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NYSSCA
Need some inspiration, information and insight for the back-to-school season? Check out the resources and top-five tips from the School Counselor of the Year finalists for making this a stellar school year. Click here for ASCA Back-to-School Resources.
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NYSSCA
School Counselors: Prepared to Lead the Way is about empowering YOU to take the lead. Friday and Saturday, Nov. 17-18, will set the stage for the rest of your school year, so be at the Syracuse DoubleTree Hotel. Click here to view registration and hotel information on our conference page. Schedule and Keynote Information available in our Conference Brochure available here.
Be looking for our Brochure which will be mailed in time for school to start. It will also be available on our website.
We are planning over 30 breakout sessions to engage all levels and interests. We are also looking forward to joining our exceptional group of exhibitors and sponsors.
Our Keynotes are Dr. Carolyn Stone, ASCA's Ethics Chair, Melissa Straub, cybersafety expert, and Dr. Allison Sampson-Jackson, trauma informed schools speaker.
Stay tuned for additional details and visit our conference page often for updates ... See you in Syracuse.
NYSSCA
The New York State School Counselor Association presents several awards each year at our annual conference. The award categories this year include:
- School Counselor of the Year
- Administrator of the Year
- Career Achievement
- Outstanding Program, Practice, or Project
All nominations are submitted online. Click here for all award nominations and descriptions.
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NYSSCA
NYSSCA is pleased to announce a Leadership Grant for members who may be interested in a leadership position in our professional organization. We will sponsor 4 grants this year. Candidates must meet the following requirements:
- Be a current NYSSCA member.
- Have an interest in a NYSSCA leadership position and join a NYSSCA Committee after the grant is received.
- Attend the conference in its entirety, including attendance at a workshop on the functioning of the NYSSCA Executive Board.
Grants will cover conference registration fees and hotel fees for a two night stay (Thursday, Nov. 16 and Friday, Nov. 17), up to $500.
Grant recipients must pay all registration and hotel fees but will be reimbursed by NYSSCA after attendance and participation at the conference is confirmed. Conference & Hotel Registration information available here. If you have questions, please email questions to President Elect Elect Carol Miller.
Online application available here.
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Education DIVE
Signed into law in December 2015, the Every Student Succeeds Acts passage was heralded at the time by former President Barack Obama as a "Christmas miracle" that broke deep partisan divides in Congress. The latest reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, signed into law in 1965 by President Lyndon B. Johnson as part of his "War on Poverty," replaces its Bush-era counterpart, the No Child Left Behind Act. And where NCLB issued federal accountability mandates aimed at closing achievement gaps between students across racial and socioeconomic backgrounds — particularly in math and reading — ESSA seeks to return much of the decision-making power around those efforts back to states.
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District Administration Magazine
Sensory rooms not only help students with special needs feel more comfortable and empowered in the classroom, they may also keep them in their neighborhood schools, according to K-12 administrators. The carefully designed rooms may include dim lights to help students who are sensitive to light, weighted blankets to give them comfort or a swing they can gently rock on to become calm or spin in a circle for stimulation. The Council for Exceptional Children says sensory rooms are getting popular in districts to help calm overstimulated or anxious students.
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Education World
For students who don't have a bed to call their own, staying focused in class and completing homework assignments can be incredibly difficult. Homelessness is affecting a growing number of children, having doubled in the last decade to 1.3 million, according to the National Center for Homeless Education. This doesn't mean that all students who are homeless are living on the street or in homeless shelters. Many could have parents that were evicted from their homes and are bouncing in-between short stays with family and friends. Regardless, the instability can be incredibly jarring for students.
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By: Mark S. Miller (commentary)
 As an educator at the midpoint of my career, I have witnessed numerous colleagues retire from a successful career in education and transition to a second, unrelated career almost seamlessly. I have often asked myself how is this possible? Do they possess a special skill or training that has enabled them to transition so effortlessly? Each, regardless of position (i.e., administration, special education, regular classroom teacher, etc.), never stopped exploring.
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NPR
Tomorrow night, Fabrice Charles is planning to go to bed early, so he can get a good night's sleep. He's got a big day on Saturday, when he'll join hundreds of thousands of other students taking the new summer SAT. "I get stressed really easily," he says, "so I've just got to relax and think back to my exercises." For the first time since the 1970s, the College Board is offering an August SAT testing date and the rising high school senior in Boston says he's ready.
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Edutopia
Effective communication between educators and parents is an important — if not crucial — aspect of helping students learn. But as any teacher will tell you, it can be one of the most challenging parts of the job. Of course, every classroom is unique, and we all face different challenges: Some teachers suffer from in-box fatigue trying to keep up with a constant barrage of parent emails, while others struggle to get parents involved at all. But effective communication remains the goal in every case.
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Education World
Students are not the only ones excited about starting the new school year off with some new style. Teachers across the country are getting in on the action and giving their classrooms a design update to help welcome students back. Newly decorated classrooms help to visually stimulate students' minds and help usher them in with enthusiasm for learning in a fresh and comfortable classroom environment.
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NPR
Children who start school at an older age do better than their younger classmates and have better odds of attending college and graduating from an elite institution. That's according to a new study from the National Bureau of Economic Research. Many parents already delay enrolling their children in school, believing they'll do better if they're a bit older. It's sort of "academic red-shirting," says one of the study's authors, David Figlio, an economist at Northwestern University, using a term that originated in college athletics and refers to recruits who are held out of games for a year.
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MindShift
Many elementary school teachers love to teach reading and writing, but are less comfortable with science and math. It's not a hard and fast truth, of course, but learning to read is a big focus of the early school years, so it makes sense that teachers who gravitate toward elementary school like teaching literacy. But it's also important to expose kids to science early and get them excited about the practices that define scientific inquiry. And literature may be the perfect starting point. Stories are full of tension, conflict and dilemmas that make wonderful departure points for engineering projects that weave subjects together.
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MindShift
A lot of parents are worried about helping their children get ahead in a world that feels increasingly competitive, demanding, and high-stakes. That anxiety can take many shapes including overparenting, over-scheduling, and constantly looking for that special opportunity that will give a child the competitive edge. But while parents are fretting about what they can do to help their kids academically and socially, it's easy to forget about the emotional health that is a foundation for success in life. Discussions of growth mindset and resiliency have become more common in recent years, but how can parents foster a healthy view of struggle in their kids?
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The Hechinger Report
Core academic subjects have long been the top priority for districts preparing students for life after high school. Now districts are elevating social and emotional learning, as well, drawing from a large body of research showing that skills like grit and self-regulation are critical to life success. If they're so valuable, the logic goes, schools should find concrete ways to teach them. And with teaching comes testing — not only to ensure students' learning can be measured, but so that educators can determine how well the new efforts are working.
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