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| ASCA School Counselor of the Year Nomination
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NYSSCA
NYSSCA is pleased to announce the nomination of Dana Pierce, School Counselor at Fayetteville-Manlius CSD, for the ASCA School Counselor of the Year 2017 award. Dana was awarded NYSSCA's School Counselor of the Year award in 2015. The ASCA School Counselor of the Year award recognizes a school counselor who has demonstrated excellence through implementation of the ASCA National Model and program innovations supporting students' academic, career, and personal/social development. Nominees must demonstrate leadership and collaboration in his or her work and promote equity and access to opportunities and rigorous educational experiences for all students to maximize student achievement. We know Dana will represent the school counselors of New York State well and look forward to ASCA's annual awards ceremony in January 2017, which will likely be hosted one more time by first lady Michelle Obama.
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. NYSSCA will award three $1000 scholarships this year.
Scholarships are awarded based on students' academic achievement, contributions to the field and commitment to the promotion of the ASCA/NYSSCA Comprehensive Model and NYS Learning Standards.
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 Contact: Gloria Jean, Committee Chair, at pastpresident@nyssca.org
Deadline for submission — May 20.
The online application for the 2016 Graduate Student Scholarship is available here.
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NYSSCA
Our Annual Conference will be held at the beautiful, Tarrytown DoubleTree hotel in Westchester County on Nov. 18-19. We will celebrate, "School Counselors Making a Difference." Look for opportunities to present at the conference. Visit our Conference Page for Hotel Information and Registration information. Registration for attendees and Exhibitors is now open. Our Call for Programs is still open, so get your proposal in!
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The Bryan Cameron Education Foundation is a private, family foundation which was established by the Bay Area philanthropist, Bryan Cameron, in 2015 on the principle of making an impact. Through our four-year undergraduate scholarship program, we aim to provide ample support for extraordinary young adults who see their college education as a stepping stone toward a lifetime of contribution to the greater good. Our substantial, merit-based scholarship is available to individuals who seek to use their gifts and talents to make a positive impact in their communities and society at large in all areas of study and ultimate career paths.
The Cameron Impact Scholarship will be awarded annually to approximately ten high-school seniors. This four-year merit-based scholarship is intended to cover the full ‘educational expenses’ at the recipient’s chosen collegiate institution (estimated to be between $20,000-$50,000 per annum). Recipients have complete freedom in the choice of their school and area of study, however, a stated goal of public service will be strongly considered.
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NYSSCA
May 6-12 is National Nurses Week and May 11 is National School Nurses Day.
"This year, let's continue our successful advocacy by fighting to ensure that there are safe nurse-to-patient staffing ratios in our health care facilities and that there is a nurse in every school," said NYSUT Vice President Paul Pecorale.
Here's a downloadable NYSUT poster. Here's more on National School Nurses Day, and more on National Nurses Week.
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St. Mary’s College of Maryland
St. Mary’s College of Maryland, the state’s public honors college, announced recently the creation of a new major in environmental studies. The environmental studies major at St. Mary's College offers students the tools needed to analyze and solve today’s most pressing environmental problems with an innovative approach that integrates interdisciplinary and experiential learning.
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May 17 is LGBTQ Advocacy Day in Albany. The event is free to attend, but registration is required. Help advocate for LGBTQ New Yorkers. Everyone is welcome.
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Campus Safety Magazine
According to the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, one in three women and one in four men will be victims of some form of physical violence by an intimate partner in their lifetime, and women ages 16-24 are particularly vulnerable to abuse. With statistics like these, it makes sense for K-12 schools and universities to educate their students about relationship violence. The challenge, however, is finding an effective way to reach youth and young adults about this topic. In this video, Seanna Bruno, who is the managing director of partnerships for the One Love Foundation, describes the approaches that work when addressing this issue with 16- to 24-year-olds.
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The Associated Press
The nation's high school seniors are slipping in math and failing to make progress in reading, with just one-third of the 12th graders ready for the academic challenges of college. Scores released Wednesday from the Nation's Report Card also show a widening gap between the highest- and lowest-performing students. Only one-quarter of 12th-graders taking the test performed proficiently or better in math. In reading, 37 percent of the students were proficient or above — meaning they had a solid grasp or better of the subject material.
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Education Week
Stunning increases in U.S. suicide rates for all ages gripped headlines as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released new data on the subject. Overlooked in many stories: While the numbers of suicides for children remain low compared to other populations, girls aged 10-14 had the highest growth in suicide rates of any group between 1999 and 2014, the most recent year reported in federal data. In that time, the rate of suicides for girls in that age group tripled, growing from 0.5 per 100,000 people to 1.5 per 100,000 people.
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The Huffington Post
The gap in literacy performance between star students and struggling students is getting larger. While the nation's top students continue to attain higher, more impressive reading scores, the number of students left in the dust with scant skills is also growing, according to new results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress for 12th-graders. NAEP — also called the Nation's Report Card — is a reading and math exam given to a nationally representative sample of students every few years. The exam acts as a "common yardstick," designed to gauge the ability of students across the country and over time.
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MindShift
Teachers and parents have long known that every child learns differently, excelling in some areas and struggling in others. And yet many schools still struggle to help students learn a set of standards, while allowing who they are as learners to determine how they do so. While some educators hope technology will make personalization cheaper and easier, so far many of the solutions involve keeping kids on the same path, but varying the pace. The rigid system and its requirements have made it difficult to truly celebrate neurodiversity.
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By: Savanna Flakes
 Technology has the potential to level the playing field for students with disabilities, English language learners and students who struggle to access core content. However, assistive technology can also be so overwhelming and costly, and feel impossible to integrate into the curriculum. The goal of assistive technology is to remove barriers to learning and promote greater independence by increasing the opportunity for persons with disabilities to perform all necessary tasks.
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The Associated Press
There was an emergency in Room 14. Three girls injured, one with a broken thighbone and maybe something more serious. Snapping on sterile gloves and kneeling before the worst-off patient, two 17-year-olds went to work. The pair cut open the girl's pant leg, pinched her toes to see if she had feeling and fit her with a neck brace. Sweat flecked their faces by the time they had the patient — a perfectly healthy classmate — strapped to a back board 12 minutes later. "You are acting like professionals and you haven't even finished this class yet!" Gretchen Medel, an EMT who oversaw the mock exercise during the first responder course she teaches at a health care-focused high school east of San Francisco, told the students.
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Education Week
Fifteen years of new programs, testing, standards and accountability have not ended racial achievement gaps in the United States. The Stanford Education Data Archive, a massive new database that allows researchers to compare school districts across state lines has led to the unwelcome finding that racial achievement gaps yawn in nearly every district in the country — and the districts with the most resources in place to serve all students frequently have the worst inequities.
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MindShift
In spite of national campaigns against bullying, including legislation in some states that punishes offenders and imposes strict reporting standards on schools, as many kids as ever report being victimized by their peers. The most recent survey by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on youth behavior showed no change in reports of bullying among high school kids, on school property, between 2009 and 2013. According to the U.S. Department of Education, up to 22 percent of 12-18 year olds claim to having been bullied by their peers.
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The Huffington Post
Many students and parents worry about a college major or the essays, but the first major step is really the college list. The college list is a list of schools that a student chooses to apply to. Many high school juniors and their parents should start working on this list now and refine it over time before schools release their essays in early August. In this article, we will introduce macro trends in admissions that affect the college list process, our method of selecting colleges at Synocate, a tool that may be useful in this process that we are developing, and final words of wisdom.
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Education Week
A simple exercise can build teachers' sense of empathy for their students, an effect that may lead to a drop in suspensions without any formal changes in policy, Stanford University researchers say in a study. When teachers develop a greater sensitivity to their students' experiences and intentions, students sense the change, which can help break a "self-perpetuating cycle of punishment and misbehavior" that occurs in some classrooms, says the study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.
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Education DIVE
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that students who feel more connected to their school have better health and educational outcomes than those who do not. Students with strong school connectedness are less likely to engage in alcohol, tobacco, or other drug use or violence. Engaging families, communities and the students themselves creates a caring and supportive environment ripe for school connectedness. It is vital for schools to foster the belief that the adults and peers at school care about student education as well as about the students as individuals.
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The Hechinger Report
Richard was one of the brightest kids in his high school class. His parents figured college was the next step, but that dream was nearly cut short in his first semester. Miscommunication with a professor resulted in an argument over handing in a paper he wasn't finished with. Richard stormed in and out of the classroom several times, trying to retrieve the paper. The incident left the professor feeling afraid, some students in the room shouting at Richard and college administrators unsure whether to bar him from classes.
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