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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. 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!
FYSA
Important exciting news that will help open the gates to a college education for young people, who are now, or previously were, in the foster care system. The New York State budget — approved on April 1, includes expanded resources and opportunities under the Foster Youth College Success Initiative a program designed to help foster youth successfully complete college.
Last year, 350 foster youth benefited from the program while attending public and private colleges and universities across New York. Based on this expanded funding, hundreds of new eligible students will be able to secure additional and funding but they must act now!
We ask for your immediate assistance, along with your NYSSCA colleagues, to let eligible students — any student who is currently, or was in foster care after their 13th birthday — and preparing to enter college in 2016, know that opportunity exists for them too. However, time is short. To this end, it is essential that students indicate their desire to access FYCSI resources at the time of their application for admissions.
Click here for more information about this important initiative.
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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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U.S. Department of Education
The passage of ESSA shifts how schools will be held accountable for measuring their overall quality. School climate and safety, student engagement, as well as social emotional learning are some of the potential indicators that states will be required to measure as a means of gauging the success of their schools.
Check out this powerful tool that districts across the nation have been using for the past 15 years to measure their school's climate as it pertains to safety, teaching and learning, environment, and interpersonal relationships across student, staff and parent populations.
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NYSSCA
JOIN US for an engaging two days of learning and sharing for the NYS Statewide Career and Technical Education Conference, June 28-29 at the Desmond Hotel in Albany, NY. Click here for conference flyer.
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NYSSCA
Last year, there were more than 460,000 reports of missing children in the U.S. This May, the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children is launching a campaign to tell missing children and their families that they will never be forgotten. We're using an everyday relatable situation, a missing sock, as a symbol of support for missing children.
Join our social media campaign, #RockOneSock. Wear one sock, take a "footsie" (a picture of your feet with one sock) and post it to social media using #RockOneSock. Tag friends to do the #RockOneSock challenge to spread the message!
For more details, visit http://rockonesock.org/.
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ASCA
For the July/August issue of ASCA School Counselor magazine, focusing on classroom management skills, we'd like to ask you a few questions. Please take a few moments to complete our very brief survey, and your answers may be featured in the magazine. Click here to take the survey.
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U.S. News & World Report
In some high schools, planning for college does not begin until a student's sophomore year. But freshmen are often in the best position to tailor the high school experience to their college goals since they have several years ahead of them. Below are three important questions that high school freshmen should ask their counselors in order to maximize their high school experience.
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Grand Fork Herald
Grand Forks school counselor Denise Loftus recently told elementary students what happens when you wear the "give up" hat. To illustrate the idea, she donned a knitted black hat. "I can't even write my name in second grade," she woefully proclaimed. She took off the hat. "We learn that brain paths don't get made when you put on the give up hat," she said. That day, Loftus taught Winship Elementary students about the importance of a willing attitude. Teaching character education isn't unusual for Loftus or other counselors today, who, in addition to reviewing student academic data and meeting with parents, generally perform work that goes beyond the stereotype often associated with counselors — one who helps students during a crisis or discusses academic work.
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The Hechinger Report
High school senior Brody Ford is looking forward to the final weeks of the school year, but not for the reasons you might think. At San Diego's High Tech High School, Ford and his fellow 12th-graders take end-of-the-year courses in personal finance, cooking on a budget, even sewing. The charter school, which has five San Diego-area campuses, uses the classes not only to battle senioritis, but to make the last year of high school into something more than just a slack-off waiting period.
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By: David Irwin
 When you see a great movie with friends, what is the first thing you do afterward? Most people will break into animated conversation about the places where the plot shifted, or great moments of acting or action. But we don't typically stop in the middle of the great movie to debrief along the way. However, in education, that is exactly what we need to do to deepen the content and the language learning of emergent bilinguals. We know it as chunking.
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Edutopia
Depending on how one might estimate, an approximate four million students have parents who are connected to the military, and of those, at least 80 percent go to public schools. However, teachers often do not know when these children are in their classes, and their many social-emotional needs are not being adequately met.
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NPR
The Obama administration issued guidance to schools, saying they must allow transgender students to use the bathroom that matches their gender identity. The administration acknowledges this is "new terrain" for some people and says it wants to help school districts avoid running afoul of civil rights laws. The Department of Justice is already in a legal fight with North Carolina over its so-called bathroom law. By reaching out to all 50 states, the administration appears to be upping the ante.
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NPR
Gaby Rabinovich remembers the first time she threw up while taking a test. It was a few months ago, early on in her freshman year at Marblehead High School in Massachusetts. She was sitting in biology class when, she recalls, she got so anxious that she excused herself to the bathroom. Rabinovich typically starts her day at 6 a.m. and gets to school at 7:15. On Mondays she runs a government club called Junior State of America. She's also running for class president, sits on the women's rights awareness group, and helps out at the school's rotary club.
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The Washington Post
Many college-bound students across America are celebrating what appear to be impressive results from the revised SAT. But in general the scores are not as strong as they seem at first glance. It turns out the new test comes with a degree of score inflation. Simply put: a 1300 on the SAT is not worth as much as it used to be. Figuring out what the new SAT scores mean, and how they compare to old SAT scores or to ACT scores, is likely to be a major source of confusion for students and parents in the next couple of years following the debut in March of a major revision to the nation's oldest college admissions test.
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The Conversation
The tragic consequences of bullying have become a regular part of the news cycle. In April, an eighth grade girl in Missouri and a sixth grade boy in Pennsylvania committed suicide. Bullying was an important factor, according to their families. While such devastating cases understandably draw the most attention, they risk leaving the impression that bullying is an issue only in severe cases. In fact, bullying is pervasive and often causes harm. As awareness spreads that bullying is not just a childhood rite of passage but a significant public health issue, the demand for action has increased.
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By: Bambi Majumdar
 A Pew Research Center analysis in 2015 showed how international students have steadily outpaced Americans students, especially in STEM degrees. There is also a growing knowledge gap among students within the country that is detrimental to indigenous progress. It takes a bold plan to bring about real change, and that's exactly what the world's leading university wants to do. Harvard University is working with six cities to transform, improve and reinvent their education systems.
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District Administration Magazine
More than 5 million American children face a rarely discussed educational challenge that has profound impact: seeing a parent spend time in prison. One in four black children in 2014 had a parent behind bars by the time they were 14 years old — more than double the rate for black children born in 1978, according to the book Children of the Prison Boom: Mass Incarceration and the Future of American Inequality (Oxford University Press, 2013). Black students are 7.5 times more likely than are white students to have a parent in prison.
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The Huffington Post
As schools have taken steps to beef up their security measures, violence in schools has taken a dive. The latest school safety numbers from the Department of Education show that schools have overall become safer places. While the data, which presents the most recent national indicators on school crime and safety, shows a slight uptick in violent deaths at school, it also shows that bullying and nonfatal crimes have greatly decreased. At the same time, the numbers show a huge increase in terms of school security measures and training over the years.
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