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NYSSCA
Exhibitor registration, attendee registration and hotel registration is now open. Click here for more information. You can view the informative breakout sessions that will be at NYSSCA 2019 — here. Early Bird Deadline Approaching!
NYSSCA
NYSSCA is pleased to announce a Leadership Grants for our Conference on Nov. 22-23 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. You may choose to volunteer at the conference as well.
Grants will cover conference registration fees and hotel fees for a two night stay (Thursday, Nov. 21 and Friday, Nov. 22), 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. Submission Deadline, Oct. 15.
Click here for the online grant application.
If you have questions, please email questions to President Elect-Elect Mark Mason at presidentelectelect@nyssca.org.
NYSSCA
As we turn the corner towards the end of another school year, we 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. Check out the Video of Last Year’s Award Ceremony at the Sagamore here.
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
Administrator of the Year
Outstanding Program, Practice or Project
Career Achievement
The deadline for all nominations is Oct. 15, and award recipients will be announced at the NYSSCA Annual Conference on Nov. 22-23 at the Honor's Haven Resort in Ellenville, NY.
If you have any questions, please contact us at: 937-9-NYSSCA or 937-969-7722.
Dr. Gail Reed-Barnett, Past President
PastPresident@nyssca.org
Chair, NYSSCA Awards Committee 2019
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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New York State Science Education Consortium
The linked document on Science Acceleration is being shared with you by the New York State Science Education Consortium. The Consortium is made up of representatives from science professional organizations and BOCES throughout the state. A working group of the Consortium has been studying science acceleration and this document represents their findings. This paper offers a set of suggestions for course sequences and ways for students to move in and out of acceleration as their needs and readiness change. We will be making our findings available to school districts, professional associations and NYSED. We hope that the research presented here is valuable to you as you examine the programs being offered in your school district. READ FULL LETTER HERE.
eSchool News
K-12 teachers, counselors and other front-line educators all need an effective framework with a set of tools to assess, intervene and empower our students to see and achieve their own unique potentials, whether in the classroom, guidance counseling sessions, student orientation or community service opportunities.
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Today
Everyone knows bullying is a huge problem, and we all need to work to stop it. But how? The science is unclear. While school districts across the country spend millions of dollars each year to combat bullying, not all anti-bullying programs work equally — and some of the most common approaches, it turns out, don't work very well at all.
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The Hechinger Report
Here's a tale of three cities: Atlanta, New York and Detroit. In all three cities, there is a high degree of racial segregation in the schools. White students go to schools with relatively few black and Hispanic students. Black and Hispanic students attend schools that don't have many white students. When Sean Reardon, a sociologist at Stanford University, measures the racial isolation in a quantitative way, he finds that the schools in the three cities are "equally racially segregated."
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The Brookings Institution
Given the increasing polarization of the political debates about immigration, which has occurred in the context of persistent and growing socio–economic inequality in the United States, it is important to understand the possible influences of immigrants on U.S. schools. Immigrants and their children are one of the fastest-growing demographic groups — comprising 26% of the U.S. population in 2015.
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CNN
Flavored e-cigarette use among young people in the United States increased from 2014 to 2018, according to a new report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
The report said current use of flavored e-cigarettes — defined as use in the past 30 days — had increased among high school students since 2014 and among middle school students since 2015.
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THE Journal
The U.S. Department of Education is providing 29 grantees with approximately $78 million in funds that focus on STEM initiatives as part of the Education Innovation and Research program. Over 85 percent of the STEM-funded projects include a specific focus on computer science.
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By: Bambi Majumdar (commentary)
 The 2019 K-12 School Giants Report shows that many K-12 districts across the country are emphasizing hands-on, practical and personalized learning. As a result, 360-degree learning has emerged as one of the latest trends in K-12 education. A core concept for 360-degree learning is that surroundings and all aspects of students’ experiences impact education. Most of all, it considers how students engage with their fellow students, the subject matter, and how interactive these lessons can become.
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Education DIVE
Early-childhood programs — including center- and home-based settings — are twice as likely as kindergarten and 1st-grade classrooms to have all black or all Hispanic children. They're also less likely to be "somewhat integrated" with 10-20% of children being black or Hispanic, according to a new Urban Institute study comparing segregation between K-12 schools and the variety of learning arrangements for children 5 and under.
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Language Magazine
The beginning of a new year always brings new education policies and strategies. U.S. educators currently find themselves in a rapidly changing time for dyslexia legislation, and many schools are in the process of transforming the type and level of support they offer to these students. In 2015, the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services created a policy identifying dyslexia, dysgraphia and dyscalculia as specific language disabilities.
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Newsweek
A new report from the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Educational Statistics finds that charter school and public school students have the same academic performance in testing conducted at the fourth- and eighth-grade level. "In 2017, at grades 4 and 8, no measurable differences in average reading and mathematics scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress were observed between students in traditional public and public charter schools," the "School Choice in the United States: 2019" report found.
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Edutopia
It's likely that your hard work orchestrating the first weeks of school enhanced your students' connection to the school community and their enthusiasm for the learning to come. However, as the semester goes on and you seek to sustain that motivated momentum, you may not be able to find the same amount of prep time that you dedicated to the start of the year.
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Education Week
How do children learn to read? For almost a century, researchers have argued over the question. Most of the disagreement has centered on the very beginning stages of the reading process, when young children are first starting to figure out how to decipher words on a page. One theory is that reading is a natural process, like learning to speak. If teachers and parents surround children with good books, this theory goes, kids will pick up reading on their own. Another idea suggests that reading is a series of strategic guesses based on context, and that kids should be taught these guessing strategies.
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By: Amy Temple (commentary)
 In 2006, shortly after moving to Florida, I was hired as a dog sitter for a couple who were living in the same residential community as me. They had the cutest Boston terrier with the calmest disposition I had ever seen in a dog. It was the perfect job. I could set my own hours and the pay was pretty good. However, the couple's true colors began to show shortly after. I think my learning disabilities were the reasoning behind the couple's behavior. They often talked down to me.
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Pew Research Center
Religion in public schools has long been a controversial issue. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1962 that teachers and administrators cannot lead prayers in public schools, and a decision in 2000 barred school districts from sponsoring student-led prayers at football games. At the same time, the court has held that students retain a First Amendment right to the free exercise of religion and may voluntarily pray before, during and after school. Where exactly to draw the line between constitutionally protected religious activity and impermissible state-sponsored religious indoctrination remains under dispute.
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EdScoop
Teachers at Fairfax County Public Schools in Virginia say that audiobooks are improving access to grade-level content and helping students develop a love of reading that motivates continued improvement. Two assistive-technology teachers recommended the use of audiobooks in a recent webinar hosted by edWeb.net and presented by Terrie Noland, vice president of educator initiatives at Learning Ally, a nonprofit organization that specializes in audiobooks for students with dyslexia and other learning disabilities.
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Ozy
On Mondays, high school senior Bridget Stoddard isn't at school — she's at a Starbucks. Working. Stoddard isn't playing hooky. Her Colorado school district, 27J, moved to a four-day week last year. Initially, the change was disorienting for the 17-year-old Brighton High School student, and she worried she wouldn't be able to adjust to a college schedule. One year later, Stoddard uses the day to stack up work shifts and prepare for the upcoming week.
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