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NYSSCA
SUMMER IS COMING AND IT'S TIME TO HEAD TO RAMP CAMP
Due to Popular Demand NYSSCA will be offering FOUR RAMP Camps this summer.
Register here!
Thursday, July 20 — Jefferson County CC, Watertown
Wednesday, July 26 — Farmingdale College, Long Island
Friday, July 28 — OCM BOCES, Liverpool
Tuesday, Aug. 1 — Mt. St. Mary's College, Newburgh
Complete registration and location details are available here.
Register now!!
The RAMP designation is based on "The ASCA National Model: A Framework for School Counseling Programs," third edition.
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NYSSCA
New York State School Counselor Association Annual Conference 2017
"School Counselors: Prepared to Lead the Way" The DoubleTree, Syracuse, New York on Nov. 17-18. The New York State School Counselor Association is seeking qualified presenters for the 2017 Conference! Conference, Exhibitor and Hotel Registration now available HERE.
NYSUT
NYSUT has extended the deadline to submit proposals for articles in the 2018 issue of Educator's Voice, NYSUT's professional journal. The topic will be family engagement and community partnerships. Take a few minutes to tell us about community organizing and family outreach programs that make your team proud. Right now we are just looking for ideas. Your actual article would not be due until September. Members drive this publication; this is a great way to showcase and share your success stories. Go online for more information and to read the 2017 edition, which focuses on how to engage students by making them more active learners.
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[Glasgow Caledonian University]
Glasgow Caledonian University is delighted to offer a week long summer programme for guidance counsellors looking to experience first-hand, the opportunities available to students in the UK – with ten fully funded places available! The programme will include details around VISA support, funding streams and the UK educational entry system – as well as local tours, taking in some of Scotland’s breath-taking sights, not to mention the University’s cutting edge campus and award winning facilities. GCU is a multi-cultural modern university. Our welcoming community of 20,000 students from more than 100 countries enjoys a wide range of award-winning support services and facilities.
* Times Higher Education’s 200 under 50 Rankings 2017
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LGBTQ Educators of New York
June is LGBTQ Pride Month. Check for solidarity events in your region at the Facebook page for LGBTQ Educators of New York.
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The Hechinger Report
Algebra was not Kylee Elderkin's favorite subject at the beginning of the school year. "I was a little behind," said Kylee, 14. "I wouldn't understand." The Nokomis Regional High School ninth grader said she used to routinely miss key skills and do poorly on tests. Struggling students like Kylee might not have made it through honors algebra in the past, said teacher Ellen Payne, who has taught high school math for 11 years. Payne said she used to "lose" four or five students a year from honors algebra; they'd have to drop down a level. In lower level classes, some would have to repeat the whole course.
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The Associated Press via U.S. News & World Report
Few college-bound kids lose their shot, and their slot, at their dream school once they get in, but it happened at one of the world's most elite institutions and for a reason that has, until recently, hardly registered in the university admissions process: social media. Harvard University's decision to rescind admission offers to 10 incoming freshmen because of offensive Facebook posts comes at a time of heightened attention to free speech and student conduct on U.S. college campuses, and has stirred debate far beyond the halls of the Ivy League school.
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By: Bob Kowalski (commetnary)
 A movement is afoot to remove homework from schools, and — believe it or not — it's not being led by a group of defiant fifth-graders. Parents and teachers across the country are questioning the value of the extra work and the strain on the schedules of students and their families. In some cases, teachers are leading the troops in what you might call a different type of "class" warfare. Social media even helped advance the cause when a letter from a Texas parent to her child's teacher went viral.
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The Associated Press
The man who parlayed a run on TV's "The Apprentice" into a winning presidential campaign said Tuesday the nation needs a stronger system of apprenticeship to match workers with millions of open jobs. "I love the name apprentice," President Donald Trump declared. He said he wants every high school in America to offer apprenticeship opportunities and hands-on-learning. Joined in Wisconsin by daughter Ivanka Trump, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and Labor Secretary Alex Acosta, Trump described his push to get private companies and universities to pair up and pay the cost of such arrangements.
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American Educational Research Association via Science Daily
Based on a study of more than 30,000 elementary, middle, and high school students conducted in winter 2015–2016, researchers found that elementary and middle school students scored lower on a computer-based test that did not allow them to return to previous items than on two comparable tests — paper- or computer-based — that allowed them to skip, review and change previous responses.
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U.S. News & World Report
By late spring 2015, Ashley DiFonzo had been accepted to five colleges. To determine the right fit, she says, getting a sense of campus culture was critical. "I did not want to end up hopping around schools," she said via email. "It is inconvenient, stressful and ultimately more expensive." Because four were located near her Conway, Missouri, home, DiFonzo signed up for campus tours and also visited friends at the colleges for less formal visits. But because Liberty University in Virginia was farther away, DiFonzo toured that school virtually several times.
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International Literacy Association
Reading and writing are complex areas to assess. No single assessment can include all aspects of these complex processes. What's more, there are multiple purposes for literacy assessment, and no single assessment can serve all purposes. Together, these facts make it clear that literacy assessment is much more complicated than many realize. In short, literacy assessment needs to reflect the multiple dimensions of reading and writing and the various purposes for assessment as well as the diversity of the students being assessed.
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By: Susan Winebrenner (commentary)
 Summer is beginning, and you haven't made any activity plans for your gifted child. By the end of this month, you may be regretting that decision. Here are some suggestions for your consideration. The first consideration should be to find paths to connect your child with other kids who share their interests. Most gifted kids care more about quality of friendships than quantity of options. To find a like-minded learner who shares one's learning passion is a gift.
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eSchool News
Instead of rewarding students for how many problems they solve, here's what schools should be focusing on instead.
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Education DIVE
Technology is changing the way the entire world operates — from commerce to transportation, there is not an industry that is not being transformed by the digital revolution. Education is no exception. Education technology provides numerous possibilities for interactive teaching and learning, as well as increasing process efficiency in the administrative offices. But research has shown that most administrators are entirely reliant upon their vendor relationships to guide the buying process; few actually know what they really need for their schools, and many admit to deploying technological solutions before they've fully identified a problem and laid out a strategy.
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Education World
Some 98,500 students across the United States received free or reduced lunches in school during 2016. The number of those students who received the free lunches provided during the summer break paled in comparison at just under 12,000.For states with an especially high volume of children living under the poverty line, that lack of meals being taken advantage of in the summer months is especially concerning. "In Mississippi one in four kids struggle with hunger and that number is higher than the national average of one in five children so the Mississippi Gulf Coast has a higher percentage of children that struggle with hunger," said Cindy Bloom who works with the Mississippi Department of Education through the organization Feeding the Gulf Coast.
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Edutopia
Summer is becoming a lost art. Perhaps that's why so many in our profession are losing heart. We run into summer at full velocity, and many teachers never slow down but tumble into more events for their children or themselves. Many of us volunteer too much, plan too much, and do too much — if we're not careful, we start the fall without getting the most important things done.
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