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School Social Work NOW!
Supporting Innovative Practice,
Effective Leadership, and Applied Research
Vol 6, Issue 13
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Most school social workers are looking forward to the holiday break, anticipating quality time with family and friends, renewing traditions, and simply enjoying the festive season.
Those of us at ACSSW wish you a peace-filled and relaxing break. We hope you return in January refreshed for more months of challenging but satisfying work with our terrific students.
During the holiday break the newsletter will not be published. We will renew distribution in early January.
'Til then, do have a "Happy Holiday" and enjoy it to the fullest.
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An Annotated Bibliography of Research Literature
This annotated bibliography provides a systematic review of current literature published between 2001 and 2013 and summarizes findings on the relationship between prevention-focused behavioral health interventions, such as social and emotional (SEL) learning programs, and their impact on academic outcomes. Click here to access. On the webpage, click the title: The Impact... to download the PDF.
Note: While written for teachers, this guide can help school social workers support teachers with their classroom behavioral challenges.
The purpose of this document is to summarize evidence-based, positive, proactive, and responsive classroom behavior intervention and support strategies for teachers. These strategies should be used classroom-wide, intensified for support small-group instruction, or amplified further for individual students. These strategies can help teachers capitalize on instructional time and decrease disruptions, which is crucial as schools are held to greater academic and social accountability measures for all students. Access document.
from Liana Lowenstein
A Lot On My Plate Therapy Technique
This technique can help students identify their problems and worries and strengthen coping skills.
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...Although you may not have many rogues in your organization, they can impact how others work and harm the efficiency of your team.
Understanding these people and having strategies to manage them will improve your managerial effectiveness, and it will remove a serious source of dissatisfaction for your team. To better understand rogues, let's start by defining them. Dictionaries use terms like unprincipled, unreliable, mischievous, and dishonest. In the animal kingdom, rogues separate themselves; they live alone and behave unpredictably. Rogue workers meet both of these definitions. They can be described using any number of other terms. More.
The world is filled with managers and leaders. Both are quite necessary for a successful business, but rarely does someone completely master the traits of both. Often visionary entrepreneurs are moved aside for someone who can keep things steady and smooth. Of course when companies grow complacent, it's the leader who charts a new direction and brings the entire ship around. Which role suits you best? The 10-question quiz below will help you find your path to contentment and success. Click here to find out.
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Each year, tens of thousands of refugees flee their war-torn
countries and communities and enter the United states. More
than 40% are children. While the circumstances of their war experiences, their journeys to the United states, and the conditions in which they find themselves as new arrivals greatly vary, children displaced from war zones endure a tremendous amount of trauma, stress, and adversity that can impact their functioning and development...
The field is only beginning to understand the full impact of armed conflict, displacement, and resettlement on children's development and overall well-being. Despite the risk for mental health sequelae after exposure to the unimaginable hardship and trauma associated with war, the literature and clinical experience suggest that war-affected children demonstrate tremendous resilience... Individual, family, school, and community influences provide sources of both risk and protective factors that influence the psychosocial adjustment of children affected by armed conflict...
Although there is a dearth of empirical studies documenting the effectiveness of available therapeutic interventions for war affected children and families, the present literature indicates promising initiatives in individual treatment methods, family therapy, and group work in schools and other community settings. Full report. Update for Professionals.
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The Community-Partnered School Behavioral Health Modules
~ Free Training Series and CEUs Offered ~
www.mdbehavioralhealth.com
Signs of Suicide Program & Gatekeeper Training Module 1.5 CEUs. Free.
from Teachers College Press. A hard copy will be mailed to you. Free.
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Recommended Read for December
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Belonging and Becoming: The Power of Social and Emotional Learning in High Schools
"Despite growing attention to the importance of grit and other character traits for achievement, developing them in students rarely finds its way into secondary school curricula. Authors Barbara Cervone and Kathleen Cushman investigate the exceptions, telling the stories of five high schools with a national reputation for infusing rigorous academics with social and emotional learning, which results in demonstrable benefits for students.
Based on extensive interviews and on-site visits, the book identifies six elements that all of these schools have in common, including advisories and other structural supports for students and teachers; rituals and other means for establishing an intentional, reflective, and respectful community as well as a firm commitment to restorative justice; and a broad and engaging curriculum that includes service learning."
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...Will the Every Student Succeeds Act live up to its name and assure equal educational opportunity for every one of America's 50 million public school children?
...The provisions of this 1,061-page bill (about 400 more than NCLB) do not vary radically from the "accountability through testing" mandates that have marked federal education policy for the last 14 years. The main difference is that the ESSA hands the educational accountability ball from the federal government to the states.
Every Student Succeeds is better, because it rightly takes aim at test and punish strategies, and creates some valuable programs. But ESSA, like NCLB, emphasizes K-12 accountability over root causes of educational inequality. And the new law flies against history's lesson that federal oversight is a good thing for vulnerable children. Read full article.
Schools and districts across the country will be surveyed about the services provided by their CSMHS (Comprehensive School Mental Health System). This national census in critical to gain a full picture of school mental health structures and services.
It is essential that school social workers, as leaders in school mental health, be at the table as one of the team members who assists in completing the survey. You can also insure that family and community representatives are included in the process in order to get a complete picture on this important issue. Be involved. Be a leader. It may impact your practice in the future. Learn more.
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School Social Work Positions
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Continued - listed by state abbreviation
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Archived by SAMHSA & KSOC-TV
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4th Quarter Deadline: December 31, 2015
Grants of up to $500 are available for "innovative programs, events, or projects" from the Meemic Foundation for Michigan, Wisconsin or Illinois. Apply online using their easy application that takes less than 30 minutes to complete. These grants are open to any employee of a K-12 public or private school. Universities and colleges may also apply. Fill-in-the-blank application.
Grants are accepted year round, but the fourth quarter cycle ends December 31st. Grants are up to $500. Recipients will be notified by February 15th.
The foundation says it supports "basically anything that supports teachers and enhances the student's educational experience" - from field trips to books to behavior modification programs; science, music, or art equipment to professional development.
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