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NYSSCA
NYSSCA is excited to announce our first professional video, 21st Century Guidance School Counselors, illustrating the updated role of school counselors and your importance in schools today. Find it on YouTube. It was initially developed to show to the NYS Board of Regents as they considered our new regulations and is now available for all NYSSCA members.
This video would not have been possible without the participation of several NYSSCA members and their school districts. We hope it is the first in a series of resources providing NYSSCA members with ways to help your school board, local association, parent group and many others understand our role and the impact of the program as well as how the role has changed from when they were in school. Please use it and share it with colleagues.
Please be sure to give the video a "thumbs up" and subscribe to the NYSSCA channel.
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OSPI
The Washington State Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction provides an online course in social and emotional learning. Created in response to legislation that supports SEL statewide, the course is available free of charge to anyone in the nation interested in SEL. Washington State educators can receive professional credit for taking the course.
Developed by a consortium of Washington educators and the American Institutes for Research, the course is designed for educators, administrators, school staff, other professionals, and parents who interact with youth. It contains five segments.
- Introduction to SEL
- Embedding SEL Schoolwide
- Creating a Professional Culture Based on SEL
- Integrating SEL into Culturally Responsive Classrooms
- Identifying and Selecting Evidence-Based Programs
Although the course can be completed by an individual, OSPI says it will be more impactful if it is done collectively by those who will be implementing SEL. Suggested methods for engaging participants in a group setting are provided throughout. The course takes an estimated 10 hours to complete.
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NYSSCA
School Counselors: Prepared to Lead the Way!
November 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. Register by November 8.
Schedule and keynote details in our conference brochure here!
Registration Open
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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NYSED
Last week the Board of Regents discussed a new pathway for high school equivalency diplomas. They also moved to allow teachers from Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands to obtain temporary certification in New York schools.
Educators are invited to SED's Nov. 30 conference on "NYS Next Generation Learning Standards for English Language Arts and Mathematics: Supporting All Students." The event is free and can be used to fulfill CTLE requirements. It will be 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the City Center, Saratoga Springs.
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School Leaders Now
Becoming a trauma-informed school helps ensure your students feel safe. Many students who have experienced trauma have challenges with self-regulation and with learning. But, it's not always easy to recognize a student who may be suffering. Frustration can mask symptoms, causing those students to act out and make that behavior easy to misrecognize. So, it's imperative your staff know how to recognize the signs. Not sure where to start? Here are nine resources so you can start educating your team.
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U.S. News & World Report
The SAT World History subject test is a comprehensive history exam that is offered twice a year in December and June. The test content covers nearly all regions of the earth from ancient to modern times. High school students may take this subject test for a variety of reasons, including to earn college credit or to fulfill a basic curricular requirement. Regardless of the reason, this exam covers a breadth of content that requires more than a few weeks of studying. As you begin to prepare, follow these three steps.
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Language Magazine
In some cases, a dyslexia diagnosis may mean that alternative teaching methods might be necessary to help children be successful, for it is through empowerment of bright students with dyslexia that they will ultimately fulfill their potential.
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Lancaster University via Science Daily
Teenagers who do not access healthcare when needed are at greater risk of dropping out of high school. Dropouts are more likely to have combinations of the following traits: low conscientiousness, neuroticism and introversion. The study examined data from the US National Longitudinal Study of Adolescents to Adult Health, a nationally representative sample of 90,000 students in grades 7 to 12 at 132 schools.
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Edutopia
The trauma and adversity that students are carrying into classrooms are changing how educators need to address learning and academic performance. Fifty-one percent of children in public schools live in low-income households, and when poverty levels exceed 50 percent, there's a significant drop in academic performance across all grade levels. At the same time, 25 percent of all adolescents — including 30 percent of adolescent girls — are experiencing anxiety disorders.
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NPR
Two years ago this month, President Barack Obama had a clear message for teachers and parents who were concerned about all the standardized tests that students were taking: He was on their side.
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Education Week
The gulf of distrust between disability advocates and the U.S. Department of Education has been on full display in the wake of the Trump adminstration's regulatory rollback efforts, illustrating how anger stirred up during Education Secretary Betsy DeVos' confirmation hearing has yet to fade. The latest round began when the Education Department released on Oct. 20 a list of 72 guidance documents targeted for elimination.
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eSchool News
Uplift Education is a high-performing charter school network in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. We serve approximately 17,000 scholars in a rigorous college preparatory environment, and are in the process of authorizing our schools in the full continuum of the International Baccalaureate program. The International Baccalaureate focuses on interdisciplinary lessons, cultural understanding and character development. Positive school culture and strong relationships are the underpinnings of high academic achievement. We know that bullying can impact school culture and climate, and we also know that a positive school climate has the power to decrease harmful instances of bullying.
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By: Frank Olito
The ACT exam was first administered in 1959. Since then, the test itself changed drastically. However, companies are now changing the one aspect of the exam that stayed stagnant: test prep. Established companies, such as Kaplan, and newer companies, such as Quesbook, are breathing fresh air into the test prep industry. With online courses, live classes and interactive test prep, students now have opportunities to learn in a way that has never been done before.
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NPR
This past spring, a history teacher in North Carolina was giving a lesson about Christopher Columbus. He covered how Columbus and his men enslaved and otherwise mistreated the native people of the island of Hispaniola. One white student piped up: "Well, that's what needed to happen. They were just dumb people anyways like they are today. That was the purpose, that's why we need a wall." Multiple students agreed. An argument ensued. After class, two Latina students came up to the teacher and said: "He doesn't need to be saying stuff like that in class. We are worried for our well-being. We're worried about things not going good for us."
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EdSurge
More school leaders than ever before are seeking to harness digital tools to personalize learning and to prepare students for life after school, when creating and thinking with technology will be at the heart of being engaged and productive members of society. But these goals risk missing the bigger picture. Preparing students to be lifelong learners capable of partaking knowledgeably in both civic life and a rapidly changing workforce requires not just focusing on technology, personalization or even coding, but the broader content and foundation at the heart of these experiences. The curriculum — what students are learning — matters.
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The Hechinger Report
A teacher stands at a white board in front of her fourth-grade class and begins teaching one of math’s most fundamental concepts: the meaning of an equal sign in the middle of an equation. This is not easy. Young students tend to think of the equal sign as the endpoint of a problem. Now, instead of the usual 8 + 4 = ?, they are asked to ponder 8 + 4 = ? + 6. Mastering this concept will open the door to algebra and higher math.
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District Administration Magazine
A small but growing number of states are requiring school districts to provide recess. Pending legislation in Massachusetts would require schools to provide at least 20 minutes of daily recess in K-5.
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