eSchool News

MAY 10, 2022

We were introduced to 7 Mindsets by one of our district’s former middle school counselors and, after our counseling team checked out the SEL platform, we convinced our central office that our high school needed it. 4 steps to a successful switch.

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eSchool News

JUNE 6, 2024

Key points: Light-touch, low-cost interventions focused on attendance can pay dividends Student success is impacted by issues outside of school, survey finds How bullying contributes to K-12 student absenteeism For more news on student success, visit eSN’s SEL & Well-Being hub One surefire way to support student success?

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Edsurge

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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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Known as a world-renowned expert in SEL, Dr. Schonert-Reichl was a Professor in the Department of Educational and Counseling Psychology, and Special Education in the Faculty of Education at University of British Columbia (UBC) from 1991 to 2020.

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eSchool News

MARCH 21, 2024

As a part of an ongoing initiative to enhance the health and wellness resources available to its students and families, the Baldwin Union Free School District (UFSD) is proud to launch the Baldwin Schools Wellness Center and to be among the first school districts in the nation to establish such a resource directly on campus at no cost to families.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

On the opposite end of the Lone Star State in the Dallas suburb of Irving, Principal Anabel Ibarra likewise developed a plan for culture change at Bowie Middle School. 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.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2020

IUSD is partnering with Care Solace to support its mission of providing school-based mental health and wellness services and resources to students and families. Since becoming a school district in 1972, IUSD schools have been nationally recognized for comprehensive programs in academics, the arts and athletics.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

“As a public school leveraging an innovative model, we believe that together with FuelEd the Vidalia Academy can offer more students across Georgia with the best education possible.”. To learn more, watch this video or read this case study about FuelEd’s partnership with Miami-Dade Public Schools.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Celina Pierrottet remembers 2016 as the year when she and her colleagues at the middle school where they taught noted a pointed change among their students. “We That year we had a lot of kids who were displaying some sort of school avoidance and other behaviors that we hadn't quite seen as much. Pierrottet recalls.

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Edsurge

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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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Beyond the professional realm, she is a proud mom to a rising Senior in high school and a 6th grader beginning middle school. Principal and Principal for Avalon Middle School from 2014-2018 before being appointed the district’s Public Information and Family and Community Outreach Officer. Dr. Shepherd was the Asst.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

In high school, he reasoned, students might take vocational training courses, intern at local businesses or meet with guidance counselors to discuss their future. For others, he says, “We have to bring that into the school, into the family’s life, so they can see that their child can absolutely compete.”

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Edsurge

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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Edsurge

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. Mentors even sat in on counseling sessions to observe our counselor and I during sessions.

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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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Cal Matters

MAY 14, 2025

In summary The San Jose Evergreen Community College District offers a course at a local middle school, and plans to offer more in the future. the regular school day at August Boeger Middle School had already ended, but one class is about to start. The college faculty union worries that the students are too young.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 9, 2023

The startup company provides telehealth counseling to middle and high school students through school districts. The programs that Effective School Solutions designs are in use in more than 90 districts in nine states. Students and families who participate don’t pay out of pocket.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 7, 2022

I recently visited Liberty Middle School in southeastern Illinois to interview the principal, Allen Duncan, for a book I’m working on. When I walked from the parking lot to the front door, I saw sidewalks filled with chalk messages welcoming families and students back for the first day of school.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 2, 2023

In fact, more than four in five parents believe it would be beneficial for schools to provide mental health services for students as a part of the school day and 84% of parents would be open to their children receiving mental health counseling and emotional support services if offered in school. –Diane Myers, Ph.

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Edsurge

JULY 31, 2019

Ready to Go' In January, Locklear contacted the director of the local Boys and Girls Club about her idea: What if they teamed up to help their middle school girls learn to code? The goal is to make it scalable to other middle schools adjacent to the university,” Mary Beth says. We had to take this on.”

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Edsurge

MARCH 26, 2019

In fact, the school stopped suspending students altogether in 2015, after administrators realized the practice was denying their most at-risk students important social, emotional and academic reinforcements. At our school, they get more support.” Posters hanging in the RJ classroom at Austin Achieve's middle school.

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Edsurge

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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Edsurge

JANUARY 16, 2025

Analog Solutions for Digital Problems Shari Camhi, superintendent of Baldwin Union Free School District in New York, says that cell phones have never been seen as anything but a distraction in the district of about 4,500 students. Theyre not allowed at all on elementary and middle school campuses.

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Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2019

After a chance meeting with Rob Warren of Curriculum Associates, Ray, the founder of the consultancy K20Connect and former executive director of learning technology for Nashville public schools, took him along to visit Stratford STEM Magnet School Lower Campus, a middle school in Nashville that was failing at the time.

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Edsurge

MARCH 17, 2020

Our counseling team is going to be sending out weekly emails to ask teachers: Are there any students that you’re very concerned about for their social, emotional state? Our guidance to schools has been around non-digital as our primary focus. We’re working with those schools a little differently.

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Edsurge

MARCH 18, 2020

Pahamify (or “Understand” in English) charges at least $24 a year for features that include animated videos, college counseling and practice exams. That’s the hope, anyway, for the founders of this startup, currently in beta testing and targeted toward high school and middle school students.

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Edsurge

JUNE 13, 2022

Teach SEL Skills Socio-emotional learning is demonstrated to help reduce violence and make schools safer. School SEL programs can also help reduce bullying, while curbing future violent behavior. Middle school students who bully others are less likely to continue on a path of violence after being taught positive behaviors.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Becoming an Outsider It would be hard to identify a single cause of Bradley’s school avoidance, according to his mother, Deirdre. But it began in middle school, around the seventh grade. Bradley would miss school here and there, but the growing tally of absences worried his mom.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 23, 2018

The space will provide learners access to technology, academic advising, tutoring and college counseling. The details haven’t been worked out yet, he says, but the site will likely be at an existing education space—a library, a school or a community college. I think over the next five years we’ll learn a lot from LRNG,” he says.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The Board of Supervisors voted to bring back middle-school algebra, and a city ballot measure to reinstate eighth-grade algebra passed with about 82 percent of the vote. Critics also challenged the arguments and data used by the district to justify the policy. This year San Francisco unraveled its nearly 10-year experiment.

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Edsurge

JULY 14, 2016

Many of them would enjoy the creative problem-solving of engineering—and they won’t know unless they choose, enjoy, and stay involved in engineering coursework during middle and high school. Encouraging diverse participation in STEM in middle school is crucial. That’s the teacher’s job. Send personal notes.

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Edsurge

APRIL 3, 2019

In 2012, after hearing about Science Club for Girls, which runs programs for girls in both K-5 and middle school, she became a mentor for the group. “While working as a research technician, I had a random thought about doing some science outreach,” Greppi recalls.

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eSchool News

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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Teach Hub

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

The process of getting students plugged into CTE programs in most states begins at the middle school level, where students will take interest surveys and personality style tests that will match up with what jobs fit their interests and styles. How to Help Students Explore CTE Programs.

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Edsurge

APRIL 27, 2017

It will also cover college study skills and involve regular trips to the college with King to get familiar with campus support services like financial aid offices, career and employment resources, and professional counseling. That effort goes even further back than high school, though. Through two separate grant initiatives with.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

APRIL 4, 2025

Its one of the reasons why high school (and increasingly middle school!) Use these meaningful career exploration activities for high school students to help students discover their interests, skills, and passions. But whether they have an answer is a different story! Is this job right for me?

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Edsurge

MARCH 4, 2024

Recently, EdSurge spoke with Jody O’Brien , assistant superintendent of student services and equity at Marlborough Public Schools , Massachusetts, about her district's approach to chronic absenteeism. O'Brien What patterns of chronic absenteeism exist within your school community, such as specific grade levels or student populations?

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