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NYSSCA
CONGRATULATIONS to this year's award recipients presented Nov. 16 during the NYSSCA Conference 2018 held at the Sagamore Resort in Bolton Landing, New York. The following awardees were recognized for their outstanding
contribution to the profession of school counseling through the programs and services they provide to students:
(left to right) Kristen Shearer, Awards Committee Chair; Ron Pollaro, Mahopac School District, Outstanding Program; Veronica Puglisi, Victor School District, Administrator of the Year; James Shaw, Hudson Falls School District, School Counselor of the Year; Gloria Jean, College of Saint Rose, Career Achievement; Dr. Gail Reed-Barnett, President.
(not pictured: Dennis DiSanto, Mahopac School District, for Outstanding Program.)
The following were recipients of the President's Award for their contribution to and support of the school counseling profession:
(left to right) Deborah Rotunda, NYSSCA Treasurer; Dr. Robert Rotunda, NYSSCA Executive Director; Dr. Gail Reed-Barnett, President; Rejean Dejean, Conference Exhibits & Sponsors Coordinator; and Michele Goudy-Manzo, A.P. at Madiba Prep Middle School for Law, Social Justice and Innovation with Gifted & Talented Program
For more information and photos, visit the NYSSCA website. See the Awards Presentation video on NYSSCA's YouTube Channel.
The Mental Health Association of New York
The Mental Health Association of New York provides many training and professional development opportunities throughout New York during the year. They include (but aren't limited to) Mental Health First Aid (adult & youth, safeTALK (suicide prevention), and Mental Health and Wellness 101. Click here for a full schedule and registration information.
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NYSSCA
NYSSCA has completed it's first video in a new series of panel discussions on current topics in school counseling. The first, Mental Health and the School Counselor's Role, is now available on the NYSSCA YouTube channel. The panel includes NYSSCA board members with guest Amy Molloy, Mental Health Association for New York State. The discussion touches upon services and programs provided through the comprehensive school counseling program at elementary, middle and high school levels as well as cultural considerations, collaborating with colleagues, and professional development opportunities. View the video here. And be sure to subscribe to the NYSSCA YouTube channel for quick access to all our videos.
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UPI
When children are bullied because of their race, gender, religion or disability, it is more harmful than other instances of bullying, a new study said. These findings, which also suggest it's more difficult to defend against this type of bullying, come from a new study published in the journal Psychology of Violence.
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Medical Xpress
A significant proportion of suicidal teens treated in a psychiatric emergency department said that watching the Netflix series "13 Reasons Why" had increased their suicide risk, a University of Michigan study finds. The hit drama, widely popular among teens, has generated controversy for its depiction of suicide. Its story centers around a 17-year-old student, who, before her death, recorded cassettes that detail 13 reasons why she took her own life. The show has raised concerns among mental health experts about its potentially negative impact on vulnerable youths.
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Education Week
The Food and Drug Administration announced aggressive steps aimed at curbing teen vaping and smoking, including restrictions on flavored and menthol products that may be especially appealing to minors. The plan's announcement came as new federal data from the National Youth Tobacco Survey showed increasing rates in youth e-cigarette use, which FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb has labeled an epidemic. In addition to concerns about the nicotine in vaping products, public health officials have found they can be a stepping stone to use of traditional cigarettes by young people who might not have otherwise started smoking.
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CNN
Vaping increased nearly 80 percent among high schoolers and 50 percent among middle schoolers since last year, prompting the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to propose new measures against flavored nicotine products that have propelled the rise, the agency announced. "These data shock my conscience," FDA Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb said in a statement, proposing to strengthen the agency's policies against flavored e-cigarette products. These proposals could ultimately prompt their removal from shelves and websites that are accessible to minors.
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Edutopia
A flurry of recent articles brings home yet one more way that technology is changing education: In districts across the country, snow days — those giddily unexpected days off — are becoming relics of the past. Beginning on Dec. 1, for example, the schools around Camden, Maine, will replace two snow days per year with so-called Remote School Days, when students will complete coursework at home using internet-connected devices.
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District Administration
In August, Woodbrook Elementary School in Albemarle County Public Schools in Virginia completed a renovation and expansion that features much larger classrooms to facilitate multiage learning. Each family at Woodbrook can choose whether to place their child in a traditional, single-grade classroom or in a multiage classroom with two grade levels combined. With the new, larger learning spaces and teachers dedicated to multiage instruction, the entire school is gradually combining age levels, with two grades together currently and eventually, up to three.
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EdScoop
School districts should embrace student-centered scheduling to ensure all students get the classes they want and need, a panel of experts said in a recent webinar. As scheduling for the various members of a school district — from faculty to students to staff — gets more complex, it is critical for districts to create a strong district scheduling plan that will highlight team roles and responsibilities, be specific about milestones, establish benchmark rubrics and, most importantly, panelists said, put students first.
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EdTech Magazine
A new report from national education nonprofit Project Tomorrow says adding mobile devices to the classroom provides students with equity, empowerment and a better understanding of complex concepts. The efficacy of mobile devices for education has been hotly debated from classrooms to Congress. Opponents say mobile devices create room for distraction, while proponents say they offer educators an array of new pedagogical practices.
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Education Week
When the current Congress kicked off at the start of last year, there were a lot of education issues to tackle. So as the first two years of Congress during the Trump administration come to a close, what did the lawmakers accomplish and where did they come up empty? The to-do list, or at least the list of issues the 115th Congress could have taken a serious look at in January 2017, was topped by a reauthorization of the Higher Education Act — Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., made it clear it was his education priority as Senate education committee boss.
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NPR
If you do a Google image search for "classroom," you'll mostly see one familiar scene: rows or groups of desks, with a spot at the front of the room for the teacher. One teacher, many students: It's basically the definition of school as we know it, going back to the earliest days of the Republic. "We couldn't afford to have an individual teacher for every student, so we developed a way of teaching large groups," as John Pane, an education researcher at the RAND Corporation, puts it.
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Fortune
Seven in ten teachers believe parents are not involved enough in their child's education, according to a new survey, compounding on issues like a lack of access to books. Age of Learning, an education technology and resource company, conducted an online survey of over 1,000 parents (with children ages two to 12) and 1,000 teachers (in preschool to sixth-grade classrooms) to get a better understanding of children's reading in the U.S. What they found was a dim outlook on young American readers.
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eSchool News
Over the years, an increasing amount of schools nationwide have incorporated the STEM framework into their curriculum, engaging students around the subjects of science, technology, engineering and math. The framework has proved to be a critical component to elementary education that better prepares students' for future careers, especially since the United States is expecting to see more than three million job openings in the STEM-related fields in 2018. Recently, however, educators have recognized the benefits of integrating arts education into STEM subjects, which has led to a new framework.
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Penn State via Science Daily
Identifying factors that predict academic difficulties during elementary school should help inform efforts to help children who may be at risk. New research suggests that children's executive functions may be a particularly important risk factor for such difficulties.
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District Administration Magazine
Years ago, it was easy for districts to ignore what high average daily-attendance numbers can conceal: kids, sometimes lots of them, who miss weeks of school every year. The 2015 Every Student Succeeds Act has changed that calculus. For the first time, the law requires states to report chronic-absenteeism rates, and more than two-thirds of the states use those rates as indicators of school success in federally mandated accountability plans.
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Chalkbeat
Between 1990 and 2015, Seattle's neighborhoods saw a notable decline in racial segregation. It would make sense, then, to think that the city's public schools had also become more integrated. Not so. In fact, they were headed in the opposite direction. In 1990, only 3 percent of schools were intensely segregated — that is, at least 90 percent of students were nonwhite — but by 2015, that number had spiked to 17 percent.
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eSchool News
Autism spectrum disorder is, at its heart, a processing disorder. And while the students with ASD face a variety of challenges depending on where they fall on the spectrum, even those considered high functioning have difficulties with pragmatic social language and understanding social interactions. So, when educators mainstream students with ASD and hope that they will learn how to interact in the classroom just by watching their peers, the educators are setting up the students for failure.
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EdScoop
eographic information systems encourage spatial thinking and learning in K-12 students, said geography and education experts at the Library of Congress in Washington D.C. As part of an annual global event called GIS Day, speakers said the mapping and spatial data technology used by professionals across a growing number of fields can also teach young students how to understand and transform complex visual and technical objects. By incorporating GIS and map reading into K-12 curriculum, students can better analyze and interpret the world through spatial awareness and geospatial understanding, said John Hessler, a specialist in geographic information science at the Library of Congress
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EdWeek Market Brief
The U.S. Department of Education has ended its support for the Learning Registry, which was designed to serve as a cutting-edge information-sharing network but is going away because of what the agency said are its "rapidly aging technologies" that do not mesh with other systems. The agency said in a statement that it is encouraging researchers and ed-tech developers to take up the registry's ideas and infrastructure — which are openly licensed — to create their own tools and platforms.
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