2020 OSCA/ACOSO Student Awards

Awards are now open for nominations!
Deadline is May 29th

OSCA-ACOSO Anthony Di Lena Student Pathway Awards' mandate is to assist at-risk students in their journey towards success. An award is given to at-risk students who have demonstrated the exemplary ability to succeed in the face of adversity. $500.00 awards are presented to students who, in their postsecondary pursuits, are taking a pathway to apprenticeship, college, university or work.

Nominated students must be graduating/or have graduated from an accredited public secondary, Catholic secondary, or inspected private secondary school, including First Nations, in the province of Ontario in the previous school year.

Students must be nominated by a classroom teacher, a Student Success Teacher, a Co-OP Teacher, a Tech teacher, or a Guidance Counsellor. (All teachers cannot be the student's parent.) The nominator does not have to be a member of OSCA.

In order to be nominated, a student must fulfill one or more of the following criteria:

The student succeeded in school despite having to overcome personal obstacles.
The student succeeded in school despite having to cope with bullying and/or violence.
The student succeeded in school despite being socio-economically disadvantaged.
The student succeeded in school despite having to manage a mental health issue.
The student succeeded in school despite having to overcome academic challenges.

Nomination Form

OSCA/ACOSO Guidance and Career Education Awards 2020

Awards are now open for nominations!
Deadline is now May 28th, 2021

Curriculum and Resources

**The Elmer Huff Award for Guidance and Career Education Resources - presented in recognition of outstanding contribution to the career development of young people through the creation, development and delivery of high quality Guidance and Career Education Resources.

Counsellor Professional Development

**The Russ Seltzer Award for Contribution to Counsellor Education in Ontario - presented to honour contribution to Counsellor Education in Ontario, including teaching Guidance and Career Education Additional Qualification courses.

**The Howard R. Beattie Award for Contribution to Counsellor Professional Development - presented to a counsellor who has created new and beneficial ideas and techniques for professional use and communicated these through such means as workshops, local leadership and the organization of a conference or guidance professional development activities.

Elementary Guidance

**The Marion Axford Award for Elementary Guidance - presented in recognition of outstanding contribution to elementary guidance in Ontario.

Peer Helping

**The Daryl L. Cook Peer Helping Award - presented to one elementary and/or one secondary school in Ontario in recognition of its exemplary peer helping program.

Contribution to Guidance and Career Education

**The Career/LifeSkills Resources Award for Excellence in Career Education - presented in recognition of outstanding contribution to career development. This award is presented by Career/Lifeskills Resources (www.career-lifeskills.com).

**The Certificate of Appreciation - presented in recognition of outstanding contribution to Guidance and Career Education in Ontario by individuals/groups who are community partners.

**The Phil Hedges Award - presented to recognize the contributions to Guidance and Career Education by dedicated counsellors in the Province of Ontario. An award will be given to one qualifying nominee from each of the six educational regions in the province, or up to a maximum of six qualifying nominees from across the province. **Please refer to http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/parents/offices.html to determine which region each school board is included in.

**The Morgan D. Parmenter Memorial Award - presented to recognizes a person who has made a most significant contribution to Guidance and Career Education in Ontario.

Nomination Form

OSCA will once again be offering the additional qualification courses in Guidance and Career Education this summer. Parts 1, 2, and 3 (Specialist) will be offered, pending enrollment.

Summer Session: July 6th to July 31st.

Cost: $650
No textbook
Course is entirely online, within an online classroom format. The course is taught by a current Guidance Counsellor that works in a school setting.

Telehealth has long been utilized to provide medical services (both consultation and treatment) especially in remote geographical areas. Telehealth resources can support interactions when therapists cannot travel to children, youth and families or it is unsafe to do so.

Participants in this web-based course will hear from therapists who have experience using digital tools in mental health service provision.

Humber College is offering a FREE Pre-Apprenticeship Program for Women that begins in Fall 2020! Please share this opportunity with all who may be interested including recent secondary & post-secondary graduates​! Register for an online information session to learn more.
May 12 7:30pm
May 14 2:00pm
May 19 3:00pm

We hope that you, your families and colleagues are safe and healthy.

Planning for the Cannexus National Career Development Conference, in January 2021, remains underway at this point with all necessary precautions and contingencies. At this point, CERIC invites individuals or organizations with an interest in presenting at Cannexus21 to submit a proposal.

After monitoring the ongoing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, and after much review and discussion, Ontario’s universities have regretfully decided to cancel the 2020 Ontario Universities’ Fair (OUF) and Regional Fairs.
The health and safety of everyone who attends and participates in these recruitment events are of the utmost importance to us.
It is likely that restrictions on large public gatherings will continue for a significant period of time. As a result, we have decided it is no longer advisable to plan, develop and undertake the OUF and Regional Fairs this year.
We are exploring alternative ways to provide resources to prospective students to ensure they can connect with universities and have the information they need to help them decide which Ontario university is right for them.
Thank you for your support of this year’s OUF and Regional Fairs. We hope to see you again at future recruitment events.
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Au terme d’un examen des répercussions continues de la pandémie de COVID-19, et après une étude et des discussions poussées, les universités de l’Ontario ont décidé avec regret d’annuler la Foire des universités de l’Ontario (FUO) et les Foires régionales de 2020.
La santé et la sécurité de toutes les parties prenant part à ces activités de recrutement revêt la plus grande importance pour nous.
Il est probable que les restrictions relatives aux grands rassemblements publics se poursuivent pendant longtemps. Par conséquent, nous avons décidé qu’il est déconseillé de planifier et de mettre au point et en œuvre la FUO et les Foires régionales.
Nous sommes actuellement à explorer des solutions de rechange possibles pour fournir des ressources aux étudiantes et étudiants éventuels, afin de s’assurer qu’elles et qu’ils puissent communiquer avec les universités de l’Ontario et recevoir l’information dont elles et ils ont besoin pour les aider à décider laquelle université leur convient le mieux.
Nous vous remercions de votre soutien en ce qui a trait à la FUO et aux Foires régionales de cette année. Nous espérons vous revoir lors de nos futures activités de recrutement.

Introducing College Dialogues on Demand!

 It is my honour and privilege to introduce you to Dialogues on Demand, a fully digital version of the beloved event. The website is live and ready for you to use, you can find it on the main CRALO webpage or by clicking the following link: https://cralo.ca/college-dialogues-on-demand/

Here you will be able to find a digital version of the College Dialogues Booklet as well as view 4-minute video updates from your Ontario colleges.

Being an on-demand event, counsellors can choose when and how many college updates to watch. The site will remain live for the foreseeable future until we can greet each other again in person.

Many colleges have multiple intakes so a deferral from a program that starts in September can mean deferring to January or May. Students don’t have to wait a full year. These intake changes can be completed on the student’s application at www.ontariocolleges.ca or the applicant can contact the college’s admissions offices.

Colleges are committed to supporting students in applying for the following year with a voucher or other methods to ensure that the student can be considered. For high-demand programs, students will be considered equally when they apply by February 1st. Please have applicants connect with the college that they wish to attend to discuss their options in deferring to the next year.

Georgian College has provided a Virtual Tour for prospective students. Please follow the link below to take the virtual tour of the Barrie Campus.

As we’re starting to settle into a new daily routine of constant change, we recognize that many students are likely feeling additional stress over their university applications.

Although we continue to communicate directly with students, we thought it was important to also reach out to you so that you’re aware of what actions we're taking at the University of Waterloo...

Education in the Pandemic? A National Scan
Canada-wide Education & COVID Tracker

People for Education is keeping track of the differences in educational policy and approaches across the country during the pandemic.

The Canada-wide Education during COVID-19 Tracker will provide an opportunity to understand more about the successes, challenges and evolution of each region''s response.  If you know of updates for your province, please email info@peopleforeducation.ca.

Canada-wide Education & COVID Tracker (click here)

Students are understandably concerned that many college and university campus tours have been cancelled as a result of COVID-19. Choosing which school to attend is a huge decision and campus tours are one of the best tools to help.
Many schools are getting creative by switching to virtual tours to help students explore their campuses and get their questions answered. We’re going through every province and territory to find all of these tours and additional resources and put them in front of you.

OSCA's very own Julie Fantinato has created a YouTube video series: welcome to Guidance Corner!
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Change is difficult for everyone, take a look at a few strategies to make coping with change a little bit easier.
- Mrs. Fantinato, Guidance Teacher-Counsellor

How to teach remotely with a Google Slides Hyperdoc. In this week's education technology tutorial, veteran educator and edtech enthusiast Sam Kary shows teachers how to set up a lesson during virtual teaching.
Teachers are currently finding themselves in an unprecedented moment where many around the world are being asked to teach lessons remotely. Although it's important to learn about different education technology programs, it's equally as important to create self-contained independent studies that students can't work on at their own pace. Hyperdocs allow teachers to create engaging, rigorous lessons that can be as high-tech or low-tech as you want. Once you learn how to create a hyperdoc, you can embed as many technology programs as you wish in order to keep your students engaged and interested

Stressful public events—such as military action, acts of terrorism, shootings, abductions, airplane crashes, fires, natural or man-made disasters, or disease outbreaks—can be hard for children and teens to cope with and understand.

To get access to the OCMT High School Application and help your students improve their numeracy skills and achieve success in mathematics.: Given the current situation, and to facilitate the continuity of numeracy upgrading in a digital environment, Vretta has waived any costs associated with using the OCMT app for teachers and students for the duration of the pandemic.

Over the past few weeks, Let’s Talk Science has been hard at work adapting our programming delivery approach to meet the needs of educators, caregivers and youth.

We wanted to share some of the highlights of the programming (English and French) now available on-line and encourage you to share it with members of the Ontario School Counsellors' Association, or other educators and your communities (caregivers, parents and youth).

Current times come with a lot of uncertainty, including for many students we work with and who might feel uncertain on when and how they will get back to their educational paths. CERIC is offering two upcoming free webinars with presenters who will bring their perspectives and ideas to explore what potential options students may have and how we can support them as career practitioners.

The 2020 Ontario Universities' Guidance Dialogues Resource Guide is now available on the Guidance website.

The Resource Guide contains contact information, admission requirements, residence and scholarship details and other helpful information from Ontario universities.

Note: This document was compiled before the COVID-19 pandemic. Dates and processes may be subject to change. Contact the universities directly for the most up-to-date information.

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