<div dir="ltr">FYI....<div>This will be sent to our teachers and posted on Piazza too.</div><div>Meg<br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Sarah Dunton</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sdunton@ecep.cs.umass.edu">sdunton@ecep.cs.umass.edu</a>></span><br>Date: Mon, Feb 5, 2018 at 4:33 PM<br>Subject: [ecep-state-leads] National School Counselors Week<br>To: ECEP state leads <<a href="mailto:ecep-state-leads@googlegroups.com">ecep-state-leads@googlegroups.com</a>><br><br><br><div dir="ltr"><div><b>tl:dr</b></div><div>     It's National School Counseling Week. </div><div>     NCWIT C4C is offering a webinar, has resources available and released a new student created video about the value of counseling. </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><b><i>Long version: </i></b></div>Jane Krause and Angela Cleveland, NCWIT Counselors for Computing leaders, sent a reminder about it being National School Counselor Week. Below are highlights from the email with some additional links to articles and resources about the role school counselors can and do play in broadening participation in computing:<div><br></div><div><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;line-height:1.2"><span style="font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Did you know that this week is <a href="https://www.schoolcounselor.org/school-counselors-members/about-asca-(1)/national-school-counseling-week" target="_blank">National School Counseling Week</a>? </span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;line-height:1.2"><span style="font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;line-height:1.2"><span style="font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><b>Resources:</b></span></p><p style="line-height:1.2"><font face="Arial" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">Counselors for Computing resources from NCWIT:<a href="http://goog_1922231408" target="_blank"> </a></span></font><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><a href="https://www.ncwit.org/project/counselors-computing-c4c" target="_blank">https://www.ncwit.org/project/<wbr>counselors-computing-c4c</a> </span></font></p><p style="line-height:1.2"><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">Remember that you can order NCWIT resources for your BPC outreach activities. NCWIT's research based tools are excellent for getting the word out about BPC. </span></font></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;line-height:1.2"><br></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;line-height:1.2"><b>Webinar: </b></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;line-height:1.2"><span style="font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Jane and Angela will be co-facilitating an ASCA webinar next week (free for members of ASCA)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;line-height:1.2"><a href="https://www.schoolcounselor.org/school-counselors/professional-development/2018-webinar-series/webinar-learn-more-pages/prepare-today%E2%80%99s-students-for-tomorrow%E2%80%99s-careers" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Prepare Today’s Students for Tomorrow’s Careers</span><span style="font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (2/15/18 3-4pm EST)</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;line-height:1.2"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Description: Computer science is changing everyone’s lives yet few contribute to the technologies and services we all use. Learn about the national Computer Science for All initiative and how school counselors at the vanguard are supporting new courses and viable career pathways so more students get involved in the growing fields of computing.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;line-height:1.2"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;line-height:1.2"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:norma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