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NYSSCA Edge Available!!
NYSSCA
Our Best Practices Newsletter-NYSSCA Edge, Issue 3, December 2020 is now available. Click here for access. (for fewer ads, click on "fullscreen")
Thanks very much to our Editor, Dr. Tami Sullivan; Design Editor, Andrea Maynard; Editorial Assistant, Samantha Montes; & Editorial Team, Gloria Jean. We are looking for articles for our next edition and the submission link is here.
If you have questions, contact Dr. Tami Sullivan at edge@nyssca.org.
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School Counselors and Teachers Eligible for Grants
ASCA
The State Farm Teacher Assist program is giving away $100,000 to school counselors and teachers in California, Florida, Michigan, New York and Texas to implement innovative ideas. Individual grants of $2,500 are available. Submissions accepted Jan. 11-15, 2021, or until 200 submissions are reached.
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.AROUND THE INDUSTRY
Student trauma in 2020 and how we can help
MiddleWeb (commentary)
Stephanie Filio, a contributor for MiddleWeb, writes: "We all know that the middle years come with their own set of challenges. The hormones, the emotions, the pressures, those nagging adults — oh my! My own counseling students will often come to my middle school-based office upset and actually say, 'I have no idea why I'm crying! I'm not even sad! This is crazy!' And I just sit back, let them cry, and tell them, 'yep, sounds about right.' It's tough, and each day is likely to serve up a new crisis."
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How to raise rural enrollment in higher education? Go local
The Hechiner Report
You could easily find reasons why Kali Lindsay should not be in college right now. She lost her mother at age 8. At 16, for her own good, she left home. To support herself (she moved in with an older brother) in high school she worked 30 hours a week at an Arby's next to a weed-studded field in a retail park, earning $8.20 an hour. She closed, at 1 a.m., forcing a choice: Go to school exhausted or skip classes and learn the material on her own.
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Schools confront 'off the rails' numbers of failing grades
The Associated Press
The first report cards of the school year are arriving with many more Fs than usual in a dismal sign of the struggles students are experiencing with distance learning. School districts from coast to coast have reported the number of students failing classes has risen by as many as two or three times — with English language learners and disabled and disadvantaged students suffering the most.
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5 things we've learned about virtual school in 2020
NPR
Deborah Rosenthal starts her virtual kindergarten class on Zoom every morning with a song — today, it's the Spanish version of "If You're Happy and You Know It." Her students clap along. There's a greeting from the class mascot (a dragon), yoga, meditation and then some practice with letter sounds: "Oso, oso, O, O, O." Rosenthal teaches Spanish immersion in a public school in San Francisco's Mission District. Most of the families are low-income, and many are now affected by job losses related to COVID-19. She has taught kindergarten for 15 years, and she loves how "hands-on," "tactile" and "cozy" it is to work with 5-year-olds.
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'A lost generation': Surge of research reveals students sliding backward, most vulnerable worst affected
The Washington Post
After the U.S. education system fractured into Zoom screens last spring, experts feared millions of children would fall behind. Hard evidence now shows they were right. A flood of new data — on the national, state and district levels — finds students began this academic year behind. Most of the research concludes students of color and those in high-poverty communities fell further behind their peers, exacerbating long-standing gaps in American education.
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What educators need to know about the COVID-19 vaccine
EdSurge
The news of a safe, effective vaccine has been a rare bright spot during the yearlong fight against the coronavirus. Two pharmaceutical companies, Pfizer and Moderna, are racing toward emergency authorization for their vaccines, both of which boast an efficacy rate of more than 94%. That authorization could come as soon as a few days from now, and the first vaccinations could begin later this month.
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6 school stability best practices for homeless students
District Administration Magazine
School stability is an essential component for a student's academic success. It's even more important for students who are homeless because of emotional and social attachments, explains Barbara Duffield, executive director of SchoolHouse Connection, a national nonprofit working to overcome homelessness through education.
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Is the pandemic our chance to reimagine education for students with disabilities?
The Hechinger Report
Single mom Nicole Vaughn has spent the better part of her adult life advocating for her five adopted children with disabilities. But when schools shuttered for the coronavirus last spring, Vaughn gained a slew of new responsibilities, like helping her kids access virtual classrooms and coordinating the special education services they receive.
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3 ways to address performance deficits in mask wearing
District Administration Magazine
Having a skill deficit means you can't do something, whereas having a performance deficit means you choose not to. For example, a student skill deficit may be, "I can't perform algebra," whereas a performance deficit would be, "I'm electing not to do algebra," explains Joseph Ryan, a professor of special education at Clemson University. If a student is not wearing a mask when required because of a skill deficit, teach and reinforce the appropriate behavior, he says. For example, students with sensory issues may need to build up a tolerance for having the mask on for an extended period.
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How should schools quarantine students exposed to coronavirus? An explainer
Education Week
The answer to this question has been a moving target as research on COVID-19 evolves. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention last month tweaked its own guidelines to districts — which most states have mirrored in their own guidance — to recommend that those who have had close contact with anyone infected with COVID-19 quarantine themselves for 7 to 10 days after their exposure, down from the prior recommendation of 14 days.
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How is COVID-19 affecting student learning?
The Brookings Institution
The COVID-19 pandemic has introduced uncertainty into major aspects of national and global society, including for schools. For example, there is uncertainty about how school closures last spring impacted student achievement, as well as how the rapid conversion of most instruction to an online platform this academic year will continue to affect achievement. Without data on how the virus impacts student learning, making informed decisions about whether and when to return to in-person instruction remains difficult.
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Connecting SEL to academic outcomes
Edutopia
Social and emotional learning is sometimes perceived as being just one more thing heaped on educators' plates, but it's truly valuable — in small, frequent doses, it helps bring about many valued outcomes. Let's take a look at four subjects — visual and performing arts, social studies, health and English language arts — to see how SEL skills are connected to desired outcomes in these subjects.
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3 recommendations from research on COVID learning loss
eSchool News
While students have made some learning gains in reading and math since the beginning of COVID, average math gains were lower on average in fall 2020 than prior years–meaning more students are falling behind relative to their prior standing and raising concerns about COVID learning loss, according to new research from NWEA, a nonprofit assessment provider. Average scores for math were between 5 and 10 percentile points lower for students this year as compared to same-grade students last year.
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