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As 2022 comes to a close, NYSSCA would like to wish its members, supporters, affiliates and other related professionals a safe and happy holiday season. As we reflect on the past year for our profession, we would like to provide the readers of NYSSCA Today a look at the most accessed articles this year. Our regular publication will resume Thursday, Jan. 5.
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.AROUND THE INDUSTRY
More students question college, putting counselors in a fresh quandary
Hechinger Report
From Jan. 6: Are people ready to rethink what "success" looks like? And how to help students achieve it?
For teens across the country — many of them burnt out, confused or newly questioning long-held plans — that conversation is coming alive. It is unfolding amid scrutiny of the cost and value of a college degree and the multiplying options for alternative training.
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Mental health in schools: The kids are not all right
NEA
From July 28: The bottom line on student learning today is this: “You can’t teach if you’re not addressing mental health,” says Rene Myers, an intervention specialist in St. Paul, Minnesota. Myers has been working in public education for more than 33 years. Over the decades, the mental health needs of her students have grown, and grown, and grown, she says. The pandemic, coupled with decades of inaction by school boards and state legislators, has only made things worse.
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Addressing the link between anxiety, depression and student attendance
Education Week
From Oct. 27: Well before the pandemic, Raymond Renshaw knew the danger of letting students get into the habit of avoiding school.
"We were sitting in [individualized education program] meetings with all these kids who didn't want to come to school," said Renshaw, the director of special services at the Westwood Regional school district in New Jersey.
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Telecounseling is gaining momentum
ASCA
From June 16: You are being required to find a space for a student to have a telecounseling session during the school day, to set up the technology, see that the student is ready to go at the appointed time and stand guard at the door in case the student has a need. Is this legal?
This is a real case, triggering Steele, Nuckols and Stone to survey school counselors around this question, “Have any educators in your school been asked by an outside counseling entity to dismiss students from class during the school day to participate in mental health telecounseling?”
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5 steps for effective principal-counselor collaboration
K-12 Dive
From July 21: As students return to school amid higher rates of behavioral issues and school counselor shortages, collaboration between principals and existing counselors is critical to maximize positive outcomes.
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School counselors are more valuable than ever
Daily Local News
From Oct. 20: A student's well-being is more widely considered at schools as a result of the issues plaguing many children.
These include the negative effects of social media, personal identity issues and the psychological toll of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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9 ways counselors can build positive relationships in school
Edutopia
From Sept. 1: The relationships that school counselors build with teachers, administrators, staff, students, and parents take time and are a key part of our success. We serve as an ally, liaison, problem solver, and referral agent for students. Considering different strategies to create new relationships and maintain current ones is important.
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School counselors' role in threat assessments
ASCA
From April 28: The principal has assigned you to be in charge of completing risk assessments with students who present themselves as a potential threat to others. You are uncomfortable with this assignment and express your concerns that this responsibility should not fall on any one person. You are trying to convince administration to make you part of an administrative-led team and not the leader and/or sole assessor. Are you alone in your thinking, or do other school counselors feel the same way?
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Quietly quitting the college admission race
Forbes
From Sept. 29: You have likely heard of the phenomenon called "quiet quitting." While it has come to represent a range of work and life balance issues, a TikTok post by Zaiad Khan captured it best. He said, "you are no longer subscribing to the hustle culture mentality that work has to be our life." Regretfully, this mentality starts long before the workplace, with origins in many high schools.
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