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NYSSCA
School Counselors: Prepared to Lead the Way!
Nov. 17-18
Find out more information about the upcoming NYSSCA Conference this November at the Syracuse DoubleTree!
Our registration form, hotel reservation form, awards and exhibitor information is available here.
Schedule and keynote details in our conference brochure here!
Early bird conference registration discount deadline is Oct. 18.
Hotel registration cutoff date is Oct. 18.
The DoubleTree cannot guarantee Conference Rate Rooms after Oct. 18!
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.
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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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The New York Times
The New York State Board of Regents approved a plan laying out the state's goals for its education system, as required by the sweeping federal education law signed by President Barack Obama in 2015 known as the Every Student Succeeds Act. The Regents' approval means the state can now submit its plan to the federal Department of Education for review and approval. The plan details how the Regents will implement the federal law, including how individual schools will be evaluated and identified for what the law refers to as either comprehensive or targeted support and improvement.
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District Administration Magazine
Educators in a school district that conducts well-designed formative assessments should be able to accurately predict how students will perform on midterms, finals and high-stakes exams. A growing number of experts and administrators insist that if a district excels at formative assessment, its students shouldn't have to sit through so many high-stakes tests.
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Education Week
Students performed slightly better on the ACT this year than they did last year, and Hispanic students notched a special victory: Their level of college-readiness rose even as more of them took the exam. The average composite ACT score for the graduating class of 2017 was 21.0, up from 20.8 in the class of 2016, but the same as the classes of 2014 and 2015. Each of the four sections of the ACT — English, reading, math and science — is scored on a 0-36 scale.
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Education DIVE
District leaders spent this week planning how to respond to immigrant families' concerns over the end of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, while some saw students taking their frustrations over President Donald Trump's decision to the streets. More than 1,100 students in the Denver Public Schools, for example, were given unexcused absences after they participated in a peaceful walkout Tuesday that culminated at the downtown Auraria Campus, a higher education center. Will Jones, spokesman for the district, said officials began hearing late last week about students' plans to participate in the demonstration, which included speeches, chants and signs.
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Education Week
Americans are increasingly doubting the value of a four-year college degree, according to an NBC/Wall Street Journal poll. The poll still tilts in favor of the bachelor's degree, but by the slimmest of margins: Only 49 percent of the 1,200 adults surveyed think that a four-year degree is worth the cost because it will lead to good jobs and higher lifetime earnings. Forty-seven percent doubt it will.
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WBUR
Now that school's back in session, first-year college students are making the adjustment to campus life, which can be a big change from high school. And high school seniors who are applying to college should be thinking about who to ask for recommendation letters.
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THE Journal
The Senate Labor, Health and Human Services and Education Appropriations Subcommittee has unanimously approved a funding bill for fiscal year 2018 that includes $68.3 billion in discretionary funding for the United States Department of Education, a $29 million increase over the previous year's budget. The bill increases funding for Student Support and Academic Enrichment Grants — a provision of the Every Student Succeeds Act calling for $1.6 billion in funding and known as Title IV — by $50 million to $450 million. The SSAE is a "flexible formula block grant to help support activities to provide students with a well-rounded education, including STEM education; ensure safe and supportive learning environments; and use technology to improve instruction," according to information released by the subcommittee.
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eSchool News
U.S. teenagers think they are savvy about cybersecurity–so much that nearly one-third skirt school safeguards to access banned content and 29 percent admit to using tech devices to cheat in school–but more than twice that many say they know of classmates who have cheated with devices, a survey found. The findings of the survey by the computer security firm McAfee are in proportion with a 2009 survey by Common Sense Media–although the exact extent of cheating, and whether it's changed over the years, is unknown.
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The Conversation
Hurricane Harvey's historic floods have killed at least 30 people. An estimated 32,000 more have been evacuated into shelters, and approximately 210,000 have registered with the Federal Emergency Management Agency for assistance. Disasters, whether natural (like hurricanes and floods) or man-made (like wars), can cause tremendous upheaval in people's lives. Imagine what being evacuated from your home — even temporarily — would feel like. What about having your home and all of your possessions destroyed? For adults, these are traumatic and deeply distressing experiences. For kids, they may be even more distressing. Losing a home for a kid may mean losing the only home he or she has ever had.
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Education Week
It's a new school year, and many of the 6.4 million U.S. children ages 4-17 who've been diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder are coming back to the classroom in varying states of readiness for the rigors of academic life. The big question is: Are you ready for them? ADHD is considered to be a neurobiological condition that has three primary symptoms: hyperactivity, impulsivity and distractibility. Students diagnosed with ADHD may have difficulty focusing on classroom tasks, organizing their assignments and even staying in their seats at school.
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THE Journal
A group of school districts that incorporated personalized learning practices in the classroom report achieved average growth of 130 percent in reading and 122 percent in mathematics for approximately 36,000 students who took the NWEA Measure of Academic Progress exam. More than half of those students met or exceeded the reading growth and math growth targets. These findings come out of the third annual report from Education Elements, a national K–12 consulting firm of educators, designers, technologists and change-management experts. Since 2010, the firm has worked with 127 districts, impacting more than 600 schools, 34,000 teachers and 545,000 students across the United States.
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eSchool News
According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, 80 percent of students with learning disabilities have dyslexia. In order to create a learning environment that feels safe, comfortable and empowering for students, schools need to adhere to basic guiding principles. In "Creating a Dyslexia-Friendly School," Terrie Noland, national director, Educator Engagement for Learning Ally, presented on early intervention for dyslexic students, using the right AT (assistive technology) tools and accommodations for each learner, and creating environments in which students can thrive.
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PBS Newshour (commentary)
Annette Jacobson, a contributor for PBS Newshour, writes: "This fall, as I have for nearly 29 years as an educator and academic advisor, I'll face freshmen engineering students who are certain of what they're going to do with the rest of their lives. Then they take a few classes, join some clubs, look around – and some will realize this is not what they expected and may not be what they want. They're at a loss. Suddenly, all their preparation to follow a single, narrow path has done them more harm than good."
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THE Journal
In education reform a lot of attention has been paid to learning standards and accountability systems and far less to the curriculum used in teaching. Yet it's the curriculum that may turn out to make the bigger impact. That's the proposition offered in a new report from Chiefs for Change, which has called for "curriculum reform." Chiefs for Change is a nonprofit network of state and district education "chiefs" who want to learn from each other as they develop policies and practices for improving education in their domains.
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The Hechinger Report
Students from underserved populations do not have the same opportunities for a strong education as their more-affluent peers. This is the harsh reality that data from Stanford’s sweeping 2009-2013 study bears out. As policymakers and educators struggle with how to shift this phenomenon, social-emotional learning has emerged as a solution to the challenge of achieving educational equity; they certainly comprise part of the solution to this multifaceted challenge.
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The Atlantic
In 1997, Beverly Daniel Tatum, one of the country's foremost authorities on the psychology of racism, answered a recurring question that surfaced in her work with teachers, administrators, and parent groups: Why are all the black kids sitting together in the cafeteria? The result was a critically acclaimed book of the same name that gave readers — numbering in the hundreds of thousands — a starting point to demystify conversations about race, better understand the concept of racial identity, and communicate across racial and ethnic divides.
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THE Journal
Once again this school year, schools will be ramping up robotics programs and opening more makerspaces, according to the latest report from the New Media Consortium and the Consortium for School Networking. The organizations have released the annual "NMC/CoSN Horizon Report K–12 Education Edition" report to address new and emerging learning technologies used in schools around the world. Based on perspectives from more than 60 education researchers and experts, the 2017 report charts the five-year impact of these technologies worldwide, identifying six important developments for educational technology, six key trends in K–12 and six significant challenges.
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