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FASFA toolkit offers strategies and best practices for high schools to support students and families with financial aid completion
EdTrustNY
As New York high school students begin the new school year in-person, full-time since the start of the pandemic, The Education Trust–New York and education organizations across the state are releasing the latest Financial Aid for College: High School Toolkit to support high schools in helping all students complete financial aid applications. The Financial Aid for College: High School Toolkit highlights 10 evidence-based strategies schools can use either remotely or in-person to help students with financial aid application completion, tips for tracking progress, and materials in English and Spanish that can be used to communicate with students and families.
On Tuesday, November 9, 2021 from 1 - 4 PM, we will be hosting a training, in partnership with Options Center and Goddard Riverside Community Center, for students and families that will include the basics of all things financial aid for college. Register and pass along to families or students in your network!
November is National Career Development Week
NDCA
"The Future of Work: The Role of Artificial Intelligence and Automation"
What do you imagine the workforce will be like in 5 years? 10 years? What role will robots and automation play in the future of work? What new jobs will be available in the future? Robots, artificial intelligence and other disruptive technologies are poised to radically change the future of work. According to Frey and Osborne: about 47% of total U.S. employment is at risk for automation; 51% of job activities can be automated, but less than 5% of jobs are fully automatable. The future of work will be seen in the growth of new jobs and new skills. Entry-level and middle skill jobs will see less growth than jobs requiring greater education and more advanced skills. Of the children entering primary school today, 65% will end up working in job categories that do not yet exist.
NATIONAL CAREER DEVELOPMENT WEEK
Nov. 15-19, 2021. Poetry & Art Contest Details and Flyer HERE.
International Baccalaureate and ACT Fee Waiver Programs NYSED
The New York State Education Department will provide IB exam fee subsidies for low-income students in public and non-public schools for exams taken during the 2021 administration dates. Additionally, the ACT Fee Waiver program exists for eligible students. Information, including eligibility requirements and submission deadlines, can be referenced on the following webpages:
International Baccalaureate Fee Waiver Program
ACT Fee Waiver Program
Please contact the Office of Curriculum and Instruction at 518-474-5922 or emscurric@nysed.gov with questions pertaining to fee waivers.
Department of Education implements mandatory literacy screenings for kindergarten to second grade students in New York City
Columbia Spector
On Sept. 27, the Department of Education began its first round of literacy screenings, which are set to be completed by Oct. 22. It screened kindergarten through second grade classes using the Dynamic Indicator of Basic Early Literacy Skills screener. There will be two more approximately month-long rounds of screening during this academic year. The DIBELS technology allows teachers and literacy coaches to access results almost immediately, which the administration hopes will lead to drastic changes.
NYC's COVID catchup plan for students? More tests. Here's what we know about them.
As part of New York City's plan to help students catch up after more than a year of interrupted learning during the pandemic, students have begun taking a battery of tests. The city is spending $36 million on academic assessments — to be given three times during the course of the year — to help determine what students know and where they may be falling behind, according to education department officials.
How will pandemic learning impact graduation rates long-term?
While it's still unclear how the pandemic will ultimately affect graduation rates in the long run, concerns abound as to how much the transition to remote learning and outside-of-school factors will impact graduation rates, chronic absenteeism and more.
Majority of teens express anxiety/stress of returning to classroom full-time; half want curriculum to deal with "social/emotional being"
As students head back to their classrooms full-time, a new poll shows that a majority (52%) of teens do not feel prepared to deal with their anxiety and stress of returning. About one in three disagree. The poll, commissioned by Navigate 360, a consultancy which offers emergency preventions and preparedness to schools, and conducted by John Zogby Strategies, reveals that those numbers have barely moved since an April 2021 poll which showed that 54% of 16–17-year-olds nationwide were "not prepared to deal with the anxiety of returning" to the classroom, while 31% say they disagree with that statement.
Guiding students to set academic goals
Many students may not necessarily have the tools to set academic goals and lack strategies to enact change and work toward those goals. Teachers can provide structure to help students set academic goals that are realistic and appropriate as well as achievable. It is important to note that goal setting is not just an activity for the beginning of the school year, but an ongoing process.
5 post-COVID lessons about how to engage families more deeply in schools
Just because you're communicating with families doesn't mean you're connecting with them or realizing their untapped potential to advance education. That's the thrust of the new "Family Engagement Reimagined" report, which offers administrators guidance on leveraging technology and other platforms to establish more effective, two-way communication with parents as communities work to bounce back from COVID.
How does student-teacher matching affect suspensions for students of color?
Brookings Institue
Persistent inequities by race and ethnicity in school discipline continue to circumscribe the educational experiences of students of color. Latino and Black students are more likely to face the harshest and most exclusionary forms of school discipline when compared to their white peers. These disparities begin when students enter school. In preschool, students of color are more likely to be suspended from school than children of other races and ethnicities, with Black students accounting for 43% of one or more preschool suspensions, despite only comprising 18.2% of U.S. preschoolers.
To help students recover from the pandemic, education leaders must prioritize equity and evidence
Brookings Insitute
As students return to classrooms this fall, COVID-19 continues to present schools across the country with challenging circumstances. The pandemic has already impacted learning on an unprecedented scale, exposing and magnifying deep inequities within our education system. While no one has been left unscathed, the impacts have been most severe for those who were already the furthest behind academically—students of color and those experiencing poverty.
Analyzing systemic SEL barriers: What can districts do to positively impact students?
District Administration Magazine
As districts consider the federal relief funds, financial resources can be allocated to SEL professional development, SEL programs and practices, addressing the digital divide and increasing access to meaningful relationships for students.
Joshi: A high-quality education isn't just rigorous, it also affirms students' cultural identities. Here's how
The 74 (Commentary)
Historically, curricula and instruction were deemed high-quality without consideration for their responsiveness to students' identities, cultures and languages, but we know now that identity-affirming education is effective education. To that end, instructional materials — and the professional learning associated with them — need to be examined, supplemented and, sometimes, revised to ensure all students can bring their unique
Using success criteria to spark motivation in your students
Teaching Channel
Students are flying their own "learning plane." If we know they know where they are headed, learning would be much more successful and efficient. If students know the outcome of the learning, know what the goals of the learning are, and are able to communicate how they'll get there, then they have taken ownership of their learning. But the question is, how do we as teachers help our students get there?
12 things to know about the return of online learning this school year
COVID's ongoing spread in classrooms is forcing a growing number of district leaders to reverse their decisions to discontinue online and remote learning options. Remote learning options doubled in just the first several weeks of the 2021-22 school year, according to a poll of 105 large and urban school systems by the education think tank, the Center on Reinventing Public Education.