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MARCH 12, 2018

Unintended Consequences At a recent SXSW EDU session, Amelia Vance, the director of the Education Privacy Project for the Future of Privacy Forum , was forthright about the challenges the law posed for districts. I get an email a day from district tech directors asking about Google.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 4, 2024

So far, discussions have been dominated by UNESCO’s recent counsel calling on schools to ban mobile phones. Technologies such as augmented reality (AR) have already proven themselves catalysts for learning, rather than the distractions that many organizations and schools tend to perceive them as. This has been known for many years now.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 12, 2023

Alyssa Parks first made an appointment at the counseling center at Marshall University thanks to her roommate. There is a stigma about that topic, and I think it’s getting better, but sometimes it’s nerve-wracking if you’ve never been to the counseling center.” Alyssa Parks. Photo courtesy of WVHEPC.

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MARCH 31, 2020

It can be a reliable source of two meals a day, a refuge from an unstable home environment, or a way to access counseling and other mental health services. Would they have to stop counseling sessions? And I think that kind of helped draw them back into the right frame of mind to actually do a little bit of counseling.

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JANUARY 4, 2023

My days involve a combination of classroom counseling, meeting students in small groups and one-on-one sessions and consulting with staff and caregivers. We have enhanced our community partnerships to include an on-site mental health clinician as well as telehealth counseling for students.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2016

School district leaders’ top objective in transitioning to a digital curriculum is to achieve greater instructor effectiveness, according to a survey from The Learning Counsel. ” The survey was sponsored by Sprint. Material from a press release was used in this report.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

At the end of each school year at Central High School, seniors grab a paint pen and write their post-graduation plans on a glass wall outside the counseling office. PAUL, Minn. — For many, that means announcing what college they’ve enrolled in. But the goal is to celebrate whatever path students are choosing, whether at a college or not. “We

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eSchool News

MAY 25, 2016

“When technology first impacted education, it hit the libraries first—first in the public and then in the school libraries,” says Johnson, whose school has about 980 students and one campus. Because of this, we’ve been at the forefront of the educational technology movement for a long time.”.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Although it’s not the program that ed-tech advocates had hoped for, many expressed cautious optimism that a section of ESSA under Title IV (“21 st Century Schools”) could help schools use technology tools to transform teaching and learning. It’s great to see that become a priority again.”. Title IV, Part A, of ESSA changes that—sort of.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 24, 2018

In the last five years, according to Amelia Vance, director of education privacy & policy counsel at the Future of Privacy Forum (FPF), over 600 bills on the topic have been introduced and 125 new laws have passed in about 40 states. Andy Wallace, director of technology, South Portland (ME) Schools.

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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

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Two Major Battles’ Kelli Frazier, now a counselor at Bowie Middle School and colleague of Ibarra, was undertaking her counseling internship during the COVID-19 lockdown. Those have been our two major battles on the discipline front that go along with counseling,” Ibarra explained. After Covid, we saw an increase in aggression.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Even parents are more engaged in the work we are doing with their children. We get positive feedback from excited parents all the time expressing how they see their child has improved communicating their feelings, regulating their emotions, and socially interacting.”.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Some states have gotten creative to increase the availability of mental health professionals in their schools, like turning to telehealth for counseling services. For school psychologists, only Idaho and Washington D.C. do better than the recommended ratio. Pierrottet offers. “It

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

At SchoolStatus, we firmly believe that educators’ voices must be central in shaping education technology. Members of the CAB were selected based on their deep knowledge of education technology, passion for improving learning outcomes, and success in supporting students’ academic achievements and families’ evolving needs.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 8, 2020

said Cody Venzke, a policy counsel for the Student Privacy Project at the Center for Democracy and Technology, in an email interview. This is the latest Senate inquiry into the data collection practices of education technology companies. Ultimately, edtech vendors and school leaders should ask not just ‘Can we do this?’

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Edsurge

JUNE 2, 2020

Career counseling, exploration, and placement services are online,” said Carlos O. president of San Diego Continuing Education, “and we have held several online job fairs over the past several weeks using Zoom.” And there are built-in organizational conflicts that can make it hard to quickly build new programs. Turner Cortez, Ph.D.,

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Counseling Students to Submit Applications Dorma Lozada, a senior at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in Manhattan, recalls going through the college application process herself a few years ago. After all, the enrollment rate of students who completed the Common App — 88.4 While the ratio of students to school counselors in the U.S.

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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

MAY 14, 2019

A college counseling director at Taipei American School in Taiwan, Neill had searched for college counseling software that had more international offerings for his students. DFL had sought a college counseling company to invest in when he was introduced to Cialfo last year, DFL principal Francois-Xavier de Mevius says in an email.

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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 6, 2024

How the Value of a Diploma Has Changed Just as teachers are navigating all the changes happening in education, so are students. 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.

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Edsurge

JULY 6, 2022

Searching for a Salve One of the positive findings from the RAND survey, Doan noted, is that the majority of principals reported that their schools have at least one mental health support in place, such as counseling sessions, an employee assistance program or yoga classes. But these resources were not often tailored to the needs of staff.

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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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Edsurge

AUGUST 5, 2024

Educational technology adoption has grown significantly in the past decade, and it’s clear that K-12 schools are now comfortable with and embrace the new technology norms. Susan Uram Director of Educational Technology at Rockford Public Schools But effectively evaluating edtech products is no small feat.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 18, 2022

At that time, Tracy Clements, a building-level counselor, was asked to step into her current position as Director of Counseling Services for the district and tasked with establishing a suicide prevention plan. Maybe the student just needs a session with the counselor, or maybe we'll need to refer them for outpatient counseling."

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Edsurge

MAY 19, 2020

In California, where PresenceLearning is based, acute shortages in licensed special educators have continued even as the percentage of special-needs students has grown.

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Edsurge

JULY 31, 2023

The California Department of Education has created resources for students who may need support, and has identified the lack of diverse providers as a problem the state needs to solve. Studies have shown that counseling and therapy are more effective when providers share a cultural understanding with patients.

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Edsurge

JULY 12, 2021

Think of the ways in which teletherapy is expanding access to mental health support, and reducing the stigma that can so often accompany the experience of seeking counseling on campus.

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Edsurge

MARCH 19, 2019

Even when I came on and there were two of us counseling, it wasn’t enough to support that many students. We needed to acknowledge the steep, and growing, demand for counseling services, and we had to create time and space for every student reaching out to receive support.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 26, 2020

This was true regardless of whether they were pursuing an algebra-intensive major like engineering or physics, or a field like communications, counseling, or political science that doesn’t rely on algebra. Fortunately, much has changed since then in California and elsewhere, paving the way to modernizing mathematics education.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 24, 2017

To stop shutting students out, California began building its Online Education Initiative in late 2013. million project includes getting the colleges on a common learning management system, building an online course exchange and creating additional services like counseling to support students in online classes.

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Edsurge

MARCH 14, 2018

The department ruled that parents or students cannot be required to waive their FERPA rights as a condition receiving a public education. It was the first major enforcement action taken in relation to education technology by the department. The education community can still submit technical-assistance requests. “I

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

That tracks with how programs like World of Work should ideally be designed, says Poynton, the UMass professor who studies career counseling. The focus, in my opinion, should be less about the specific occupations,” he says.

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Edsurge

JULY 2, 2019

The company has also participated in several education technology accelerator programs, including xEdu in Finland and Edstart by Amazon Web Services. Even when not in a classroom, certain toys must adhere to the federal Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, commonly called COPPA. Our focus is the U.S.

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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.

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Edsurge

JUNE 13, 2017

Chad Marlow, ACLU Counsel According to the Future of Privacy Forum (FPF), a Washington, D.C.-based In an interview with EdSurge, ACLU’s Advocacy and Policy Counsel, Chad A. The degree of privacy a student gets should not be dependent on that student’s socioeconomic status.

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