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ASCA
Have you heard the news? The ASCA National Model received an upgrade. Introducing the fourth edition of the ASCA National Model.
The school counseling profession has made tremendous strides since the ASCA National Model was first introduced. This fourth edition and subsequent editions are intended to carry school counselors and school counseling farther along their journey and ever closer to their goal of helping every student succeed.
Learn more about the changes, watch a webinar to familiarize yourself with the new edition and order your copy via the new ASCA Model webpage.
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
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Join College Board for the 2019 Counselor Summer Institute, a comprehensive, online professional development event that supports counselors throughout the school year and helps prepare students for college and career success. Learn more.
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Starbridge
Applying for ACCES-VR — Advocates for Children
Intervening to prevent a dropout — PBS Learning Media
How to use assistive technology in the classroom — CTD Institute
CDOS Worksheets to prepare for applying for jobs and interviews — Empowerment through Opportunity
Chart with accessible features on iPad — CTD Institute
By Angela Cleveland and Jennifer Correnti (commentary)
 Counselors are at the forefront of opening doors to opportunities for all students. It is crucial for educational leaders to recognize the impact and service school counselors have in every school community as stakeholders and embrace engaging educational environments that support pathways to sustainable and rewarding post-secondary opportunities. Counselors recognize that technology is changing every career. Engaging students and families in conversations about sustainable careers means talking about the intersection of computer science with every vocation.
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District Administration Magazine
Four in 5 teachers at high-poverty urban schools with large minority student populations experience moral injury — meaning they feel compelled to act against their values or sometimes witness peers engaging in behavior that is counter to their values — according to a recent study. "Moral Injury Among Professionals in K-12 Education" surveyed a Midwestern district that the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice had pressured to increase graduation rates and lower suspensions by adopting restorative justice policies.
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Education Next
Since the early 2000s, when wireless connectivity and the Internet evolved into everyday technologies, they have come to pervade our home and work lives, revolutionizing the way we share and access information. Wi-Fi circuits, which connect a device to a wireless network and the Internet, are incorporated into billions of devices, ranging from bathroom scales and "smart" electric outlets to equipment that streams movies and music. Wi-Fi is installed on our smartphones and laptops, at home and in the workplace, in cafés and airports, and of course, in schools everywhere.
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District Administration Magazine
America's international competitors know that technology and automation are driving rapid changes in the global economy — and they're preparing their children for increasingly sophisticated, continually evolving jobs. In Germany, Switzerland and Finland, for instance, the majority of high school students take a concentrated series of career and technical education courses — without giving up rigorous academics. In contrast, only about 6 percent of American students enroll in a substantive, coherent series of CTE courses focused on a particular field. We must do better.
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By: Sheilamary Koch (commentary)
 Whether summer break for you includes travel or just a change in routine, you can increase your enjoyment of it with these simple mindfulness practices. Beyond a multitude of health benefits associated with mindfulness, it is basically an attitudinal shift that promotes greater satisfaction with life. The objective of any mindfulness technique is to maintain a state of alert, focused relaxation by deliberately paying attention to thoughts and sensations without judgment. This allows the mind to refocus on the present moment.
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NPR
Changes in education policy often emanate from the federal government. Think Common Core, the set of standards established in 2010 for what U.S. students should know. But one policy that has spread across the country came not from Washington, D.C., but from Florida. "Mandatory retention" requires that third-graders who do not show sufficient proficiency in reading repeat the grade. It was part of a broader packet of reforms proposed by former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush in 2002.
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Education DIVE
Google announced new curriculum resources associated with its Be Internet Awesome initiative last month that include lessons on how to recognize fake websites and identify the way that those who create media frame their messages by deciding what information to include. The program is just one of an increasing array of media and news literacy programs that have expanded since the 2016 presidential election cycle in an effort to give students — and their teachers — the skills to approach media messages, videos and images with a critical eye.
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Education Week
The House spending bills, including an all-time high for federal education aid, have generated a great deal of interest this year. It's the first time in a decade Democrats control the chamber, and they want to draw sharp distinctions between their priorities and the Trump administration's. But with all that done and dusted weeks ago, you might be wondering: Where's the Senate school funding bill for fiscal 2020?
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HealthDay News
Too much social media might be too much for the mental well-being of teenagers, new research suggests. The more that teens used social media and watched television, the greater their risk of depression, the study found. "Our research reveals that increased time spent using some forms of digital media in a given year predicts depressive symptoms within that same year," said senior study author Patricia Conrod, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Montreal.
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The Associated Press
Desks lined up in precise rows with teacher firmly planted at the front: That was the standard classroom format for much of the last century. But with many educators saying kids can do better in a more relaxed and flexible learning environment, designers and architects have been providing spaces and furnishings to fit that bill. "Innovators no longer speak of 'classrooms,'" says Bob Pearlman, a Tucson, Arizona-based education consultant. "Students now work in learning studios, plazas and home bases. They shift into varied extended learning areas and collaboration zones that include project-planning rooms, workrooms, focused labs, group learning spaces, individual pods."
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District Administration Magazine
Letter grades have been traditionally viewed as the only way to report student progress. Over the years, progressive education leaders have come to realize that while A-F grades may be an easy way to rank students, the outdated system comes with heavy burdens and expectations that emphasize an institution's efficiency over the learning process. At the UCDS (University Child Development School) College for School Culture in Seattle, we are preparing future teachers to assess and report student progress with greater clarity.
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By: Brian Stack (commentary)
 Earlier this summer, the International Association of Online K-12 Learning, better known as iNACOL, released its most recent map displaying the implementation of statewide K-12 competency-based learning policies across the nation. The map now shows 17 states that have reached an advanced level of implementation with comprehensive policy alignment and/or an active state role to build capacity in local school systems for competency-based learning. This current map is in stark contrast to the 2012 map, which listed just three states at the advanced level.
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Education Week
Students with disabilities appear to experience higher highs and lower lows when using social media, according to a new report from the Ruderman Family Foundation. Students with disabilities were 1.8 times more likely to be victims — and 1.7 times more likely to be perpetrators — of social media-related cyberbullying, the group found in an analysis of survey information covering 24,000 Boston-area high school students. The connection between experiencing cyberbullying and suffering from depressive symptoms and suicidal ideation was also particularly strong for these students.
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The Washington Post
Online bullying is on the rise among middle and high school students, even as overall rates of bullying in schools have remained steady, according to a federal report released Tuesday. Twenty percent of students between the ages of 12 and 18 were bullied during the 2016-2017 school year, according to the report from the National Center for Education Statistics, the research arm of the U.S. Education Department. Among those students who faced bullying, 15 percent said they were bullied online or by text, a 3.5 percentage point jump from the 2014-2015 school year.
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Edutopia
In the last 50 years, scientists have discovered that our brains are not fixed after early childhood but instead have potential for further change. The brain can adapt, reorganize, and reconstruct itself based on learning and experiences. What we learn can change not only the physical structure of the brain but the way that information is organized.
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EdSource
It's been almost two years since Bill Gates announced a major shift to locally driven solutions in the education funding strategy of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the nation's largest charitable foundation. Gates said he remains "driven by the same guiding principle we started with: all students — but especially low-income students and students of color — must have equal access to a great public education that prepares them for adulthood." The result is a first round of funding totaling $93 million from the foundation to 21 local Networks for School Improvement committed to continuous improvement and uncovering changes that will make a difference for these students.
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The Hechinger Report
As grown-ups everywhere have long suspected, poorly behaved 6-year-olds will come to no good. Or, at least not as much good as their more attentive, kinder and less aggressive peers. New research used tax return data to determine the income, at age 33 to 35, of 2,850 children tracked by the Quebec Longitudinal Study of Kindergarten Children, an academic research project following kids from kindergarten through adulthood. The analysis, led by first author Francis Vergunst at the Université de Montréal, found that children who were bad at paying attention as 6-year-olds earned less than their peers as adults.
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Center for Digital Education
To the surprise of many, online preschool not only exists, it's expanding. Thanks to some states' desire to offer such programs to children with limited or no opportunities to attend traditional preschool programs, "online preschool" and "virtual kindergarten readiness" are getting lots of attention.
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EdSurge
"How do you judge a person on one bad act that they do and what should be the parameters?" This ethical question formed the center of a thoughtful, deep discussion about an email from the school administration asking teachers to tell students not to "like" a YouTube video posted by a comedian who had been accused of making anti-Semitic statements.
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The Brookings Institution
School segregation is capturing headlines, due to a
heated exchange between Sen. Kamala Harris and former Vice President Joe Biden in a recent Democratic primary debate. While the benefits of racially integrated schools are clear, the legal and political hurdles to achieving racial diversity are substantial. Legally, the U.S. Supreme Court has expressed profound skepticism of districts considering a student's race when making school assignments. Politically, integration efforts have proven to be a tough sell to communities, a reality illustrated by the fact that hundreds of districts have sought release from desegregation orders over the past few decades.
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