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NYSSCA
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 3 year term. This is a volunteer position on the Publications Committee. The editor must be a NYSSCA member. Many of us have had experience doing similar work and we hope that one of our NYSSCA members will volunteer for this position. If you are interested or have questions, please contact one of our Publications Committee co-chairs, Gloria Jean GloriaJean@nyssca.org, or Bob Rotunda executivedirector@nyssca.org.
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NYSSCA
This summer NYSSCA is hosting a full day training called CHAMP CAMP (Counselors Helping Achieve Mastery Program) to be held in four locations around New York State specifically designed to help school counselors implement the new SED Pt 100.2(j) regulation requirements. The program format will provide targeted training for both school counselors who are unfamiliar with the ASCA National Model as well as those who are already well-versed. Likewise, the program will be relevant for districts who have already begun updating their program and for those who have not yet planned how to update. District implementation of all components of the revised regulation are required to be in place by Sept. 2019. This program provides the information and materials to achieve implementation by this deadline.
CHAMP Camp will be held at
4 locations and dates:
Mercy College, Dobbs Ferry, July 24
Glens Falls HS, Glens Falls, July 26
OCM BOCES, Liverpool, July 31
Orchard Park HS, Orchard Park, Aug. 2
Cost for this program will be minimal: $49 for NYSSCA members, $99 for non-members (includes NYSSCA membership) and includes lunch. The program will begin at 8 a.m. and conclude by 4:30 p.m.
Online registration is open now.
Download the Flyer and "Paper" Registration Form
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NYSSCA
NYSSCA is an approved CTLE provider. School counselors are not included in the NYS requirement for CTLE, but your district may have additional requirements or limit professional development to approved providers. When you are requesting to attend a NYSSCA program, be sure to let us know if you need a CTLE certificate to confirm the hours you earned. To look us up on the approved provider list in TEACH, search for "NYSSCA."
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NYSSCA
We are preparing for our next annual conference which will be held on Nov. 15-17 at the Sagamore Resort, Lake George, Bolton Landing, New York. Pencil in the date on your calendar.
We are pleased to announce our Keynote Speakers, Dr. Tracy Jackson, supervisor of School Counseling Services for Loudoun County Public Schools, Rev. Dr. Bryant T. Marks, Sr., founding director of the National Training and Education Institute, and Kwok-Sze Richard Wong, EdD, executive director, American School Counselor Association. Much more information about our Keynotes is available here.
Registration for attendees and exhibitor/sponsors is now open. Forms are on our conference page.
Check our conference page often for registration forms, hotel registration and updated information.
See you there!
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ASCA
Updated school counselor advocacy materials are now available on the ASCA website. Visit the Careers/Roles page to find links to the new "who are school counselors" infographic, view the "School Counselors: Our Impact" video and more.
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NYSED
The public comment period on proposed regulations to prepare for implementation of New York's approved Every Student Succeeds Act plan began last month and has been extended through Aug. 17.
Amendments and additions to Commissioner's Regulations are necessary to implement New York's approved ESSA plan. The final approved ESSA plan is posted on NYSED's ESSA web page.
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PBS Newshour
Schools across the country are moving away from an era of zero-tolerance policies and shifting toward methods that involve restorative justice, encouraging students to resolve their differences by talking to each other rather than resorting to violence. In New York City, five schools that have implemented this system are already seeing results.
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NPR
"Sometimes we take for granted that kids know how to wash dishes," says Susan Turgeson, president of the Association of Teacher Educators for family and consumer sciences. "I never thought I was going to have to explain, step by step, how to put the drain plug in, the amount of soap to be used." Yet in many family and consumer sciences classes in the United States, once known as "home economics," teachers are instructing students in basics such as how to keep countertops clean or tell a teaspoon from a tablespoon.
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MindShift
Mental health concerns, like anxiety, depression and post-traumatic stress disorder, can affect a student's ability to concentrate, form friendships and thrive in the classroom. Educators and school counselors often provide Social and Emotional Learning programs in order to help these students, as well as school-based therapeutic support groups. However, even in these forums, getting teenagers to speak about their problems can be challenging, especially when they feel like outsiders and worry about judgment from their peers.
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Texas Tribune
In a state that doesn't require counselors in schools, Abbott is recommending school districts find money to hire more counselors and allow them to focus on student mental health rather than administrative tasks like scheduling and college admissions.
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Education Week
Since its launch, AP Computer Science Principles has become one of the most dramatically expanding AP courses, increasing access for both underrepresented minorities and female students to the field of computer science. And it looks like that growth continued into the 2018 testing cycle, according to an early examination of the 2018 exam data released by the College Board. Between 2017 and 2018, the number of students taking the AP CSP exam increased from 50,000 to 76,000 — about 50 percent, according to the new data.
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CNN
While we may never know why a young man decided to carry out a mass shooting at my high school — Marjory Stoneman Douglas — we do know that he was mentally unstable. In the weeks and months leading up to the tragedy, law enforcement officials received repeated calls, alerting them to the potential threat he posed.
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Edutopia (commentary)
Ben Johnson, a contributor for Edutopia, writes: "As I was getting ready to make a change from my last teaching job to an administrative assignment, a student approached me. He was a sophomore who had been in my Spanish classes for two years. He was the kind of student who doesn't fall into any of the categories I've heard high schoolers assign to each other — bookworm, preppy, punk or stoner."
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The Brookings Institution
Postsecondary education is the entry ticket to the middle class. But for low-income Americans college success is rare. While education has long been seen as a force for social mobility, inclusion and equity, it is too often the great stratifier in practice. Boosting social mobility requires interventions that widen the doors to college, and help more students succeed in post-secondary education. There have been a growing number of initiatives, especially "Promise" scholarship programs, aimed at cities and counties to help level the playing field and make a path to a good education available for all.
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Education DIVE
Preschool and elementary school classes don't have to be in the same building or even part of the same district to be in greater alignment. Professional development opportunities that include both early-childhood and elementary school teachers is one way to reach more consensus about the skills and knowledge that children need before they enter kindergarten.
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Getting Smart
There is quite a buzz right now in the K-12 world around models of learning that focus on providing students with relevant experiences. These models call themselves by different names: problem-based learning, project-based learning, experiential learning — or our preferred nomenclature at the Center for Advanced Professional Studies, profession-based learning. Most schools and districts want to feel ownership in their initiatives, as they should. The result is a fragmented landscape with pockets of innovation operating in silos.
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The Press of Atlantic City
Heading to college can be a daunting experience. Worries about picking a major, about being academically ready and about moving away from the security of home are natural. But, unfortunately, adding to the stress is a lack of knowledge among young adults about what college will cost and how it will be paid for.
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Education Week
Current and former English language learners have made significant progress in the past 15 years on the test dubbed the "Nation's Report Card" — improving faster than English-only students. That's the takeaway from a study released this morning in the journal Education Researcher. Michael Kieffer, an associate professor at New York University, and Karen Thompson, an assistant professor at Oregon State University, found that 4th and 8th grade multilingual students' scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress in math and reading have risen two to three times faster since 2003 than those of students who speak only English at home.
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By: Aileen Miracle (commentary)
 Planning is a passion of mine. Through my Kodaly levels, I learned so much about long- and short-range planning, and how to best develop plans that could meet all of my daily, monthly and yearly goals. When I begin my planning for the next school year, I first start with song lists, which for me is a grade-level list of songs, listening pieces and books cross-referenced by concepts, skills and extensions.
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Johns Hopkins University via Science Daily
Children who attend school with many kids from violent neighborhoods can earn significantly lower test scores than peers with classmates from safer areas, according to a new Johns Hopkins University study. In schools where more kids have a high exposure to violence, the study found, their classmates score as much as 10 percent lower on annual standardized math and reading tests. The findings, which demonstrate how urban violence and school choice programs can work together to spread "collateral damage," appeared in the journal Sociology of Education.
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School Leaders Now (commentary)
John Spencer, a contributor for School Leaders Now, writes: "When I was a kid, I knew I could depend on a simple formula to succeed: Behave well in school, get into the right honors courses, go to the right college, get the right degree, and then climb the corporate ladder. This formula worked for my parents and for my grandparents. However, the world is changing. The ladder is gone, and in its place is a maze. Our students will inherit a world where change is the only constant, where automation will replace low-skilled manufacturing, and where artificial intelligence will replace analytical jobs."
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Education Week
Students like math and science more than they did in 2009, but they like reading less, especially in elementary school. That's the upshot of an analysis released Wednesday by the National Center for Education Statistics. It compiles students' responses to questionnaires administered with the National Assessment of Educational Progress, known as NAEP, in fourth, eighth and 12th grades. Some of the questions ask students whether math, science or reading are "always or almost" one of their favorite subjects.
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By: Bambi Majumdar (commentary)
 A new report released by iNACOL, "Levers and Logic Models: A Framework to Guide Research and Design of High-Quality Competency-Based Education Systems," shows an urgent need for a competency-based framework for K-12 ed. It presents logic models to help practitioners understand how competency-based education can impact education. There is a rising awareness of CBE. Schools and district administrators are realizing that they need to equip students better for the digital business world.
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Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care via Science Daily
Contrary to popular belief, when a person makes a mistake while learning, it improves their memory for the right information, but only if the error is close to the correct answer, according to a new study.
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Education Week
U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos has allowed nearly half of states to get wiggle room from a provision in the Every Student Succeeds Act aimed at making sure that only a small percentage of students are taking alternative tests reserved for children with the most significant cognitive disabilities. And the process for granting that leeway has made special education advocates uneasy. Those advocates fear the department — and the states — aren't meeting transparency requirements in the law. They're uncertain about how monitoring these waivers from the law's requirements will work.
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Edutopia (commentary)
Jessica Smith, a contributor for Edutopia, writes: "If you teach in a high school setting, it seems natural that after students learn, you assess, but does assessing always mean giving tests? When I was in school, the answer was yes. However, we can challenge our students far more than any test can because tests are often meant to have students regurgitate information they have learned and don't allow them to insightfully connect with and reflect on a text."
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Getting Smart (commentary)
Jessica Lovins, a contributor for Getting Smart, writes: "We are not born with social-emotional skills. They are formed in childhood, cultivated throughout our lives, and can continue to grow and evolve. Therefore, in order for children to learn and witness social-emotional learning, it must begin with adults. The organization I work for, WINGS for Kids, believes that helping adults develop their social-emotional skills allows them to support, engage, and teach these critical life skills to students. After all, you can't teach what you don't know."
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