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NYSSCA
The New York State School Counselor Association Fall Conference (NYSSCA Fall 2019) is now less than a month away, being held November 22-23 at the Honor's Haven Resort and Conference Center. This will be a great professional development opportunity, and give you a chance to network with other school counselors from across the state.
Good news! The "early bird" registration rate has been extended to November 2! So, register today to save up to $25!
Please watch this short video by NYSSCA encouraging you to join us for this wonderful event!
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
Children's Institute
Children's Institute has released an Application for Funds for implementing the early intervention/prevention program, Primary Project, in the 2020-2021 school year. Primary Project benefits children with mild school adjustment difficulties. The Application for Funds is due on Nov. 20, 2019. We invite you to share this message with your members. Information about the application can be found here at the bottom of the page.
By: Sheilamary Koch (commentary)
 Real-world skills warrant more emphasis in high school claim students, employers, parents and other adults in three nationwide surveys conducted this June. While 83% of the students surveyed do plan to go to college, they’d like to see less focus on college-entry exams and more on practical skills like personal finance and tax preparation. The surveys, funded by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, polled a demographically diverse sampling of over 2,000 people from across the country.
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NetSupport DNA provides educators, technicians, and counselors with dedicated solutions to manage all classroom devices and school-wide IT assets while creating a safe learning environment. Powerful eSafety features help support counselors by identifying and protecting vulnerable students via internet metering, keyword/phrase monitoring, webcam controls, and report a concern features.
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School Leaders Now
Sounds daunting, doesn't it? But as school leaders, we need to face up to it. Sexual harassment has happened or is happening in your middle school. According to a 2016 study, 43 percent of middle school students reported they had been the victims of verbal sexual harassment, such as sexual comments, jokes or gestures. That's nearly half of all middle school students. It's highly unlikely your school is an exception.
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THE Journal
While the majority of teachers and administrators recognize that educational technology can accelerate student learning opportunities, a recent survey finds that 39% of school staff do not have training or "adequate learning opportunities" to adopt ed tech solutions in the classroom. The survey from educational hardware provider Promethean provides insights from 1,000 K-12 educators in the United States on their ed tech priorities and challenges.
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THE Journal
The United States Census Bureau has released free resources for K-12 classrooms. The focus is on encouraging students to make sure their families participate in the upcoming Census, which influences the federal funding given to states and communities for classroom technology, teacher training, special education, after-school programs and school lunch assistance, among other programs. Materials include teacher and student content.
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Edutopia
Our schools are currently seeing a dramatic increase in students of all ages carrying in anxiety, adversity and trauma from a variety of adverse childhood experiences. Social and emotional learning programs are critical for addressing these emotional and mental challenges, but we must also rethink our discipline procedures and policies. We need to understand that traditional discipline works best with the children who need it the least, and works least with the children who need it the most. Discipline ideally is not something we do to students — it should be a quality we want to develop within them.
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By: Bambi Majumdar (commentary)
 Bullying statistics in U.S. schools are as much a cause for shame as a concern. One in five kids are bullied during their school years, and one in five admits to bullying others. The advent of social media has amplified the problem. Now, bullies can hide behind a screen, encourage others to join in the bullying session anonymously and cause more harm. October is National Bullying Prevention Month, and there is a renewed drive to fight the bullying issue.
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The Brookings Institution
Hispanic students comprise the largest minority demographic in the nation's schools, accounting for 26% of students as of 2016. Indeed, the shift in school demographics to a majority-nonwhite student body is largely driven by the growth in the Hispanic population. Even though Hispanics constitute a major share of the American student population, they continue to face barriers in accessing a quality public education. Many Hispanic students live in poverty or have parents who have not completed high school, attend highly segregated schools and have a long history of being grouped into low academic tracks.
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Edutopia (commentary)
Matthew Howell, a contributor for Edutopia, writes: "I remember the first time I proposed screen-free days in our school to some of our student leaders. It was a couple of years ago, and we were having an informal conversation during recess about the benefits of technology. I asked how they would feel if we had entire days dedicated to learning with no internet-connected devices. One of the students in the conversation, who I know to have great insights, appeared perplexed. 'Do you mean we won't use our Chromebooks for the whole day? What will we do then?' He was very concerned. It was clear that this ever-conscientious student relied on the technology to learn."
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District Administration Magazine
As K-12 educators adopt yoga, meditation and other mindfulness exercises to reduce student stress, some controversy continues to swirl around use of the practices in public education. The Cobb County School District in the Atlanta suburbs just this month settled a lawsuit filed by an assistant principal who says she was transferred when parents complained that she taught yoga to students, The Atlanta Journal Constitution reported. The district will pay the assistant principal $150,000 in exchange for her resignation, the newspaper said.
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EdScoop
In an effort to combat cyberbullying this October, Google has teamed up with two nonprofits to teach kids how to spread kindness and positivity online. Cyberbullying is the number one online safety concern in the classroom, according to research from Google, and both parents and teachers have recognized that more needs to be done to teach kids to be safer, more positive digital citizens.
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District Administration Magazine
A readiness test given early in the kindergarten year can predict a student's performance at the end of first grade, researchers at the University of Missouri have found. Some 350 kindergartners in six elementary schools were screened, and then retested in math and reading 18 months later. The researchers also had teachers rate the students' social and emotional skills. Kindergartners who rated poorly in academic and behavior readiness were far more likely to display disruptive behavior and have low reading scores at the end of first grade.
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Chicago Tribune
Suicide attempts that were self-reported by black teens have spiked since 1991, even as their peers in other groups have experienced a downward trend or remained unchanged, according to a new study that raises concerns about mental health outreach for black youths. The study, by the American Academy of Pediatrics, underscores the importance of equitable access to mental health care and prevention initiatives in schools, social workers and mental health advocates said. It also highlights the lack of data and the understudied nature of suicide in the black community, experts said.
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MindShift
Many people believe that life is a zero-sum game and that the most ruthless people get the furthest. But Jamil Zaki, a Stanford psychologist and author of "The War for Kindness: Building Empathy in a Fractured World", says there's a lot of evidence to the contrary. "It turns out that nice guys finish first in lots of different ways," Zaki said on KQED's Forum program. And, when people are nice, they not only help others, but they help themselves as well. Empathetic people are generally happier, healthier and more effective at work. And, acting from a place of empathy, he argues, could be just what the world needs at this moment, when division has become the norm.
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By: Patrick Gleeson (commentary)
 A teacher shortage doesn’t look the way you might expect. Your child doesn’t come home from their first day of class and announce there’s not enough teachers at school. Neither does this year’s K-12 classroom necessarily have a dozen more kids than last year’s. In some ways, the teacher shortage is nearly invisible, which is part of the problem. What a teacher shortage does is most simply lower the quality of the available teachers.
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School Leaders Now
As teachers, we know that when students have certain abilities, they're better prepared for school and life. Working memory is one of those things. We know it when we see it: Students are organized, know exactly what to do after you've given directions and are able to follow in-depth discussions. On the flip side, there are students who need extra help to develop their working memory. As it turns out, working memory and dyslexia go hand in hand, and there's a lot we can do to help students with dyslexia remember more.
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Education Week
Gaps between black and white students in school suspension rates and academic achievement may be two sides of the same coin, according to a massive new national study. The study, based on data from more than 2,000 school districts, finds the two racial disparities are tightly intertwined, compounding challenges for students of color and the educators trying to support them. "These disparities are two things the districts think and care a lot about," said Francis Pearman, an assistant education professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Education and the lead author of the study.
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Educational World
It may seem like a fundamental mission for education, but a surprising number of students in high school or even college will admit they really don't know how to study. "It isn't unusual for a student at a young age to need to learn study skills, but it is surprising how many older students really don't know how to study or are studying in inappropriate ways," says Henry Roediger a distinguished professor of brain science at Washington University in St. Louis and co-author of leading book on the topic. "It's actually shocking how often it is overlooked."
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Education DIVE
There have been moments for Marini Hamilton Smith when negotiating aspects of her son's Individual Education Program felt a lot like haggling with a car salesman. The Los Angeles mom would tell the teachers, specialists and administrators in the room what her medically fragile son Colson needs in terms of therapy and special educational services. A representative of the district would offer something less — $80 per hour for a specialist instead of $95, for example — but Smith would hold firm.
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