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.NYSSCA UPDATE
NYSSCA Edge Best Practices Newsletter
NYSSCA
We welcome our new NYSSCA Edge Editor, Dr. Tami. Sullivan. 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 that has been designed to address students in hybrid or online settings?
Submitting to The NYSSCA Edge is easy! The submission form is online here.
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NYSSCA Awards 2020
NYSSCA
As we approach the opening of the school year, I 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.
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 Instructions
School Counselor of the Year Application
Administrator of the Year Application (scroll down)
Outstanding Program, Practice or Project Application (scroll down)
Career Achievement Award Application
Leadership Grant Application
The deadline for all nominations is October 15, 2020, and award recipients will be announced at the NYSSCA Annual Conference on November 12-14, 2020, at the Turning Stone Resort, Verona NY.
If you have any questions, please contact us at: 937-9-NYSSCA or 937-969-7722.
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.AROUND THE INDUSTRY
A suspension for acting out on Zoom?
Chalkbeat
Even as the coronavirus has created a slew of rules students will be expected to follow — from social distancing to wearing masks every day — New York City officials are instructing principals to use last year's discipline policies. As schools prepare to open their doors to students next week, the city's discipline guidance does not explain how administrators should enforce health and safety standards, according to a memo obtained by Chalkbeat.
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The rise of dual credit
Education Next
Aniken Castaneda took his first college course, art history, in the summer before his freshman year in high school. He liked the idea of being a college student, he said, and his parents told him it would give him a head start on a degree. "It was kind of cool to be ahead of everybody," he recalled. And he didn't stop there. By the time Castaneda graduated from Mercedes High School, in Mercedes, Texas, he had amassed 30 credits, enough to bypass of full a year of college. He hopes to complete his bachelor's degree at Sam Houston State University in just two years.
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How to support LGBTQ students during distance learning
Edutopia
When schools closed their doors this spring due to COVID-19, many students felt akin to ships lost at sea. What was next? Would they see their teachers and friends again? What would learning look like during a pandemic? For some, the shock gave way to a new appreciation for home — many discovered that learning at home felt like a good fit, and spending so much quality time with family was something they previously had been missing.
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5 ways to give the 5 C's a bigger role in college admissions
District Administration Magazine
While most educators agree soft skills are crucial for higher ed and workforce success, the so-called "5 C's" may be getting short shrift in the college admissions process, according to a new analysis. Some 95% of admissions decision-makers, 97% of college placement counselors and 88% of high school students agreed that demonstrating creativity, communication, collaboration, critical thinking and creative problem solving should be an important part of applying to college, according to an Adobe for Education study.
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More bad news for the SAT
Inside Higher Ed
Of the 334,000 students registered to take the SAT on Sept. 26, 183,000 will not be able to take the test. And of the 363,000 registered to take the SAT or the SAT Subject Tests on Oct. 3, 154,000 will be unable to do so. The students were told that they couldn't take the test because testing centers — most of them in high schools — were closed because of the coronavirus pandemic or had imposed new limits on students. The College Board, which run the exams, released information about the center closures and limited space. Most students had already been notified but would not have known how many students were turned away.
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School attendance in the COVID era: What counts as 'present'?
NPR
From shiny red pencils reading "My Attendance Rocks!" to countless plaques and ribbons and trophies and certificates and gold stars: For as long as anyone can remember, taking attendance — and rewarding kids for simply showing up — is a time-honored school ritual. For good reason: Just being there, day in, day out, happens to be one of the most important factors that determines a child's success in school. And average daily head count forms the basis of school funding decisions at the federal, state and local level.
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Study shows major learning loss for grades K-2
eSchool News
Students will likely experience 2 to 4 months of learning loss as a result of COVID-19 disruptions, especially in grades K-2, according to a new report. The findings from Illuminate Education highlight a need for additional instructional support this fall. "The data are telling us what we already suspected: this fall, educators need to be ready to use the appropriate tools to identify and contend with student learning loss, particularly in grades K-2," said Dr. John Bielinski, Illuminate Education's senior director of research and development.
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Helping students make new friends during COVID is possible. Two programs show how.
EdSurge (commentary)
Julia Freeland Fisher, a contributor for EdSurge, writes: "'I might be one of the few people coming out of the COVID-19 situation with more friends,' said Karine Durand. Durand's words have stuck with me for months. This past June, she and I were both speakers on a JFF Horizons conference panel focused on the power of investing in students' social capital to break down barriers to opportunity. Durand explained to the audience that in her day job as a nanny, she hadn't spent much time building a professional network."
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Where are all the kindergartners? Pandemic creates rare gap year
POLITICO
Amy Neier carefully wrote "first day of kindergarten" on a whiteboard and posed her 5-year-old son Hunter with the sign to capture the milestone she had long waited for. Then Hunter headed off for another year of preschool instead. Neier and parents across the nation are skipping kindergarten in droves during the most tumultuous school year in generations. Frustrated by the thought of sticking their 5-year-olds in front of screens during the pivotal first year of school, they are sending their children to extended preschool, forming learning pods or foregoing formal instruction altogether.
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Why the US ranks 12th for online learning access
District Administration Magazine
The U.S. was not as well-equipped for the massive COVID shift to online learning, with families paying more for internet service and fewer owning home computers than families on other nations. The U.S. rank 12th for digital infrastructure in an analysis of 30 countries done by Preply, an online tutoring platform.
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What Ruth Bader Ginsburg meant to education
Education Week
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a pioneer in the women's rights movement and the second woman appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court, died Friday at age 87 due to complications of pancreatic cancer. On education issues arising during her 27 years on the court, Ginsburg was a stalwart vote for sex equity in schools, expansive desegregation remedies, strict separation of church and state, and, in a memorable dissent, against broader drug testing of students.
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High school grads opt out of higher ed amid coronavirus pandemic
Fox Business
While college students across the country struggle to get educated amid the pandemic, Claire Raposo of Massachusetts took a different path. Accepted to Bryn Mawr College for fall 2019, she decided instead to go culinary school and pursue her passion — pastry. "I think it's very impractical what college costs," said Raposo, who intends to go to college someday. "I didn't want to just go to college and see what would happen." Across the country, most college campuses are shuttered due to coronavirus, offering remote learning instead. And universities are rarely doling out tuition discounts because classrooms are closed and the true college experience is on hold.
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