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NYSSCA
School Counselors: Prepared to Lead the Way!
November 17-18
Our Complete Conference Agenda is available here. Over 400 counselors, administrators, exhibitors, counselor educators and graduate students will be convening for terrific professional development, sharing and networking.
Stay tuned for additional details and visit our conference page often for updates ... See you in Syracuse.
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Education DIVE
When leaders of the Greece Central School District near Rochester, New York, began taking a closer look at their graduation data, they noticed that the reason many students weren't meeting the requirements was because they were missing their physical education credit. They took the issue to students on the district's wellness committee and learned that the reason students weren't passing was because they were refusing to change into PE clothes. Many were uncomfortable changing in the locker rooms and some just wore their PE uniforms under their regular clothes to avoid undressing.
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Education Week
An intervention that was originally designed for adults in clinical treatment settings is being pitched as a school-based solution to the opioid crisis. To determine which students are using drugs or at risk of using drugs, schools should ask them directly in confidential interviews. That's the pitch made by the President's Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis, which released its final recommendations. The screening method is called SBIRT, which stands for Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment.
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The New York Times
The calls to high school sports officials from athletic directors and administrators began several years ago and have only become more frequent and difficult: How are you handling transgender students who want to play sports? With widespread disagreement over where the line should be drawn between sexes for purposes of athletic competition, the question has challenged the people who set rules for Olympics sports and those who govern college sports in the United States. At the high school level, the issue has been even more vexing.
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MindShift
The benefits of art in a child's education are widespread. Art can help kids express themselves and understand the world around them. Art is usually a hands-on experience and fun. For low-income students, studies have found that kids who have more arts education in school see long-term benefits by both academic and social standards. Tori Wardrip, an art teacher at Lewis and Clark Middle School in Billings, Montana, wanted to explore the benefits of art more deeply while addressing some of the mental health issues she saw students experiencing.
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Education Week
Colleges and universities have a duty to help low-income students surmount the many barriers they face in the application process, and 11 key practices could help them do that, according to a research brief. "Low-income students face numerous barriers when it comes to the pursuit of higher education," says the report by the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, which focuses on policies that support high-achieving low-income students.
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MindShift
Most high school teachers are familiar with students who obsess over every missed point on an assignment. It's annoying; and many teachers wish students were more focused on the process of learning and their own growth, instead of the final grade. But putting the process front and center can feel difficult in a results-oriented school. While most teachers can’t entirely move away from grades, they can use simple strategies that require students to reflect on their progress, evaluate their work and set goals for improvement.
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Chalkbeat
Is a good teacher one who makes students enjoy class the most or one who is strict and has high standards? And are those two types even at odds? A new study that tries to quantify this phenomenon finds that on average, teachers who are good at raising test scores are worse at making kids happy in class.
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New York University via Science Daily
Afterschool programs with positive, responsive and organized environments can have academic benefits for students, finds a new study by NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development. Young people growing up in urban, low-income communities spend significant time in publicly funded afterschool programs. Unlike schools, which grow increasingly segregated and involve more individual instruction as children grow older, afterschool programs are spaces where instructors, often similar to the students in age and background, can facilitate diverse, productive interactions that help youth reach social and academic goals.
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By: Brian Stack (commentary)
 The kind of meeting I hate having the most as a high school principal is one with the parent of a student who has just engaged in behavior in the school that warrants, according to our school board policies, a suspension from school for a period of time. In these kinds of meetings parents and guardians ask, rightly so, what good will come of keeping their child out of school where the child will fall further behind his or her peers.
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The Huffington Post
As parents and students look ahead to education opportunities after high school graduation, the headlines overwhelmingly paint college admissions as bleak and increasingly competitive. Actually, there is much good news. There are more colleges than ever and they are more varied and diverse than ever. In reality most students who want to go to college can and do find numerous schools that will admit them and where they can find a happy fit.
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HealthDay News via U.S. News & World Report
As if the idea of teen cyberbullying isn't harrowing enough, a new study warns of a strange twist in which kids anonymously post hurtful messages — to themselves. The worry is that this digital self-harm — like traditional self-harm — may be a harbinger for suicide down the road, the study authors said. In the first survey of its kind, the nationally representative group of nearly 5,600 U.S. high school students was asked about "self-cyberbullying." The kids were all between the ages of 12 and 17. And about 6 percent said they had engaged in the practice.
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Edutopia
When hot-button issues spill over from social media or the nightly news and into your classroom, what's the right move as a teacher? Do you shut down arguments about gun control or athletes taking a knee at football games because you fear losing control of the discussion? Or do you look for learning opportunities amid the brouhahas?
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Brookings
Recently submitted state plans for implementing the "Every Student Succeeds Act" provide insight into how research is making inroads into education policy at the state level. Based on my review of a sample of plans, a fair answer is that it is not. A previous post in this series by Martin West describes how ESSA created opportunities for states to use research and evidence in ways that improve student outcomes. Opportunities, yes — but most of what is in the plans could have been written fifteen years ago.
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EdTech Magazine
For K–12 schools, the hallmark of success lies in their devotion to educating all students — no matter their background or ability. For students with a learning disability, even the simplest of classroom tasks can be a challenge without the proper scaffolding. The latest data, from the 2014-2015 school year, indicated that 6.6 million K-12 students received some kind of special education services. That was 13 percent of public school enrollment.
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The Washington Post
On every school day in 2016, some 250 preschool children across the country were suspended or expelled for bad behavior, according to a new analysis of national data, and black children were more than twice as likely to be affected than other children. In total, about 50,000 preschoolers — kids who are 3 and 4 years old — were suspended from both public and private preschools at least once in 2016, and an additional 17,000 are estimated to have been expelled, according to findings from the nonprofit Center for American Progress.
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