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NYSFAAA
Friday, Oct. 4 from 10 a.m. – 12 p.m. EDT.
Whether you're a first-timer or an old pro, this hands-on webinar will prepare you to help students and parents navigate the 2020-2021 FAFSA and TAP online applications. This professional development opportunity is FREE and open to school counselors, financial aid professionals, college access advisors, and others who assist college-bound students with the financial aid application process. LaSonya Griggs, Associate Dean of Enrollment Management at Tompkins Cortland Community College, and Michael S.J. Turner, Client Relations Manager at New York State Higher Education Services Corporation, will be presenting. Provided by NYSFAAA and supported by NYSSCA, membership in either association is not required. This webinar will be recorded.
Register here!
NYSSCA
In order to encourage schools in New York to apply for ASCA's RAMP designation, NYSSCA is initiating a RAMP Application Grant Program this year to fund applications for schools in New York. The lead counselor applying for RAMP must be a NYSSCA member to be eligible for the grant. More details and the application are here.
NYSSCA
Call for programs, exhibitor registration, attendee registration is now open. Click here for more information. Check out our conference handout/flyer here.
NYSSCA
The NYSSCA Edge magazine is looking for articles for the next edition! The theme of the NYSSCA Edge is "Best Practices". NYSSCA believes that our profession is enhanced when school counselors are directly involved in documenting and sharing their professional experiences.
How have you and your school counseling program implemented best practices to better help your students?
Do you have a program activity shown to be effective with your students?
Submitting to The NYSSCA Edge is easy! The submission form is online here.
If you have questions or need help outlining or conceptualizing your "Best Practice" ideas, please contact the editor: EDGE@NYSSCA.org.
Thank you, we look forward to your submissions.
Charles C. Edwards, Ph.D. NCC, NCSC
Edge Editor
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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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NBC News
It wasn't enough to just tell students at San Mateo High School to put their phones away during class, now, officials at the California school have told them to lock them away. And while their familiar companions may still be near, the high-schoolers are now required to keep their devices in a magnetically sealed pouch during school hours. Mounting frustration over student attentiveness led administrators at the school, which is about 20 miles south of San Francisco, to institute the new policy this school year, which kicked off earlier this month.
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NYSUT
Educator's Voice, NYSUT's professional journal, seeks proposals for next year's issue, focusing on special education.
School Leaders Now
The onboarding process for teachers is critical in schools, but equally important is the incorporation of School Resource Officers into your school community. Not only are they the first line of defense in case of an emergency, they can also help the school in many other ways. The success of an SRO in your building requires preplanning with both staff and the officer. Finding a balance between enforcement and community relations can positively impact the school, students and community.
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Education Week
Sudden disasters — from hurricanes to school shootings — demand schools respond to widespread trauma on the fly. Janet Pozmantier, the director of the three-person Center for School Behavioral Health in Houston, said the scale of the need for trauma and mental-health services in the 31 southeast Texas school districts they serve has been daunting, after a mass school shooting in Santa Fe last year or in the wake of the hurricanes that swept — and regularly continue to sweep — the Texas coast.
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By: Aileen Miracle (commentary)
 Are you about to start the school year, but aren't sure where to start? In this article, I'm detailing five must-do's for back to school. My first must-do is to print class lists and your schedule. Class lists are great to have for attendance, creating seating charts, figuring out small groups, and more! I love to have class lists both in paper form (for my class list and fire drill binders) and in Excel so I can easily copy and paste them into programs and apps.
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eSchool News
It's one thing to read about doing a triathlon or to watch one on TV; it's another to dive into the water, hop on the bike seat, and hit the pavement. The same is true of college test prep for exams such as the SAT or ACT — without self-direction, personalized goals and active practice, you're not going to reach your target score.
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Education Week
In reading, math and science, teachers whose students scored low on a national test reported being less likely to ask their classes to engage in higher-order thinking or offer them advanced work than teachers whose students scored high, a report from the National Center for Education Statistics finds. The new analysis uses data from the 2015 NAEP assessment. As a component of the test, teachers and students answered survey questions about classroom instruction — what content teachers covered and what activities they did.
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Disability Scoop
A new opinion letter from the U.S. Department of Labor suggests that many parents of kids with disabilities are entitled to take time away from work to attend their child's individualized education program meetings. In response to an inquiry from a parent, the federal agency said that employees can qualify for leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act, or FMLA, if their presence at an IEP meeting is significant to their ability to provide care for their children.
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EdScoop
Congress passed the Every Student Succeeds Act in 2015, but one area still challenging schools is the tiers for evidence-based interventions and materials. In a recent webinar hosted by edWeb.net, leaders from the Ohio Department of Education explained how a statewide initiative is helping administrators and teachers not only understand the tiers but also provide assistance in selecting the best materials for their students.
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By: Bambi Majumdar (commentary)
 One recent change in education involves a multistate initiative to expand access to and diversity in K-12 computer science. 33 states have passed legislation to that effect in 2019, and about $42.5 million has been funded for this cause. Interest in computer science education is rising, as it should in the digital age. Stakeholders, from parents to policymakers, recognize the importance of this investment. Much of this success can be attributed to the Code.org Advocacy Coalition, which has worked hard at advocating the cause since 2013.
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District Administration Magazine
When deciding to introduce new classroom technology, educators must address its effectiveness and return on investment. But first, they must understand why they are bringing the new technology into the classroom. We asked a number of ed tech leaders to explain their thought processes when implementing new classroom technology.
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THE Journal
A new study of the schooling and workforce outcomes for 4,414 "early-career" adults (median age 29) found that students earned about 2 percent more each year for each advanced or upper-level vocational class or career and technical education class they completed in high school. The research was published as an article in Education Next.
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USA Today
For millions of American kids, going back to school is an exciting time of reconnecting with friends, learning about new ideas and engaging fresh possibilities. But for too many of them, particularly racial minorities living in low-income neighborhoods, the excitement of learning is curbed by sweltering classrooms with little or no air conditioning. This is not merely a question of discomfort. Rather, our research suggests that overheated classrooms contribute to racial achievement gaps by lessening learning in a way that adds up over time and could affect future earnings potential.
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Language Magazine
California Department of Education has released the much-anticipated "California Practitioners' Guide for Educating English Learners with Disabilities." The guide will help with identifying, assessing, supporting, and reclassifying English learners with disabilities. "This resource will benefit the teachers and other professionals involved in the education of more than 220,000 identified English learner students with disabilities," said State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond.
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Forbes
Many educators now accept the overwhelming evidence behind phonics instruction. But they often don't realize that by simultaneously teaching children to guess at words, they may be doing damage that's hard to reverse. Last year, journalist Emily Hanford delved into the widespread misunderstanding in the education world about the best way to teach reading.
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Fox Business
Teenagers spend most of their summer on leisure, but they're devoting more time to studying compared to teens of the past. A new Pew Research Center analysis of Bureau of Labor Statistics data found teens spend more than four hours each week during July on homework or classwork. That's an average of 39 minutes per day, up from 22 minutes a decade ago. Leisure activities, including time spent exercising, socializing or on screens, still account for most of teens' summer days, though it is down overall by an average of 24 minutes each day compared to a decade ago, according to the analysis.
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Education Week
While some may argue in favor of punitive measures for students who bully and others side with improving school climate, a recent survey singles out another factor that may help curb bullying: a sense of belonging. "The more a child feels like they can connect with their family, their peers, and their school, the less likely they are to engage in bullying behavior," said Christopher Slaten, a co-investigator for the survey and an associate professor for the University of Missouri's College of Education.
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eSchool News
Smarter technology and ed tech resources are helping students become independent learners and problem solvers, according to new research. In fact, many of today's students first turn to technology for answers to their questions, and they aren't depending on their parents for homework help as often as in past generations. The research from Lenovo surveyed more than 15,000 people across the globe. Overall, 75 percent say their children are more likely to look something up online than to ask them for help with schoolwork.
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USA Today
In many ways, cheating on high school and college exams used to be a lot harder than it is nowadays. What used to take an elaborate plot to discreetly spread answers across a classroom can now be done with a swipe on a smartwatch. You used to have to steal the answer key or have a cheat sheet hidden around your desk. Now, smartphones can be disguised as calculators, information can be spread invisibly via the airwaves and tiny earbuds allow students to listen to content transmitted from a smartphone in their backpack across the room.
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U.S. News & World Report
Nearly every state in the U.S. has raised the bar over the last decade for what it considers grade-level achievement in math and reading, according to a new study from the National Center on Education Statistics. Because each state sets its own standards for what proficiency in a subject means, researchers at the center developed a formula that could compare each state's bar for proficiency on state assessment tests to the one used in the NCES-administered National Assessment of Education Progress. Using that score as a baseline, researchers were able to compare states to each other.
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The Hechinger Report
Decades of research have documented that students of color, particularly black children, are disproportionately classified by schools as having disabilities. In 2016, 12 percent of black children across the nation received services at school for disabilities ranging from emotional disturbances to physical disabilities to intellectual impairment. Only 8.5 percent of white children received those services. The disability rate for Hispanic students — 9.4 percent nationally — is only slightly higher than for whites and the disparity hasn't been as contentious as the disproportionality for blacks. Some academics and advocates have argued that disability status had become a tool to perpetuate racial segregation, especially in the South.
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EdTech Magazine
Millions of students lack the ability to access the internet from home — a problem compounded by increasing expectations from educators that students do so to complete homework and research. Innovations in next-generation Internet of Things applications are helping to reduce those disparities, which characterize what's known as the homework gap.
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MindShift (commentary)
Katrina Schwartz, a contributor for MindShift, writes: "I met Brianna Sedillo when she pitched my radio station a personal perspective on anxiety, a topic that comes up over and over as teachers and parents try to support young people. "Everything kind of started with the anxiety and depression after the passing of my grandfather," Brianna said. 'He was kinda my safe space. And losing that was really big.' Brianna missed her grandfather's supportive presence acutely during her middle school years, which were difficult. Middle school can be a difficult time for anyone, but for Brianna it was particularly hard socially because her family moved several times. She had trouble making new friends and felt each change of school acutely. Despite all that, she was a good student; she made the honor roll all three years in middle school."
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Education Week
There's never been a clearer scientific picture of the ways damaging experiences and intense, chronic stress can hurt a child's ability to learn in school. But for many schools, the picture of what trauma-sensitive schooling looks like in practice is still developing. "We're in an all-fired hurry because there's this 'trauma' thing and we have to help our kids," said Melissa Sadin, the director of the Creating Trauma-Sensitive Schools Initiative, a national group that trains school and district staff.
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