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NYSSCA
NYSSCA Edge Magazine editor job description:
The Edge Magazine editor is responsible for the content and preparation of the magazine including soliciting items for publication, reviewing submissions, editing contributions, and suggesting layout for the assistant editor. The Magazine shall be planned to contain at least 20 pages of content, including covers, to be published at least twice a year to correspond with the start of the school year (August/September) and National School Counseling Week (January/February). The position includes supervision of a graduate assistant and/or other committee members who assist with layout and publishing software to produce the magazine. Key to this position is ongoing soliciting of articles on best practices from practicing school counselors throughout New York State. To provide continuity and consistency, the Edge Magazine editor needs to commit to a three-year term. This is a volunteer position on the Publications Committee. The editor must be a NYSSCA member. More information and previous editions are HERE.
ASCA
School counselors are advocates for the equitable treatment of all students in school and in the community. School counselors must be prepared to talk to students about race issues and anti-racism. Get resources from ASCA HERE. The NYSSCA Board has created a statement Condemning Violence and Institutional Racism linked HERE.
| Save the Date!! Innovation thru Collaboration! NYSSCA 2020 Conference
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NYSSCA
Registration, Call for Programs and other details available now!!
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.
District Administration Magazine
Students need to develop healthy relationships with adults not just to succeed in the classroom but also to succeed in life and at work after they graduate high school. The wholesale shift to online learning has, of course, complicated educators' efforts to connect with students. It has also made it difficult for teachers to connect students with community members who can serve as mentors and professionals role models.
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Edutopia
Recent events have shaken me to my core, and the nationwide protests over the killing of George Floyd suggest that people across the country are similarly shaken. These are dark times, but if there's anything that seems like a glimmer of light to me at the moment, it's the fact that so many teachers are reflecting on how to fight racism.
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Education Week
Classrooms. Hallways. Buses. Schedules. Extracurriculars. Every facet of the school day will have to be fundamentally altered when students eventually return to school. To prevent the spread of the coronavirus, school leaders must ensure social distancing — limiting group sizes, keeping students six feet apart, restricting non-essential visitors and closing communal spaces. Those measures run counter to how schools usually operate, with teachers and students working together in close quarters, children socializing throughout the day and the buildings serving as a community gathering space.
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By Bambi Majumdar (commentary)
 School's out for the summer in most places and districts are now focusing on how to prepare for classes in the fall. While the number of new nationwide COVID-19 cases is abating, and a large percentage of the afflicted have recovered, new cases are still happening daily. Psychologists agree that no amount of distance learning can replicate the benefits of in-person learning. However, most experts agree that we need more research and information about the virus to guide decision-making for reopening U.S. schools.
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District Administration Magazine
The death of George Floyd and the ongoing nationwide protests that followed have spurred activists to call for the removal of police — including school resource officers — from U.S. school buildings. So far, few district leaders have taken such action, but Portland Public Schools — and two other districts in Oregon's biggest city — are some of the exceptions.
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Education Week
Months before the coronavirus upended everyday life, a rural district in central Minnesota started giving Chromebooks to all of its high school students. It was the first time that devices owned by the Brainerd Public Schools were assigned to students to carry throughout the day and to take home, representing the next step in the evolution of its 1-to-1 laptop program. The district already offered classroom devices for every student in grades 5-8.
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Scientific American
With almost 70% of the world's student population impacted by school closures according to UNESCO, the long-term impact on individuals, the education system, the global workforce, and tools and technology, can only be speculated about and hypothesized. What we do know is that building resilience among students is more important than ever.
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Tech & Learning
Parents and educators are well aware of the summer slide: That period when students go home for the summer and lose some of the learning gains they made throughout the school year, particularly in math and literacy. Miami-Dade County Schools is the nation's fourth-largest district, serving an extremely diverse population of 348,000 learners and supporting more than 20,000 teachers.
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eSchool News
As our world continues to become more connected through technology, today's students have boundless access to a wealth of information. But, to effectively leverage these resources, students need to be able to make meaning of them. According to educator Thomas Hoerr, the very notion of intelligence has changed. We no longer rely on the limits of our single mind to access the information resources we need to solve problems. Problem solving has always involved teamwork and cooperation. Today, however, open source programs, wikis, blogs and other Web 2.0 technologies enable total strangers divided by space and time to collaborate.
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Education DIVE
It's almost a given that districts will continue some level of distance learning this fall — either to maintain social distancing, respond to future coronavirus outbreaks, give families more choice or a combination of all of those reasons. District leaders can now begin planning "to align the resources, create teacher professional development and assess community priorities to design plans for the fall that have high expectations for each student's learning and are responsive to each student's needs," the researchers wrote.
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The 74
Before a global health crisis closed schools nationwide, Kristen Roosevelt told her principal that she wasn't interested in teaching summer school this year. Roosevelt, who teaches first grade at a high-poverty public school in Portland, Oregon, changed her mind after her school closed and she saw how the crisis was affecting her students. It took three weeks to get devices to students who needed them. The next hurdle was connecting families to the internet.
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Education Week
As police shootings take the national spotlight, sparking reflection and discussion about racial equity, one researcher has released a study showing how the effects of those shootings seep into nearby schools and affect students' learning. The report shows that police shootings, particularly when victims are unarmed, lower black and Latino students' grades and the chances they'll graduate from high school.
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