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NYSSCA
To help future school counselors fulfill their educational goals, the New York State School Counselor Association awards scholarships to graduate students each year who are currently enrolled in a New York State accredited master's-level school counseling program.
Scholarships are awarded based on students' academic achievement, contributions to the field and commitment to the implementation of the ASCA/NYSSCA Comprehensive Model of School Counseling as amended School Counseling Regulations go into effect. The New York State School Counselor Association supports school counselors' efforts to help students focus on academic, social/emotional and career development so they achieve success in school and are prepared to lead fulfilling lives as responsible members of society. NYSSCA provides professional development, publications, research and advocacy to professional school counselors in New York State.
NYSSCA will award three $1000 scholarships
Graduate Scholarship Contact Person:
Kristen Shearer, Committee Chair, pastpresident@nyssca.org
Deadline for Submission: May 18
More information and the online application for the 2019 Graduate Student Scholarship is available here.
ED Trust-NY
The New York FAFSA Challenge highlights success and encourages high schools to help students complete the application for college financial aid
New York State counselors know access to college opens doors of opportunities for their students, and this week's College Signing Day offers an opportunity to acknowledge the great work being done by counselors across the state helping their students realize the dream of a higher education.
While low-income high school students are more likely than their wealthier peers to attend schools with low rates of completing the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, dozens of New York high schools that serve large shares of low-income seniors are models of success for the rest of the state, according to a new project launched by The Education Trust–New York.
The New York FAFSA Completion Project aims to build on this success by providing easily accessible resources, including an interactive data tool that allows users to track the progress of New York high schools, with new FAFSA completion estimates updated weekly and comparisons to similar schools and top performers.
The project also includes resources for schools and educators on how they can assist more eligible students in completing the FAFSA, drawing on national research and best practices already being used in New York schools. The "3 Steps Every High School Can Take" resource at NYFAFSAChallenge.org encourages schools to:
- Help their seniors make a plan to complete the FAFSA;
- Hold a FAFSA completion event; and
- Set targets and track the data.
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NYSSCA
Call for programs, exhibitor registration, attendee registration is now open. Click here for more information.
MHANYS
The MHANYS’ School Mental Health Resource and Training Center has created a toolkit titled, "Building a Positive School Climate with Gratitude", in recognition of Teacher Appreciation Week to help families, students, administrators and the community show appreciation during this special time of year. The toolkit also includes ideas for year-round wellness and community-building through small acts of gratitude and kindness, and self-care opportunities for school staff.
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The College Board Opportunity Scholarships is a new program that guides students through the college planning process and offers them a chance to earn money for college for each action they complete. By completing a series of simple steps, each student has the chance to earn up to $40,000.
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Trauma and Learning Policy Initiative
Over the next few weeks TLPI will be releasing the Trauma and Learning Policy Initiative: Trauma-Sensitive Schools Descriptive Study. The study describes how five schools implemented the inquiry-based process, outlined in Helping Traumatized Children Learn, Vol. 2, to create trauma-sensitive, safe and supportive learning environments and it describes several key findings and exciting outcomes.
Please click here to watch a video and to hear TLPI Director, Susan Cole, talking about this exciting research.
Student Support Services Center
The Student Support Services Center is offering a full-day training entitled Safe Dates Adolescent Dating Abuse Prevention Training. It will be offered on May 22, 2019 in Plattsburgh, New York.
Click here for registration information.
About Safe Dates
Safe Dates is a middle school and/or high school program designed to assist adolescents with understanding differences between healthy and unhealthy or abusive relationships. Research on the program demonstrated that adolescents who received the Safe Dates program reported from 56% to 92% less dating violence victimization and perpetration than those in a control group even four years after the program.
By: Sweety Patel (commentary)
 According to the ASCA Ethical Standards for School Counselors, school counselors have an essential role as social justice advocates who affirm and support students from diverse populations. They are central to servicing students so that students may move toward self-determination and self-development. Standard A.10 speaks of underserved and at-risk populations, for whom school counselors strive to contribute to a safe, respectful and nondiscriminatory school environment.
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U.S. News & World Report
Bullying, violence, crime and drug use in schools continue to decrease, as they have for much of the last two decades, despite public perception that schools have become less safe over the past 20 years. New federal data published by the Departments of Education and Justice show that 20% of students ages 12 to 18 reported being bullied at school during the 2016-2017 school year, the lowest since the federal government began collecting the information in 2005. The percentage of public schools that reported that student bullying occurred at least once a week also decreased, from 29% in the 1999-2000 school year to 12% in the 2015-2016 school year.
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Education Week
Should schools allow students to take excused mental health days? In previous years, a willing parent might have called their child's school to report them as sick as an excuse to stay home to deal with emotional exhaustion, to see a therapist, or just to take a break. But a student-supported Oregon bill proposes explicitly adding "mental or behavioral health" to a list of reasons for excused absences, alongside physical sickness. Current law allows individual districts to determine the range of issues that will be considered an excused absence, and many don't include mental health, the bill's supporters say.
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District Administration Magazine
Family problems, absences and poor grades can drive students to becoming a dropout. But what actually drives many teenagers to quit school, say experts, is a sense that nobody in the building cares about them — and it's a belief that is often reinforced after they leave. "When schools don't follow up with students who leave, it reaffirms the idea that no one cares," says Jody Manning of the PACER Center, which advocates for youth with disabilities. District leaders who have raised graduation rates have designated staff to reach out to dropouts. Districts closely monitor data, such as repeat absences and falling grades, that signal students may leave school.
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Education DIVE
As classrooms continue to include rigorous academics and teach students loads of information, it can sometimes be difficult for students to stay focused and relaxed over the course of a long school day. That's why educators such as Desaultas recommend implementing practices like brain breaks — which she described as short time periods that "change up the dull routine of incoming information that arrives via predictable, tedious, well-worn roadways."
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eSchool News
Mental illness is on the rise in schools. As mental-health advocates fight to remove the stigma associated with mental illness, more clinical diagnoses are made. Twenty-five years ago, anxiety and depression were two illnesses barely discussed and rarely diagnosed. Now, they are flooding public school classrooms.
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By: Howard Margolis (commentary)
 The progress of many struggling readers is undermined by slavish adherence to Lexile reading-level scores. Though I haven't observed that a majority of teachers, learning consultants, and school psychologists are subservient to these scores, I've observed it far too often to think it's rare. In contrast, it's obvious that Lexile scores, flexibly used as tentative guides, can advance decision-making but cannot take the place of a highly knowledgeable and insightful teacher's observations. Essentially, Lexile scores are produced by readability formulas that analyze the difficulty of texts, such as passages, articles and books.
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Edutopia
Students with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder often have difficulty keeping their things organized. Have you ever looked inside the backpack or desk of a student with ADHD? It may have looked like a hurricane had torn right through it. That doesn't happen because such students are lazy or careless — students with attention challenges are typically not geared for this type of organization, and many of them also have concurrent learning and developmental disabilities like dyslexia, spectrum disorders, fine motor delays or sensory integration issues that may add to the struggle.
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Education Week
An estimated 98,000 undocumented students graduate from U.S. high schools each year, but those graduates remain "at risk of deportation and will face severely limited opportunities to pursue further work and education," according to a new report from the Migration Policy Institute. While high school commencement marks an important milestone for the students, graduates from the class of 2018 graduates adn beyond aren't eligible for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, commonly known as DACA.
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THE Journal
In an effort to expose more students to computer science, the Panasonic Foundation and the Hispanic Heritage Foundation are coming together to launch four Code as a Second Language academies in Newark, New Jersey, Reno, Nevada, Atlanta, Georgia, and Calexico, California. The academies will be a six- to eight-week coding course for students that meets for up to 90 minutes during the school day or as part of an after school program.
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Edutopia
There are many benefits to teaching psychology in high school — so many that I daresay it should be a required subject. As the Office of Adolescent Health at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services reports, mental health statistics related to teen anxiety, depression and suicidal ideation continue to worsen. Studying psychology could help promote many of the social and emotional learning skills that are crucial to students' academic achievement and mental health.
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NPR
On the morning of her 16th birthday, in her AP music class, Megan Storm thought she was going to die. The sophomore at Lake Brantley High School in suburban Orlando, Fla., said she heard an announcement over the intercom that the school was in a code red lockdown — it was a drill, but Storm said students were not told that. She and her classmates hid in the dark, behind an instrument locker. "It was just really quiet. And we all sort of huddled together," Storm said.
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District Administration Magazine
Purple lanyards offer lifelines to students suffering from anxiety, depression or other mental health conditions in Fauquier County, Virginia. About 400 educators in the school district and 1,000 community members wear the lanyards to show they've completed a mental health first-aid course that teaches adults how to spot and respond quickly to signs of mental distress in young people.
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eSchool News
Whether we like it or not, the fourth industrial revolution is fundamentally changing the way the world works — and educators have to rise to the task of preparing students for 2030 and beyond.
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The Associated Press via KRLD
A south Texas high school principal has implemented a dress code for parents because she says it is necessary to establish high standards for students, despite criticism that the move could be discriminatory. James Madison High School will turn away parents who show up to school wearing pajamas, hair rollers, leggings or certain other items of clothing, including bonnets.
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American Psychological Association via Science Daily
Just like adults, children by the age of 5 make rapid and consistent character judgements of others based on facial features, such as the tilt of the mouth or the distance between the eyes. Those facial features also shape how children behave toward others, according to research published by the American Psychological Association.
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