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Sharing Your Stories
Connections in Education during the Coronavirus Crisis
As educators navigate unprecedented obstacles with limited resources and guaranteed uncertainty, New York State educators lead the nation in their acceptance of this challenge. Throughout our state, administrators, teachers, and school counselors have demonstrated their extraordinary dedication, support, and commitment to their students and our children. From teacher parades for students to food and technology deliveries for families, New York's educators have risen to this challenge!
Submit Your Own Stories
We encourage you to share your story. Your story might be a one-page account, a video or even pictures showing us how your school, your students and your community are staying connected. Please visit our Submit Your Story page for additional information.
NYSSCA
Check out our website for updates and future zoom meetings. Click on the graphic for the latest updates. Recordings from our Innovation through Collaboration school counselor support meetings and our In-School to Distance Learning Level Meetings are available on this webpage.
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Education Next
Teenagers are not known for their coolheaded decision-making, yet they face hundreds of choices with significant long-term consequences. In school, they must decide which courses to take, how much effort to invest, and whether and where to enroll in college. Many understandably lack the information and capacity needed to navigate such complex options.
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The Hechinger Report
Schools are commonly advised to hire one counselor for every 250 students. The figure has been recommended and publicized by the American School Counselor Association since 1965. And it's been frequently used by education lobbyists and advocates to demand more money for schools at state legislatures and in Congress for decades. Some states have the 250 number written into their laws.
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Edutopia
Educators often face challenges supporting students through loss and grief, in part because neither teachers nor principals are generally trained as grief counselors. Yet in the coming weeks and months, many students will experience losses of loved ones and of ways of life, and schools are in a unique position to collectively engage and support them with compassion in the grieving process.
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Education DIVE
In a typical year, high school seniors — and their parents — have a lot of questions about what awaits them in the fall and whether they've missed any important steps in preparing for college. But in a year like no other, school leaders are wondering how to best support students making the transition, particularly those from low-income families or others whose families might lack knowledge about the college-going process.
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Chalkbeat
Jose Muñiz has done everything he can think of to get ready to take his Advanced Placement Calculus AB exam from home on Tuesday. The 18-year-old senior at Back of the Yards College Prep in Chicago chose a method for answering questions: writing by hand on graph paper, then taking and sending photos with his phone, an option that seemed easier and faster than typing symbols and equations in a Google Doc.
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By Sheilamary Koch (commentary)
 Today's colossal interruption in class as usual has inspired teachers around the country to boldly speak out about changes they want to see in education. They're urging drastic measures to solve problems magnified during this time of COVID-19-related closures — before things get swept under the rug again.
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EdSource
School closures were intended to keep students safe during the pandemic, but for many, it's ushered in a different set of dangers: anxiety, depression and other serious mental health conditions. School counselors, psychologists and social workers have been trying to help students virtually since campuses closed, listening to their struggles and offering advice on how to navigate the complex difficulties they're facing. But what students need most right now — in-person support — is impossible to deliver, they said.
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District Administration Magazine
Student ambassadors can have a huge influence on the admissions process as high school seniors choose where to enroll in college, a new survey has found. Some 57% of respondents involved in more than 370,000 online conversations cited input from student ambassadors as the most helpful part of the application and admissions process, according to the report from Intead, a higher education marketing firm. Not surprisingly, interest in virtual connections has increased since the coronavirus outbreak closed college campuses.
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THE Journal
Spring fever is taking on a new profile in a time of pandemic stay-at-home orders. High schoolers are now feeling much more enthusiastic about the prospect of returning to school in the fall. In a survey by education technology company Quizlet, 69% of high school students said they were "more excited" to go back to school for 2020-2021 than they felt at this time last year. Just 22% said they felt the same; and 10 percent said they were less excited.
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EdSurge
Even amid the uncertainty of what the school year will look like in the fall, teachers are itching to get back to some semblance of normalcy. Greeting students at the door each morning, chatting with them about their weekend, providing in-person feedback on projects and facilitating student-led conversations are among the many joys we miss during this pandemic.
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By Patrick Gleeson (commentary)
 In a recent article, I compared the views of President Trump and former Vice President Biden on K-12 charter schools. Let's compare their views on six of the remaining important education issues as we approach what promises to be an unusually combative election. For starters, how much money is in each candidate's education budget is almost certainly the most significant indicator of their positions on almost every other education issue. Without funding, no education initiative, no matter how well-designed, can be implemented effectively.
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THE Journal
The mental and emotional health of students is becoming just as important during COVID-19 as their academic development. Two recent surveys have examined the social and emotional well-being of K-12 students but from opposing sides — one focused on the students and the other focused on teachers. Both were undertaken by companies that sell products and services to help teachers teach or participate in well-being activities.
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We Are Teachers
A well-documented summer slide means many children need access to books and literacy resources, now more than ever. To address the challenges teachers face in providing resources to get kids reading, Reading Is Fundamental created an amazing literacy page filled with many of the tools you need to get kids reading, reading, reading.
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