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| NYSSCA Annual Conference 2015 — School Counselors: Advocating Access for All
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NYSSCA
Almost 400 School Counselors, School Counseling Leaders, Counselor Educators, Presenters and Graduate Students met at our Annual Conference on Friday and Saturday. There were 30 workshops, keynote speakers and plenty of networking opportunities in the beautiful Sagamore setting.
| Congratulations to our NYSSCA Annual Awards Winners
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NYSSCA
At our annual conference, on Friday, Nov. 20, the following were recognized for there programs, service and commitment to School Counseling in New York State:
School Counselor of the Year — Dana D. Pierce, School Counselor,Fayetteville-Manlius High School
Career Achievement Award — Richard Pawlewicz School Counselor, Newfield High School
Administrator of the Year Awards:
Cheryl Pedisich Superintendent, Three Village Central School District
Paul J. Ripchik, Jr. Associate Principal, Shenendehowa High School
Outstanding Program, Practice or Project Award:
Gowanda High School-For their outstanding program
"Engagement in Education"
President's Awards:
Sandy Braun
Dr. Louis Bamonte
NYSSCA
Happy Thanksgiving from the NYSSCA Board to all of our members. Enjoy time with you families and a little time off from your critical duties. Be well and enjoy the long weekend.
Democrat & Chronicle
The age-old requirement of No. 2 pencils for school tests may soon be a thing of the past. When New York students sit for state-mandated "field tests" next spring, some schools will eschew the traditional pencil-and-paper exams that have been offered for decades and opt for tests offered on desktop computers, laptops or tablets instead. The field exams — which don't count for anything but are used to try out questions for future state-mandated tests — will serve as an experiment of sorts as the state begins a long-awaited shift toward computer-based testing.
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The Washington Post
More than 60 percent of students entering CUNY community colleges place into a remedial mathematics course. For the vast majority, that means they must pass an elementary algebra course and the CUNY Elementary Algebra Final Exam to exit remediation and to have any chance of every obtaining a degree. Each semester, more than 50 percent of students in elementary algebra do not pass the course. But why is algebra so important that we decree every college student must demonstrate current proficiency in a fairly rigid list of topics and skills before being able to graduate regardless of major? One very common answer is the tautology "because algebra is part of a well-rounded education."
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Inspirations for Youth and Families teen rehab is a small, privately run treatment center and private school located in Florida. The program helps teenagers overcome drug and alcohol addiction in a calm, therapeutic setting. Clients participate in daily exercise, counseling, and a variety of therapies. A typical stay at Inspirations lasts 30 to 90 days.
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The Atlantic
At her Moraga, California, junior high school, Rachel Jackson was a safe-school ambassador, part of a program that trains student volunteers to intervene in bullying situations among their peers. SSA runs throughout the school year and requires students and teachers to work together, two elements of effective anti-bullying programs, experts say. But in practice, Jackson remembers, student apathy eroded some of the potential.
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By: Archita Datta Majumdar
 National education organizations have launched an intensive social media and digital ad campaign to push Congress to act on the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. The legislation has already seen much development and simply needs that final push toward the revised law. The current, much-despised version of ESEA, also called the No Child Left Behind Act, has perhaps received more criticism than any of its predecessors.
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The Huffington Post
Each year the whole college process just gets more intimidating as ever more scholars throw their applications into America's top colleges and universities. Acceptance rates now hover around 5 percent at the most elite colleges. Many applicants, as always, are specifically admitted for special skill sets or attributes such as athletics, diversity, alumni connection or development promise. The remaining slots go to the geniuses.
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New York University via Science Daily
Over the past 25 years, the higher education system in the United States has grown more competitive, with students trying to gain admissions to the most desirable institutions and institutions vying for the most desirable students. During this time period, high school students across the country — particularly those from families of higher socioeconomic status — have increasingly used multiple strategies to enhance their college applications, finds research.
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Education Week
For students, waiting on the results of a test isn't always easy, but they often handle that period of waiting in different ways. Many of us generally think that those who are calm, cool, and collected during waiting periods practice the best way to cope with the uncertainty. A new study, published in the psychology journal Emotion, suggests that this may not be the case, however, and discovered that embracing some of that stress correlated with certain emotional benefits.
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The Washington Post
The D.C. Council wants to study how parents' incarceration affects their children's performance in schools across the District and the types of supports that might help these students. More than half of adults who are incarcerated in state and federal prisons have children at home under the age of 18, according to a national report. "Often in the District of Columbia, we talk about the needs of returning citizens [from prison], but we have not explored the needs of their children," said D.C. Council member David Grosso, chairman of the education committee, at a hearing to discuss a new bill that would launch a study.
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Medical News Today
Current research about childhood obesity has illustrated the complexity of the epidemic — how it intertwines with hunger, poverty, food deserts and socioeconomic status. A new University of Houston study examined a practice that may seem like a harmless playground antic, but could have long-lasting and harmful effects to a young girl's perception of herself and of food. Professor Norma Olvera, health educator with the UH College of Education, examined the impact of teasing on minority, adolescent girls, specifically as predictors of disordered eating behaviors. Olvera said there are two reasons to pursue this kind of research.
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The Washington Post
How do you explain to hundreds of grade school children that a beloved kindergarten teacher with breast cancer is dying? That's the start of the following post, which takes up the rarely discussed subject of why it is important that teachers be equipped to discuss death with students who are confronted with the loss of a family member or friend and come to school trying to make sense of it. This was written by Kelly Michelson works in the pediatric critical care medicine at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago and is the editor of the Greater Illinois Pediatric Palliative Care Coalition newsletter. She is a member of the OpEd Project Public Voices Fellowship.
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