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Designing and Implementing Advisory Programs: A Tale of Two Cities JIS:

Kendel Leet Angie Machacek ANNELISE MCdougall MS Counselor @ JIS MS Counselor @ AISJ MS Counselor @ JIS Work Experience: Work Experience: Work Experience: Jakarta International Jakarta International Jakarta International School School School American School of American International Brent International Doha School/Dhaka School Manila Shanghai American French American Shaikha Hessa Girls’ School International School SF School Bahrain Frankfurt International School

PURPOSE/GOAL OF OUR SESSION Critically think about HOW your school currently MEETS the social and emotional needs of the students Each school is UNIQUE: Identify this and create a PROGRAM that matches. WHY ARE YOU HERE? Leave our session with TOOLS to evaluate and IDEAS to improve, create or implement an advisory program.

WHERE DOES YOUR SCHOOL FALL ON THE ADVISORY CONTINUUM?

Our Middle School faculty are invested in addressing the Our Middle School social/emotional is sufficiently Every Middle School well-being of our addressing the student in our students social and school has an opportunity to form emotional a connection with a well-being of our faculty member students.

WHO needs to be involved in the PROCESS? ❖ Administration (buy in, support and decision making) ❖ Faculty (buy in and support) ❖ Mentor Group (help with planning and implementation)

GETTING Pre-Implementation STARTED JUST DO IT Implementation HOW IS IT Evaluation GOING? WE CAN DO Maintenance THIS!

AUDIT: DATA COLLECTION What are you using to assess the effectiveness of your current program? • ISCA Audit: Needs Assessment; Standards and Benchmarks • Search Institute 40 Assets Survey • Google Form (Surveys) • Agree/Disagree exercise with faculty • Student Connection activity

Determine Philosophy and Purpose o d t a h w , l o o h c s R U O Y r o f a t a d n o d ? e h s s a l i B p m o c c a o t e p o h u o y e h t y b t e m g n i e b t o n s ? i l D o o E h E c N s R t a U h O W Y n i s m a r g o r p r e h t o ! e p l m i S t i p e e K

KEY ELEMENTS OF SUCCESSFUL PROGRAMS • SIZE of group matters: 7-10 • CHOICE is important for both students and faculty • Have SIMPLE and CLEAR GOALS • Allow FLEXIBILITY of program content • Include STUDENTS as much as possible • TIME is always an issue • Admin Support is KEY for the program to become INSTITUTIONALIZED

OBSTACLES TO ANTICIPATE

More things to consider... • How do you decide on your program’s structure? • Where will the TIME come from? • What other programs will be affected (if any)? • How many groups are feasible? • Size of groups? • How will the groups be determined? • How do you determine content?

Additional Resources: https://sites.google.com/site/msadvisorymodel/home

A Tale of Two Cities AISJ uses concepts found in the ● JIS has recently changed their advisory ● JIS: Developmental Design/Origins Program program to a student and teacher choice based model called “Flex” ● CPR Model: Circle of Power and Respect ● Purpose is to provide a more inclusive program that fosters building authentic relationships through shared mutual interest.

“Finding fun, meaningful personal-growth activities for middle-school-age students can be challenging. The program can’t be too serious or it will feel like yet another obligation; it can’t be too touchy-feely or it will generate eye-rolling and text messages of lame.“

Establish Trust Prepare Students to Learn Teach Social Skills Make School Meaningful & Pleasurable

: R P C f o m a r g o Allows for the inclusion of ALL students and is highly r p r a l u c i t r a p s i h t , n o i t i d d a n I interactive •

We have already gone through 3 components of the CPR Model Let’s look at the overall model and WHY each component is important

• To give focus to the Advisory lesson • Give information about the purpose and scope of the lesson for that particular day • To create a thinking or writing prompt for the students

o ACTIVITY: is a chance to have fun through the power of play. To engage, cooperate, include all, develop self-control, and spark academic and social emotional learning. o ACTIVITY PLUS: if the focus is on certain themes, such as “Bullying” or “Stress Reduction”, the activity will revolve around the theme, and the SHARE portion of the CPR may be eliminated or incorporated into the activity

• This is a time to read the Daily Message out loud as a group • To read out the answers to the original prompt • To reflect on that day’s CPR experience.

WHAT DO YOU It is a great way to connect I like the opportunity to with my students and LIKE ABOUT OUR ADVISORY have a smaller group of understand them better. It forces students who I get to me to be opened to their PROGRAM? know on a deeper perspective and see school life level, and I like time in through their eyes. I think I am a the day to discuss better, more flexible, something other than the open-minded teacher as a result science that I am teaching It is an incredible way to connect with kids, first thing in the morning. Students really bond well with Keep it short, sweet and their Advisor and often feel that to the point, and you’ll they have a substitute parent in always know where your the school setting. Through the kids are... activities and intimate discussions, students often say the Advisory is like a second family and the other advisees like siblings

WHAT COULD BE We might consider We need to make an IMPROVED? how to include a bit effort to include more individual more interactive and advisor/teacher time cooperative games to talk about grades or whatever... Sometimes students really want to deepen Perhaps having more relationships with their interaction/connection select peer group, rather vertically between the than a random grade level advisories assortment of peers, so … “sister advisories” this can affect their level of engagement

24 % of students felt good about our previous program Last Survey: 79% of students liked the new program