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.NYSSCA UPDATE
Happy New Year from the Professional Development Committee
NYSSCA
Be on the lookout for registration emails for our upcoming Professional Development Webinars:
- School Counselor Evaluation; Dr. Hennessey Lustica, January 12, 4-5 p.m.
- Equity and Access for All Students; Derek Francis, January 21, 4-5 p.m.
- CHAMP Camp 2.0 webinar series starting January 25, 4-6 p.m.
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Tuition Assistance Program for School Counselors
NYSED
Intensive Teacher Institute in Bilingual Special Education (ITI-BSE) The New York State Education Department P-12 Office of Special Education created the ITI-BSE in 1994 to address the shortage of certified bilingual and English as a second language (ESOL) special education teachers, bilingual teachers of students with speech and language disabilities, and bilingual pupil personnel professionals. This state-funded program provides tuition assistance for fifteen credits of specialized coursework and facilitates the certification process for these professionals who are currently working in New York public schools or approved preschools. ITI-BSE funds $930 per course for up to 5 courses to help NYS Public School Counselors obtain their Bilingual Extension. Click here for more info and applications.
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The Alzheimer's Foundation of America is offering a scholarship to high school seniors — Awards up for $5,0000
Alzheimer's Foundation of America
The Alzheimer's Foundation of America is offering a scholarship to high school seniors who are collegebound.
Please disseminate this to those students who may be eligible and benefit.
In order to be eligible, the student must:
- Be a senior in high school
- Planning to attend a 4-year accredited U.S. college/university in the fall of 2021
- Submit a 1,200 to 1,500-word essay describing how Alzheimer's disease has impacted their lives and what they have learned about themselves, their family and/or their community through their experience with Alzheimer's
- Attach their unofficial/official high school transcript upon submitting their essay
Essays can be submitted by visiting www.alzfdn.org/scholarship.
Scholarship essays are due: Monday, February 15, 2021 by end of day.
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Parental Right to Decline Examination Waivers
NYSED
As you may be aware, the Department released information pertaining to the parental right to decline exemptions for students who, due to an exemption, are eligible to graduate in January 2021. Both the memo and sample form are available on the Guidance for P-12 Schools webpage of our COVID-19 site in the "Additional Memos and Resources from NYSED" section.
Questions pertaining to exam exemptions and graduation requirements in light of COVID-19 cancellations can be directed to our Office of Curriculum and Instruction at emscgradreq@nysed.gov or (518) 474-5922.
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Stress Less To Be Your Best
NYSCEA
Thursday, January 14, 2021, 3-4 p.m., Presenter Monica Smith, MINDFUL ENDEVOURS, LLC
We will explore stress on a physical and emotional level as it relates to language, mindset, and strategies to implement that will allow us to stress-less always keeping
in mind that practice makes progress. This is particularly important as we have found ourselves in the position of
increasing our virtual experience which at times can be isolating socially.
Join Monica online for this free webinar on Thursday, January 14th, at 3 p.m. by clicking here.
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TPC Dissertation Award — Entries Due February 20, 2021
The Professional Counselor
The Professional Counselor (TPC) confers the annual Dissertation Excellence Award to recognize original research that significantly contributes to the counseling profession. Applicants must be current graduate counseling students or recent graduates of a university or college program accredited by the Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP) and must hold an active National Certified Counselor (NCC) certification.
Eligible dissertations must have been successfully completed between April 2019 and January 2021 and not have been published or submitted for potential publication.
The winner of the Dissertation Excellence Award will receive $1,500 and be published in TPC.
Visit the TPC Scholarship Awards page for more information and application materials and instructions. Entries are due by Feb. 15, 2021
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.AROUND THE INDUSTRY
New York banned facial recognition in schools. Will other states follow?
Education Week
Facial recognition is officially banned in New York state schools — for now. Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Dec. 22 signed into law a bill passed this summer by the New York state legislature that immediately halts the use of biometric identifying technology in schools until at least July 2022, and requires the state education department to evaluate the privacy implications of the controversial tool.
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COVID-19 hits high schooler college plans hard
THE Journal
While there was little effect on high school graduation rates this year, due to changes in education wrought by COVID-19, the number of 2020 high school graduates who went to college immediately this fall dropped by nearly 22% compared to 2019 graduates, almost eight times the pre-pandemic loss rate of 2.8%. The decrease occurred across the board, in all kinds of high schools. But the decline hit high poverty schools the hardest, where college enrollment dropped by nearly twice as much as higher income schools.
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Struggling with substance use recovery — And high school — In a pandemic
EdSurge
At Archway Academy in Houston, which serves 50 high school students who are in recovery from substance use disorder, counseling sessions are essentially on-demand. Students can ask for support any time they feel a panic attack coming on, or if they feel overwhelmed or angry. Coupled with a tight-knit sense of community, it's what makes the school successful, says Executive Director Sasha Coles.
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How one school counselor is trying to tackle a pandemic mental health crisis
The San Diego Union-Tribune
School counselor Bonnie Hayman is charged with taking care of 1,100 middle-school kids and almost 100 staff during a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic. Hayman, who works at the currently closed La Mesa Arts Academy in the La Mesa-Spring Valley School District, is seeing up close how months of school closures, isolation and pandemic-induced stress are harming children. Student anxiety and depression have been rising at the school. Teachers tell her about students who have lost family members to COVID-19, who don't have enough food to eat or who were crying or looking tired during a Zoom class.
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How K-12 schools are expanding tech support along with remote learning
EdTech Magazine
Since the shift to remote and hybrid learning, many parents have found themselves playing the role of tech support — a job they aren't always prepared for. At the same time, school help desk teams are already stretched thin trying to support student and teacher IT needs during distance learning. Some 64% of K–12 parents surveyed said they received little or no tech support last year, PC Magazine reports. Nearly 67% said they needed more guidance in order to support student learning. Recognizing this, IT teams around the nation have leveraged a range of creative approaches to expand remote learning resources and instructional support.
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MULTIBRIEFS EXCLUSIVE
Supporting social-emotional learning in today's classroom
By Sheilamary Koch
Before students can really focus on math, science or any academic subject, they need to have their basic needs met, and one of those needs is emotional security. Today, students' stress may be related to economic uncertainty in the family, concern about an elderly loved one or even being able to log in for class. Even prior to today's pandemic-triggered upheaval, many educators were strongly advocating for social-emotional learning to address bullying in the classroom as well as to help students develop the skills today's employers are seeking such as the ability to tolerate unpleasant emotions.
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Biden's choice for education secretary
Inside Higher Ed
President-elect Joe Biden has selected Connecticut education commissioner Miguel Cardona as his education secretary. "Dr. Cardona has a proven track record as an innovative leader who will fight for all students, and for a better, fairer, more successful education system," Biden said in a pre-Christmas announcement.
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Protecting students from cyberbullying in the virtual classroom
EdTech Magazine
With kids spending more time online than ever, many teachers are witnessing an increase in cyberbullying among their students in online classrooms. In a recent report, L1ght analyzed communication on millions of websites, discussion boards and gaming platforms. The results were bleak, with a 70% increase in hate speech and a 40% increase in online toxicity between students in online platforms.
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Accessibility and remote classrooms — Are your digital learning tools leaving students behind?
ElearningInside News
Educators around the world are adopting digital learning tools to adjust to new remote educational environments necessitated by the COVID-19 pandemic. However, in an effort to reach and support students by virtual means, teachers risk leaving the most vulnerable behind. In the U.S., the nearly 7 million students with disabilities make up 14% of public school enrollment, yet many edtech tools on the market lack advanced accessibility features to fully support disabled students.
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5 priorities for education today
eSchool News
What does education look like in a global pandemic? It depends a lot on how well you were prepared. There is no shortage of challenges and issues. As educators, we attempt to prepare our students for the world that exists around them. Most importantly, we want our students to be ready to lead meaningful and productive lives once they become adults, in addition to being respectful and responsible citizens.
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MULTIBRIEFS EXCLUSIVE
How educators can best focus on the social-emotional needs of boys
By Sheilamary Koch
Creating safe spaces for youth, in particular boys and young men, to express what they're going through and heal from trauma is one of Chad Reed's overriding objectives. His personal history and work with nonprofits serving youth of color in the San Francisco Bay Area has made him a strong advocate for social-emotional learning, which he believes is a must before academic subject matter. While developing the soft skills reflected in CASEL's five competencies can be challenging for all students, one's gender, socio-economic level and cultural background can shape how readily a student can integrate this learning.
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Education through the pandemic: From Florida's remote learners falling behind in-person peers to Houston schools scoring record failure rates, 9 ways states and educators are coping with COVID-19
The 74
Education advocates, prominent lawmakers and even regional newspaper editorial boards, are voicing support for administering state standardized assessments this spring as required under federal law. Their support comes even as many reluctantly agree that temporarily decoupling test results from accountability measures may be necessary amid the pandemic. Dale Chu, author of the Testing 1-2-3 blog on Assessment HQ, highlighted several of these statements last month, including from Eric Davis, the chairman of the North Carolina State Board of Education: "An essential element of our education recovery from the pandemic is to get as much information as we can about where students are academically and be able to determine strategies, resources, personnel about how to move our students forward."
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