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NYSSCA
The NYSSCA Edge magazine is looking for articles for the next edition! The theme of the NYSSCA Edge is "Best Practices." How have you and your school counseling program implemented best practices to better help your students? Do you have a program activity shown to be effective with your students? Submitting to The NYSSCA Edge is easy! Submission deadline for the Spring Edition is approaching. Click here to submit the form online. Just follow the guidelines and answer the prompts.
Have questions? Click here to contact the editor.
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NYSED
The department wanted to bring to your attention that we are currently partnering with SUNY in an effort to have all high school students complete their FAFSA forms. Completing FAFSA forms on time enables students to be eligible for federal financial aid. Currently, over 300,000 students attending public high school and considering college do not complete a FAFSA form. Many times, students and families may not be fully informed on the process and therefore do not complete the form necessary to obtain federal financial aid. This outreach is intended to help students and families more easily navigate the financial aid process.
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New York State School Counselor Association Annual Conference 2017
"School Counselors: Prepared to Lead the Way" The DoubleTree, Syracuse, New York on Nov. 17-18. The New York State School Counselor Association is seeking qualified presenters for the 2017 Conference! Conference, Exhibitor and Hotel Registration now available here.
Call for programs with topics addressing comprehensive school counseling program design and implementation and accountability for school counselors are welcome. Click here to read more and apply.
[Glasgow Caledonian University]
Glasgow Caledonian University is delighted to offer a week long summer programme for guidance counsellors looking to experience first-hand, the opportunities available to students in the UK – with ten fully funded places available! The programme will include details around VISA support, funding streams and the UK educational entry system – as well as local tours, taking in some of Scotland’s breath-taking sights, not to mention the University’s cutting edge campus and award winning facilities. GCU is a multi-cultural modern university. Our welcoming community of 20,000 students from more than 100 countries enjoys a wide range of award-winning support services and facilities.
* Times Higher Education’s 200 under 50 Rankings 2017
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ASCA
We've officially opened registration for your 2017 ASCA Annual Conference, July 8–11. Join more than 2,000 school counseling professionals for four days of inspirational keynote sessions, informative breakout sessions, in-depth looks at hot topics in the school counseling profession and networking opportunities galore. Early-bird registration fees are $369 for members and $569 for nonmembers. Early-bird registration ends March 1. Registration is also open to attend the conference virtually. Registration is $199 ($299 for nonmembers) for virtual attendees. For more information about the conference including hotel information, keynote speakers and more, visit www.ascaconferences.org. Planning to request financial support from your school or district to attend the conference? Download the justification letter and customize to your needs.
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By: Pierre LaRocco (commentary)
 De-escalating students is one of the most important things a counselor does. It is a skill to be learned and honed. Students who need de-escalating are in great crisis, and many times they do not know what made them so upset or how to calm down on their own. When students are like this, they cannot just snap out of it. They need the systematic process of calming down. Here is my systematic process I walk students through to calm down.
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News York Daily News
Advocates ripped the city for arresting and suspending students in a withering report that claims those policies cost the city millions each year. "The $746 Million a Year School-to-Prison Pipeline" calls for fewer student suspensions and the removal of NYPD personnel and metal detectors from public schools. Produced by the non-profit Urban Youth Collaborative and Center for Popular Democracy, the 40-page document analyzed city budget data and academic research.
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Language Magazine
During the summer months, young children lose literacy gains made during the school year, a phenomenon known as "summer slide." The most important thing teachers can do to reverse this trend is to help families adopt family literacy routines and promote opportunities for families to talk, read, and write together throughout the school year. Some suggestions include: Get families interested in literacy. Share samples of children's work and emerging literacy skills. Inform families about topics their children enjoy talking, reading and writing about.
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U.S. News & World Report
The essay portion of the SAT and ACT is technically optional, but that doesn't mean you should write it off. Many colleges require applicants to provide their essay results from one of the exams, while other schools will consider the SAT essay or ACT writing during the admissions process. Before you worry about preparing for this specific section, first consider which exam better suits your overall skills. Here are three aspects that distinguish the SAT essay and ACT writing section.
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District Administration Magazine
Building principals, assistant principals and other school administrators engage frequently with students in conversations to address inappropriate behavior. The goal of these interactions is not only to provide consequences, but also to help students to avoid the initiation of similar infractions in the future. School administrators are in an ideal position — when setting consequences — to help students build behavioral skills.
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The Washington Post
High school exit tests are the trapdoors of the education world. These are the tests that tie scores to high school diplomas and push students who miss the mark out of school into the streets, the unemployment lines, and the prisons. A national uprising has highlighted the many ways the misuse and overuse of standardized testing hurts students. Now the effort to end high school exit testing may be its next step. In the last few years, 10 states have repealed or delayed high school exit exams. California, Georgia, South Carolina, and Arizona even decided to issue diplomas retroactively to thousands of students denied them due to scores on discontinued tests.
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U.S. News & World Report
No one knows better than recent grads how expensive college is. The college class of 2016 graduated with an average of $37,172 in student loans, says to Mark Kantrowitz, a higher-education expert. They were the most indebted class ever — up 6 percent from the year before. With debt totals climbing each year, it's easy to picture today's high school seniors owing more than $40,000 when they finish college. With another 6 percent increase, we'd almost reach that number this year. That amount of debt can affect you for a long time. But students don't want the financial choices they made in high school to affect them as senior citizens.
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By: Sheilamary Koch (commentary)
 In 2007, a group of students distributed pink shirts in solidarity with a boy who was bullied for wearing one to school in Canada. This event — which served as the original impetus for special days dedicated to raising awareness and uniting against bullying that take place around the world — led to the United Nations official designating of May 4 as Anti-Bullying Day. Today, let's take a look at where the issue lies one decade later.
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The Associated Press
The good news: American high school students are generally satisfied with their lives. But many of their peers in other countries are happier. Asked to rank their life satisfaction on a scale from 0 to 10, American 15-year-olds gave an average mark of 7.4, according to a study conducted by the Paris-based Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development. American students scored close to the average of 7.3 among OECD's 35 member countries. But students in some member countries are doing markedly better: an average Mexican high schooler rated life satisfaction at 8.2 out of 10.
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MindShift (commentary)
Alex Shevrin, a contributor for MindShift, writes: "On my best day as a teacher, I will talk passionately about progressive pedagogy, empathy as the core of a classroom and diverse student needs. I will say I care about every child, the whole child, and am committed to their growth. And then there are those bad days. The days where within the first two hours of my morning, I'm called a b*** three times. The ones where my perfectly planned learning activity falls flat because my brilliant student just refuses to pick her head up off the desk. The days when the differentiated lesson I designed just for that one student goes on perfectly but that one student's chair is empty, missing school again."
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U.S. News & World Report
The most important factor in a student's academic success is an effective teacher, most education policy experts agree. In fact, high quality instruction can counter crippling disadvantages, like those associated with low socioeconomic background. That's why Florida's Palm Beach County school district, where about 65 percent of its 190,000 students are poor enough to qualify for free and reduced-priced lunch, places so much emphasis on teacher preparation and professional development.
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Edutopia (commentary)
As educators, we understand conceptually how failure can help students learn, but do we really believe it? I think if we did, we might build for failure — in a significant way — into the scope and sequence of our curriculum. (It's true that state testing season is upon us and the word failure is hardly permissible right now but let's talk about it anyway.) What would our classrooms perhaps look like if we were to allow for more failure, even embrace it?
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Starts and Stripes
When Navy Capt. Cassidy Norman was assigned executive officer of the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman, he and his wife, Michelle, were relieved. His career path was taking them back to Virginia Beach — where they'd lived before and knew to be a good fit for their severely disabled daughter. The Normans were the quintessential military officer family. Cass served in combat and climbed the ranks paying his dues. He and Michelle had learned to balance the demands of family and a military that would take him away from home for months. Even their daughter Marisa's needs were being managed.
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The Atlantic
Jane Charlton never intended to skip high school. "I was planning on just skipping ninth grade," says the renowned astrophysicist, who spent her summers taking calculus classes at Carnegie Mellon University. "But when the school year was about to start, the teachers went on strike and my math professor said, 'Why don't you just start here?'" Three years later, Charlton received her bachelor's degree in chemistry and physics. She headed for the University of Chicago, where she earned her master's at 19, and her Ph.D. at 22. By the time Charlton had her first child, in her late 20s, she was a tenured professor at Pennsylvania State University, where she maps the universe and charts the history of evolving galaxies.
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