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The State University of New York
Greetings from The State University of New York.
The State University of New York informed us that applySUNY will no longer offer students the option to self-report their academic records through the SUNY Online Academic Record (SOAR). This decision was based on counselor feedback, low adoption rates, and a move toward electronic transcript delivery for New York City public schools. SOAR will no longer be available after July 5.
Thank you, as always, for your continued support of SUNY. If you have any questions, please contact the Recruitment Response Center at 1.800.342.3811. We hope you enjoy your summer!
Recruitment Response Center
The State University of New York
Albany, NY 12246-0001
1.800.342.3811
askSUNY@suny.edu
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NYSSCA
Three (!) Locations This Summer
Sponsored by NYSSCA
Wednesday, August 3, 2016, 8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Hosted by: Binghamton University
4400 Vestal Parkway
Vestal, NY
Friday, August 5 from 8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Hosted by: Bryan & Statton Colleg
200 Redtail Road
Orchard Park, NY
Monday, August 8 from 8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Hosted by: New York Institute of Technology
26 W. 61st Street (west of Broadway) 11th Floor
New York, NY
Click here for online registration for all camps.
RAMP Camp flier and registration form here.
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NYSSCA
Our Annual Conference will be held at the beautiful, Tarrytown DoubleTree hotel in Westchester County on Nov. 18-19. We will celebrate, "School Counselors Making a Difference." Look for opportunities to present at the conference. Visit our Conference Page for Hotel Information and Registration information. Registration for attendees and Exhibitors is now open.
St. Mary’s College of Maryland
St. Mary’s College of Maryland, the state’s public honors college, announced recently the creation of a new major in environmental studies. The environmental studies major at St. Mary's College offers students the tools needed to analyze and solve today’s most pressing environmental problems with an innovative approach that integrates interdisciplinary and experiential learning.
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Edutopia
For most of our students, graduating from college, let alone high school, is a new mindset. Most of our underserved student population is coming in with limited academic and social-emotional skills. Since we're an Early College high school, the counselors at Trinidad Garza understand that our students need to be equipped with the necessary knowledge and skills to thrive not only in their high school classes, but also in their college courses and environment. In bridging this gap, we've developed support systems to prepare students emotionally and academically. Counselors use the daily study hall periods embedded into the master schedule to offer one of three supports, depending on our students' needs.
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MindShift
College and career readiness is a ubiquitous education catch-phrase, but in reality many high schools focus primarily on the "college" side of the equation. In part, that's because research has shown that young adults who graduate with college degrees tend to have better job prospects and earning potential throughout their lives, and educators rightly want to ensure that all students are able to take advantage of those opportunities. But what about the kids who just are't interested in college? And, even if kids do want to go to college, what might be lost in the development of a whole person when teenagers are asked to focus solely on traditional academics?
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Chalkbeat New York
As students across New York began taking mandatory Regents exams, some of their principals were wondering whether their scores would matter at all. That's because the state's Board of Regents passed a new set of rules this week that eliminate the need to earn passing scores for an estimated 2,200 students with disabilities. Those students will be able to earn a less-rigorous "local" diploma by passing just two Regents exams in math and English, but will not be required to pass tests in other subjects.
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The Washington Post
A new report that surveys curriculum nationally and reaches thousands of K-12 and college instructors as well as workplace supervisors and employees has some bad news about the Common Core State Standards: Many people in education and the workplace don't think some of the English Language Arts and math standards — which are being used in most states — are what students and workers need to be successful in college and career.
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The Christian Science Monitor
In schools across the country, teachers have long fretted about the challenges of reaching students who don't come to class. Education researchers echo those concerns, saying that missing 10 percent of the school year — just two days a month — is a strong predictor of the likelihood of dropping out of school. This week, the Education Department provided the first comprehensive look at the issue through its 2013-2014 Civil Rights Data Collection, an annual report that examines a variety of issues facing students in schools across the country, including school discipline.
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Education Week
If your classroom has students with special needs, modern technology can be a massive blessing. Digital devices and screen capability have helped countless students overcome communication hurdles and obstacles to class participation. While technologies from across the field have been coopted to help students with special needs and disabilities succeed in school, specially designed technology, or "assistive technology," has proved particularly useful. Assistive technology in K-12 classrooms is designed to improve the functional capabilities of a child with a disability.
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By: Howard Margolists
 Most struggling learners have a strong propensity to forget, no matter how many times teachers and parents tell them something. This adds tremendous complexity and uncertainty to teaching while frustrating teachers, parents and learners alike. So, how can you help struggling learners to remember fragile, fleeting, important information in working or short-term memory? How can you help them remember what's important — and remember it for years to come?
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Edutopia
Leaders in high-performing, high-poverty schools know that success requires more than just high-quality teaching and learning. The entire school, as a system, should work together to develop a common instructional framework that provides a vision of what success looks like. When a ship loses its compass, getting to port becomes a game of chance. It's no different for a school. When a school, particularly one characterized by high poverty and low performance, lacks an instructional plan or framework, progress will be anything but systematic, and more than likely patterns of low performance will continue.
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Education Week
Most colleges and universities rely to some degree on ACT and SAT scores in their admissions processes, but only half do research to establish that those scores are good predictors of success in college, a new study finds. Recently, the study by the National Association for College Admission Counseling raises a question that goes to the heart of the debate about the transition from high school to college: When colleges and universities place significant weight on admissions test scores, is that practice based on solid research?
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NJ.com
This time of year, excited high school graduates and their families are not difficult to spot. They are frequently seen celebrating their hard-earned diplomas at favorite restaurants and stocking up on dorm room essentials at area retailers, excitedly selecting extra-long twin bedding and the latest electronics to equip their new homes-away-from-home. Certainly, this is an exciting time of year for graduates and their families, as they enter the next phase in their educations and take the next step toward independence.
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NPR
When Caitlin Cheney was living at a campground in Washington state with her mother and younger sister, she would do her homework by the light of the portable toilets, sitting on the concrete. She maintained nearly straight A's even though she had to hitchhike to school, making it there an average of three days a week. "I really liked doing homework," says Cheney, 22, who is now an undergraduate zoology student at Washington State University. "It kept my mind off reality a little bit." More than 1 million public school students in the United States have no room to call their own, no desk to do their homework, no bed to rely on at night. State data collection, required by federal law and aggregated by the National Center for Homeless Education, shows the number of homeless students has doubled in the past decade, to 1.3 million in 2013-2014.
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PsychCentral
New research finds that when teens receive an insufficient amount of sleep they show a heightened variability in sadness, anger, energy and feelings of sleepiness. Investigators also discovered that a poor night sleep can set up a vicious cycle as nightly fluctuations in sleep among healthy teens predicted a worse mood the next day. Also, a poor mood on any given day predicted unusually bad sleep the next night. Researchers believe promoting healthy sleep among adolescents could potentially prevent development of more serious mental health problems for some teens.
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The Atlantic
The image of black and white children hand-in-hand is possibly the most well-known and most often quoted line from Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech. Over the years, black and white youngsters playing together has evolved from a civil-rights leader's vision of racial equality to a clothing retailer's marketing campaign, and in the process spawned a cultural meme — signaling everything from innocence and hope to a world free of interpersonal racism. Yet black and white childhood friendships, an inspiring notion, rarely happen organically. According to a new study of elementary- and middle-school students, teacher behaviors may shape how students select and maintain friends and affect the longevity of interracial friendships.
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Education World
As the homeless student population grows year after year, support services to this subset of challenged youth have not grown to keep up. The new education legislation to go into effect in August will, for the first time, hold schools responsible for reporting graduation rates of homeless students beginning next school year. While most of the Every Student Succeeds Act's provisions will not go into effect until the 2017-2018 school year, including homeless youth into data reporting will begin immediately next year with the ESSA's update to the McKinney-Vento Act.
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