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Registration, Call for Programs and other details available soon!!
Trauma and Learning Policy Initiative
Research shows: "Listening closely to what students… say about the challenges many of them face and how schools can help is critical for... rethinking policies and practices." (Williams, et al, 2018). TLPI convened a legislative briefing where students from Massachusetts' high schools shared with legislators what they need from their schools in order to learn and do well. The students' comments make a powerful argument for why we need to include their voice in education reform efforts. Read What Students Say.
NYSUT
This conference is designed for nurses, psychologists, school counselors, clinical instructors, pharmacists and therapists who work in public and private sector schools, hospitals, universities, visiting nurse associations and residential and day treatment facilities. We encourage local presidents to support member participation in this important conference. Agenda and registration information are available here.
The New York Times
After months of training and competition, the girls' soccer team at Lowell High School in San Francisco could taste another title. The players were on their home field, preparing to play a state semifinal game, when Lowell's coach gathered her team. But this was not a final pep talk. It was bad news. The entire school of 2,700 students was closing until further notice after a student's parent had tested positive for the novel coronavirus. The game was off. The team would have to forfeit and give up its chance to win a third consecutive state championship.
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Forbes
China. Japan. Italy. One nation after another has had to close swaths of schools for long stretches in response to the spread of Covid-19. In the U.S., schools have already been closed in California, Washington, New York and Pennsylvania. As this unfolds, online discussions, comment sections and parental listservs are filled with frustrated complaints about the idiocy of school leaders.
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We Are Teachers (commentary)
Kyleen Gray, a contributor for We Are Teachers writes, "I began my career as an e-Learning teacher in 2003. And I've taught optional and summer e-Learning courses at the secondary school level ever since. You could say I'm a supporter of e-Learning via my engagement with the practice. And, I do see many benefits to this type of learning for many students."
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By Howard Margolis
 Regardless of their child's disability, parents worry about getting their child an IEP that meets his or her needs. Typically, they want to know how to effectively prepare for the IEP meeting. To develop an IEP that is likely to produce substantial progress in important areas, it's critical for parents to write down the questions that need answering and to share them with the case manager at least two weeks in advance of the meeting. This helps to focus and structure the IEP meeting on their child's most pressing needs.
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Education DIVE
More schools are using safety tips lines, but not just for gun violence prevention — the technology is addressing bullying, drug use and suicide risk among students.
Those are among the findings of a nationwide study looking at how schools are using tip lines as a safety measure.
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Education Week
As communities around the country record new cases of coronavirus, schools are grappling with tough questions about how to respond, senators told U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos. "Schools are going to be affected," Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, said, at a hearing of the Senate appropriations subcommittee on health and education. "They are all going to be asking the same questions, and you are in a position to help them understand and get the answers to that."
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Edutopia (commentary)
"I think I can. I think I can. I think I can," says the Little Blue Engine to herself as she hauls a train full of toys up a mountain. In Watty Piper's classic children's book, all it takes is a dose of self-encouragement to give the engine the strength to overcome a seemingly impossible task.
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THE Journal
If more schools need to close even temporarily in response to Coronavirus (COVID-19), in some places, they may not be able to substitute at-home learning for in-class learning. A recent survey found that just 70% of educators worked for schools in states that allowed for the use of digital learning days in place of "snow days" (which now might need to be renamed to "virus days").
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We Are Teachers
Wyatt, a dark-haired kindergartener, carefully pushes his doll into a highchair. Consulting a list on the wooden table next to him, he announces, "It's time for lunch!" He takes a bowl and spoon from the shelf and says, "Please eat your food, baby!" While this might seem cute behavior to the untrained eye, it is really social and cognitive learning to an educated professional. Wyatt is learning how to care for others, empathize, and follow a predictable schedule. This kind of practice is critical to early childhood development.
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Language Magazine
During the past few years, blended learning has been hailed by schools worldwide as everything from the future of education to the conduit that will finally make true differentiated instruction a reality. And it is not all hype: the best blended-learning programs truly can move away from the lecture-based instructional model many of us grew up with and free educators to completely reimagine what learning looks like from the ground up.
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Campus Security & Life Safety
After witnessing the traumatic impact that active shooter drills can have on students, particularly young children, two major teachers' unions have joined with the advocacy group Everytown For Gun Safety to ask school districts and states to rethink how they conduct these drills, if they continue them at all.
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NY Daily News
The difference in academic outcomes between black and white students is often described as an achievement gap. But as a former public school principal, I know that this description misses the mark. It places the blame and responsibility on black students and families and ignores the role elected officials and policies play in maintaining structural barriers.
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Education Week
Teens who have a decent night's sleep are better equipped to deal with stress the next day, including seeking out support from friends and engaging in active problem solving rather than brooding. The findings, based on tracking the activity and sleep patterns of around 250 high school freshmen in New York City, is yet more evidence of the importance of adequate sleep to overall well-being. And this study also offers insight into the impact of racial and ethnic discrimination on teens: all the students involved were Asian, black or Latino, and they were asked to track instances they felt they were subject to discrimination and their well-being in the aftermath of those events.
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We Are Teachers
Nearly 30% of teachers are absent for more than 10 days every year. This poses huge issues in a working environment where positions must be filled at all times. The principals in our Principal Life group, who, like you, must locate substitute teachers and manage behavioral issues that balloon when predictable school days are compromised, agree. Why is this happening, how can we reduce that percentage, and how can we go about promoting teacher attendance? The solution might surprise you.
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Education DIVE
Research from the Center on Reinventing Public Education shows parents of students with disabilities often struggle to find schools that fit their children's needs and feel that the information-gathering process falls largely on their shoulders. The research was based in New Orleans and Washington, D.C., and looked at how school choice affects families that have children with disabilities.
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Edutopia
Grades can wield enormous power over students. Course grades can influence students’ self-esteem and self-worth and impact how they understand their own identity. Grades can also be influential in admissions processes that have a long-term impact on a student’s trajectory.
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District Administration Magazine
In a world of increasing financial complexity, where financial decisions can have lifelong consequences, financial literacy is more important than ever. High school students − who will soon face some of life's most difficult financial decisions — deserve a playbook that equips them to navigate these decisions, and they haven't really had one — until now.
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MindShift
When Indiana releases four-year graduation rates each year, it inspires celebration at schools with big gains and raises alarms bells at those with notable drops. But the state also keeps another, less-touted measure: The number of students who graduate in five years — many of them overcoming hurdles that could have prevented them from earning diplomas.
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