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NYSSCA
Call for programs, exhibitor registration, attendee registration is now open. Click here for more information. Graduate Students Poster session proposals are open. Get your proposal in now here.
NYSSCA
As we turn the corner towards the end of another school year, we encourage you to reflect upon the successes you and your colleagues have had in supporting students and building comprehensive programs that are data driven and student centered. Check out the Video of Last Year's Award Ceremony at the Sagamore linked here.
Looking through this lens of skills, programs and leadership, please consider nominating yourself or a colleague for one of the NYSSCA Annual Awards.
School Counselor of the Year
Administrator of the Year
Outstanding Program, Practice or Project
Career Achievement
The deadline for all nominations is Oct. 15, and award recipients will be announced at the NYSSCA Annual Conference on Nov. 22-23 at the Honor’s Haven Resort in Ellenville, NY.
If you have any questions, please contact us at: 937-9-NYSSCA or 937-969-7722.
Dr. Gail Reed-Barnett, President
president@nyssca.org
Chair, NYSSCA Awards Committee 2019
MHANYS
Mental Health Association in New York State, Inc. (MHANYS) is a not-for-profit organization that works to end the stigma against mental illness and promotes mental health wellness in New York State. MHANYS achieves this through training, education, advocacy and policy, community-based partnership programming, and by connecting individuals and families to help.
NYSUT
NYSUT seeks candidates for a labor relations specialist in the Western NY RO, assigned to the Buffalo Teachers Federation. Email letters of interest and resumes to NYSUT Human Resources no later than July 15.
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ACT
Save your spot to meet with your ACT representative and network with other educators. The 2019 ACT College and Career Readiness Workshop — Learn, Measure, Grow: Turning ACT Data Into Action — is your opportunity to get answers to the questions you have about your data and the tools you use, hear advice on implementing assessments, and discover new personalized instructional resources.
Register here for the 2019 ACT College and Career Readiness Workshop for a free, half-day workshop. ACT would like to invite you and your team to one of the free College and Career Readiness workshops that are being are hosting around New York in the Fall.
Fall 2019 CCRW dates in New York:
Oct. 1 — FULTON: CAYUGA COMMUNITY COLLEGE
Oct. 2 — SCHENECTADY: UNION COLLEGE
Oct. 3 — SPENCERPORT: MONROE 2-ORLEANS BOCES THER DR
Oct. 4 — BUFFALO: UNIVERSITY OF BUFFALO-SUNY
Oct. 8 — HOLTSVILLE: EASTERN SUFFOLK BOCES
Oct. 22 — NEW YORK: FORDHAM UNIVERSITY-LINCOLN CENTER
Oct. 25 — WESTBURY: NASSAU BOCES
Education World
Students who are disruptive, can't concentrate or lack motivation may not need a firm hand; they might need a helping hand! From Nebraska to Texas to New York, administrators have found that some of the kids in their care can't function well at school not because they don't want to learn but because they are hungry. With the help of communities, the simple remedy is a backpack — a school standby — that is filled with food supplies to help kids get the fuel they need to flourish. Included: A snapshot of hungry kids in one state and advice from successful backpack programs.
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The Brookings Institution
Nearly a quarter of the U.S student population attends schools in rural areas. Rural students are more likely to graduate from high school than their urban counterparts. However, their lower college enrollment and graduation rates suggest that many of these high school graduates are not necessarily ready for higher education. Increasing access to career counselors for rural students could play a vital role in preparing these students for their transition from school to college and to the workforce.
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PBS Newhour
New York City's elite public high schools are being scrutinized for their admissions practices, which are yielding disproportionately low populations of black and Latino students. In response, the mayor and school chancellor want to eliminate a standardized test critics say is a barrier for low-income and minority applicants. But supporters of the test are pushing back.
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The Hill
Democratic presidential hopeful Rep. Tim Ryan (Ohio) on Thursday called for mental health counselors to be assigned to all public schools as part of a broader public education plan. Shortly before his campaign rolled out his education plan, Ryan tweeted that every U.S. public school needs a mental health counselor on their premises.
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Psych Central
New research suggests some young adults who were bullied as a child could have a greater risk of ongoing depression due to a mix of genetic and environmental factors. In the study, University of Bristol investigators sought to determine why some people respond differently to risk factors such as bullying, maternal postnatal depression, early childhood anxiety and domestic violence. Investigators especially targeted factors that influence depression in young adults between the ages of 10 and 24. To do this, they reviewed detailed mood and feelings questionnaires and genetic information from 3,325 teenagers who are part of Bristol's Children of the 90s study.
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eSchool News
When trauma goes unacknowledged by caring adults, students can feel suffocated by the burden of their experience. Research shows that traumatic experiences can drastically hinder students' academic development, and that "children who have three or more Adverse Childhood Experiences are three times more likely to experience academic failure, five times more likely to have attendance problems, and six times more likely to have behavioral problems than those with no ACEs."
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Education World
Education of students is serious, important work, but there is also scholarly research that says it may be most effective if it's sometimes fun. For years teachers have tried ways of bringing humor into the classroom to keep kids engaged, and Mary Kay Morrison, past president of the Association of Applied and Therapeutic Humor and author of the book "Using Humor to Maximize Learning", says brain research shows that it's a good idea.
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The Hechinger Report
Juliet Basinger pressed a button on a remote control, and the drone she built did a somersault, first in one direction, then in another, before taking off around the room, cheekily snapping photos of the adults looking on. Juliet won't finish high school before 2025, but the 11-year-old already has big plans: She wants to be a mechanical engineer. This year alone, Juliet has used 3D printers, servo motors and microcontrollers to build the parts needed to construct a therapeutic robotic dog that she hopes will help those afraid of canines overcome their fears, a project she did as part of a lesson in her English class.
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District Administration Magazine
High school book fairs remain rare. Older students are more likely to have transportation to bookstores or own digital devices they can use to buy e-books. But some high schools have used Scholastic book fairs as fundraisers. "Often, high schools will host a book fair for everyone in the community, including neighboring middle and elementary schools," says Alan Boyko, president of Scholastic Book Fairs.
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Language Magazine
The American educational system has a difficult time understanding dyslexia and an even harder time identifying children with dyslexia in order to provide the correct intervention for students who are native English speakers. When a school has the added challenge of identifying struggling English language learners, the task becomes an even more complicated process, and often, these kids are completely missed. But that does not have to be the case.
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School Leaders Now
Ever feel like dealing with bus problems is a full-time job? If so, you're not alone. Principals across the country are growing increasingly frustrated with the time and effort they put into resolving behavior issues that occur on the way to and from school. They cite a laundry list of offenses, from foul language, bullying and not following driver instructions to aggressive behavior, threats, fights, weapons — even drugs and alcohol.
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UPI
When a young person pinpoints their emotional problem, they're more likely to resolve it, a new study says. That concept is known as negative emotion differentiation, or NED, which allows a person to sort out and identify various negative emotions, according to a study in Emotion. For a really young person, a NED is relatively high, then it sinks to its lowest point during adolescence, before bouncing back up during adulthood.
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HealthDay News
Social media is helping spur the e-cigarette epidemic among America's teens, a new study suggests. Nearly 15,000 Instagram posts related to Juul, the most popular e-cigarette brand, were released between March and May 2018, researchers found. More than half the posts focused on youth culture or lifestyle-related content that would appeal to teens, according to results in the journal Tobacco Control.
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eSchool News
A new survey shows that the number of girls interested in pursuing STEM careers is alarmingly small–and it continues to decline. The survey from Junior Achievement, conducted by the research group Engine, shows that only 9 percent of girls ages 13-17 express an interest in STEM careers, down from 11 percent in a similar 2018 survey.
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MindShift
Ask almost any teacher about their daily frustrations in the classroom and it won't be long until you hear about students and their phones. Not only do teachers worry that their students aren't learning because they're distracted, but many also complain that constantly policing phone use damages their relationships with students. The issue has gotten to a point where some schools are banning phones during the school day, forcing kids to lock them up in little pouches every morning and unlocking them when the day is over.
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Psych Central
Simply reminding children of their many roles in society — helper, friend, neighbor, son or daughter — can lead to better problem-solving and more flexible thinking, according to a new study at Duke University. "This is some of the first research on reminding kids about their multifaceted selves," said lead author Dr. Sarah Gaither, an assistant professor of psychology and neuroscience at Duke. "Such reminders boost their problem-solving skills and how flexibly they see their social worlds, all from a simple mindset switch."
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2 Minute Medicine
Much research has been done in recent years exploring the negative impacts of ACEs, though fewer studies have explored how to best combat the effects of ACEs. In this cross-sectional analysis, researchers studied how ACEs impacted school performance and how various PFs were able to combat or reverse those effects. Using survey data from across all 50 states, researchers found that negative school outcomes — such as repeating a grade, not completing homework, or simply not caring about school — were all associated with higher ACE scores.
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Education DIVE
While there have been fewer incidents of school violence so far this year, 2018 had the highest incident of school shootings in recorded history with 97 incidents reported in the nation. This increase in school violence prompted the creation of a Federal Commission on School Safety which developed multiple suggestions, but ultimately put the responsibility for preventing violence back on individual states.
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NPR
After a full day of school a few weeks ago, 12-year-old Rose Quigley donned gloves and quickly picked bunches of fresh lettuce, Swiss chard, kale, mint and oregano. But she didn't have to leave her school in Brooklyn, N.Y., or even go outdoors to do it. Quigley is one of dozens of students at Brownsville Collaborative Middle School who in the past year built a high-tech, high-yield farm inside a third-floor classroom. They decided what to grow, then planted seeds and harvested dozens of pounds of produce weekly.
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eSchool News
Schools are facing new challenges now that most learning involves the web — chiefly, the ability to do work at home or anywhere away from school grounds. While many are looking for ways to provide all students with a device, just having the device does not mean equitable learning — especially when it comes to closing the homework gap. All students need to have the same access to WiFi, and thus the ability to use the device, whether they are at school or not.
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