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NYSSCA
The New York State School Counselor Association presents several awards each year at our annual conference. The award categories include:
- School Counselor of the Year
- Administrator of the Year
- Career Achievement
- Outstanding Program, Practice or Project
For much more information about each of these awards and nominations forms, please click here.
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. 15 and Friday, Nov. 16), up to $500.
For more information and the Grant Application, click here.
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NYSSCA
Welcome Back to the 2018-2019 School Year. It is time to register for annual conference which will be held on Nov. 16-17 at the Sagamore Resort, Lake George, Bolton Landing, New York, and details are coming together nicely. Our conference brochure will be mailed soon and is available here.
We are pleased to announce our Keynote Speakers, Dr. Tracy Jackson, supervisor of School Counseling Services for Loudoun County Public Schools, Rev. Dr. Bryant T. Marks, Sr., founding director of the National Training and Education Institute, and Kwok-Sze Richard Wong, EdD, executive director, American School Counselor Association. Much more information about our keynotes is available here.
Registration for attendees and Exhibitor/Sponsors is NOW open. Forms are on our conference page.
New this year!! Conference bus transportation from NYC. Round trip bus transportation. Bus leaves NY Penn Station 5 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 15, and leaves the Sagamore at 2:30 p.m. on Nov. 17. Roundtrip, $62. Registration for the bus is here. Credit cards only, you must be registered for the conference.
Check our Conference Page often for registration forms, hotel registration, bus from NYC info and the latest information.
See you there!
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Center on Technology and Disability
This resource helps families to get teens and young adults involved in learning about and selecting assistive technology. An important goal for older students is to understand the areas in which technology can support them in their educational and employment goals. This enables students to advocate for themselves, and to take an active role in selecting assistive technology to address their needs.
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eSchool News
As teachers and students return to school across the country, thoughts range from nervous excitement to worries about how to keep school buildings — and the people in them — secure. Last year's school shooting in Parkland, Florida, sparked a massive movement, including student lie-ins and protests, focused on gun control and the irrefutable point that students should not have to worry about injuries or death when walking in school hallways or sitting in classrooms.
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THE Journal
Every year several hundred thousand students from 6,000 schools participate in the American Mathematics Competitions, a program by the Mathematical Association of America that helps teachers identify talent in math among their students and to foster a love of math. The results of that "friendly" competition provided the data for a research project to understand the dynamics of the gender gap in high school math achievement.
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Medical Xpress
It's normal for both adults and children to feel nervous once in a while. A little anxiety prior to an event like a presentation or test is common — and normal. "For some, a little nervousness can actually be helpful," says Dr. Tina Ardon, a Mayo Clinic family medicine specialist. "But, for others, they struggle a bit more with what we call 'test anxiety.'" Test anxiety can affect anyone from primary and secondary school students to college students.
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U.S. News & World Report
More than 8 million children — or about 15 percent of all K-12 students — were chronically absent from school during the 2015-16 academic year, the latest federal data show. The phenomenon, as defined by missing 15 or more days of the school year, is worse in some parts of the country than others: In eight states and the District of Columbia, for example, more than 20 percent of all students were chronically absent. The biggest offenders included D.C. and Maryland, where 31 percent and 29 percent of students, respectively, were truant.
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The New York Times
As students have returned to school, they have been greeted by teachers who, more likely than not, are white women. That means many students will be continuing to see teachers who are a different gender than they are, and a different skin color. Does it matter? Yes, according to a significant body of research: Students tend to benefit from having teachers who look like them, especially nonwhite students. The homogeneity of teachers is probably one of the contributors, the research suggests, to the stubborn gender and race gaps in student achievement: Over all, girls outperform boys and white students outperform those who are black and Hispanic.
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The Atlantic
For many middle- and high-school students, giving an in-class presentation was a rite of passage. Teachers would call up students, one by one, to present their work in front of the class and, though it was often nerve-racking, many people claim it helped turn them into more confident public speakers.
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USA Today
It's not exactly a revelation to those of you with teenagers that your kids are consumed by social media practically all the time. Seventy percent of teens admit to tapping into social media multiple times a day, according to a nationally representative survey of more than 1,100 13- to 17-year-olds in the U.S., released Monday by Common Sense, a nonprofit advocacy group for kids and families. That's more than double the percentage in 2012, when Common Sense last issued such a report on the impact of teen experiences with social media.
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By: Brian Stack (commentary)
 In any profession, you have to know the audience of the people you work with or serve. As educators, what do we really know about our current students, who are members of Generation Z? How can we use that as school leaders to promote effective instructional strategies to meet their learning needs? To know how to educate them, we have to understand how a Gen Zer is different from a millennial. They are a group that was born in the era of smartphones, and those devices have become more robust with the passage of each year.
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MindShift
High school is an important time in the life of any teen: hormones are raging, social cliques are forming and the pressure is on to develop a college résumé. Teens gain more independence as they get older, but adults also expect more from teens without providing as much of the nurturing and guidance of their earlier years. Starting high school is a big transition and, it turns out, the ninth is grade a pivotal moment for teens’ potential success or failure in high school.
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Educaiton Week
U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos often points to a gloomy federal analysis of the Obama administration's multi-billion dollar School Improvement Grant program to make the case that big federal spending and direction doesn't make a difference. The analysis, which was commissioned by the Institute of Education Sciences, the Education Department's research arm, found that the SIG grant, which poured more than $7 billion into low-performing schools, had no significant impact on math and reading scores or high school graduation.
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Reuters
Transgender adolescents are far more likely to attempt suicide than teens whose identity matches what it says on their birth certificates, and trans male youth are especially at risk, a U.S. study suggests. Roughly half of transgender teens who identify as male but were assigned a female gender at birth have attempted suicide at least once, the study found. And 42 percent of adolescents who don't identify exclusively as male or female have at least one prior suicide attempt.
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eSchool News
Early elementary students with symptoms of depression are much more likely to be at risk for academic deficits, according to new research. Researchers at the University of Missouri have found that children who show mild to severe symptoms of depression in second and third grades are six times more likely to have skill deficits, such as difficulties with social skills or academics, than children without symptoms. Parents and teachers also had difficulties recognizing depression in children. The Anxiety and Depression Association of America reports that as many as 2 to 3 percent of children ages 6-12 might have major depressive disorder.
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Edutopia
A widely cited 2007 study claimed that teachers greeting students at the classroom door led to a 27 percent increase in academic engagement. The problem? It included just three students. Now a new, much larger and more credible study — comprising 203 students in 10 classrooms — validates that claim: Greeting students at the door sets a positive tone and can increase engagement and reduce disruptive behavior. Spending a few moments welcoming students promotes a sense of belonging, giving them social and emotional support that helps them feel invested in their learning.
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Education DIVE
In light of recent school shootings, administrators across the country are grappling with figuring out the best approach to student and staff safety on their campuses. The Federal Commission on School Safety hasn't yet released its final recommendations, but the focus of much of the discussion has been on preventive measures along the lines of what the report suggests.
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By: Michelle R. Matisons (commentary)
 Schools are back in session, and we all know what this means. Time to sharpen those pencils, set that alarm clock, and pack your bulletproof backpack up with everything you’ll need, right? Wait! Did you say bulletproof backpack? Earlier this year, after the tragic Parkland, Florida, mass shooting, there was widespread debate immediately on the almost desperate school security situation. Schools perform under mounting pressure to both protect students and staff while also building learning climates that are not ruled by fear. This is not an easy task.
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The New York Times
It was a searing summer day before the start of the school year, but Julianni and Giselle Wyche, 10-year-old twins, were in a classroom, engineering mini rockets, writing in journals and learning words like "fluctuate" and "cognizant." The sisters were among 1,000 children chosen for an enrichment course intended in part to prepare them for accelerated and gifted programs in Montgomery County, Md. All of the students were from schools that serve large numbers of low-income families. "It's one of my favorite parts of summer," Julianni said.
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Education Week
Youth use of electronic cigarettes "has reached an epidemic proportion," the leader of the Food and Drug Administration said. He gave the manufacturers of popular vaping devices, like Juul, 60 days to make plans to limit their sales to minors or risk seeing their products pulled from the market pending new regulations. He also announced new enforcement actions against retailers who sell the products.
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By: Bambi Majumdar (commentary)
 The focus on asset-based education is growing. Often called strength-based education, this new-age approach seeks to build on the strengths that students already possess. It aims to unlock the inner potential of students by focusing on their talents. Schools and teachers who are adopting this approach believe that asset-based teaching will create lifelong learners who are confident, talented and proactive in their path. The traditional approach has been called the deficit-based style of teaching, which highlights students' inadequacies.
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Quartz
Uniforms can be a contentious topic in U.S. public schools, particularly for the kids wearing them. "The research we've seen finds that the majority of students don't want to wear school uniforms," says Deborah Weinswig, founder and CEO of Coresight Research, which surveys adults with school-age children as part of its retail research. "[Uniforms] restrict individuality, they're expensive, they're too old-fashioned, they don't follow any of the current fashion trends and they aren't flattering."
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