Month: September 2021

PHD in Counselor Education Virtual Webinar

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Join us to learn about our Ph.D. in Counselor Education program! | FREE Virtual Webinar
The School of Human Services invites you to join a live webinar to learn about our Ph.D. in Counselor Education program. Ask questions to our top-notch faculty and alumni about the program and the career opportunities as a counselor!
We will also discuss admission requirements and perform a walk-through of the application.
The webinar is on October 14, 2021 from 7:00pm – 8:00pm (EST). To make attending easy, you can access the webinar from your cell phone, tablet, laptop, or desktop computer.

Professional Development Opportunities: This Week With ISCA

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September 28, 2021

.ISCA NEWS

Professional Development Opportunities for You!
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  • Wednesday, October 13th 3:30-4:30 PM Wednesday Webinar | Combat Substance Abuse with EVERFI Registration and description info can be found here.
  • Tuesday, October 19th 4:15-5:15 pm ISCA Webinar “Advising College Bound Student-Athletes” – Presenter: Anthony Gliffe, College & Career Pathway Specialist at Technology Center of Dupage. Click here to Register.
  • ISCA Race and Equity Training Credential – The ISCA Race and Equity Steering Committee developed this credential last year and is now offering all school counselors to participate in this powerful experience. Participants must attend all 3 full day sessions to complete the Credential.
    Dates: Friday, Oct, 22nd, Nov. 5th, & Nov. 19th – 18 hours of PD Credit available for participants. $200 for ISCA Members and $300 for ISCA Non-Members. CLICK HERE TO REGISTER. Limited Seating available.
  • Thursday, December 2nd 8:30 am – 3:00 pm – “Interrupting Racism: Equity and Social Justice in School Counseling, Presenters, authors, Rebecca Atkins and Alicia Oglesby! This all day session will be held at the Universal Technical Institute, Lisle, IL. Teams are encouraged to attend. CLICK HERE TO REGISTER.
Get Ready for FAFSA Season & PaCE Framework with Free Illinois Student Assistance Commission (ISAC) Resources
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FAFSA — Mark your calendars now for ISAC’s 3rd annual FAFSA® Symposium taking place on Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2021, from 9 a.m. – 3 p.m. The event is FREE of charge and will take place virtually. Additional information is available on the FAFSA Symposium website, with registration opening on Sept. 15, 2021. As a reminder, beginning with the 2020-2021 school year, Illinois has a graduation requirement that high school seniors in Illinois public high schools file the FAFSA or, if eligible, the Alternative Application for Illinois Financial Aid in order to receive their high school diploma. Through the FAFSA Completion Initiative, ISAC is able to share data on a weekly basis via GAP Access to identify students who have not filed a financial aid application (the FAFSA or the Alternative Application for Illinois Financial Aid). For more information and to see your school’s financial aid completion rate, visit the Financial Aid Application Performance Metrics web page. ISAC’s College Changes Everything (CCE) Campaign offers schools and community-based organizations the support and resources needed to host financial aid and college application completion workshops. The ISACorps is available to help student and families navigate the college and financial aid process, including virtually via videoconferencing, text, phone, or email.

PaCE — ISAC continues to provide support to schools with the implementation of a Postsecondary and Career Expectations (PaCE) Framework. ISAC’s PaCE support offerings include the PaCE Overview presentation and the PaCE Implementation Support series. All ISAC PaCE offerings are available free of charge upon request. ISAC is also starting its fall Framework webinar series; see the PaCE webinar calendar for more information.
ISCA Conference — Register Today!
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ISCA Annual Conference — We See You, We Hear You, We Support You — Nov. 1st and 2nd in Person — Tinley Park — Click here to register!

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Career Information
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The Illinois Association of Aggregate Producers (IAAP) has developed a new “Let’s Rock” workforce development campaign we believe will enable students to begin exploring careers working for companies whose business is primarily mining stone, sand and gravel in Illinois. It takes just a few minutes for school counselors or students to explore the “Let’s Rock” website designed to inform career seekers about a wide range of exciting and rewarding career paths in the mining industry. The videos and website are at www.letsrockillinois.com.

Contact Shawn McKinney from IAAP at shawn@iaap-aggregates.org to arrange an internship, job-shadow, or to participate in a career fair.

.INDUSTRY NEWS

First nationwide look at racial breakdown of career education confirms deep divides
The Hechinger Report
In Nevada, just 4% of students who took a career-oriented science, technology, engineering and math course in the 2019-2020 school year — 88 students total — were Black, even though Black students make up more than 11%t of the state’s public school enrollment.

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How districts can support students with disabilities amid school mask debates
K-12 Dive
Disability advocates in at least half a dozen states are filing complaints in court, arguing statewide policies prohibiting mask mandates discriminate against students with disabilities and deny those students equal access to education. Some school attorneys and special education experts agree but say as the lawsuits weave their way through the courts, there are proactive steps districts should take to address the individualized needs and safety of students with disabilities.

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Future of testing in education: Effective and equitable assessment systems
Center for American Progress
Assessments are a way for stakeholders in education to understand what students know and can do. They can take many forms, including but not limited to paper and pencil or computer-adaptive formats. However, assessments do not have to be tests in the traditional sense at all; rather, they can be carried out through teacher observations of students or portfolios of students’ work.

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What should Chicago’s new schools CEO tackle first? Parents, students, and insiders have ideas.
Chalkbeat
Jennifer Baez’s fifth grader started school at Columbus Elementary three weeks ago with a different substitute every day. The teacher was out sick with a non-COVID illness, in the middle of a national shortage of qualified substitutes. So one day, a security guard taught the class. Another, it was the PE teacher. The school didn’t communicate anything about the revolving door of adults until two weeks after classes started, Baez said.

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Concerns about child well-being during the 2020-21 school year were greatest among parents of remote learners
The Brooking Institute
Over the last 18 months of the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers have compiled a host of metrics to describe its ongoing impact on children, who are suffering through school closures that may have immense effects on their life outcomes. Existing metrics describe students’ stymied academic progress, increasing depression, stress, and anxiety, decreasing college enrollment, and potential long-term economic setbacks. On most measures, students from economically disadvantaged and minoritized backgrounds have endured more remote learning and are suffering more than their more privileged peers.

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What school looks like when learning moves outside
Education Week
For students in Angela Ninde’s fifth grade class at Centreville Elementary School, taking their math lesson outside is a daily occurrence. On one day in early September, they moved in groups — from a lesson at picnic tables where they used dice to learn the difference between odd and even numbers, to a section of planters where they dug holes for fresh seeds and trimmed kale from their existing crops, to an area with markers and large sheets of paper where they could spread out on the ground and illustrate different ways of using multiplication to represent the same number.

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We know students are struggling with their mental health. Here’s how you can help
NPR
Most kids around the country are back in classrooms by now, but this school year isn’t quite the return-to-normalcy that everyone had hoped for. Covid-19 cases are surging again, and many school districts have already closed due to outbreaks. Others are offering remote learning options. This school year is already feeling uncertain and anxiety ridden for many students.

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How return to in-person teaching is leaving many disabled kids in limbo
KQED
The school year at Duarte Unified School District, 20 miles east of Los Angeles, started a month ago, but Brady, Ellie and Jack Fitzgibbons have yet to receive any instruction from their teachers. The 13-year-old triplets are on the autism spectrum, and their mother, Julie Fitzgibbons, didn’t feel safe sending them to school because she doubted her kids would keep their masks on all day. “They struggle with masks. They won’t be able to be in a class with 36 kids wearing masks,” Fitzgibbons said. “Communication is important for autistic kids. They can’t talk with masks.”

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The future of blended learning: What educators need to know
Education Week
The Hustisford school district in rural Wisconsin wasn’t an obvious candidate for blended learning before the pandemic. There were no immediate plans for a districtwide 1-to-1 computing initiative, and about 1 of every 3 students did not have reliable internet access at home.

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How to preserve the good parts of pandemic schooling
Education Week
Before COVID-19, a parent we’ll call “Gabrielle” woke up every day at 4 a.m. She ate breakfast, got her children ready for school, and left for work by 5:30 a.m. Her kids left only a little later, at 6 a.m., because they had to catch three different buses to get to school. Even though the school was on the other side of town, it was worth the hardship because it was so much better than the local alternative.

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Student device monitoring a threat to LGBTQI+ students, student expression — report
THE Journal
Student device monitoring disproportionately affects kids who cannot afford their own devices and, according to a new report, poses threats to student privacy (such as LGBTQI+ students who might be “outed”) and creates a significant chilling effect on student expression. According to information from a pair of new reports released today from the Center for Democracy & Technology, 81% of teachers reported the use of online monitoring software that can track students during and outside of school hours/activities.

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At least 9 states have adopted legislation around suicide prevention as districts invest in SEL
K-12 Dive
Youth suicide rates have trended upward in recent years, with a 57% increase among 10-to-24-year-olds between 2007 and 2018. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, mental health-related emergency department visits increased for children 18 and younger during the course of the COVID-19 pandemic. Compared to 2019, the percentage of mental health-related visits for children ages 5-11 increased 24%, and visits for children ages 12-17 increased by 31%.

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Research Opportunity: Cultural Humility & Multicultural Awareness

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Hello everyone,

We hope our message finds you well. We are researchers at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, University of Toledo, and University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and we are conducting a research study entitled “A Path Analysis of Cultural Humility Between Multicultural Awareness, Knowledge, and Skills and Social Issues Advocacy among Master’s Counseling Students”. For the purpose of the study, we are intending to explore the extent to which cultural humility mediates the relationship between multicultural knowledge, attitudes and beliefs, skills and social issues advocacy.

If you have any questions about this study, please contact the lead researcher Dr. Christian D. Chan at cdchan@uncg.edu. Additional information is listed below:

To be eligible for this study, you must identify with the following inclusion criteria:

  • Must be 18 years or older
  • Must be currently enrolled in a CACREP-accredited Master’s program in counseling or counselor education
  • Must have completed a multicultural counseling course
  • Must be currently enrolled in practicum or internship

If you choose to take part in this study, you will take part in a Qualtrics survey of approximately 15-25 minutes. In the following link, you will be able to view the electronic informed consent and proceed to the survey questions once you confirm review of the informed consent.

https://uncg.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0PbzHxjWqFsLF7o

To compensate you for your time, you may elect to enter a drawing for a $25 gift card by entering your email address at the end of the survey. A total of 15 participants will be selected randomly to receive the incentive.

This study has been approved by The University of North Carolina at Greensboro Office of Research Integrity [IRB-FY21-98]. If you have any concerns about your rights, how you are being treated, concerns or complaints about this project or benefits or risks associated with being in this study please contact the Office of Research Integrity at UNCG toll-free at (855)-251-2351.

General questions regarding the study can be directed to the lead researcher Dr. Christian D. Chan at cdchan@uncg.edu. Dr. Chan’s office phone number is (336) 517-7564.

Thank you very much for your gracious time and consideration to support this study!

 

Thank you,

Christian D. Chan, PhD, NCC

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Assistant Professor, Department of Counseling and Educational Development, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro

CPS Job Posting – Bilingual School Counselor

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Multicultural Arts High School (MAS) is looking for a bilingual school counselor. MAS is a small neighborhood high school found in the Little Village community that aims to integrate art into its curriculum. Please find more information in the attached document.

Interested? Apply directly though the Chicago Public Schools job portal using job number P091536, or contact Principal Maria G. Gamboa (mggamboa@cps.edu) directly.

Bilingual School Counselor (Professional School Counselor)

You’re Invited! Welcome Back, Counseling Students!

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Join us in celebration of the start to a new year at our Welcome Back event! Food and fun provided. CSI members: your pins and certificates will be available for pickup.

When: THIS Sunday, September 19, 5-7pm
Where: DePaul University Quad (2325 N Seminary Ave, Chicago, IL 60614)
Who: ALL counseling students and faculty!

For this outdoor event, masks are optional for those vaccinated and required for those with exemption.

Questions? Contact CSI via Instagram DM @csi.dpu or via email csi.dpu@gmail.com.

Sponsored by: Chi Sigma Iota Counseling Honor Society

Tevera Update

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We apologize for any confusion. However, if you have already registered your account in Tevera do not log back in until you are told to do so by either your Intro to Counseling, Testing and Appraisal, or Practicum instructor. If you have not registered your account in Tevera, do not register. You will be updated on Tevera in your classes. Thank you for your patience as we onboard this program