This message was sent to ##Email##
|
| February 8, 2018 |
| |  | | |
|
|
|
| |
ASCA
The theme for NSCW 2018 is "School Counselors: Helping Students Reach for the Stars" and will be celebrated from Feb. 5–9.
To help you promote the week, ASCA has developed many materials and documents, a number of which are free. Check out the morning announcements, proclamations and certificates of appreciation.
Also take a look at our new photo and video challenge themes. There is still a chance to get involved in the photo and video challenges.
Remember to use #NSCW18 on social media.
READ MORE
NYSSCA
We are beginning to prepare for our next annual conference which will be held on November 15-17, 2018 at the Sagamore Resort, Lake George, Bolton Landing, NY. Pencil in the date on your calendar. The New York State School Counselor Association is seeking qualified presenters for the 2017 Conference! Our Call for Programs is Now Open. Online submission form available here.
Registration and hotel registration information will be available soon. See you there!
The American Federation of Teachers
The American Federation of Teachers offers this site as a resource for educators who are looking for human rights lesson one click away. Each lesson plan centers around one specific human rights issue or defender, connecting the present to the past and offering actions students can take today.
READ MORE
The American Federation of Teachers
This curated Share My Lesson collection houses some of our favorite resources for related to working with students and colleagues in the field of Special Education. Find strategies and tools for everything you'll want in the classroom and at school as well as to connect with families and advocate for your students.
READ MORE
The New York Times
The academic gaps between groups of students — the poor and the middle class, or black and Hispanic children and their white and Asian peers — often are examined in broad strokes, across a district or an entire city. But a new analysis from the Center for New York City Affairs at the New School takes a closer look by mapping the achievement gaps within each public elementary school in New York City. The results reveal the challenges of integrating students across the system, and of integrating under one roof.
READ MORE
Education Week
Kirsten Perry has heard her share of painful stories of loss, hardship and misfortune as a public school counselor on the west side of Chicago. But she is even more deeply moved by the resilience of her students and the families and vibrance of the community around them. On Friday, Perry received the national 2018 School Counselor of the Year award during a celebration at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington. The American School Counselor Association also honored one school counselor from each state, along with Perry.
READ MORE
U.S. News & World News
For high school sophomores and juniors, SAT and ACT test dates in the winter and early spring can pose a unique issue: focusing on preparation after winter break and amid the threat of snow days. It may be simple to put off studying until the next day, but this likely will not translate to success on either exam. If you are having a bit of trouble transitioning back to SAT or ACT prep with the busy spring semester bearing down on you, here are three tips to ensure your preparations don't fall by the wayside.
READ MORE
ADDitude Magazine
No child can succeed at school if he believes he is less smart or less capable than his peers. Follow these strategies to change your child's mindset and to promote his self-esteem. Together, they can unlock a lifetime of more positive learning.
READ MORE
Reuters
Low-income children who receive educational support in school and at home from preschool through third grade may be more likely to get a college degree than their peers who don't get extra help during their early years, a U.S. study suggests. For the study, researchers examined data on 1,539 minority youth in high-poverty Chicago neighborhoods who were part of a program designed to give kids small classes, engaging instruction that helps them develop self-control and good communication skills, and encourage parent involvement in education. Kids entered the program at age 3 and received help for just preschool or continuing through third grade.
READ MORE
THE Journal
Nearly 60 percent of education workers have taken a "mental health day" to deal with work-related stress. That's according to a recent survey of 1,004 office workers and business decision-makers in the United States and Canada. The survey, conducted by KRC Research on behalf of Staples, asked employees about current trends in the workplace, including health, wellness and stress issues. About 9 percent of the survey respondents came from the education industry; the other industries represented were government/public sector, healthcare, industrial/manual labor, finance and tech.
READ MORE
eSchool News
Roughly 10 percent of freshmen class students nationwide find themselves struggling to earn enough credits to pass ninth grade, leaving them with only a 20-percent chance of graduating on time. This past year, the Metropolitan School District of Decatur Township teamed up with the University of Chicago to combat this issue by implementing a Student Transition and Enrichment Pathway, a research-based program proven to produce growth in academic achievement and graduation rates among high school students. With its new STEP program in place, Decatur Township experienced significant success in just six months.
READ MORE
Edutopia (commentary)
Mary Davenport, a contributor for Edutopia, writes: "Some classrooms have a certain aura, don't they? When you enter, there's a sense of peace, community, clarity, and active presence from all stakeholders. That is the kind of classroom I want to create, and one way I've sought to accomplish this is by taking a course in mindfulness for educators. Since then, I have led daily mindful moments in all of my classes. Its been transformative for classroom culture."
READ MORE
THE Journal
Has NAEP set the bar too high for American students? That's the implication in a new report from the National Superintendents Roundtable and Horace Mann League. According to "How High the Bar?" when results from "nation's report card" proficiency assessments are compared to results from two international assessments and the Common Core, researchers found that the proficiency benchmarks of the National Assessment of Educational Progress would knock out students in almost every country.
READ MORE
The Atlantic
In 2008, three years after Hurricane Katrina, Joey LaRoche returned to his native New Orleans to teach math. Through Teach for America, he was assigned to teach in a charter school. After Katrina, the state legislature had wrested control of New Orleans's public schools from the local school board and turned most of the schools into charters. These new schools needed to address the city's abysmal test scores and graduation rates, so they put more resources into academics and college preparation. Many schools cut extracurricular activities, including football.
READ MORE
U.S. News & World Report
When it comes to the history of slavery in the U.S., the central role it played in shaping the country and its continued impact on race relations, students don't know much. In fact, only 8 percent of high school seniors can identify slavery as the central cause of the Civil War, according to a report by the Southern Poverty Law Center. But don't blame the students. As the report shows, schools aren't including it in curriculums, teachers aren't prepared to teach it and textbooks don't include enough material about it.
READ MORE
The Brookings Institution
Major racial disparities in student discipline rates have been documented for decades. Most recently, the 2013-2014 Civil Rights Data Collection documented that black students, who make up 16 percent of enrollment, accounted for 40 percent of suspensions nationally. The Obama administration made these disparities a major policy priority, expanding the CRDC and releasing policy guidance on discrimination in school discipline. Betsy DeVos told reporters just two months ago that she is "looking closely" at the rules, and advocacy efforts on both sides are heating up.
READ MORE
NPR
CJ Marple wanted to teach his young students how quickly information can spread on the Internet. So earlier this year, the third-grade science teacher wrote up a tweet with the help of his students, asking for other users to retweet the message, or even reply to the message with their location. The Kansas teacher says he expected 1,000 or so retweets, but within days the tweet went viral and gained more than 227,000 retweets and 75,000 replies from users all over the world.
READ MORE
Edutopia
Assertiveness is a key concept in social and emotional learning and represents the middle ground between the extremes of aggression and passivity. When people behave aggressively, they prioritize their own needs and may use threats to get what they want. When people behave passively, they do things they don't want to do because they feel pressured or threatened by others.
READ MORE
MiddleWeb (commentary)
Michelle Russell, a contributor for MiddbleWEb, writes: "Recently, I was walking around the room helping students complete an assignment. One student was off task, looking at something on her phone. I asked the student to start working on the assignment. When she hesitated I said, 'Please put that away, it's not important right now.' She replied, 'Neither is this.'"
READ MORE
MindShift
Celebrated American author Ursula K. Le Guin — dubbed by the Library of Congress in 2000 as a "living legend" for her contributions to science fiction, who died in January at the age of 88 — had strong feelings about the imagination. "In America the imagination is generally looked on as something that might be useful when the TV is out of order," she wrote in Words Are My Matter. But the ability to imagine is what drives all creativity, enables clear thinking and inspires a sense of humanity. "I think the imagination is the single most useful tool mankind possesses," she wrote.
READ MORE
By: Bambi Majumdar (commentary)
 As we race toward tech-based education, it has become imperative that students not only become familiar with emerging technologies but also internalize them. One way to ensure that they do so is to move beyond limited coding exercises and start learning computational thinking. A new report by Digital Promise stresses this need in K-12 schools. Integrating computational thinking into education will ensure that students can easily tackle complex problems.
READ MORE
Education Week
President Donald Trump used his first State of the Union address to call on Congress to create a path of citizenship to "Dreamers" — including thousands of current K-12 teachers and students who were brought to the country as undocumented children — while boosting border security and significantly restricting legal immigration. And he asked Democrats to join him passing an infrastructure bill, without specifically asking for new resources for school construction — a priority for many in the education community.
READ MORE
Edutopia
Getting students to think about behaving badly helps them arrive at positive norms — and such reverse thinking may work in other situations as well.
READ MORE
|
|
|
|
7701 Las Colinas Ridge, Ste. 800, Irving, TX 75063
|
