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GOALS, DESIGN & IMPLEMENTATION ADVISORY

What is advisory? Advisory is a fundamental structure for middle and high school students designed to help them develop life skills and positive learning habits in support of academic achievement, personal growth, and skill development.

SKILLS Analyzing academic data Setting and reflecting on both academic and personal goals Managing time Organizing materials Developing effective study skills Acquiring communication skills Working collaboratively with others Problems solving Advocating for oneself

GOAL #1: Creating Community Advisories serve as a safe space where students come together as a peer group to support each other’s academic and personal goals, and future aspirations. Research shows that belonging to this kind of positive peer group increases the students’ attachment to school and reduces risk behaviors including school failure and dropping out.

GOAL #2: Academic Advisement Advisories build students’ capacity to monitor their week-to-week academic progress and achievement. Through highly structured systems, processes and protocols, the advisor creates an academic culture where students become practiced in a set of skills that enable them to reflect on and analyze data related to their student profile and in turn set measurable academic, social and behavioral goals.

GOAL #3: Social and Emotional Learning Advisories help students strengthen social, emotional, behavioral, and cognitive competencies. Supporting students’ social and emotional growth and self-regulated behavior, in the context of a peer cohort, promotes self-discipline and group cohesiveness. Students learn a set of communication skills that help them take a problem solving approach to their day-to- day experiences.

Why Advisory? ESR

RATIONALE Promotes small, caring communities of learners Promotes individual attention to students Allows teachers to be actively involved in the affective development of students Assists students with interpersonal communication skills development

DESIGN Careful organization, p0lanning, preparing, implementing, and monitoring Guidance department, administration, and district-level support Advisors need to be trained and committed to teaching young adolescence Need regularly scheduled meeting times For 20 – 40 minutes, groups of 10 – 15 students

EMPHASIS Based on teacher and student input Address the needs of specific school and community issues Teaches respect for self and others, promotes good citizenship Develops group, team, and school spirit

GRANITE OAKS MIDDLE SCHOOL, ROCKLIN, CALIFORNIA CANTERBURY SCHOOL, FORT WAYNE, INDIANA PROGRAM/INDEX.ASPX ABINGTON FRIENDS SCHOOL, JENKINTOWN, PA OLADVISORYPROGRAM SPRINGFIELD TOWNSHIP MIDDLE SCHOOL, ORELAND, PA ARTICLE&ID=174&ITEMID=440 E. CHASE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL, WATERBURY, CT Schools implementing successful advisory programs

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