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3 tips to combat chronic absenteeism in high schools

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Create opportunities for students and families to provide feedback, share concerns, and actively participate in decision-making processes that affect their educational experiences. 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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Elmwood School: Where Girls Rise with Confidence, Curiosity and Global Vision

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And through the school’s house system, each student gets the chance to participate in and contribute to meaningful events. On-site counselling is always available, and the schools ties to community mental health organizations ensure no student falls through the cracks. Athletes take the lead as captains or student coaches.

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Supporting Student Mental Health in the Classroom: A Faculty Guide to Compassionate Engagement

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While staff in student affairs and counseling centers are often trained in mental health response and early intervention, faculty are frequently left out of these critical conversations. Learning the language of how to intervene can help facilitate the appropriate connection to campus services.

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Inviting Community College Students to See Themselves as University Researchers

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But when one of her professors announced an opportunity for students to participate in a research internship to study young people’s well-being and civic engagement in the Coachella Valley, her interest was piqued. She first got involved as a student at Oxnard College by participating in research ethics training. She signed up. “Me

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Roybi Raises $4.2 Million Seed Round to Produce Educational Robots

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The company has also participated in several education technology accelerator programs, including xEdu in Finland and Edstart by Amazon Web Services. Early next year, we’ll be focusing a lot on China, where there is a huge demand for language learning.” But some studies have suggested that bots could help with learning new languages.

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This District Helps Young Kids Identify Their Interests — and Ideal Careers

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Suddenly, lessons on the physics of energy were tied to teaching kids how to be theme park engineers, and language arts and math lessons were anchored in running and marketing a profitable startup. That tracks with how programs like World of Work should ideally be designed, says Poynton, the UMass professor who studies career counseling.

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Colleges Are Missing Out on Students Who Start — But Don’t Finish — Their Applications

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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. “I I understood the language of the applications,” she said, which she attributed to her mother’s experience attending college in Puerto Rico.