Edsurge

APRIL 30, 2025

An Unsurprising Development Chris Curran, director of the Education Policy Research Center at the University of Floridas College of Education, says that hes not surprised by the executive order given how education has become front-and-center in todays culture wars. One bit of evidence for that idea?

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Teachers Pay Teachers

MAY 28, 2025

By Mindful and Kind Counseling Grades: 6th-12th You can create your own slides or use one of these 40 premade Would You Rather question slides. Experience the cultural traditions of Buddhist Asia or Renaissance Europe? See your cultures art hanging in the Louvre or trending on social media?

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Others are applied more broadly, like mentorship programs or culturally responsive curriculum. Culture Change When Cole-Ochoa was assigned to the junior high campus more than two years ago, it was with the directive to turn around its academic performance. I always think of it as Maslow's.

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eSchool News

MARCH 14, 2024

Looking beyond a traditional western medicine approach, school districts should consider adopting solutions such as peer-to-peer counseling, where students who have been trained can meet to support one another and address personal, social, or emotional challenges.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 4, 2021

We then use that information to brainstorm how to best approach online lessons, build and maintain critical school culture and relationships, and enable other wrap-around supports, such as counseling and therapy. What academic, social, emotional, and behavioral challenges are our students dealing with? More flexibility, more accolades.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 21, 2021

We then use that information to brainstorm how to best approach online lessons, build and maintain critical school culture and relationships, and enable other wrap-around supports, such as counseling and therapy. What academic, social, emotional, and behavioral challenges are our students dealing with?

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

K-12 teachers, counselors, and other front-line educators all need an effective framework with a set of tools to assess, intervene, and empower our students to see and achieve their own unique potentials, whether in the classroom, guidance counseling sessions, student orientation, or community service opportunities.

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Edsurge

APRIL 29, 2022

By increasing support and creating safe spaces to openly discuss common experiences of stress, schools can establish a culture that normalizes addressing mental health, which can reduce stigma. The good thing about establishing a culture of healthy communication and work expectations is that accountability goes both ways.

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eSchool News

JUNE 6, 2024

Ensure that communications are culturally responsive and inclusive, acknowledging and celebrating the diversity within the school community. It’s also crucial to communicate about available support resources like counseling. One crucial way to do this is to ensure that all communications can be shared in a family’s home language.

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eSchool News

JUNE 11, 2024

Well-being resources : Encourage self-care by providing resources such as access to counseling services, wellness programs, or relaxation spaces within the school. Highlighting their achievements can boost morale and encourage a supportive school culture. Consider organizing wellness days or retreats.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

As educators, what is our role in terms of providing objective counsel regarding news sources, viewpoints and truth during an election cycle? Yet as confident as they may seem, many are yearning for guidance and a way in which to align their beliefs with the pull of popular culture.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 21, 2019

Counseling with students, parents, and school staff when problems are endemic. We are discussing another strategy: What if we try to use building culture to increase the care given to technology? Giving older, less-valuable-but-still-functioning Chromebooks to those who show chronic difficulties in responsible use.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 19, 2023

We as educators can also serve as gatekeepers to either advanced studies, special education, counseling, etc. Examples of microaggression can be scheduling major deadlines on important cultural event dates or making inappropriate and insensitive jokes about a particular group of students.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Consider subsidizing telehealth counseling that more effectively fits into teachers’ schedules. Your approach here should certainly include building a culture of openness around mental health. Your approach could include providing subsidized access to local gyms and organic food suppliers.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 17, 2023

Whether you are an administrator or active community member, how you speak, write, and/or communicate towards educators will shape the culture. Indeed, teachers are working in a school culture where verbal communication means much more than only using considerate language. Use respectful language when talking with and about teachers.

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k12 Digest

APRIL 26, 2025

As dorm parents, coaches, and club advisors, teachers foster a culture of support and engagement that extends far beyond academics. This international mix enriches learning, preparing students for college and beyond by exposing them to a wide array of viewpoints and cultures. Weekends are a thrill.

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Edsurge

MAY 12, 2021

High schoolers, whose day ends at lunchtime, will have access to college preparation, job training and counseling. Her district is focused on fostering a “culture of fun,” which may look different for each kid. They’re also trying to craft culturally-responsive curricula. Does It Matter?

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Edsurge

JANUARY 31, 2023

And since today’s school counselors work with all students in a school — through classroom instruction, small group, individual counseling and individual consultation — having those smaller ratios gives school counselors an opportunity to deliver information and curricula and … to address gaps around opportunity, equity and access.

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Edsurge

APRIL 5, 2019

School counselors are not only an important influence in the lives of students, but research shows that students attending schools with lower counselor-to-student ratios were more engaged in higher-quality college counseling learning decisions, and in turn made more informed college decisions.

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Edsurge

JUNE 15, 2020

One of the things the COVID-19 pandemic revealed is the assessment culture we’ve created in our schools. When I talk about transforming education, I'm talking about that culture. We have developed a toxic culture of assessment whereby we've drifted away from the reasons why schools exist in the first place.

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Edsurge

JULY 31, 2023

The discrepancy stems from systemic factors like economic inequality, as well as cultural ones. Studies have shown that counseling and therapy are more effective when providers share a cultural understanding with patients. Families may believe that therapy is ‘a white people thing,’” Cherestal says.

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Edsurge

MARCH 6, 2024

What Happens When Students Don’t Receive a Diploma Culturally, graduation is a right of passage and a source of immense pride. Admittedly, I find it hard to counsel them when the value of a diploma and the future of society keeps moving before I have time to adjust. How will it shape their self image and how their loved ones see them?

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Edsurge

MAY 4, 2017

secondary schools and universities , where demand for counseling services is rapidly outstripping supply. Our thesis is that one route to effective SEL and preventive mental health lies at the intersection of character education, community building and traditional counseling center services. For example, community.

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Edsurge

MARCH 19, 2019

I became assistant principal in 2018, but served as dean of culture at Westgate for three years prior. Even when I came on and there were two of us counseling, it wasn’t enough to support that many students. Mentors even sat in on counseling sessions to observe our counselor and I during sessions.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The Campus Environment: More Than Just Aesthetic Appeal Cultural Fit The culture of the school is one of the most important, but often overlooked, factors. Learning about the culture of the school can help you picture your daily life there and decide if you’ll do well there.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Brick and mortar charter schools have been known to use questionable (and unethical) recruitment techniques and “counseling out” poor standardized test-takers. Teachers want the focus off of the flawed standardized data culture and back on the children as developing human beings who deserve more than test prep and basic skills.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Go beyond “checking-in” to building a culture of relational trust. In fact, educational leadership experts say that culture is always at play in a school’s success or failure. We must bring a critical eye to our schools’ systems and practices—and be willing to change things for the better.

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Edsurge

JUNE 22, 2023

While the Just Equations report highlights the problems that can arise when high school students don’t have access to good counseling, other previous reports have suggested that high school counselors can overcorrect in the other direction, tending to overemphasize the importance of calculus in college admissions.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 7, 2022

If schools do not get the time and resources needed to recover, they may be unable to endure the next viral variant, culture war or economic disaster. The school has a culture of inclusiveness and belonging. Since COVID started, the school has increased counseling supports and upped tiered interventions.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 9, 2023

The startup company provides telehealth counseling to middle and high school students through school districts. The way the service works is that a school counselor refers a student for teletherapy, and the company matches that student with a therapist to meet with the student via videoconference for a set number of counseling sessions.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

While serving as an administrator at Avalon, she led one of the district’s largest school climate and culture shifts; thus, advancing the school from a seven-year run of being a B-graded school, to being an A-graded school.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2024

Other wellness programs are expanding, including fitness classes, mindfulness sessions, stress management workshops and counseling services, contributing to increased employee satisfaction. This fosters a supportive leadership culture that comprehends campus dynamics and provides enhanced support accordingly.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 4, 2022

Under a traditional school counseling model, and because of state Medicaid policies, students and families who can’t afford outside mental health treatment often have to wait to receive a diagnosis or until their needs become dire before qualifying for any school-based services. More kids are getting some short term interventions,” she says.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Latino Serving Assistant Superintendent of the Year – Dr. Tommy Welch, Head of Culture and Community, the Lovett School, GA. Latino Administrator of the Year – Dr. James Martinez, Education Administrator for Counseling and Social Services, Norwalk Public Schools, CT.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 12, 2021

We look forward to partnering with PresenceLearning in growing its business, while also maximizing its impact on the high need populations the company serves and to supporting PresenceLearning’s inclusive culture, which prioritizes diversity of voice across its employees, providers, and students.”. About PresenceLearning.

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

One way that schools are engaging students is by introducing coding activities in makerspaces, where students can use the creative culture to start establishing the building blocks of computational thinking. MORE FROM EDTECH: Find out what professional development your teachers need to run a successful makerspace !

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eSchool News

AUGUST 19, 2021

The creation of the Chief People Officer role signifies the importance of people at the center of the company’s culture and strategy. She has also helped to cultivate a culture of belonging at the company, ensuring that all voices and perspectives can make an impact.

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