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NYSSCA
The New York State School Counselor Association Fall Conference (NYSSCA Fall 2019) is this week starting on Friday, Nov. 22 at the Honor's Haven Resort and Conference Center. You will still have the opportunity to register on-site in Ellenville. Just bring your filled-out registration form and payment (PO, check, cash, or credit card), and we will sign you up on-site!
See you soon in Ellenville!
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
NYSUT
NOTE: Dec. 12 is the deadline to nominate members for constituency awards this year. It is much earlier than in the past! Click here for the nomination form.
EdTrustNY
Being financially stable can help reduce the devastating effects of chronic stress on growing families. Right now, many parents of young children do not have access to state programs — including the Empire State Tax Credit and enough financial aid to afford college — aimed at putting New Yorkers on the path to more economic stability.
Improving access to financial assistance programs is one of four key advocacy priorities for Raising NY, a diverse statewide coalition of parent, early childhood, education, civil rights, business, and health organizations dedicated to increasing the number of children who are on track for school readiness. Click here to learn more.
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By: Christine Mulhern (commentary)
 Counselor effectiveness is most important for low-achieving and low-income students, perhaps because these students are most likely to lack other sources of information and assistance. Good counselors tend to improve all measures of educational attainment, but some specialize in improving high school behavior while others specialize in increasing selective college attendance. Improving access to effective counseling may be a promising way to increase educational attainment and close socioeconomic gaps in education.
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The Hechinger Report
Here's an idea worth pursuing: Make every U.S. high school student complete a FAFSA before graduating, to move more students toward college. Here are two more: Hire more school counselors, and simplify the forms for federal aid. As part of a larger movement to bring college-admissions requirements to students, rather than making students seek them out, three states — Illinois, Louisiana and Texas — have adopted laws requiring students to complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid. Others are considering similar measures, and the time for a national measure has come, even though challenges remain.
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District Administration Magazine
Some 98,000 immigrant students — who were brought to the U.S. as young children without legal permission — graduate from high school each year, according to research released earlier this year by the Migration Policy Institute. That's far above the previously estimated 65,000, the report said, adding that 27% of the students are in California and 17% in Texas. They are commonly referred to as "Dreamers," based on never-passed proposals in Congress called the DREAM (Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors) Act.
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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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eSchool News
When school leaders set out to create a profile of their ideal graduate, many trip up on defining technological literacy and subsequently struggle to select the right ed tech to get students there. One way to simplify this process is by connecting the criteria to your school or district's computer science, ed tech and STEAM initiatives. Start by incorporating CS and STEAM into instruction through classroom projects that also address digital equity and digital citizenship while teaching science, math, ELA and other subjects.
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Education Week
Some users of Instagram will notice a subtle but significant change when they open the app: posts from other users will no longer display the number of "likes" they received. The new feature, already implemented in seven countries, will be tested with an unspecified portion of the platform's U.S. users beginning this week. At a recent conference, Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri said the goal is for users, particularly those who are younger than 18, to avoid measuring their self-worth by the number of "likes" on other people's posts compared with their own.
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District Administration Magazine
The "dire inequity" in resources that students in rural schools face requires immediate action from state and federal lawmakers, according to a new "Why Rural Matters 2018-2019" report from The Rural School and Community Trust. Nearly 7.5 million students attended rural schools last year, with about 1 in 6 living below the poverty line, the report found. Rural student achievement remains very low in some states. Only 9.5% of the nation's rural students passed Advanced Placement courses in 2018-2019, compared with 18.8% of urban students and 24.1% of suburban students, according to the report.
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School Leaders Now
For months now, one of your teachers has been coming to you about a struggling student. The student is easily distracted, disorganized, often hyperactive and restless. Your training tells you to recommend an evaluation for attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Your gut tells you this may be something more.
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Education Week
More than a third of the nation's states distribute billions of K-12 dollars in a regressive manner, spending more on wealthier students than on impoverished students, according to a new report by the Education Law Center, an advocacy organization focused on fiscal equity in public education. Another 17 spend equal amounts of money between wealthy and poor students, even though research shows poor students are more expensive to educate.
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eSchool News
Children begin learning the moment they're born. That means it's never too early to begin setting children up for future academic success. When we talk to them and read to them, we expose them to a more literature-rich environment that helps them grow. Unfortunately, not all children receive that exposure, widening the achievement gap. Evidence of that gap begins to show up as early as kindergarten — and it affects students from economically disadvantaged backgrounds far more than their more privileged peers.
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Teaching Channel
Across the country, states are holding schools accountable for student absenteeism rates. This puts pressure on teachers to make sure students are showing up for class every day. Some teachers argue there is little they can do to influence attendance, given the challenges students face beyond the classroom. And it's true that some students are simply too sick, hungry or depressed to come to school, while others are so disengaged that they skip class.
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Education World (commentary)
Miriam Plotinsky, a contributor for Education World, writes: "One of my favorite teaching memes depicts a bright-eyed child with the words, 'I love worksheets! Said no kid, ever.' The contrast of the child's happy face with what the meme communicates really hits home. I doubt very many of us would argue that worksheets have encouraged higher-order thinking in student learning processes. Still, we keep them in the rotation, probably owing at least in part to ease of use."
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UPI
Too few American parents are having their children vaccinated against influenza each year, researchers say after an analysis of data. In spite of the severity of recent flu seasons, and advice from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and others, less than two-thirds of children and teens do not get the annual vaccine, according to findings in the journal JAMA Pediatrics.
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Language Magazine
According to the National Assessment of Education Progress, also known at NAEP or the Nation's Report Card, students in the U.S. are getting worse at reading, and the achievement gap between the highest-performing students and lowest-performing students grew. The NAEP tests over 600,000 fourth- and eighth-graders in public and Catholic schools every two years in math and reading.
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NPR
There's new evidence that girls start out with the same math abilities as boys. A study of 104 children from ages 3 to 10 found similar patterns of brain activity in boys and girls as they engaged in basic math tasks, researchers reported Friday in the journal Science of Learning. "They are indistinguishable," says Jessica Cantlon, an author of the study and professor of developmental neuroscience at Carnegie Mellon University.
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EdScoop
Engaging girls in STEM education has been a strong focus for the Girl Scouts of the USA, but including students in the development of curriculum and projects has opened up a new way to help solidify their interest in technical subjects. The first-ever Girl Scouts Cyber Challenge, developed in partnership with the defense contractor Raytheon, was designed to give girls a sense of what a career in science, technology, engineering or mathematics could look like.
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