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SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

At SchoolStatus, we firmly believe that educators’ voices must be central in shaping education technology. Our Customer Advisory Board enables us to directly collaborate with the people who best understand the needs of schools and districts across the U.S. Not stopping there, Dr. Pollard served as the Director of H.E.L.P.

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MAY 25, 2016

With more than 20 years of experience in instructional technologies and K-12 education under her belt, Joquetta L. Johnson has experienced the evolution of the school librarian firsthand. A library media specialist at Randallstown High School in Randallstown, Md., Next page: Helping students and teachers alike.

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JANUARY 4, 2023

As a school counselor, I spend my days serving 835 middle school students in a rural district in Livingston, California. My days involve a combination of classroom counseling, meeting students in small groups and one-on-one sessions and consulting with staff and caregivers.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Twice a week, Rofiat Olasunkanmi, 22, heads back to Brooklyn to her alma mater, Kurt Hahn Expeditionary Learning School. Rofiat Olasunkanmi helps high school seniors apply to college. Further, rates varied by school type. Photo courtesy of Olasunkanmi.

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MARCH 6, 2024

Each year, some students do not meet these expectations, and as a result, they are told they have not earned a high school diploma and aren’t able to walk across the stage with their peers. Today, as our children leave high school and enter the so-called “real world,” they are facing a world changing at an unprecedented pace.

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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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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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JANUARY 31, 2023

Jill Cook: So today's school counselor works with all students in a school around academic, career and social-emotional development, as opposed to the guidance counselor of old that many of us may have had experience with that perhaps just worked on the college admissions process at a high school or on disciplinary issues.

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JULY 6, 2022

It’s been extremely difficult,” said Michael Brown, a high school principal in Westminster, Maryland, and president of the Maryland Association for Secondary School Principals. Doan used the example of a school providing one free counseling session when a staff member really needed three or four.

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JULY 24, 2024

Programs at member colleges include hosting summer learning opportunities and on-campus recruitment events for high schoolers, sending more admissions staff out to high schools in small towns, and tapping current college students to serve as peer mentors to freshmen arriving from places with sparse populations or low density.

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MAY 14, 2019

The stress Rohan Pasari feels running a startup with 25 full-time employees still doesn’t quite compare with how he felt during his final two years of high school. As Pasari approached graduation from a private school in Kolkata, India, he worried about which college would accept him and couldn’t decide a major. “I

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JUNE 22, 2023

Students hear a lot of advice about the importance of what they do in high school, but they aren’t all hearing the same guidance. When researchers asked 290 college students about what advice they’d been given in high school, the researchers found that it was stratified by race. At least, that’s according to a new report.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2024

At an information session about applying to college held at Central High School at the start of this school year, students listened as Tory Park, a career and college readiness coordinator, gave advice on how to narrow down a list of where to apply. PAUL, Minn. — I’ll probably just do it for my parents’ sake.”

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MARCH 19, 2019

I was originally hired in 2015, to support the only counselor at our school, which served 500 students at the time. Even when I came on and there were two of us counseling, it wasn’t enough to support that many students. We launched the mentoring program as a strand of our existing service learning course at our high school.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

The AtomicMind Foundation Scholar Program will provide comprehensive support throughout a student’s college admissions journey, starting as early as the freshman year of high school. Navigating relevant relationships and communications at the high school and college levels. ? Personal story development. ? US residency.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2020

The engineers who participated liked working with kids, and many shared their frustrations with never receiving much targeted help with career development in school. In high school, he reasoned, students might take vocational training courses, intern at local businesses or meet with guidance counselors to discuss their future.

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OCTOBER 14, 2022

Even before the pandemic, a mental health crisis among high schoolers loomed. According to a survey administered by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2019, 37 percent of high school students said they experienced persistent sadness or hopelessness and 19 percent reported suicidality.

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JULY 10, 2020

Back before the internet made it possible—and popular—for people to document their lives in real time, teenagers found themselves preserved between the pages of their high school yearbooks—forever young. We encourage schools to define success as four-year, or slightly longer, graduation rates,” Schaeffer explains.

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JULY 31, 2023

Diaz is part of the first crop of high school students in a new pilot program offered by the state of California in partnership with the Child Mind Institute. Called the Youth Mental Health Academy , it gives Los Angeles high schoolers from marginalized backgrounds a chance to explore careers in mental health.

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MAY 4, 2017

secondary schools and universities , where demand for counseling services is rapidly outstripping supply. Given the critical importance of mental well-being for student success both in school and after, how can schools evolve to better serve students in this area? Yet, mental health is a growing crisis within both.

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AUGUST 9, 2023

There might be one adult for every three kids in an elementary school classroom if a teacher has the support of aides, she continues, but that ratio grows throughout middle and high school. It’s low-cost and high-reward.” Is More Tech the Answer? Students and families who participate don’t pay out of pocket.

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AUGUST 27, 2024

However, many high school classrooms still use outdated college and career preparation models, which can leave high school graduates feeling unprepared for their future. This highlights the increasing need for high schools to incorporate career-connected learning.

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AUGUST 11, 2017

When Hattie Mitchell was in high school, she received a message from her college counselor that too many students today hear: she wasn’t college material. The school offers each students, who often arrive to the school from local shelters or the streets, two physical and two dental exams, as well as on-site mental health counseling.

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OCTOBER 19, 2023

A high school senior with long curly hair who participates in a vocational program, Bradley spends about half the day at culinary school and then half in “at-home instruction” through a nearby high school run by a statewide public education service. Bradley loves baking lava cakes.

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AUGUST 7, 2016

This contrasted starkly with my previous school, U.C. San Diego, where I could almost invariably rely on every student I came across to be 17-to-22 years old, have little-to-no job experience, and have recently graduated high school. Indeed, the portrait of the typical community college student is far from monolithic.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Ruiz, who had enrolled at Oxnard College after high school because of its free tuition program, says that transferring to UCLA has been a positive experience so far. The academic workload feels more rigorous, she says, but still manageable.

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MARCH 24, 2023

Many educators at the elementary level understand that social-emotional learning and development is baked into the job description — that part of their responsibility as educators is to support learners’ ability to identify, express and manage their emotions in healthy ways. In part, that’s due to logistical challenges.

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JANUARY 2, 2023

College is our country’s post-high school default, and it doesn’t have to be. Educational technology solutions that are engaging, effective, and easy-to-use for students, teachers, and chief academic officers will continue to play a crucial role in the year ahead. Employers say a college degree isn’t a deal breaker.

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JUNE 15, 2020

As an educator, his ability to distill key information and engage learners of all ages was recognized by administrators early on. Thus began his transition, from teaching high school students to focusing on their teachers. As such, he’s advised educators from every state in the US and more than 30 countries around the world.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Davis Middle School in Compton is Room 105. Students know it as the “wellness center,” where they sometimes go for counseling sessions. “A A lot of people believe that it’s only adults who go through things in their lives,” says Neftalí Alcocer, a seventh grader at the school who’s used the center.

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OCTOBER 20, 2022

For years, the school had been searching for ways to reverse the pattern of disengagement, build motivation to complete schoolwork and get students over that finish line at graduation. With no school counseling team — and teachers weary from other new programs and systems — EPIC needed a partner it could trust to serve Tier 2 students.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Ralphie’s case resulted in long-term suspension and assignment to Marietta Alternative Program and Services (MAPs), an alternative program within his local high school in Marietta, Ga., He was 14 years old. After just a few months with us, he was caught by the superintendent breaking into a district leader’s car in the parking lot.

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JANUARY 17, 2023

“I didn’t have a stellar academic record in middle school and freshman year of high school. Dennison continued to advocate for Witchet in high school, and helped Witchet get into a special program for Big Brothers Big Sisters students to get college counseling starting in their sophomore year.

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AUGUST 29, 2023

This is a real scenario we encountered during a focus group last school year with a group of high school students in Florida who were asked to provide feedback on their teachers. By offering resources such as counseling and mental health support to staff, schools can create healthier environments for both students and teachers.

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DECEMBER 8, 2020

Despite their exhaustion, educators across our nation have worked tirelessly, transforming their kitchen tables into classrooms while simultaneously becoming the cafeteria, technology, custodial and counseling staff for their own children. All school personnel want support navigating their emotions.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Last year, I helped coordinate opportunities for grief counseling sessions led by mental health professionals and devoted meeting time for reflection and acknowledging feelings. The picture at the top of this article is a 1997 band photo of my husband who is now a high school English teacher.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2019

From NACAC : "The sad fact is that only 1 in 5 high school students is enrolled in a school where there is a sufficient amount of school counselors. This means there are 11 million high school students who are enrolled in a school without enough school counselors."

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