Middle School Advisory - Session 4

Connectedness, Belonging, Relevance, Autonomy

Circle of Power Model

Structure vs less structure
- big difference between 5-6 and 7-8

Student Voice
- student created agendas

How do we involve students in the work of Social Emotional Learning?

Sounds like all teachers are advisors...

Creating Community Through Advisory - Session 3

Advisories with 8-12 students!
- how can we do this?

Structure
- A song to get people settled
- Greeting
- Share
- Activity

Student led advisory!!

Advisory vs Core
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Redesigning Student PLPs - Session 2

Need to allow students more time to explore who they are before asked what their Hopes and Dreams are and what their goals are

Protean app for phones!
 - giving students more positive ways to use their devices

Students wanted more activities and games

Students asked for HELP...how do we make that happen? 
 - What is expected?
 - More personalization
 - Less pressure and rules about how to do it

How have you made it more integrated?
- Can they work on this in Advisory? Can this be a work time?

Swift Sustainability Project - Session 1

Student Led is a messy process!

How will students have voice?

- this theme is so important in the middle grades for buy in and authentic work

Making time - it's not an option to try and fit it in

Embed this project throughout the curriculum!

- this must be a challenge when there are so many top down expectations regarding curriculum

- there is a dedicated work time but they try and connect across the content areas 

Students are making connections to the Global Goals on there own in other classes!

Making the Sustainable Goals the priority 

How has this impacted you as teachers?

- feels like the projects are making a difference in student thinking and engagement

Grumblings?

- It's new enough that students are buying in

- Important to revisit the reason for this project to reinvigorate students

Successes?

- Some students are realizing changes that need to be made in the school due to this work