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COVID-19 Resources: Get resources and lesson plans for talking with students about COVID-19 in the schools and addressing widespread illness. Get resources for helping students deal with troubling issues in the news.
The rapid spread of COVID-19 has forced districts to review and in some cases implement emergency shutdown plans. Plans should outline comprehensive school counseling services that will be provided and address equity and access issues such as ensuring students have access to computers and internet. Download the PDF of Planning for Virtual/Distance School Counseling During an Emergency Shutdown and check out these additional resources:
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The New York State Education Department recognizes the COVID-19 outbreak is affecting schools and communities across the state.
NYSED and the State Department of Health issued updated guidance to school and community health officials regarding the novel coronavirus (COVID-19).
The guidance for P-12 schools provides an update on measures needed to respond to the COVID-19 outbreak as well as recommended non-pharmaceutical interventions and community containment measures that may be useful to reduce disease transmission in schools including a checklist for schools to assist in planning. NYSED also provided updated guidance to colleges and universities in New York State. All resources for schools related to COVID-19 can be found on NYSED's dedicated coronavirus web page.
In addition, out of an abundance of caution, all future Graduation Measures Regional Meetings have been postponed. If you have already attended one of the Regional Meetings across the state to provide your input, we sincerely appreciate your contribution to this important effort. The remaining meetings will be rescheduled in the future.
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SUNY
Back to Top Access Bigger Opportunities Students with Disabilities. The State University of New York is committed to ensuring welcoming and inclusive living and learning environments for all students, including students with disabilities.
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NYSED
New York State Alternate Assessment is part of the New York State testing program that measures the attainment of the State's learning standards in the areas of English language arts, mathematics and science for all students with the most severe disabilities in Grades 3-8 and high school.
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NY Alliance for Inclusion
About the Summit: The NY Alliance Partners in Employment Summit looks to build the final steps of the bridges offering Community Providers innovative ideas, strategies, resources and tools to work with parents and other family members of youth approaching adulthood as they navigate their individualized career discovery and the future world of work.
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New York Daily News
Parents across the city began the uneasy transition into life without school, scrambling to make arrangements for kids and map out plans for at least the next five weeks as city schools move to remote learning to stem the coronavirus spread. "I'm stuck between a rock and a hard place," said Regina Alston, a mother of two public school students in the South Bronx.
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Education Week
The arrival of March signals not just the beginning of spring but also of college admission decision season — when thousands of anxious 17-year-olds across the country frantically refresh their email inboxes, eagerly awaiting notification of their academic fate. The reality, however, is that not all high school students have the opportunity to engage in this time-honored tradition; those from low-income and other historically marginalized backgrounds are the least likely to apply to and ultimately attend college.
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U.S. News & World Report
The mounting school closures amid the coronavirus outbreak in the U.S. are exposing major equity gaps in access to technology and the internet, and the FCC needs to step in, according to FCC commissioners. "Now is absolutely the time to talk about the coronavirus disruption and how technology can help," Jessica Rosenworcel, an FCC commissioner, said Tuesday during a Senate hearing. "Nationwide we are going to explore the expansion of tele-work, tele-health and tele-education, and in the process we are going to expose some really hard truths about the scope of the digital divide."
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By: Bambi Majumdar (commentary)
 The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization has reported that 290 million students worldwide are out of school due to the coronavirus. The outbreak that emerged in China about two months ago has now claimed over 3,000 lives and infected more than 100,000 people globally. In the U.S., there are now over 500 cases confirmed, and the death toll has risen to 22. As the U.S. deals with the coronavirus, the big question is: How are schools planning to respond?
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The New York Times
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advised schools that closings for at least eight weeks might be the most effective way to contain the coronavirus. The Education Department released school districts from a slew of testing and accountability measures required by federal law. But schools across the country were far ahead of the Trump administration's advice. A cascade of public school closings gained speed nationwide, with the largest school district in California, the Los Angeles Unified School District, announcing it was closing, along with the San Diego Unified School District. They joined other large cities like Washington, Miami and Seattle, and more than a dozen states like Virginia, Ohio, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Oregon, New Mexico and Michigan.
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Education DIVE
The U.S. Department of Education released guidance Thursday afternoon for schools to navigate closures amid the spread of novel coronavirus. With more schools expected to close for a minimum of 14 days, the department is saying it will consider providing states with one-year waivers of assessment requirements under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, most recently reauthorized as the Every Student Succeeds Act, if they have been impacted by the pandemic's "extraordinary circumstances."
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NPR
The spread of coronavirus has compelled hundreds of K-12 schools in the U.S. to close, affecting more than 850,000 students, according to an analysis by Education Week. And those numbers are certain to increase in the coming days, as concerned parents call for more school closures. The growing health crisis presents school leaders with a painful choice. Closing schools — as has been done, so far, in China, Japan, Italy and elsewhere — is a proven measure that has been shown to slow the spread of disease and, in turn, save lives. But it also causes huge economic and social disruption, especially for children, millions of whom depend on the free and reduced-cost meals they get at school.
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Edutopia (commentary)
David Bulley, a contributor for Edutopia, writes: "When a teacher at my school asked Joey, a student with a long history of disciplinary issues stemming from attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and a history of trauma, to sit down for class, he began to argue. Because he was loud and disrespectful, he was sent to visit me, the dean of students. Joey and I had a talk, and he understood his role in being sent out of the room. However, he was back in class for less than 10 minutes before being asked to leave again."
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eSchool News
To succeed in college and the workplace, students require a solid foundation in STEM learning. Experience in these subjects does not only benefit aspiring scientists and engineers — it's essential for all students. In fact, between 2017 and 2027, the number of STEM jobs will grow 13%. Even positions in traditionally non-STEM fields (estimated to grow by 9%) will require some sort of technological knowledge.
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Education DIVE
Though 25% of American teens experience mental health issues, rural students and students of color are less likely to feel that they can reach out to a counselor or teacher for support, according to the ACT Center for Equity in Learning's "Supporting the Mental Health Well-Being of High School Students" survey.
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eSchool News
District administrators are under immense pressure from parents to keep their children safe and are investing money in school safety initiatives. Communities have shifted from the belief that "it can't happen here," to doing everything they can to prevent it from happening. Twenty years ago, the concerns about student safety were about preventing classroom misbehavior, physical bullying, fighting and drugs. Now, it's much more complex and the stakes are higher. We are literally talking about life and death issues for our students. What has changed in recent years to explain this increase in personal self-harm, suicide and school violence?
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THE Journal
An education technology company is opening up access to its digital study programs for young and elementary students. Age of Learning announced that it would grant free home access through the spring for schools and districts affected by coronavirus closures. The offer applies to three programs: ABCmouse, Adventure Academy and ReadingIQ.
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Language Magazine
Chicago Public Schools students who began kindergarten as English learners, on average, progressed to eighth grade with academic achievement similar to or better than their peers who began kindergarten proficient in English, finds a new study by the University of Chicago Consortium on School Research.
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District Administration Magazine
With new technologies available to help facilitate students' progress, increasing numbers of schools are attempting personalized learning. But some educators wonder if it can leave students with disabilities behind. The assumption is that these students are left to their own devices — with technology responsible for moving them into higher-order skills. But teachers and administrators who are incorporating personalized learning in the classroom and schools say this isn't the case.
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We Are Teachers
Here's what we know: students learn best when they have choice, a "real-life" mission, and time to develop their own questions and answers. And that method of learning is at the heart of project-based learning. Research confirms that PBL is super effective. So why aren't more of us trying it in our classrooms? Why is so much of learning still teacher-led? Below, we explore some of the biggest PBL roadblocks.
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MiddleWeb (commentary)
Jeremy Hyler, a contributor for MiddleWeb, writes: "It should be easy to communicate, right? But from where I am sitting, it seems to be more difficult than ever for both students and adults. We have email, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and so many other platforms designed for person-to-person communication. You'd think we would all be masters of communication with so many high-powered tools at our fingertips. Yet I'm seeing more and more communication breakdown among educators, parents and students."
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