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NYSED
The Board of Regents and State Education Department today announced the first regional information meetings being hosted across the state to gather feedback on what a state diploma should signify to ensure educational excellence and equity for every student in New York State. The meetings are an integral part of Phase I in the Board and Department's review of graduation measures and will offer opportunities for stakeholders and members of the public to share input. The draft Graduation Measures Review timeline has also been amended to allow more time for these meetings and to conduct the literature review.
Regional Meetings
We encourage School Counselors and Administrators to participate in these regional meetings. At least one meeting will be held in each judicial district through April 2020. The meeting will be led by the local Board of Regents Member, the BOCES District Superintendent or Big Five district staff. The meetings will include the opportunity for attendees to break out into small groups to discuss and provide feedback on each of five guiding questions:
- What do we want students to know and to be able to do before they graduate?
- How do we want students to demonstrate such knowledge and skills?
- How do you measure learning and achievement (as it pertains to the answers to #2 above) to ensure they are indicators of high school completion?
- How can measures of achievement accurately reflect the skills and knowledge of our special populations, such as students with disabilities and English language learners?
- What course requirements or examinations will ensure that students are prepared for college and careers or civic engagement?
For those who cannot attend a meeting, there is an online survey of the 5 guiding questions on our dedicated Graduation Measures website to provide feedback.
The list of meetings scheduled to date is here. Please note that meeting dates are being added and modified and that pre-registration is required. Please check NYSED's Graduation Measures website for the latest information on dates and registration information.
ASCA
As you know, National School Counseling Week is always celebrated during first full week in February. This year, NSCW begins on Monday, Feb. 3 and concludes on Friday, Feb. 7. ASCA's theme for this year's NSCW is: "School Counselors: Helping Build Better Humans."
This is our week to celebrate, advocate and shine a light on the amazing work that we do with and for students! ASCA provides its members a variety of items to assist you celebrate this week. Many free materials and a National School Counseling Week Promo Toolkit is available for school counselors on their website.
NYSUT
The NYSUT Professional Issues Forum on Health Care will be held April 4 at NYSUT Headquarters in Latham.
This conference provides NYSUT members with professional development and networking opportunities and is designed for:
- Pre-K-12 school nurses
- Higher education health care faculty and professionals
- School psychologists, therapists and counselors
- Occupational and physical therapists
- Speech-language pathologists
- VNA nurses
- Nurses and health care professionals in hospitals and other health care facilities.
As conference details become available that information will be posted at nysut.org/healthcareforum.
NYSUT
As state policymakers launch a two-year exploration into changing graduation requirements, NYSUT is polling members both formally and informally to see what they think about Regents exams and possible alternatives.
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NYSUT
NYSUT seeks candidates for an LRS position in the Central New York — Syracuse RO and for an LRS Intern position in the Nassau RO. Send letters and resumes to NYSUT Human Resources, hr@nysutmail.org, by Jan. 31 for the Syracuse opening and by Feb. 7 for the Nassau opening.
Education Week
Counselors often warn their students that college admissions officers may be taking a peek at their social media accounts. And a new survey confirms their cautions. More than a third of the nearly 300 college admissions officers surveyed by the Kaplan Test Prep company say they have visited sites like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube to get more information about a prospective student. That's up from 25% last year, but down a bit since 2015, when 40% of admissions officers said they used social media to inform admissions decisions.
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WV News
With the start of the second semester around the corner, school counselors are stressing the importance of 11th- and 12th-graders preparing for life, post-graduation. Whether visiting colleges or filling out scholarship applications, Harrison County school counselors said the earlier students start, the better.
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By: Bambi Majumdar (commentary)
 The beginning of every new year spawns a flurry of predictions. This year's predictions in education mark a definite shift in direction. According to experts, education will be moving away from one-size-fits-all assessments and memorizing facts to learning how to make a difference. In the next decade, solving complex problems will be most important for students. Forbes predicts that, instead of an obsession with testing and ranking, cohort education will involve place-based learning experiences. Experiential learning will slowly become the new normal.
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Edutopia
So often we find students in a stressed or anxious state of mind. The most telltale signs are inappropriate behaviors or outbursts, negative comments and anxiety-ridden movements such as fidgeting, leg shaking and fist clenching. These signals should raise immediate concern and indicate to educators that a response may be needed. The goal is to guide the student to a self-regulated mindset, but how does a teacher do that?
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District Administration Magazine
Special education educators and administrators — and mainstream educators with an interest in helping students with special needs — had many options to choose from during the first two days of FETC®.
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MiddleWeb (commentary)
Liz Garden, a contributor for MiddleWeb, writes: "Have you heard educators talk about each child needing just one caring adult? If you have not listened to Josh Shipp tell his story and share this important message about connecting with kids. In my twelfth year as an administrator, being the one adult for so many different kids is my absolute favorite part of the job."
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By: Patrick Gleeson (commentary)
 "Growth mindset" theory in education proposes that minds are malleable: teachers can improve students' "intelligence, ability and performance" by encouraging them to believe their learning abilities aren't fixed, but are capable of growth. The theory is popular in education circles. Firsthand teacher accounts show dramatic learning improvements attributed to growth mindset. It also has its detractors. At least one well-designed study found little evidence the theory really does work in practice. Who's right?
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eSchool News
According to the Nation's Report Card, about two-thirds of eighth-graders are not proficient readers. What's even more alarming is the fact that the size of that cohort has remained steady for the last 25 years! This means, unless they have had intervening remedial instruction, the majority of ninth-to-12th-grade students are also non-proficient readers. And, as can be seen by the Report Card, those inadequate reading comprehension skills are producing below-grade-level performance across academic subjects.
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Education DIVE
The fears and perceptions that many educators have about the middle school years could be holding students back, Derek McCoy, the director of learning and innovation for Georgia's Grady County Schools, said Thursday in a session at the Future of Education Technology Conference.
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Reuters Health
Coaches who teach young male athletes about respectful relationship behaviors may be able to help prevent dating violence and aggressive behavior toward female peers, a U.S. study suggests. Researchers tested the effectiveness of Coaching Boys Into Men, a program that seeks to prevent dating violence and sexual assault by enlisting coaches to speak frankly with middle-school male athletes about how they should — and should not — treat the opposite sex.
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Edutopia
In a demographic change similar to one that's playing out across the country, the student body in Maryland's Montgomery County Public Schools has shifted from being 94% white 50 years ago to just 30% today. Nationally, students of color now make up about 51% of public K–12 students — a figure the U.S. Census Bureau expects to increase over the next several decades.
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Education Week
When Congress passed a broad law on educating children with disabilities in 1975, it agreed to kick in federal dollars to help cover the excess costs of meeting students' individual education needs. In the time since, federal funding for what's now known as the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act has consistently fallen short of the target included in the law, leaving state and local officials on the hook.
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Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health via Science Daily
Children with elevated exposure to early life stress in the home and elevated prenatal exposure to air pollution exhibited heightened symptoms of attention and thought problems, according to researchers. Early life stress is common in youth from disadvantaged backgrounds who also often live in areas with greater exposure to air pollution.
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