advancing Social Justice Through Math Education

Autism Webinar (in Spanish) — Estrategias para apoyar a los niños con autismo 1/28/21

National School Counseling Week-Feb 1-5

Resources to Support Students in Times of Fear and Uncertainty

NYSSCA Board Elections 2021

NYSSCA Announces Free Counseling Program PD Series

Is the pandemic to blame for lower college enrollments?

'I had no other option.' Teens balance zoom classes and fast-food jobs — Sometimes at the same time — To support struggling families

Pandemic's toll shows up on students' college applications

The unreported gender gap in high school graduation rates

Schools are a lifeline for homeless students. COVID-19 is severing the connection.

How to ease back to in-person learning

Virtual learning will stick around after COVID fades

US Supreme Court to weigh whether schools may discipline students for internet speech

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